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 [+]
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 [+]
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 [+]
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- [+]
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 [+]
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 [+]
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 [+]
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 [+]
This preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 11, Lads Making Ready (G02099 / G00644) is part of The Dreams, a series of twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that serve as the basis for the Caprichos. [+]
This preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 14, What a Sacrifice! (G02102) is part of The Dreams, a series of twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that serve as the basis for the Caprichos. Headed by [+]
This preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 66, There it goes (G02102) is part of The Dreams, a series of twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that serve as the basis for the Caprichos. Headed by Dr [+]
This preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 5, Two of a Kind (G02093) is part of The Dreams, a series of twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that serve as the basis for the Caprichos in the first st [+]
A preparatory drawing for the etching, Capricho 57, The filiation (G02145). Together, the twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that constitute the basis for The Caprichos are known as The Dreams. The first [+]
A preparatory drawing for the etching, Capricho 68, Pretty teacher! (G02156). Together, the twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that constitute the basis for The Caprichos are known as The Dreams. The fir [+]
International Language is the preparatory drawing for the well-known Capricho 43, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, and it bears the marks of having been transferred to the copper plate. The fina [+]
This preparatory drawing for Caprichos, 70, Devout profession is in two parts. The image on the front of the paper is called Dream of a beginner witch while the rear one, which appears with the title, [+]
This preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 63, Look how solemn they are! (G02151) is part of The Dreams, a series of twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that serve as the basis for the Caprichos. H [+]