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Brazilian Landscape (1656)

Post, Frans (1612-1680) Brazilian Landscape 1656 Oil on panel, 41.6 x 55.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This imagined landscape depicts enslaved Africans resting and dancing amid baskets of fruit on a hill above a broad plain of coastal swamp, surrounded by…

The Infant Moses (1685)

Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) The Infant Moses (Trampling the Crown of Pharaoh) 1685 Oil on canvas, 139.4 x 140.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

La Charette (c.1821)

Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) La Charette (The Coal Wagon) c.1821 Pen and brown ink with watercolor on white paper, 18.7 x 29.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

Woody Landscape (c.1783-1784)

Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Woody Landscape c.1783–1784 Oil on canvas, 64 x 76.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Although most famous for his portraits, Gainsborough was also one of the originators of English landscape painting in the eighteenth century. Inspired by Dutch landscapes from…