Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La Sainte Famille, Le Repos pendant la fuite en Égypte (Holy Family, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt) 1719 Oil on canvas, 117 × 98 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Acteurs de la Comedie-Francaise (Actors of the Comédie-Française) 1711–1712 Oil on panel, 20 × 25 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Watteau was very fond of the play Les trois cousines (The Three Cousins) by Florent Carton, known as Dancourt,…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Le voleur du nid de moineaux (The Robber of the Sparrow’s Nest) c.1710 Oil on paper laid on canvas, laid on panel, 22.60 x 18.50 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh Watteau shows a young couple in an idyllic woodland…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère (Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera) 1717 Oil on canvas, 129 × 194 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Cythera (Greece)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Charing Cross Bridge 1903 Oil on canvas, 73 x 104.1 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis In this scene, a train puffs across the bridge as sunlight falls through the mist and creates shimmering patterns on the river…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Giuditta mostra la testa di Oloferne (Judith Displaying the Head of Holofernes) 1703–1704 Oil on canvas, 77.5 x 102.9 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis