This is an early work, which is typical in its expressive gestures, distorted anatomy & colour contrasts. The summary way that the figures behind the Virgin are painted is a remarkable example of Dosso's dramatic handling of paint. ...

Christ is being washed, anointed & wrapped in his shroud before being carried to the tomb on the right, while Joseph of Arimathaea & Nicodemus can be seen leaving. This painting & the ' Adoration of the Kings' seem to have been part of the same altarpiece, probably painted in 1515, when David moved from Bruges to Antwerp. ...

This sketch was probably painted outdoors & perhaps intended to be finished in the studio. Its loose brushwork is typical of Rousseau's later style. Rousseau's paintings were in great demand in France in the period after his death & until the First Wor ...

Despite the signature, it is doubtful whether this picture is the work of either Courbet or one of his collaborators. ...

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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. ...

The landscape is invented. On the right women wash clothes in the river. The work can be dated to the artist's maturity. It is a pendant to Zais's ' Landscape with a Group of Figures Fishing'. ...