Create your own bespoke print of Thomas Gainsborough’s Mrs Siddons from our collection. About this painting Mrs Siddons, 1785 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1862 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. ...

This picture is part of a series representing the seven Liberal Arts, of which two others (destroyed, formerly Berlin) represented ' Astronomy', & ' Grammar', where the kneeling figure was identified as Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Both ' Rheto ...

Create your own bespoke print of Edouard Manet’s Music in the Tuileries Gardens from our collection. About this painting Music in the Tuileries Gardens, 1862 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1917 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. ...

Crespi was the direct heir of the Carracci as a painter of everyday life, & played an important role in developing a taste for such scenes among his contemporaries. His interest in peasant subjects dates from his stay in Florence in 1709. This painting & its companion, ' Peasants with Donkeys' probably date from shortly after this. In this painting, three peasants, perhaps shepherds, play a large triangle with rings, a recorder & a lyre. Behind them are soldiers & riders. Crespi uses nocturnal light effects to increase the drama of the scene. Like its companion this picture has been cut down at the left & the top edges. ...

Christ is depicted seated, apparently on a tree trunk, beneath a barrel vault. He wears the crown of thorns & has a rope tied around his neck
- objects associated with the Mocking & the Carrying of the Cross. This painting is not intended to illustrat
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Ceres, goddess of the harvest, or summer, is sowing seeds in a field ploughed by Triptolemus. Flora, or spring, is seated, with her back turned, & Zephyr waters the soil. Between them is Vertumnus, protector of gardens & husband of Pomona, who is seen pruning the branches of a tree at the left. A chariot drawn by peacocks carries Juno across the sky. This painting is one of a group of 10 modelli, or elaborated oil studies, made in preparation for the fresco projects that Giordano created for the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence. On the ceiling of the Galleria, this scene adjoins the ' Mythological Scene with the Rape of Proserpine' & the nymphs at the left look back in fear at the sight of Pluto carrying off Proserpine. ...

Incidents in the background seem to illustrate the life of Adonis. However, the main figures may be Hippomenes & Atalanta, whose story Ovid links with that of Adonis. The virgin huntress Atalanta used to challenge her suitors to race with her. Hippomenes won the race (and Atalanta) by throwing down golden apples as he ran, which had been given to him by Venus. ...

At the right Pluto, god of the underworld, is carrying off Proserpine, daughter of Ceres. The three-headed dog Cerberus guards the entrance to Hades & the boat of Charon waits to take souls across the River Styx. In the background the giants who challenged the gods of Olympus suffer their eternal tortures. This painting is one of a group of 10 'modelli' or elaborated oil studies made in preparation for the fresco projects that Giordano created for the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence. On the ceiling of the Galleria, this scene adjoins the ' Mythological Scene of Agriculture'. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Jan van Eyck’s Portrait of Giovanni (?) Arnolfini & his Wife from our collection. About this painting Portrait of Giovanni (?) Arnolfini & his Wife, 1434 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1842 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. ...

Madame Wormser, née Olga Boris (1884
- 1972), was the wife of French banker André Wormser. She stands in the drawing room of
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