Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Massacre of the Innocents 1565–1567 Oil on wood, 115.5 x 164 cm Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu Compare: Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Massacre of the Innocents c.1565–1567 Royal Collection, Windsor Castle Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Massacre…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery 1565 Oil on panel, 24.1 x 34.4 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Inscription: lower left corner within image: BRVEGEL.M.D.LXV ‘Grisaille’, or painting in shades of grey, was traditionally…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Dormition of the Virgin c.1564 Oil on panel, 67.7 x 85.3 x 12.6 cm Upton House and Gardens, England This ‘grisaille’, or grey monochrome painting, shows the death of the Virgin, attended by the…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Census at Bethlehem 1566 Oil on oak, 115.5 x 163.5 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) 1561 Oil on panel, 117.4 x 162 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp ‘Like a director of horror films, the painter tried to appeal to all the senses in order to…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Adoration of the Kings c.1556 Tempera on canvas, 124 x 169 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Netherlandish Proverbs 1559 Oil on oak panel, 117.2 x 163.8 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SHELFMARK / INSCRIPTION: Reference lower right: BRVEGEL • 1559 The picture brings together 100 proverbs and places them in surroundings that are as…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood 1885 Oil on canvas, 54 x 64.8 cm Tate Britain, London Sargent painted two portraits of Claude Monet, one of which, showing the sitter in profile, was exhibited at…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Carnaval, Boulevard des Capucines (Carnival on the Boulevard des Capucines) 1873 Oil on canvas, 80 x 61 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow See also: • Boulevard des Capucines (Paris)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) I Raro te Oviri (Under the Pandanus) 1891 Oil on canvas, 67.31 x 90.8 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In his mid-thirties, Paul Gauguin abandoned his life as a stockbroker to become an artist. He sought to…