Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Aeneas in the underworld s.d. Oil on oak panel, 47 x 32 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • The Aeneid (English) | Virgil (70 BC-19 BC)
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Coucher de soleil, le Port de Rouen, bateaux à vapeur (Sunset, the Port of Rouen, Steamboats) 1898 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81.1 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff In 1884 Pissarro moved to Eragny, east of Rouen. This composition…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) La famille paysanne (The peasant family) 1871–1872 Oil on canvas, 110.4 x 81 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff The British painter Sickert commented: ‘The sublime man and his stolid spouse face the spectator with all the gravity and symmetry…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) L’hiver, Ramasseuses de fagots (Winter, The Faggot Gatherers) 1868–1875 Oil on canvas, 82 x 100 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Les étoiles filantes (The shooting stars) 1847–1849 Oil on board, 18.7 x 34.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This purely imaginary subject is unusual among Millet’s works. It refers to Dante‘s ‘Inferno‘ which in one section describes the…