Tag: NGA

Le melon (c.1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le melon (The Melon) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 46.67 × 56.52 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le melon c.1880 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne    

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Poires (1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Poires (Pears) 1880 Oil on canvas, 19.05 × 24.13 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Two green pears lit from the upper right sit on a pale blue tabletop or ledge against a dark background in this horizontal…

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Fleurs dans un vase de cristal (c.1882)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Fleurs dans un vase de cristal (Flowers in a Crystal Vase) c.1882 Oil on canvas, 32.7 x 24.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A bouquet of cut flowers in a clear glass vase nearly fills this vertical…

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Gesù bambino benedicente (c.1460)

Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Gesù bambino benedicente (The Infant Savior) c.1460 Tempera on canvas, 70.2 x 34.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Nearly filling this vertical painting, a young, light-skinned child stands with a delicate scepter tucked into one elbow as…

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Ritratto virile (c.1470)

Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Ritratto virile (Portrait of a Man) c.1470 Tempera on hardboard transferred from canvas transferred from panel, 24.2 x 19.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Copie de mémoire de l’Erasmus de Holbein

Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Copie de mémoire de l’Erasmus de Holbein (Memory Copy of Holbein’s Erasmus) s.d. Oil on wood, 28.3 x 22.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus writing 1528 Musée du Louvre, Paris    …

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