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This is by the same artist as The Presentation (P-1257), although it has a more Germanic character on account of it being almost a copy of an etching by Martin Schongauer (c. 1435/50-1491) of the same [+]
An inquiring and original artist, as well as an extraordinary draughtsman, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione travelled throughout much of Italy (besides his native Genoa, he worked in Rome, Mantua, Venic [+]
This painting enters the Museum as the work of Salomon Koninck, an attribution which remains valid until the 1963 catalogue, when, according to Valdivieso (1973), a proposal by Clotilde Brière- [+]
In October 1777, Goya received a commission to paint 20 cartoons for tapestries intended to decorate the walls of the Prince and Princess of Asturias´s bedchamber and its anteroom in the palace of El [+]
As court painter to the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Snayers’s compositions both document and glorify Spanish military activities. This painting represents the capture of Aire-sur-la-Lys from the Frenc [+]
Goya used the drawing in Album A of a young woman sweeping to design this complex scene of a brothel, which is also preparatory work for an etching for the Caprichos. The first contemporary comments w [+]
Preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 13. They are Hot (G02101). This work is one of twenty-six pen drawings that make up the Dreams series on which the Caprichos were based. Both the prelimina [+]
This is a preparatory drawing for an unpublished plate from Los Caprichos. The only remaining print of that plate is a single proof printed on the back of another etching at the Biblioteca Nacional (1 [+]
The son of painter Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena and brother of Ferdinando Galli da Bibiena, Francesco was raised in a family of artists and took an early interest in architecture and set design. He [+]
A preparatory drawing for the aquatint, Capricho 39, As Far Back as his Grandfather (G02127), this is one of twenty-six pen drawings from the Dreams series that constitutes the basis for the Caprichos [+]
A preparatory drawing for the etching, Capricho 50. The Chinchillas (G02138). The group of twenty-six pen drawings that constitute the basis for The Caprichos in its initial phase, make up the Dreams [+]
This preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 54, The shameful one (G02156) is part of The Dreams, a series of twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that serve as the basis for The Caprichos. Headed by [+]
The value of Goya’s war images is largely determined by their plausibility. This makes them visual referents for what happens in war. Neither their status as narrative nor the esteem in which they are [+]
This preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 7, God forgive her: Even thus he cannot make her out (G02095) is part of The Dreams, a series of twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that serve as the ba [+]
This watercolor offers a profile view -similar to a low relief- of a child or young faun sitting on a fragment of an Ionic entablature with egg-and-dart decorations above an astragal. The slender, nud [+]
Rather than simply reflecting concrete events, Goya sought to capture their essence. He therefore placed himself alongside the action, taking part in a way that no previous artist ever had. This expla [+]
This preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 36, Bad Night (G02124) is part of The Dreams, a series of twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that serve as the basis for the Caprichos. This type of com [+]
This preparatory drawing for the etching of Capricho 16. For Heaven’s sake: And it was his Mother (G02104) is part of the Dreams series, which consists of twenty-six pen drawings that form the basis o [+]
