Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Visione di Sant’Agostino (Vision of St Augustine) c.1460 Tempera on panel, 28 x 51.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Originally part of an altar, this work takes its subject from a description of the life of St Augustine,…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Glove c.1640 Oil on canvas, 80 x 66.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The Hermitage’s Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Glove is marked by a rapid spontaneous manner of…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco (Drunks, or The Triumph of Bacchus) 1778 Etching, drypoint, 39.5 x 46.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Inscription: “Pintura de Don Diego Velázquez con figuras del tamaño natural en el…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Autoportrait à la casquette (Self-Portrait in a Casquette) c.1872 Oil on canvas, 53 x 39.7 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Painted in the early 1870s, at a time when Cézanne was closest of all to the Impressionists, this…
Campin, Robert (c.1378-1444) God the Father enthroned, supporting the dead body of Christ 1430s Oil on wood panel, 34.3 x 24.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This is the left wing of the Trinity Diptych (1430s). This panel forms a pair…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Tobias disant au revoir à son père (Tobias Saying Good-Bye to his Father) 1860 Oil on canvas, 153 x 119 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Adoration of the Magi 1598–1600 Oil on copperplate, 26.5 x 35.2 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Compare: Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) The Adoration of the Kings 1598 National Gallery, London
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Cristo en la Cruz (Christ on the Cross) c.1630 Oil on canvas, 214 x 143.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The present canvas was unpublished until 1918 when Hugo Kehrer included it in his monograph on Zurbarán. At…