Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight 1835 Oil on canvas, 92.3 x 122.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Joseph Mallord William Turner excelled at capturing the beauty and mysteries of light. Cool, white moonlight…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Approach to Venice 1844 Oil on canvas, 62 x 94 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington When Approach to Venice was first exhibited in 1844, Joseph Mallord William Turner quoted Lord Byron in the catalog…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Rape of Proserpine 1839 Oil on canvas, 92.6 x 123.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Junction of the Thames and the Medway 1807 Oil on canvas, 108.8 x 143.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look across churning waves at four sailing ships and a wooden rowboat with…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Mortlake Terrace: Early Summer Morning 1826 Oil on canvas, 93 x 123.2 cm The Frick Collection, New York This canvas painted for William Moffatt depicts his estate at Mortlake, on the Thames just west of…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Mortlake Terrace 1827 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 122.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This painting, one of two views of Mortlake Terrace painted by Turner, is a view from the house, looking directly…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) & Workshop San Jerónimo con Santa Paula y San Eustoquio (Saint Jerome with Saint Paula and Saint Eustochium) c.1640–1650 Oil on fabric, 245.7 x 173.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Santa Lucía (Saint Lucy) c.1625–1630 Oil on canvas, 104.14 × 77 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Few images of saints show women as gorgeously attired as Francisco de Zurbarán‘s. His Saint Lucy portrays the young…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Chiens de chasse et lièvre mort (Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare) 1857 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 148.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Set in a forest, two hunting dogs face off as they await…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Édouard Manet c.1873 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 78.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet undertook only six portraits of his wife, the Dutch pianist Suzanne Leenhoff, in the years after their marriage in…