This painting probably evolved alongside Monet’s 'grandes décorations' in his vast purpose-built studio at Giverny. This bird’s eye view, possibly from the Japanese bridge, shows a winding path near the...
This small, portable altarpiece is one of a handful of English panel paintings to have survived from the Middle Ages. Made for Richard II, King of England from 1377 to...
This portrait was probably one exhibited by Nattier at the Salon in 1757.The sitter (1740 - 1776) was the daughter of an actress in the Comédie Italienne company, and became...
His densely worked pastel is executed on several pieces of paper mounted on cardboard. Degas seems to have extended the composition while working on it, hence the need for additional...
In 1883 Monet moved from the north-west of Paris to Giverny. Adjacent to his property was a small pond which he acquired in 1893, where he created a water garden...
This cushion art work is on the National Gallerys extraordinary collection of 19th-century French landscapes, Corot to Monet charts the development of landscape painting from the late 18th century to...
Renoirs Umbrellas shows a bustling Paris street in the rain. The composition of the painting does not focus on the centre of the picture which is a tangle of hands....
The decadent floral paintings from the National Galleries’ collection provides the inspiration behind our capsule ‘Floral Masters’ range. Zooming into the minute detail captured in the paintings, our cushions focus...
The decadent floral paintings from the National Galleries’ collection provides the inspiration behind our capsule ‘Floral Masters’ range. Zooming into the minute detail captured in the paintings, our cushions focus...
Tiger in a Tropical Storm or Surprised! is an 1891 oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Rousseau. It was the first of the jungle paintings for which the artist is chiefly known. It shows a tiger, illuminated by a...
This is one of four paintings of sunflowers dating from August and September 1888. Van Gogh intended to decorate Gauguins room with these paintings in the so-called Yellow House that...
On this cushion artwork copper panel Bosschaert has painted with great delicacy and precision a bouquet of relatively common flowers - among them tulips, roses, wallflowers, daffodils and a carnation....
This work shows a group of young factory workers relaxing on the riverbank at Asnières, an industrial suburb west of Paris on the River Seine. Although he hadn’t invented his...
The decadent floral paintings from the National Galleries’ collection provides the inspiration behind our capsule ‘Floral Masters’ range. Zooming into the minute detail captured in the paintings, our cushions focus...
Whistlejacket was foaled in 1749. His most famous victory was in a race over four miles for 2000 guineas at York in August 1759. Stubbs's huge picture was painted in...
This cushion art work is on the National Gallerys extraordinary collection of 19th-century French landscapes, Corot to Monet charts the development of landscape painting from the late 18th century to...
The picture is likely to be that mentioned in Vasari's 'Life of Bronzino' of 1568: He made a picture of singular beauty, which was sent to King Francis in France;...
This mature work is a version of a popular design known in at least two other paintings by Sassoferrato. This particular design showing the Virgin at prayer is one of...
This cushion art work is on the National Gallerys extraordinary collection of 19th-century French landscapes, Corot to Monet charts the development of landscape painting from the late 18th century to...
Degas is famous as a painter of ballet dancers, and the theme of the dance class or rehearsal was one of the preoccupations of his later career.This study relates to...
These four paintings are Allegories of Love, each concentrating on a specific aspect. In turn, they seem to deal with Unfaithfulness, Scorn, Respect and Happy Union, although their precise meanings...
This cushion art work is on the National Gallerys extraordinary collection of 19th-century French landscapes, Corot to Monet charts the development of landscape painting from the late 18th century to...
This was painted in September 1889, when Van Gogh was in the St-Rmy mental asylum, near Arles, where he was a patient from May 1889 until May 1890. It is...
This is one of Canaletto's most carefully conceived and executed large pictures, and is impressive for the control of lighting and perspectival effects, and also for the lively representation of...