Tag: saddle

Stable at Cuenca (1903)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Stable at Cuenca 1903 Oil on canvas, 57.2 x 72.1 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington See also: • Cuenca (España)

Adorazione dei Magi (c.1557-1560)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) c.1557–1560 Oil on canvas, 223 × 120 cm Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milano Painted around 1559–60, the painting has much in common with Titian’s mature works. The rendering of the sky is interesting, for the…

Arabe sellant son cheval (1855)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Arabe sellant son cheval (Arab Saddling his Horse) 1855 Oil on canvas, 56 x 47 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Delacroix was a founder of the Romantic trend in 19th-century painting. He took this subject from his recollections…

Combat du Giaour et du Pacha (1835)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Combat du Giaour et du Pacha (Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha) 1835 Oil on canvas, 73 x 61 cm Petit Palais, Paris The Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha, painted by Delacroix in 1835, is…

Paysage près de Crémieu (c.1849)

Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Paysage près de Crémieu (Landscape near Crémieu) c.1849 Oil on canvas, 62.87 x 90.81 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis See also: • Crémieu (France)

Abraham dismissing Hagar and Ishmael (1640)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Abraham dismissing Hagar and Ishmael 1640 Oil on oak panel, 39 × 53.2 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London CAI.78 is signed and dated Rembrandt f. 1640, and was generally accepted as an autograph work until 1973. However, the earliest…

Amazone (1820)

Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Amazone (Horsewoman) 1820 or later Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Géricault studied horses extensively throughout his life, and his stay in England in 1820–21 inspired a group of works representing elegant…

Natività (early 1480s)

Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Natività (The Nativity) early 1480s Oil on poplar, 124.4 x 122.6 cm National Gallery, London Piero della Francesca depicted Christ’s Nativity as a miraculous vision materialising on top of a hill near his hometown in rural Tuscany. He…

L’Amazone (c.1875-1876)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Amazone (The Equestrienne) c.1875–1876 Watercolor on paper, 20.8 x 27 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In the mid-nineteenth century, the term amazone mockingly referred to fashionable Parisian women who preferred to ride on horseback instead of inside a…