Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist 1530s Oil on poplar, 87 x 58 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist (1530s)
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Townscape (c.1670)
Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) Townscape c.1670 Oil on panel, 35.2 x 41.6 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
View of the Oude Delft Canal (c.1660)
Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) View of the Oude Delft Canal, Delft c.1660 Oil on cradled plywood panel, transferred from oak panel, 55.2 × 70.8 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit See also: • Delft (Netherlands)
View of Oudezijds Voorburgwal with the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam (1670)
Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) View of Oudezijds Voorburgwal with the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam 1670 Oil on panel, 52.3 x 41.4 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague See also: • Amsterdam (Netherlands)
A Farm among Trees (c.1670)
Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) A Farm among Trees c.1670 Oil on oak, 22.1 x 28.8 cm National Gallery, London There is something rather mysterious about this rare – and tiny – landscape by Jan van der Heyden, who specialised in painting…
View of the Westerkerk, Amsterdam (1660)
Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) View of the Westerkerk, Amsterdam probably 1660 Oil on oak, 90.7 x 114.5 cm National Gallery, London This is one of the ultimate seventeenth-century examples of what today we might think of as a high-resolution image.…
Le Soir, Paysage avec aqueduc (1818)
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Le Soir, Paysage avec aqueduc (Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct) 1818 Oil on canvas, 250.2 x 219.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work is one of a projected set of four monumental landscapes representing the times…
Saint Barbara (1438)
Campin, Robert (c.1378-1444) Saint Barbara 1438 Oil on oak panel, 101 x 47 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Saint Barbara reads by the light of a fireplace in a richly appointed room. The key to her identity lies outside the window…
Tigresse et ses petits (c.1884)
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Tigresse et ses petits (Tiger and Cubs) c.1884 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 91.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gérôme attributed the success of his animal paintings to his early studies at the menagerie of the…
Vue de Médinet el-Fayoum (c.1868-1870)
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Vue de Médinet el-Fayoum (View of Medinet El-Fayoum) c.1868–1870 Oil on wood, 38 x 56 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) was the most publicly honored and financially successful French artist of the second half of…