Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Nymphs of the Moon 1896 Tempera on paper, 32.8 x 24.8 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Nymphs of the Moon (1896)
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Perseus and the Graiae (1877)
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Perseus and the Graiae 1877 Oil, gold leaf, silver leaf and gesso on oak, 152 x 169 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This extraordinary work occupies the boundary between painting and sculpture, and was the centrepiece of one…
Venus Discordia (1873)
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Venus Discordia 1873 Oil on canvas, 128.2 x 209.8 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Born in Birmingham, but of Welsh extraction, Burne-Jones was much admired by early twentieth-century Welsh critics. A friend of William Morris and an associate…
The Road from Market (1767-1768)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Road from Market 1767–1768 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 170.2 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
Adam and Eve (1640s)
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Adam and Eve (The Fall of Man) 1640s Oil on canvas, 184.5 × 221 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Compare: Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Adam and Eve 1642 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
Adam and Eve (1642)
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Adam and Eve 1642 Oil on canvas, 203.2 x 182.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The leading 17th-century Flemish painter after the deaths of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens distinguished himself from his…
Femme au chapeau noir (1909)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Femme au chapeau noir (Woman in a Black Hat) 1909 Oil on canvas, 73 x 60.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Artist and model Fernande Olivier (1881–1966) is the subject of this early Cubist portrait by Pablo…
Les Danseuses (c.1899)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Les Danseuses (The Dancers) c.1899 Pastel on paper, 62.2 x 64.8 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The incandescent, expressive colors of Edgar Degas’s pastel seem to vibrate off the paper. Applied in layered webs of rhythmic strokes,…
London Visitors (c.1874)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) London Visitors c.1874 Oil on canvas, 160 × 114.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Outside the National Gallery in London a fashionable tourist couple decides what to see next. The woman points her umbrella imperiously in the…
Dans le jardin de Maurecourt (1884)
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Dans le jardin de Maurecourt (In the Garden at Maurecourt) 1884 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.1 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Painted in oil paints with the freedom and spontaneity of a watercolor sketch, In the…