Tag: NGA

La Madeleine au miroir (c.1635-1640)

La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Madeleine au miroir, La Madeleine pénitente (Magdalene at a Mirror, The Repentant Magdalen) c.1635–1640 Oil on canvas, 113 × 92.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington According to the tenets of the 17th–century Catholic church, Mary…

Le Port de La Ciotat (1907)

Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le Port de La Ciotat (The Port of La Ciotat) 1907 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Braque was raised in the Normandy port town of Le Havre, where he first studied…

L’Angelo dell’Annunciazione (c.1330)

Martini, Simone (c.1284-1344) L’Angelo dell’Annunciazione (The Angel of the Annunciation) c.1330 Tempera on poplar panel, 29.5 x 20.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This small, rich panel was originally the left side of a diptych, which, along with a right-hand panel…

Saint Barbara (1866-1870)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Saint Barbara 1866–1870 Egg tempera with oil glazes (?) and shell gold over charcoal and graphite on paper; mounted to canvas, 95.3 x 41.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

Ariadne (1863-1864)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Ariadne 1863–1864 Watercolor and gouache over graphite on paper, 123.8 x 54 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

Blowing the Horn at Seaside (1870)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Blowing the Horn at Seaside 1870 Oil on canvas, 48.9 x 34.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Standing in the brilliant sunlight of midday, a young woman blows a metal horn to summon the farmhands in the nearby…

Home, Sweet Home (c.1863)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Home, Sweet Home c.1863 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 41.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a camp, two soldiers wearing blue uniforms are lost in thought as they listen to a military band playing music in the…

Dad’s Coming! (1873)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Dad’s Coming! 1873 Oil on wood, 22.9 x 34.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman holding a baby stands near a young boy who perches in the tipped-up end of a rowboat that has been pulled…