Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Les Rochers (Rocks) 1828 Oil on canvas, 39 x 57.2 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Les Rochers (1828)
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The Old Portuguese Fort of the Three Kings (1638)
Post, Frans (1612-1680) The Old Portuguese Fort of the Three Kings or Fort Ceulen, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, Brazil 1638 Oil on canvas, 62 x 95 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The sea is on the left, the…
Bacchanale (1625-1626)
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Bacchanale (Bacchanal) 1625–1626 Oil on canvas, 122 x 169 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is a traditional scene from the iconography of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. It depicts his meeting with Ariadne on the island…
Persée et Andromède (c.1819)
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Persée et Andromède (Perseus and Andromeda) c.1819 Oil on canvas, 19.7 × 16.2 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Bacco e Arianna (1520-1523)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Bacco e Arianna (Bacchus and Ariadne) 1520–1523 Oil on canvas, 176.5 x 191 cm National Gallery, London Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is one of the finest and most famous paintings in the National Gallery. The Cretan princess Ariadne has…
Moisson, Le Pouldu (1890)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Moisson, Le Pouldu (Harvest: Le Pouldu) 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 × 92.1 cm Tate Britain, London In 1890 Gauguin was staying at Marie Henry’s boarding house in Le Pouldu, Brittany. The headland in this painting is at the western…
La Découverte des Amériques par Christophe Colomb (1958-1959)
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) La Découverte des Amériques par Christophe Colomb (The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus) 1958–1959 Oil on canvas, 410 x 284 cm Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg This work is an ambitious homage to Dalí’s Spain. It combines Spanish…
Femmes au bord de la mer (1889)
Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Femmes au bord de la mer (Women on the Seashore) 1889 Watercolor on paper, 22.2 x 30.7 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam See also: • Martinique (France)
Deux femmes portant des paniers en Martinique (1889)
Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Deux femmes portant des paniers en Martinique (Two Basket-Bearing Women in Martinique) 1889 Watercolour on paper, 22.1 x 30.4 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam See also: • Martinique (France)
Paysage de la Martinique (1887)
Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Paysage de la Martinique (Landscape of Martinique) 1887 Oil on canvas, 92 x 71.1 cm Private collection See also: • Martinique (France)