[Landscape with harvesting scene]
Harvest time
Drawing shows landscape and village at harvest time with a church in the distance. Several drawings of landscapes by Jacob Cats that relate to this sheet reproduce the same church tower. One, in the British Museum, London (Inv. no. 1910-2-12-129 13; Gernsheim Corpus no.106 780), shows the harvested field from another angle farther to the right. The other, in Leiden (Inv. no. 1443; Gernsheim…
Contributor:
Cats, Jacob
Date:1791-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Paris receiving the golden apple from Hermes]
The subject of this drawing is Hermes handing the golden apple of the Hesperides to Paris, who is to judge the greatest beauty among the goddesses Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera. In return for judging Aphrodite the fairest, the goddess rewarded Paris with the most beautiful mortal woman in the world, Helen of Troy, thus initiating the Trojan War. The drawing does not appear to…
Contributor:
Reni, Guido
Date:1700-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
[The Madonna of the Rose]
The subject of this drawing is unusual. One can see why there is a suggestion on the old mat that it is the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine. Although the composition is much like the well-known one of the Christ Child with St. Catherine, St. Joseph here takes the place of the Madonna, who is always seen with this subject. The kneeling female figure…
Contributor:
Bresciani, Antonio - Cantarini, Simone - Creti, Donato
Baptism of Edward I
1 drawing : pencil, brown ink, and wash. | Drawing of an infant, perhaps an angel on the recto. Sketch of an elderly man with cane on verso.
Contributor:
Brown, Mather
Date:1794-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Paris and Oenone]
1 drawing : pen and brown ink and wash with watercolor ; sheet 28.7 x 20.5 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/16 in.)
Photo, Print, Drawing[Landscape with harvesting scene]
Photo, Print, Drawing[Paris receiving the golden apple from Hermes] The subject of this drawing is Hermes handing the golden apple of the Hesperides to Paris, who is to judge the greatest beauty among the goddesses Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera. In return for judging Aphrodite the fairest, the goddess rewarded Paris with the most beautiful mortal woman in the world, Helen of Troy, thus initiating the Trojan War. The drawing does not appear to…
Photo, Print, Drawing[The Madonna of the Rose] The subject of this drawing is unusual. One can see why there is a suggestion on the old mat that it is the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine. Although the composition is much like the well-known one of the Christ Child with St. Catherine, St. Joseph here takes the place of the Madonna, who is always seen with this subject. The kneeling female figure…
Photo, Print, Drawing[Napoleonic figure standing on a throne holding a staff] 1 drawing : ink and wash, graphite ; 22.7 x 13.7 cm.
Photo, Print, DrawingBaptism of Edward I 1 drawing : pencil, brown ink, and wash. | Drawing of an infant, perhaps an angel on the recto. Sketch of an elderly man with cane on verso.
Photo, Print, Drawing[Paris and Oenone] 1 drawing : pen and brown ink and wash with watercolor ; sheet 28.7 x 20.5 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/16 in.)
Photo, Print, DrawingDanse paisane d'ápres le naturel 1 drawing : ink and wash, graphite ; 15 x 12 cm.