Claude-Catherine de Clermont, duchess of Retz

Saint Catherine, who was canonised in 1461 by Pope Pius II, was born in Siena around 1347. Despite the opposition of her family, who wished her to marry and form a family, she ente...

Claude Lorraine, whose artistic inspiration derived from the Roman Campagna, can be considered one of the great figures of 17th-century classical landscape painting. He arrived in ...

Bibliographical Reference: Adhémar, 434...

These panels were acquired in 1928 from the Haberstock gallery in Berlin along with two other works now in the Collection. They were first presented to the general and specialist p...

The duchess Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1739-1807), who is sitting in a semicircle to the right, looks at the viewer, was married since 1856 to Duke Ernst August II ...