On what appears to be a wooden table or ledge we see boiled crabs and shrimp, several freshwater fish (two carp, a roach, possibly several ide, and a northern pike), a dark glass goblet, a brass candl [+]
After establishing himself in Paris as portrait painter to the elegant and cosmopolitan high society of his time, Raimundo de Madrazo cultivated a particularly abundant clientele among the great ladie [+]
This drawing is part of a series of works by Gandolfi depicting Hercules and Omphale. It includes drawings held by the Pinacoteca di Forlì, a possible sketch in a private collection in Milan, a [+]
Hercules used his bow when firing at the Stymphalian birds, the destruction of which was the sixth of his Labors. These voracious creatures ate human flesh, had brazen claws, wings and beaks and used [+]
La Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid quiso donar para la nueva sala de su museo, con motivo del primer centenario en 1928 de la muerte del ilustre pintor Francisco de Goya, una p [+]
This piece, which belongs to a set of two ewers with basins (O24 to O27), is a jug with a bell-shaped body and deep, hemispherical base, from which a spout with a sloping upper plane emerges. The moun [+]
A glove tray formed by nine pieces of rock crystal and a framework of gilt brass. Rising around the sides of an elongated octagonal plaque are trapezoidal pieces of rock crystal assembled to form an o [+]
Glove tray composed of nine rock crystal plaques, one in the centre in the form of an elongated octagon, and eight trapezoidal ones around it on a framework of gilt brass, forming an octagonal flange [+]
Casket with a rectangular body and hipped flat-topped lid. Rising from a silver gilt base is a framework of gold, according to the 1689 Versailles inventory, with white enamelling. The entire surface [+]
The piece belongs to a set of two ewers with their platters (Dauphin’s Treasure, O24 to O27). The platter is formed by several trapezoidal pieces around a large central octagon, with mounting of the s [+]
Neceser, realizado en madera y latón, que contiene un espejo de mesa, una palangana de plata dorada, dos vasos, un cuenco y una botella de cuatro compartimentos, en cristal tallado, un cepillo de dien [+]
En el anverso retrato de busto, a la izquierda. Cabeza cubierta con una gorra plana adornada con una pluma en su lado izquierdo, peinada hacia atrás, y con pendiente largo, rematado en tres colgantes. [+]
The cabinet has three sections arranged symmetrically with a bronze handle on each side. The central section has a folding door at the right, with a secret drawer underneath it and four small drawers [+]