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Joris van Son - Allegory on Human Life - Google Art Project

Google Cultural Institute Public domain photograph - still life painting, flowers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Agnolo Bronzino - The Feast Given by Joseph for His Brothers - Walters...

Copy after Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572). 'The Feast Given by Joseph for His Brothers,' 1550-1570. oil on panel. Walters Art Museum (37.1063): Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902.

Alberto Carlieri - Christ Blessing Little Children among Classical Rui...

Alberto Carlieri (Italian, 1672-after 1720). 'Christ Blessing Little Children among Classical Ruins,' 1st quarter 18th century. oil on canvas. Walters Art Museum (37.525): Acquired by Henry Walters with the Mas... More

Alberto Carlieri - St Peter Baptizing the Centurion, Cornelius - Walte...

Alberto Carlieri (Italian, 1672-after 1720). 'St. Peter Baptizing the Centurion, Cornelius,' 1st quarter 18th century. oil on canvas. Walters Art Museum (37.503): Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti C... More

Alberto Sotio - The Mourning Virgin Mary - Walters 371155

This beautiful panel, one of the oldest Italian paintings in America, is a fragment from the left side, or apron, of a large painted crucifix. With one hand touching her cheek in a tender expression of sorrow, ... More

Alfred Stevens - News from Afar - Walters 37183

Stevens depicted domestic interiors, in which he meticulously recorded the latest fashions in dress and furnishings. Here, a young woman, who has apparently just received news from a loved one far away, clutche... More

Alfred Stevens - Palm Sunday - Walters 37141

An elegantly dressed young lady is placing a sprig of box behind the frame of her mother's portrait hanging on the bedroom wall. Another bough, lying on her cloak, is intended for the adjacent miniature, presum... More

Alfred Stevens - The Painter and His Model - Walters 37322

Stevens, a native of Brussels, spent much of his career in Paris where he was regarded as one of the most important recorders of the bourgeois and aristocratic levels of la vie moderne. In this early work, a yo... More

Andrea Appiani the elder - The Baptism of Christ - Walters 371017

As described in the Bible, when John the Baptist baptized Jesus, the heavens opened and the spirit of God descended as a dove. The artist places this scene by the walls of Jerusalem. Concepts of architectural g... More

Andrea Delitio - Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints - Walters 377...

Madonna and Child Public domain photograph of 15th-century Virgin and child, Madonna, Mary and child portrait, renaissance portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Andrea di Bartolo - Madonna and Child with the Four Evangelists - Walt...

Andrea di Bartolo was the son of the painter Bartolo di Fredi. Like most boys, he began his career in his father's workshop. Although scenes of the Madonna and Child flanked by saints are common, this inclusion... More

Andrea di Bartolo - Massacre of the Innocents - Walters 371018

In an attempt to thwart the prophecy about Christ's rise to power, King Herod orders his soldiers to kill all the male infants under the age of two living in Bethlehem. They do this with ruthless efficiency. Ba... More

Andreas Johann Jacob Müller - The Christ Child - Walters 37178

The sleeping child lies on a sheet of white cloth partially covered by a pink cloth. He is identified by the aureole of light and three stylized rays forming a halo and by the ribbon he holds which is inscribed... More

Andrew John Henry Way - Bunch of Grapes - Walters 371887

The grapes in this painting have been identified as the Prince Albert variety, which William T. Walters grew at his Govans estate, Saint Mary's. Way was a Baltimore painter who began his career as a portraitist... More

Angelos Bitzamanos - Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and John the ...

Angelos Bitzamanos (Greek, 1467-1532). 'Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and John the Baptist,' early 16th century. tempera on panel. Walters Art Museum (37.626): Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarent... More

Angelos Bitzamanos - Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and John the ...

Anonymous (Byzantine). 'Virgin and Child with SS.Jerome & John,' 16th century. tempera on panel. Walters Art Museum (37.626): Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection in 1902.

Antonello da Messina - The Virgin Mary Reading - Walters 37433

In this devotional panel, the Virgin Mary is depicted reading. Her status as the Queen of Heaven is emphasized by the golden crown-studded with jewels and pearls and adorned with red and white roses-held by the... More

Antonio da Fabriano II - Saint Jerome in His Study - Walters 37439

Saint Jerome (ca. 347-420) was one of the four Latin Fathers of the Church (the others being Saint Augustine, Ambrose, and Gregory the Great) and renowned for his translation of the Bible into Latin. The image ... More

Antonio da Fabriano II - Saint Jerome in His Study - Walters 37439FXD

Saint Jerome (ca. 347-420) was one of the four Latin Fathers of the Church (the others being Saint Augustine, Ambrose, and Gregory the Great) and renowned for his translation of the Bible into Latin. The image ... More

Antonio della Corna - Christ Before Caiaphas - Walters 37481 - Detail

Master of Palazzo d'Arco. 'Christ before Caiaphas,' 15th century. Tempera on wood, gold ground. Walters Art Museum (37.481): Acquired by Henry Walters (Trotti Gallery, Paris).

Antonio della Corna - Christ Before Caiaphas - Walters 37481

Master of Palazzo d'Arco. 'Christ before Caiaphas,' 15th century. Tempera on wood, gold ground. Walters Art Museum (37.481): Acquired by Henry Walters (Trotti Gallery, Paris).

Antonio della Corna - Christ Before Caiaphas - Walters 37481FXD

Public domain image of an artwork, medieval, renaissance, 14th, 15th, 16th-century art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Antonio Rimpacta - Saint Sebastian - Walters 37469

Saint Sebastian was a Roman commander who, according to legend, was executed under Emperor Diocletian (284-305) for being a Christian. First, soldiers attempted to kill him by shooting him with arrows, but he m... More

Antonio Rotta - The Hopeless Case - Walters 37182

A young girl wearing a typical Venetian shawl listens stoically as the shoemaker reports upon the hopeless condition of her boot. The artist has depicted this cluttered interior with characteristic detail.

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tommaso - Episodes from the Story of Susannah...

Marco del Buono Giamberti (Italian, 1402-1489). 'Episodes from the Story of Susannah,' 15th century. tempera on panel. Walters Art Museum (37.2503): Gift of the Dr. Francis D. Murnaghan Fund, 1973.

Armand Point - Bust of a Maiden in a Landscape - Walters 372801

Point began his career as a realist, painting scenes set in North Africa. After a trip to Italy in 1893, he became enamored of the works of the Italian artists of the 14th and 15th centuries and adopted their s... More

Ary Scheffer - Christ Weeping Over Jerusalem - Walters 37111

Before enrolling in the École des Beaux-Arts, Scheffer studied with the neoclassically trained artist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, whose mastery of the art of the past and high technical finish he emulated. He exhib... More

Asher Brown Durand - The Catskills - Walters 37122

This painting was commissioned by William T. Walters in 1858, when the 62-year-old Durand was at the height of his fame and technical skill. The vertical format of the composition was a trademark of the artist,... More

August Xaver Karl von Pettenkofen - The Market at Szolnok, Hungary - W...

Szolnok, located on the Theiss River in central Hungary, was an important market center of 11,000 inhabitants in the mid 19th century. Pettenkofen first visited it in 1851, and returned repeatedly over the next... More

Auguste Paul Charles Anastasi - Courting in a Garden - Walters 371622

Auguste Paul Charles Anastasi (French, 1820-1889). 'Courting in a Garden,' 1859. watercolor with graphite underdrawing and white heighteing on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured, wove paper. Walters A... More

Bartolomeo di Giovanni - The Myth of Io - Walters 37421

The ancient Roman poet Ovid, in his "The Metamorphoses," told the story of the nymph Io who was seduced by Jupiter, the king of the gods. When his wife Juno became jealous, Jupiter transformed Io into a heifer ... More

Bartolomeo di Tommaso da Foligno - The Funeral of Saint Francis of Ass...

A narrative panel from an altarpiece devoted to Saint Francis, this image combines the funeral of the saint (died 1226) with his canonization by Pope Gregory IX in 1228. The saint's body lies on a bier surround... More

Bernardino Pinturicchio - Saint Jerome in the Wilderness - Walters 371...

St. Jerome (ca. 347-420), one of the four Latin Fathers of the Church (along with Sts. Augustine, Ambrose, and Gregory the Great), is particularly famous for translating the Bible into Latin, known as the Vulga... More

Bernhard Strigel - Christ Before the High Priest - Walters 37673

These four panels (Walters 37.665, 37.666, 37.672, and 37.673) depicting episodes from Christ's Passion were originally part of a "polyptych" or multi-paneled altarpiece commissioned by the Carthusian monastery... More

Berto di Giovanni di Marco - Saint Francis of Assisi - Walters 37640

Saint Francis (ca. 1182-1226) was the patron saint and founder of the Franciscan Order. Late in life he had a vision, which left him with wounds in hands and feet like those of the crucified Christ. Here, he is... More

Bicci di Lorenzo - The Annunciation - Walters 37448

This unusually well-preserved and exquisitely painted altarpiece shows the moment when the archangel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary that she will give birth to the Son of God. The dialogue between them is inscri... More

Catarino Veneziano - Madonna and Child, the Crucifixion, and Saints - ...

Painting during a period when artists no longer worked as anonymous craftsmen, Catarino signed this altarpiece prominently, "Catarino from Venice painted [this]." Juxtaposed with the donor's coat of arms (lower... More

Charles Loring Elliott - Anthony Van Corlear - Walters 37101

Although he was an accomplished portraitist, Elliott had received little formal training apart from six months in 1829 spent in the studio of John Quidor (1801-81), who had broken with the traditional realism p... More

Charles Loring Elliott - Portrait of an Unknown Man - Walters 3794

This painting was formerly thought to be a portrait of Roger B. Taney.

Charles Loring Elliott - Portrait of Asher B Durand - Walters 3770

In about 1830, Elliott moved from upstate New York to Manhattan, where he studied briefly with John Quidor (1801-81), a specialist in literary scenes. Otherwise, he was largely self-taught, although he had thor... More

Charles Robert Leslie - The Miniature - Walters 37214

A young woman stares longingly at a portrait miniature of a loved one who is absent. Although born in London to American parents, Leslie was raised in Philadelphia. At the age of 17, he returned to London, whe... More

Childe Hassam - The Lorelei - Walters 37310

During an 1886-89 stay in Paris, this Boston painter experimented with working in oils outdoors. He gradually abandoned the dark-toned palette of the Barbizon masters for the brighter colors of the French Impre... More

Christian Adolf Schreyer - Arabs in Egypt, Sunrise - Walters 37136

When the German artist Schreyer moved to Paris in 1862, critics compared his paintings of the Near East to the works of the orientalists Eugène Delacroix, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, and Eugène Fromentin. In 185... More

Christian Adolf Schreyer - The Plains of Hungary - Walters 3776

A peasant standing on a heavily laden, four-wheeled cart, stares forlornly across the empty landscape. The cart, drawn by a troika of horses, appears to be thoroughly mired in mud. In this barren scene with its... More

Copy of the Mona Lisa - Walters 371158

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) began a portrait of Lisa Gherardini about 1503 and then took with him to France, selling it to the French king in 1516. During the centuries that it remained in the royal collectio... More

Louis Pierre Henriquel Dupont - Correggio - Marriage of St Catherine -...

copy after Corregio, Le Mariage de Sainte Catherine, Louvre Museum, inv.41

Defendente Ferrari - The Holy Family with Angels - Walters 37711

Enthroned as Queen of Heaven, Mary holds her son, who turns with an affectionate gesture to embrace Saint Joseph while angels play music. Mary's husband is pictured as an old man who needs to use glasses to rea... More

Eastman Johnson - The Nantucket School of Philosophy - Walters 37311

Like a number of his fellow genre painters, the Boston artist Eastman Johnson trained abroad in Düsseldorf and later at The Hague, where he became familiar with Dutch 17th-century art. Between 1870 and 1887, Jo... More

Eduard Biermann - Monks at Prayer in a Cloister - Walters 371285

Biermann began his career as a porcelain decorator but eventually became one of the major landscape painters in Berlin.

Eduard Kurzbauer - The Dispute - Walters 37102

Four elderly German men are playing cards. One, seated with his back to the viewer, turns his head away from his companions who, in annoyance, begin to rise to their feet. This painting exhibits Kurzbauer's adr... More

Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala - Spain 1812, French Occupation - Walters 37...

Two Spanish partisans struggle to dispose of the corpse of a French dragoon by dumping it into a well. The old woman at the entrance carries the helmets and swords of their victim and of another French soldier ... More

Edward Mitchell Bannister - Boston Street Scene (Boston Common) - Walt...

For years, Bannister painted landscapes with muted colors that recalled the works of the French Barbizon school so popular among New England collectors during the second half of the 19th century. However, in on... More

Emile van Marcke de Lummen - Early Morning - Walters 37143

A white cow drinking in the foreground is about to be joined by three other cows progressing at intervals toward the pool. They are tended by a girl leaning against a gatepost. The scene is drenched by early mo... More

Emile van Marcke de Lummen - The Approach of a Storm - Walters 3777

The son of a Flemish artist employed at the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Van Marcke himself decorated porcelains at Sèvres for nine years. An older colleague, Constant Troyon, encouraged him to paint in oils d... More

Emmanuel-Adolphe Midy - Little Breton Peasant Girl - Walters 371592

NaN Public domain photograph of 19th-century portrait painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

English - Ehrenbreitstein - Walters 3736

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Ercole de' Roberti - Head of a Mourning Woman - Walters 371707

Ercole de' Roberti was one of the leading artists of Ferrara. This painting is closely related to the image of one of the mourning women on a famous fresco of the Crucifixion (destroyed in 1606), which the pain... More

Ethiopian - Archangel Michael and the Crossing of the Red Sea - Walter...

Together with its companion on the opposite pillar, this work originally flanked the entrance to the "mäqdäs," or sanctuary, of an Ethiopian church, where it served as a guardian figure. Here, the archangel Mic... More

Ethiopian - Archangel Michael and the Crossing of the Red Sea - Walter...

Together with its companion on the opposite pillar, this work originally flanked the entrance to the "mäqdäs," or sanctuary, of an Ethiopian church, where it served as a guardian figure. Here, the archangel Mic... More

Ethiopian - Archangel Michael and the Crossing of the Red Sea - Walter...

Together with its companion on the opposite pillar, this work originally flanked the entrance to the "mäqdäs," or sanctuary, of an Ethiopian church, where it served as a guardian figure. Here, the archangel Mic... More

Ethiopian - Archangel Raphael and the Miracle of the Sea Monster - Wal...

The archangel Raphael is depicted standing above a church built in his honor. The painting illustrates the dramatic highpoint in a story that explains Raphael's relationship to the church. According to legend, ... More

Ethiopian - Archangel Raphael and the Miracle of the Sea Monster - Wal...

The archangel Raphael is depicted standing above a church built in his honor. The painting illustrates the dramatic highpoint in a story that explains Raphael's relationship to the church. According to legend, ... More

Ethiopian - Archangel Raphael and the Miracle of the Sea Monster - Wal...

The archangel Raphael is depicted standing above a church built in his honor. The painting illustrates the dramatic highpoint in a story that explains Raphael's relationship to the church. According to legend, ... More

Ethiopian - Diptych Icon with Saint George, and Mary and the Infant Ch...

This is an extremely well-preserved early example of a diptych (two-panel) icon designed for personal use. The small size of the piece and its brightly painted interior would have enhanced the owner's sense of ... More

Ethiopian - Diptych Icon with Saint George, and Mary and the Infant Ch...

This is an extremely well-preserved early example of a diptych (two-panel) icon designed for personal use. The small size of the piece and its brightly painted interior would have enhanced the owner's sense of ... More

Ethiopian - Diptych Icon with Saint George, and Mary and the Infant Ch...

This is an extremely well-preserved early example of a diptych (two-panel) icon designed for personal use. The small size of the piece and its brightly painted interior would have enhanced the owner's sense of ... More