Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Madonna che legge (The Virgin Reading) c.1505 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 78 x 51 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Carpaccio reimagined the Madonna and Child theme when he made this painting. Instead of wearing a traditional…
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) La fuga in Egitto (The Flight into Egypt) c.1515 Oil on panel, 72 x 111 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Joseph, Mary, and her newborn son, Jesus, have fled Bethlehem and are on the road to Egypt. They…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Skiffs 1877 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down onto the surface of a river in which three narrow canoes, each paddled by a single person, are being rowed toward…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) River Landscape 1607 Oil on coppper, 20.7 x 32.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington People gather under trees next to an expansive river dotted with boats in this horizontal landscape painting. The people are tiny…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) c.1720 Oil on canvas, 66.7 x 54.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
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…
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…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Veduta di Pirna in Sassonia (View of Pirna in Saxony) 1763 Oil on canvas, 47 x 76.2 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Compare: Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Veduta di Pirna dalla fortezza di Sonnenstein 1750s Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also:…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Port de Brest avec des frégates (Brest Harbour with Frigates) 1872 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 94.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Bretagne | Brest (France)
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Vue panoramique de Rouen (Panoramic View of Rouen) c.1829–1833 Oil on canvas, 26.4 x 41.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Rouen (France)