Rousseau is best known as a still life painter, but his earliest submissions to the Salon were all landscapes. This picture was probabaly based on direct observation of an actual landscape, but the site has not been identified. ...

This poster print features Paul Gauguin's A Vase of Flowers. The vase is decorated with only a pattern of gold lines & placed virtually in the centre of the painting, on a wooden ledge where pink & red blooms have fallen. The flowers form a relatively symmetrical pattern with broad blue leaves to each side of cream & red flowers. The muted colours of the background wall & the shelf act as a foil to the exotic flowers that are the central subject of the painting. About this painting A Vase of Flowers, 1896 Oil on canvas, 64 x 74 cm © The National Gallery, 1918 This poster displays the artist's name & the National Gallery logo at the bottom. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Paul Gauguin’s A Vase of Flowers from our collection. About this painting A Vase of Flowers, 1896 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1918 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

A vase of flowers is displayed on a table. Monticelli has used thick blobs of pure colour to suggest the flowers. The thickness of the paint allowed the artist to use it to model the form of the object as well as to describe the colour. ...

The vessel on the right is a 'snaauwschip' (a square-rigged two masted vessel usually employed as a despatch vessel; in English, 'a snow') flying a blue ensign with a coat of arms. In the middle distance is a man-of-war with its sails furled flying the Dutch colours. The town on the horizon seems to be Dordrecht, with the Grote Kerk on the left &, towards the right, the Groothoofdspoort. This painting was probably painted in the mid-1660s & almost certainly before about 1692-4 when the spire of the Groothoofdspoort was replaced by a dome. ...

The construction of Cologne Cathedral was begun in the middle of the 13th century, continued through the 14th & 15th centuries & was discontinued in the mid-16th century; it was only completed in 1842-80. Here, the unfinished cathedral is seen from the ...

The painting combines an accurate view of a part of Rome, on the left, with an imaginary ruin, on the right. On the left is the Convento del Sacro Cuore (Convent of the Sacred Heart), & the church attached to it is the Trinità de' Monti (Church of the Trinity on the Hill). These buildings are at the top of what is today called the Spanish Steps, which were not then built. In the distance, at the centre of the picture, is the pope's summer palace on the Quirinal. The old woman in the foreground may be a beggar or a procuress. Although there is no doubt that the landscape was painted by Claude, it has been suggested that the figures may be by another h&. The painting combines an accurate view of a part of Rome, on the left, with an imaginary ruin, on the right. On the left is the Convento del Sacro Cuore (Convent of the Sacred Heart), & the church attached to it is the Trinita de' Monti (Church of the T ...

It is thought that this is not an invented caprice, but rather a topographical view, the subject of which has not yet been identified. It has been suggested that it may be a view from the Giudecca, or at Chioggia, but neither idea is entirely convincing. ...

The picture was previously attributed to Frans or Cornelis Decker, but is in fact a characteristic work by van Vries. It can be compared with landscapes signed by van Vries in Munich (Alte Pinakothek) & Stockholm (Nationalmuseum). Little is known about the chronology of van Vries's work but this landscape may date from the early 1660s. ...

This is unlikely to be a topographically accurate view of a particular Flemish village. It is one of a large number of paintings of peasant life by Teniers, which rarely show actual cities. A pentimento is visible on the nearside of the stream; it would appear that a wooden structure has been painted out. Teniers was an immensely successful artist who was court painter to the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, in Brussels. ...