Create your own bespoke print of Rembrandt’s The Woman taken in Adultery from our collection. About this painting The Woman taken in Adultery, 1644 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1824 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. ...

Painted in the last decade of the artist's life & exhibited in 1871, this painting is typical of Corot's late work. The subject of a distant town seen through a group of trees is a familiar one among his later themes. ...

The bull in the sky with the crescent moon on his shoulder is the Egyptian Apis; he used to emerge from a river & when the Egyptians gathered round him with music & chanting, he rose into the air. There is a tradition that the Golden Calf of the Israe ...

Create your own bespoke print of Jean-Siméon Chardin’s The Young Schoolmistress from our collection. About this painting The Young Schoolmistress, about 1737 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1925 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. ...

The modello (oil sketch) shows Saint Bavo on the steps of St Peter's church in Ghent. Before his conversion to Christianity, Saint Bavo was a knight called Count Allowin of Haspengouw. Here he is shown being received as a monk into the church by Saint Flo ...

The subjects have not been identified, but it is thought that the dress of the men may be Venetian in style. The child's costume, which is recognisably that of a girl, can be dated to around 1540. The painting is probably painted by a Netherlandish painte ...

This painting & ' Four Scenes from the Early Life of Saint Zenobius' are from a series illustrating the life of the 5th-century bishop Zenobius, one of Florence's patron saints, perhaps made as domestic decorations for a patrician family (two other panels from the series survive). The panels illustrate episodes from Fra Clemente Mazza's ' Life of Saint Zenobius', first printed in 1487. Top, from left to right: Saint Zenobius renounces his intended bride; he is baptized by Saint Theodosius, Bishop of Florence; his mother is baptized; he is consecrated Bishop of Florence by the Pope. Bottom, from left to right: the saint exorcises devils from two youths possessed as a result of their mother's curse; he resurrects a dead boy, here lying in the lap of his wailing mother; & he restores the sight of a blind pagan who had promised to convert to Christianity. ...

This altarpiece comes from a chapel in the Certosa di Pavia, a Carthusian monastery near Milan. The central Virgin & Child are flanked by the Archangel Saint Michael on the left, standing on Satan. Raphael & the young Tobias are on the right. The Virgin's robe is ultramarine of exceptional quality. The church was consecrated in May 1497. In 1499 Ludovico il Moro, ruler of Milan & the Certosa's most important supporter, applied pressure to get it completed. The Certosa had a large number of chapels. The original altarpiece had an upper tier with God the Father flanked by the Virgin Annunciate & the Archangel Gabriel. The two top side-panels were supplied by another Florentine artist, Albertinelli, after Perugino had failed to paint them. Originally these three panels formed the lower tier of a six-panel altarpiece. They have been cut down at the bottom. Central panel 113 x 64 cm; wings each approx. 113 x 56 cm. ...

Saint Matthew is shown writing his gospel; the angel beside him represents his divine inspiration. Saint Catherine of Alexandria wears the crown of a princess. Fragments of the wheel on which she was tortured lie at her feet. She was finally beheaded, hence the sword she carries. Saint John the Evangelist carries pen & ink at his belt. The eagle next to him symbolises the inspiration for his Book of Revelations, while the snake & chalice refer to his survival after having drunk poison. The damaged reverse shows Saint Jerome, a female martyr, Saint Gregory the Great & a kneeling donor in the cloak of a Knight of Malta. This painting once formed the left-hand shutter of an altarpiece, probably made for a church in Cologne, of which the central panel is now lost. The other shutter showing saints Mark, Barbara & Luke on the front & saints Ambrose, Cecilia & Augustine on the reverse, is in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne. Both reverses include donors wearing the emblem of the Knights of Malta. ...

In the left foreground is a man-of-war, presumably at sea anchor. Beyond her, is a much damaged ship with a tattered Dutch flag. A third ship is seen in the right distance. This picture was painted in London (spelt Londen in the inscription) in 1673 & the ship may be from Flushing (Vlissingen). ...