Johann Wilhelm Schirmer in His Studio, Painting "The Roman Campagna, with an Aqueduct"

"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...

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...

“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...

Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm II.King of Prussia. The Prussian monarch is shown here as a chest pattern to the right. He looks past the viewer on the left. His clothing consists of...

Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm II.King of Prussia. The Prussian monarch is shown here as a chest pattern to the right. He looks past the viewer on the left. His clothes are made of ...

WILHELM KEMPE, JOHANNA KEMPE WALLIS, WALTHER VON HALLWYL, WILHELMINA VON HALLWYL KEMPE, EBBA VON HALLWYL, WILHELM VON ECKERMANN and ELLEN and IRMA VON HALLWYL, 1885. Photographs, e...

Roslin was active in Paris and came to hold a unique position on the international art scene of the 18th century. It was in the French capital that he met his future wife, the port...

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...