Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Napoléon Bonaparte, Premier Consul (Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul) 1804 Oil on canvas, 227 x 147 cm Grand Curtius, Liège See also: • Napoleon I
Napoléon Bonaparte, Premier Consul (1804)
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La Guerre (c.1894)
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Guerre (War, or Discord on Horseback) c.1894 Oil on canvas, 114.5 x 195 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris More than twenty years after the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870 and the Commune in 1871 when the Douanier Rousseau painted War,…
La Guerre (after 1895)
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Guerre (The War) after 1895 Photomechanical relief print on red coated wove paper, 32.5 × 49.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Les artilleurs (c.1893-1895)
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Les artilleurs (Artillerymen) c.1893–1895 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 100.6 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Henri Rousseau endured the art-historical misfortune of being a working-class late bloomer—he was a Sunday painter who only began to paint seriously in his…
Allegoria sacra (c.1490-1500)
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Allegoria sacra (Sacred Allegory) c.1490–1500 Oil on wood panel, 73 x 119 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze One of the most enigmatic and fascinating works of the Italian Renaissance, this painting by Bellini shows the Madonna seated on…
Salomè con la testa del Battista (c.1607)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome with the Head of John the Baptist) c.1607 Oil on canvas, 116 x 140 cm Palacio Real, Madrid The painting is in good condition after being restored by Patrimonio Nacional in 2015. It…
Salomè con la testa del Battista (c.1609-1610)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist) c.1609–1610 Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 106.7 cm National Gallery, London The story of the death of Saint John the Baptist is related in the Gospel…
Santa Caterina d’Alessandria (c.1598-1599)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Santa Caterina d’Alessandria (Saint Catherine of Alexandria) c.1598–1599 Oil on canvas, 173 x 133 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This painting was almost certainly commissioned in Rome by Caravaggio’s first patron, Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte. Captured in a strikingly natural…
La Buona Ventura (1596-1597)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) La Buona Ventura (The Fortune Teller) 1596–1597 Oil on canvas, 115 x 150 cm Musei Capitolini, Roma Compare: Caravaggio (1571-1610) La Buona Ventura c.1595 Musée du Louvre, Paris La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Diseuse de bonne aventure probably 1630s Metropolitan Museum…
La Buona Ventura (c.1595)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) La Buona Ventura (The Fortune Teller) c.1595 Oil on canvas, 99 x 131 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Caravaggio (1571-1610) La Buona Ventura 1596–1597 Musei Capitolini, Roma La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Diseuse de bonne aventure probably 1630s…