Rembrandt (1606-1669) Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem 1630 Oil on panel, 58 x 46 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The crestfallen Prophet Jeremiah rests his weary, old head on his hand. He laments Jerusalem going up in flames – in the…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) An Old Lady with a Book 1637 Oil on canvas, 109.7 x 91.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of an Old Woman 1654 Oil on canvas, 109 x 84 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of an Old Man in Red c.1652–1654 Oil on canvas, 108 x 86 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In the 1650s Rembrandt turned increasingly to the depiction of aged men and women, seeking to bring out in these…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of an Old Jew 1654 Oil on canvas, 109 x 85 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Derain, André (1880-1954) Esquisse pour ‘Le vieux pont à Cagnes’ (Sketch for ‘The Old Bridge at Cagnes’) 1910 Graphite and watercolour on paper, 19.7 x 22.2 cm Tate Britain, London This drawing dates from a period in which Derain had moved…
Guercino (1591-1666) Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio (Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1623 Oil on copper, 72.5 x 65 cm National Gallery, London Mary and Joseph brought the infant Christ, forty days after his birth, to be presented in…
Guercino (1591-1666) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) 1617 Oil on canvas, 176 x 208 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Historian Denis Mahon has masterfully shown that this painting and two other famous works by Guercino –Lot and…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) La Calunnia (Calumny of Apelles) c.1496–1497 Tempera on panel, 62 x 91 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Une Mendiante romaine (A Roman Beggar Woman) 1857 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 75.2 cm Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham