Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Paysage avec un ruisseau ensoleillé (Landscape with a Sunlit Stream) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 63.8 x 47.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Daubigny began exhibiting his work regularly at the Salon in 1838, and by the…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Woman bathing in a Stream (Hendrickje Stoffels?) 1654 Oil on oak, 61.8 x 47 cm National Gallery, London Rembrandt’s painting, unique for him in its tender intimacy, shows a young woman almost up to her knees in…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Blanchisseuses près d’un ruisseau (Laundresses by a Stream) c.1885–1890 Oil on wood, 17.8 x 22.9 cm National Gallery, London Boudin is most famous for his scenes of well-to-do holidaymakers on the beaches of the fashionable Normandy resorts of…
Guercino (1591-1666) Elia nutrito dai corvi (Elijah fed by Ravens) 1620 Oil on canvas, 195 x 156.5 cm National Gallery, London The monumental figure in this painting is Elijah, an Old Testament prophet who lived in the northern kingdom of…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Le Puits Noir (A Brook at Le puits noir, near Ornans) c.1864 Oil on canvas, 55 x 89 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Courbet visited the famous grotto near his native Ornans called Le puits noir, or…
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) A Naiad (or Hylas with a Nymph) 1893 Oil on canvas, 66 x 127 cm Private collection
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Orazione nell’orto (Agony in the Garden) c.1455–1456 Egg tempera on wood, 62.9 × 80 cm National Gallery, London Christ is shown in prayer. Aware that his disciple Judas had betrayed him, he left Jerusalem and took refuge in…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Peasant and the Nest Robber 1568 Oil on oak, 59.3 × 68.4 × 0.7 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower left (in gold colour): BRVEGEL M.D.LXVIII The depiction is traditionally linked with the proverb…