Post, Frans (1612-1680) Plantation Settlement in Brazil 1656 Oil on panel, 36.9 x 54 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection This panoramic view of a plantation settlement in Brazil was recollected by Frans Post one dozen years after he had…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Self Portrait aged 24 1639 Oil on oak, 65.8 × 54.4 cm National Gallery, London Rembrandt was an exacting teacher as well as a great artist – at least, he knew how to school the apprentices who came…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Au café (In the Café) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 35.7 x 27.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Roman potter c.1884 Oil on canvas, 152 x 80 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Fragment of the painting “Hadrian visiting a Roman-British pottery”, painted in 1884 and cut out by the artist in 1893. The other two fragments of…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Man Holding a Watch 1643 Oil on canvas, 82.6 x 66.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia For a long time the identity of this bearded man was unknown. Recent scholarship reveals that it is very likely…
Ruskin, John (1819-1900) Head of lake of Geneva s.d. Pen, ink and brush on paper, 23.4 x 39.8 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Ruskin, John (1819-1900) View of S. Anastasia at Verona, across the Adige s.d. Watercolor, pencil and brush, 14.8 x 22.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam See also: • Verona (Italia)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Portrait d’Antonin Proust (Portrait of Antonin Proust) 1884–1888 Drypoint on paper, 14.8 x 24 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam See also: • Proust, Antonin (1832-1905)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Studio della testa e della spalla sinistra di una donna (Study of the Head and Left Shoulder of a Woman) 1519–1520 Chalk on paper, 35 x 24.2 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam This splendid drawing demonstrates Raphael’s flair for delineating a…
Post, Frans (1612-1680) Landscape in Dutch Brazil 1652 Oil on canvas, 282.5 x 210.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam From 1630 the Dutch West India Company (WIC) conquers parts of Brazil and ousts the Portuguese based there. Foiling the enemy is a main…