Tag: shadow

Old Man (1651)

Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Old Man 1651 Oil on canvas, 99.5 x 84 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower left: G. Flinck f. 1651

Christ Carrying the Cross (c.1500)

Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) Christ Carrying the Cross c.1500 Oil on oak panel, 57.2 x 32 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna This is the inner left wing of a tryptych. The double-sided painted panel originally formed the left wing of a small altar.…

El almuerzo (c.1617)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) El almuerzo (Luncheon) c.1617 Oil on canvas, 108.5 x 102 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Entered the Hermitage between 1763 and 1796; the collection of Catherine the Great. Diego Velazquez, in whose work Spanish painting reached its zenith,…

Dans une salle (1899)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Dans une salle (In a Room) 1899 Oil on cardboard pasted on panel, 52 x 79 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This artist’s fondness for the depiction of domestic scenes was probably bound up with recollections of the…

Le matin (s.d.)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le matin (Morning) s.d. Wood engraving on chine collé, 15 x 22 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From the series, “Four Times of the Day” (1830–1875). Compare: Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le Matin, d’après Millet 1890 Hermitage…

Le Matin, d’après Millet (1890)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le Matin, d’après Millet (Morning, Going to Work, after Millet) 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Compare: Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le matin s.d. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York    

St Luke Drawing the Virgin (15th century)

Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) St Luke Drawing the Virgin 15th century Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 108.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The subject is taken from a 6th-century legend of Greek origin, according to which St Luke was the…

Street in Cologne (first half of the 1600s)

Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) Street in Cologne first half of the 1600s Oil on wood panel, 30 x 36 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Entered the Hermitage in 1814; formerly in the collection of Josephine de Beauharnais in the Castle…