The poet Ovid is shown in exile after being banished from Rome by the Emperor Augustus in AD 8 to the Black Sea port of Tomis in south east Romania, where he probably died ten years later. According to classical writers, the native Scythians fed on the milk of mares, & in the right foreground of this painting Delacroix has depicted a mare being milked. Delacroix had first painted this subject in 1844 as part of the decorations for the ceiling of the Library of the Palais Bourbon in Paris. Many of the figures designed for that site reappear in this later canvas. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Luis Meléndez’s Still Life with Oranges & Walnuts from our collection. About this painting Still Life with Oranges & Walnuts, 1772 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1986 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. ...

According to classical myth, when Oedipus guessed the Sphinx's riddle he won the kingdom of Thebes & a wife in the person of Jocasta, who was later revealed to be his mother. Ingres's first version of this subject (Paris, Louvre) is dated 1808. Ingres reworked it in about 1826-27 & this picture may have been made as a model in connection with the alterations. ...

Petersen sketched this view in the Austrian Alps on his way to Italy in September 1850 on a scholarship from the Danish Academy. It probably took him no more than an hour. He focused on the play of light on the mountains & the atmospheric effects of the clouds, leaving the foreground bare, his broad pencil drawing still visible. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Henri-Joseph Harpignies’s Olive Trees at Menton from our collection. About this painting Olive Trees at Menton, 1907 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1956 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. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Richard Parkes Bonington’s On the Seine – Morning from our collection. About this painting On the Seine – Morning, about 1825 © The National Gallery, London Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax & allocated to the National Gallery, 2019 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. ...

Author Kenneth Clark is widely remembered for his television programmes on art, especially Civilisation, & the many works of art criticism he wrote during his lifetime. Appointed at the age of 30, he was the youngest ever Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1934 to 1945, before becoming Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford & later Chairman of the Arts Council. He was made a life peer in 1969 & died in 1983. Originally published in 1938 when Kenneth Clark was director of the National Gallery, London, this book presents Clark’s favourite details from paintings in the museum’s collection. Newly updated & handsomely illustrated, this landmark book juxtaposes pairs of details rarely viewed together – such as cupids from Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus & Correggio’s The School of Love – to illuminate fascinating analogies & contrasts between paintings & artists. Clark’s erudite but accessible responses to these works are broad in scope & approach, & range from a few lines to an entire history of the still life. Featuring all new color reproductions, One Hundred Details offers a unique & intimate look at these paintings through the discerning eye of a world-renowned art historian & director. View spreads of this book (2 MB PDF) Reviews: "…his most influential book. Clark wanted to encourage viewers to look more attentively at artworks, & to see images in a fresh way. He juxtaposed details from pictures by different artists, often from different periods, inviting his readers to compare & contrast." James Hall, The Guardian, 30 June 2012 ‘ Lord Clark’s… vast erudition is conveyed in an easy, conversational style that both informs us & makes us eager for more’, The Wall Street Journal ...

Create your own bespoke print of Odilon Redon’s Ophelia among the Flowers from our collection. About this painting Ophelia among the Flowers, about 1905
- 1908 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1977 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.
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Create your own bespoke print of Roelandt Savery’s Orpheus from our collection. About this painting Orpheus, 1628 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1874 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. ...