Christian Köhler in His Studio, Painting "Spring"

"Here is portrayed three Moods of the Sky and the effects on the Fish and Animals. Sharks and Turtles come to the Surface when it is Raining. Wallabies and Kangaroos are out feedin...

“I also hold that painting is a quite concrete art, and can consist of nothing but the representation of real, tangible things, ” wrote Gustave Courbet in an open letter to his stu...

Edgar Degas received a thorough academic art education. He studied with a pupil of Ingres and completed the course at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Initially, he attempted a traditiona...

The painting shows a naked man with his head held high standing on a gilded sleigh drawn by four strong men, two pulling and two pushing. A one-eyed priest is shown in the centre o...

Though he was born in Paris and lived most of his life in France, Sisley was of English descent and retained his English citizenship throughout his lifetime. As a young man he was ...

Claude Monet spent most of his youth in the port city of Le Havre. There he exhibited amusing depictions he had painted of local characters in the window of a framer’s shop. Eugène...

New acquisitions, November 2016 Five paintings by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Nationalmuseum has added no fewer than five works by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg to its Danish a...

New acquisitions, November 2016 Five paintings by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Nationalmuseum has added no fewer than five works by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg to its Danish a...