Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Paysage avec un homme tué par un serpent (Landscape with a Man killed by a Snake) probably 1648 Oil on canvas, 118.2 x 197.8 cm National Gallery, London A man has been crushed by a snake and lies…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) L’Annonciation (The Annunciation) 1930 Oil on canvas, 113.7 x 145.9 cm Tate Britain, London The objects in this painting appear to be a metal sheet with bells, a paper cut-out and two balusters (Magritte referred to similar objects…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Les Meules jaunes, dit aussi La Moisson blonde (The Yellow Stacks, also known as The Blonde Harvest) 1889 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Moisson en Bretagne c.1889 Private collection …
Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Moisson en Bretagne (Harvest in Brittany) c.1889 Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 63.5 cm Private collection Compare: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Les Meules jaunes 1889 Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Bretagne (France)
Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Paysage (Landscape) 1889–1890 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 54.8 x 46 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Pont-Aven (France)
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Il Poeta (The Poet) c.1620–1621 Etching, 15.8 x 12.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Ribera produced a small but distinctive group of sixteen etchings, most during a short span in the 1620s. Etching was then undergoing…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Napoléon en Egypte (Napoleon in Egypt) 1867–1868 Oil on wood panel, 35.8 x 25 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton During the Second Empire (1852–70), Napoleon III encouraged the cult of his uncle, Napoleon Bonaparte, whose 1798 Egyptian…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon 1881–1898 Oil on canvas, 279.4 × 650.2 cm Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce According to Thomas Malory‘s “Le Morte d’Arthur” (1470), King Arthur suffered a fatal wound in a…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Road from Market 1767–1768 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 170.2 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Crepuscule in Opal, Trouville 1865 Oil on canvas, 34.9 x 46 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “Art should be independent of all claptrap—should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear,…