Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Le jardin hivernal au paon (The Winter Garden with a peacock) c.1940 Glue and gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 211 x 151 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) Adoration of the Magi 2nd half of the 16th century Oil on canvas, 36 x 56 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Peter Brueghel the Younger based this painting on a work by his father, the great…
Gachet, Paul (1828-1909) La Vieille Route à Auvers-sur-Oise (The Old Road in Auvers-sur-Oise) 1881 Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 54.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Conestabile (Conestabile Madonna) c.1504 Tempera on canvas (handed over from panel), 17.5 x 18 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Raphael entered the history of Italian art as the “genius of harmony”. The ideals of the High Renaissance were…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) L’Adorazione dei pastori (The Adoration of the Shepherds) 4th quarter of the 16th century Oil on copper, 29 x 23 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Artwork recovered after World War II, retrieved by the Office des Biens et…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Le Moulin de la Galette 1900s Gouache, 25 x 32.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Moulin de la Galette (Paris)
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Le simulacre transparent de l’image feinte (The Transparent Simulacrum of the Feigned Image) 1938 Oil on canvas, 72.39 x 92.07 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1929, Salvador Dalí joined the artists of the Surrealist movement in…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Scapegoat 1854–1855 oil on canvas, 33.7 x 45.9 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Vividly coloured depiction of a russet coloured goat on the brink of death. The goat stands in the centre foreground, head lowered, haunches caving…