David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Sapho, Phaon et l’Amour (Sappho, Phaon and Cupid) 1809 Oil on canvas, 225.3 x 262 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg David is considered the founder and leading light of Neoclassicism, which dominated art in the late 18th and…
Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Bord de rivière (River Bank) 1866 Oil on panel, 26.5 x 46 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Daubigny was perhaps one of the most important artists of the Barbizon School, which took its name from the village of…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of Luther 1532–1533 Oil on panel, 19.5 x 14 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also: • Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Les Rochers (Rocks) 1828 Oil on canvas, 39 x 57.2 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Printemps dans le pré (Spring in the Meadow) 1961 Chromolithography on paper, 42 x 64 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Jeune fille au piano, Ouverture de Tannhaüser (Girl at the Piano, The Overture to Tannhauser) c.1868 Oil on canvas, 57.8 x 92.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Cézanne painted this work at Jas de Bouffan, an estate near…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) La Dame en bleu (Lady in Blue) c.1900 Oil on canvas, 90 x 73.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Autoportrait à la casquette (Self-Portrait in a Casquette) c.1872 Oil on canvas, 53 x 39.7 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Painted in the early 1870s, at a time when Cézanne was closest of all to the Impressionists, this…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Ricevimento dell’Ambasciatore francese a Venezia (Reception of the French Ambassador in Venice) 1726–1727 Oil on canvas, 181 x 259.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In the 18th century the Venetian school of painting flourished brightly, but for the last…
Campin, Robert (c.1378-1444) The Virgin and Child by a Fireplace 1430s Oil on wood panel, 34.3 x 24.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This is the right wing of the Trinity Diptych (1430s). This altar diptych consists of two scenes, The Trinity…