Guercino (1591-1666) San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness) 1652 Oil on canvas, 177.7 × 231.8 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (1652)
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Les roches d’Étretat (1866)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Les roches d’Étretat (The Cliffs at Étretat) 1866 Oil on canvas, 90.9 x 113.3 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa See also: • Étretat (France)
L’Aiguille vue à travers la Porte d’Aval, Étretat (1886)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) L’Aiguille vue à travers la Porte d’Aval, Étretat (Rock Needle Seen through the Porte d’Aval, Étretat) 1886 Oil on canvas, 65.2 x 92.1 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa See also: • Étretat (France)
Seashore with Fishermen (c.1781-1782)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Seashore with Fishermen c.1781–1782 Oil on canvas, 101.9 x 127.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Gainsborough‘s landscapes are highly personal statements that evolved from ideas and images he developed in his studio, either directly on canvas or…
Mountain Landscape with Bridge (c.1783-1784)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Mountain Landscape with Bridge c.1783–1784 Oil on canvas, 113 x 133.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A river winds through forest-green trees and vegetation between rolling hills and mountains extending into the deep distance under a pale,…
Lot and His Daughters (c.1496-1499)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Lot and His Daughters (reverse) c.1496–1499 Oil on panel, 52.4 x 42.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This scene is painted on the reverse side of Dürer‘s Madonna and Child. The story of Lot and his daughters…
Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir (c.1782-1783)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir c.1782–1783 Oil on canvas, 70.5 x 91 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gainsborough collected and was inspired by Dutch landscape painting. In a sketchy manner, Gainsborough convincingly singled out…
Le chant du berger (1891)
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le chant du berger (The Shepherd’s Song) 1891 Oil on canvas, 104.5 x 109.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Puvis adapted this composition from a mural that he made for the Musée des Beaux-Arts…
Madonna con Bambino e San Giovanni Battista (c.1490)
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) and Workshop Madonna con Bambino e San Giovanni Battista (Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist) c.1490 Tempera and oil on wood, diameter 68 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The perfectly round form, called…
Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld (1630s)
Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld 1630s Oil on copper, 26.7 x 35.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This infernal image of the 1630s was inspired by the “hell landscapes” of Jan Brueghel…