Tissot, James (1836-1902) Le pont du HMS Calcutta, Portsmouth (Gallery of HMS Calcutta) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 91.8 cm Tate Britain, London Tissot often painted a man with two women in order to explore the subtle nuances of flirtation…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) La Fille du capitaine (The Captain’s Daughter) 1873 Oil on canvas, 72.3 x 104.8 cm Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton Tissot began his career exhibiting historic subjects at the Paris Salon but during the 1860s turned to scenes…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Le Navire dans la tempête (Boat in the Storm) c.1899 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris Was it the appeal of the voyage that prompted Rousseau to paint this ship? Except that this trip…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Two Chained Monkeys 1562 Oil on oak panel, 19.9 x 23.3 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SHELFMARK / INSCRIPTION: Inscription lower left: • BRVEGEL • MDLXII • This unusual picture dates from the year 1562, shortly before Bruegel…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples c.1551–1553 Oil on panel, 42.2 x 71.2 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma The extraordinary panel shows the port of Naples, in which a naval battle, probably invented, takes place.…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Netherlandish Proverbs 1559 Oil on oak panel, 117.2 x 163.8 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SHELFMARK / INSCRIPTION: Reference lower right: BRVEGEL • 1559 The picture brings together 100 proverbs and places them in surroundings that are as…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Landscape with the Fall of Icarus c.1558 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 112 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels