Tag: water

Saint Christopher (c.1514)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Saint Christopher (Exterior Left Wing) c.1514 Oil on panel, 85 x 31 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) Lucas Cranach the Elder was one of the most important artists…

The Nymph at the Fountain (1530-1534)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) The Nymph at the Fountain c.1530–1534 Oil on panel, 75 x 120 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Together with Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach was among the most important 16th-century German painters. His oeuvre includes religious compositions as…

Le coq (1928)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le coq (The Cock) 1928 Oil on canvas, 81 x 65.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The first owner of The Cock now in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza was the dealer Georges Bernheim, with whom Chagall signed a contract In 1927, marking…

Canal Grande da San Vio, Venezia (1723-1724)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Canal Grande da San Vio, Venezia (The Grand Canal from San Vio, Venice) 1723–1724 Oil on canvas, 140.5 x 204.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Canaletto is undoubtedly the most outstanding of the 18th-century Venetian view painters. View paintings or…

Venise, le Grand Canal (1895)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Venise, le Grand Canal (Venice, The Grand Canal) 1895 Oil on panel, 26 x 35.2 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection “I regret I no longer have the years of youth needed to create a beautiful series…

Le Bain de Diane (1869-1870)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Le Bain de Diane, La Fontaine (Diana Bathing, The Fountain) 1869–1870 Oil on canvas, 72.1 x 41 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection According to Alfred Robaut, Corot painted this work between 1869 and 1870 in the…

Les enfants du pêcheur (1867)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Les enfants du pêcheur (The Fisherman’s Children) 1867 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The special appeal of this rather small canvas is threefold: It combines a calm beach at low tide with an…

Le dégel à Vétheuil (1880)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le dégel à Vétheuil (The Thaw at Vétheuil) 1880 Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The Thaw at Vétheuil forms part of the series of canvases painted by Claude Monet at the time when…

Bergère nue couchée (1891)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Bergère nue couchée (Reclining Nude Shepherdess) 1891 Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 86.4 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen In the spring and summer of 1890 -and again in 1891– Berthe Morisot, with her husband Eugène Manet…