Founded: 1798 in The Hague Moved to Amsterdam in 1808 Address: Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands Website: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Maison de La Crau (The Old Mill) (F 550, JH 1577) 1888 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 53.975 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In February 1888, Vincent van Gogh left the cold, dreary winter in…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Potato Eaters (De aardappeleters) 1885 Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 73.9 x 95.2 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (F 78, JH 734) Test of mastery The potato eaters is the most ambitious painting of Van Gogh’s…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Potato Eaters (De Aardappeleters) 1885 Oil on canvas, 82 x 114 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam F0082-JH0764 Nuenen, April-May 1885 Van Gogh saw the Potato Eaters as a showpiece, for which he deliberately chose a difficult…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, the Artist’s Grandfather 1881 Pencil, brush and ink and watercolour, on paper, 34.5 cm x 26.1 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam F0876-JH0014 Etten, July 1881 See also: • Van Gogh, Vincent, Grandfather (1789-1874)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, Anna van Gogh (F 477, JH 1600) 1888 Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 32.4 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena In September 1888, Van Gogh, living in the south of France, received from…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Landscape with the Flight into Egypt 1563 Oil on panel, 37.1 x 55.6 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In this captivating work, Pieter Bruegel depicts the biblical story of the Virgin Mary, Joseph and their infant son…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Head of an Old Farmer’s Wife c.1560–1565 Oil on oak, 22 x 18.4 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Such studies of facial expressions, known as tronies, served to capture a fleeting moment of powerful emotion and its…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Two Chained Monkeys 1562 Oil on oak panel, 19.9 x 23.3 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SHELFMARK / INSCRIPTION: Inscription lower left: • BRVEGEL • MDLXII • This unusual picture dates from the year 1562, shortly before Bruegel…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples c.1551–1553 Oil on panel, 42.2 x 71.2 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma The extraordinary panel shows the port of Naples, in which a naval battle, probably invented, takes place.…