This painting is unlikely to have a literary source, but was once identified as depicting the mythological subject of Mercury & Io. The landscape is presumably Italian. This painting was once in the collection of Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon's younger bro ...

A wooden bridge spans a river. In the distance are mountains, & then a church spire & the houses of a village. The details of the composition may be based on the topography of specific locations in the Danube valley, but the landscape is probably not ...

The composition of this painting is closely based on Annibale Carracci's ' Flight into Egypt', the most famous of the lunettes painted by Annibale for the chapel of the Aldobrandini Palace & now in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome. The fortified town is almost identical, even to the extent of there being the same number of windows on individual facades. However, unlike Annibale's painting, Domenichino's work has no narrative focus; it is instead peopled with genre figures: a recumbent woman watching a fisherman sorting his catch, boatmen, a woman & a playful child, a shepherd & his flock. The painting is one of Domenichino's most celebrated landscapes & was much admired by Constable. ...

This picture is related to the left-hand portion of a landscape-format drawing in the ' Liber Veritatis', no. 15 (London, British Museum) which is inscribed 'faict pour/monsre Roispiose/ Roma' (Made for Monsieur Rospigliosi, Rome), a reference to Giulio Ros ...

The work is a pendant to Zais's ' Landscape with a Group of Figures' & dates from the artist's maturity. The landscape is invented & the figures may have been inspired by contemporary French engravings. ...

No literary source has been associated with the hunt depicted. The painting is closely based on a work attributed to Domenichino in a private collection. It is considerably larger, however, & the handling is quite different. With its pendant ' Landscape w ...

The subject does not appear to have a literary source. The setting may derive from a notorious snake-infested area near Fondi, south-east of Rome. Poussin creates a sort of study of fear fanning out from the corpse in the foreground. The landscape has bee ...

This picture, like Poussin's ' Landscape with Travellers Resting', also in the Collection, was probably executed for Cassiano dal Pozzo, a friend & patron of Poussin, or for Cassiano's younger brother, Carlo Antonio. Labels & seals on the backs record ...

The status of this picture has been questioned in the past, but it is now generally accepted as original. It has been suggested that the picture shows the Vale of Tempe in Thessaly as described by the ancient author Aelian in the ' Varia Historia'. Probably ...

No specific literary source has been associated with the figure groups. This painting, & its pendant ' Landscape with a Hunting Party', are enlarged variants of a pair of paintings attributed to Domenichino (Denis Mahon collection & private collection, ...