Guercino (1591-1666) Cristo morto compianto dagli angeli (Dead Christ mourned by Two Angels) c.1617–1618 Oil on copper, 36.8 x 44.4 cm National Gallery, London This small painting depicts a solemn religious scene. Two angels kneel in quiet contemplation next to…
Guercino (1591-1666) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) 1617 Oil on canvas, 176 x 208 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Historian Denis Mahon has masterfully shown that this painting and two other famous works by Guercino –Lot and…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 57.7 x 43.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Little Girl in a Blue Armchair 1878 Oil on canvas, 89.5 x 129.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A small brown dog and a pale-skinned little girl wearing a white dress sit in matching celestial-blue armchairs…
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) A Naiad (or Hylas with a Nymph) 1893 Oil on canvas, 66 x 127 cm Private collection
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) Sleep and his Half-brother Death (Hypnos and Thanatos) 1874 Oil on canvas, 69.8 x 90.8 cm Private collection
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Dante et Virgile (Dante and Virgil) 1850 Oil on canvas, 280.5 x 225.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Having failed on two occasions to win the Prix de Rome (1848 and 1849), Bouguereau was hungry for revenge. His…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Les Nymphes et le Satyre (Nymphs and Satyr) 1873 Oil on canvas, 260.4 x 182.9 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Three nymphs playfully drag a Satyr into a woodland pond, while a fourth calls to her companions…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Les Deux Baigneuses (Two Bathers) 1884 Oil on canvas, 200.7 x 128.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Bacchante dans un paysage (Bacchante in a Landscape) 1865–1870 Oil on canvas, 30.8 x 61.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting is closely related to Bacchante by the Sea, also in the Museum’s collection,…