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
Anthony van Dyck - Virgin and Child - Walters 37234
This Virgin and Child subtly incorporates traditional allusions to the miraculous. Mary's long, loose hair identifies her as a virgin, alluding to the virgin birth. The palatial column evokes her future reign a... More
Florent Willems - The Health of the King - Walters 3750
Five gentlemen, grouped around a table, toast the King. One page is replenishing a wine glass while another stands in attendance. Set in a Renaissance chimney piece in the right background is a marble bust of H... More
Florent Willems - The Important Response - Walters 37140
A lady in early 17th-century attire is seated at a table pondering a letter she is writing. In the background is a high Japanese screen. The artist has lavished great care in the rendering of the contrasting su... More
Frans Pourbus the younger - Portrait of a Noblewoman - Walters 37377
The intricate gold and enamel filigree collar and diamond pendant are quite fine, but it is the embroidered bodice and ruff of exquisite needlepoint in the Spanish style that really speak to this noblewoman's w... More
François Du Quesnoy - The Infant Christ with Instruments of the Passio...
The infant Christ, grave and meditative, reaches out to touch the crown of thorns, a painful symbol of his future sacrifice, beside which lie the whip with which he was tortured and bent nails drawn from the cr... More
Hugo van der Goes - Portrait of a Man at Prayer with Saint John the Ba...
Hugo van der Goes (active ca. 1440-1482) was one of the major portraitists of 15th-century Europe, at a time when portraiture gained importance under the impact of the new individualism fostered by humanism. A... More
Isabella Peeters - Vase of Flowers - Walters 371829
Fresh flowers in all their fragile, transient beauty and variety were not available in the winter nor could specimens be preserved, as could those of animals, so flower paintings, drawings, or colored prints we... More
Jacob Jordaens the elder - Flight of the Holy Family into Egypt - Walt...
After the departure of the wise men, the Gospel of Matthew reports that an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream and warned him to take Mary and Jesus and flee to safety in Egypt. Here, they are guided by an ange... More
Jacques de Poindre - Portrait of Abbot Nicholas à Spira - Walters 3725...
In 1543, Nicholas à Spira (1510-1568) was elected abbot of the abbey of the Norbertine Order at Grimbergen in the southern Netherlands. In 1566, the abbey, like many Catholic churches and institutions in the N... More
Jan Baptiste Govaerts - Still Life with Dead Game - Walters 371900
Hunting was a major pastime of the nobility, and paintings of the hunt were popular. By the late 1600s, scenes that captured the excitement of the chase or kill gave way to representations of the hunter's troph... More
Jan Brueghel the Elder - The Archdukes Albert and Isabella Visiting a ...
This painting of a private gallery or cabinet of a Flemish collector depicts a visit by Archdukes Albert and Isabella, the Habsburg governors of the Southern Netherlands. Isabella is seated, while her husband s... More
Jan Brueghel the Elder - The Archdukes Albert and Isabella Visiting a ...
This painting of a private gallery or cabinet of a Flemish collector depicts a visit by Archdukes Albert and Isabella, the Habsburg governors of the Southern Netherlands. Isabella is seated, while her husband s... More
Jan van Kessel II - Noah's Family Assembling Animals before the Ark - ...
These animals gathered by Noah's family to take on the ark in the distance reflect both the amazing variety of nature and man's dominion over nature. The majority were considered exotic by 17th-century European... More
Jean August Hendrik Leys - Dutch Interior - Walters 37144
A servant girl has been found asleep by an older couple. Beside her, on a table covered with a checked cloth, is an unplucked dead goose and a large stoneware pitcher; at her feet waits a hungry cat beside a la... More
Jean August Hendrik Leys - The Edict-s- of Charles V - Walters 37123 -...
Baron Leys was regarded as Belgium's foremost artist in the mid 19th century. About 1851, he adopted a deliberately archaizing style resulting in part from a visit to Germany in 1852. This scene is set in the a... More
Jean August Hendrik Leys - The Edict-s- of Charles V - Walters 37123 -...
Baron Leys was regarded as Belgium's foremost artist in the mid 19th century. About 1851, he adopted a deliberately archaizing style resulting in part from a visit to Germany in 1852. This scene is set in the a... More
Jean August Hendrik Leys - The Edict-s- of Charles V - Walters 37123 -...
Baron Leys was regarded as Belgium's foremost artist in the mid 19th century. About 1851, he adopted a deliberately archaizing style resulting in part from a visit to Germany in 1852. This scene is set in the a... More
Jean August Hendrik Leys - The Edict-s- of Charles V - Walters 37123 -...
Baron Leys was regarded as Belgium's foremost artist in the mid 19th century. About 1851, he adopted a deliberately archaizing style resulting in part from a visit to Germany in 1852. This scene is set in the a... More
Jean August Hendrik Leys - The Edict-s- of Charles V - Walters 37123 -...
Baron Leys was regarded as Belgium's foremost artist in the mid 19th century. About 1851, he adopted a deliberately archaizing style resulting in part from a visit to Germany in 1852. This scene is set in the a... More
Jean August Hendrik Leys - The Edict-s- of Charles V - Walters 37123 -...
Baron Leys was regarded as Belgium's foremost artist in the mid 19th century. About 1851, he adopted a deliberately archaizing style resulting in part from a visit to Germany in 1852. This scene is set in the a... More
Jean August Hendrik Leys - The Edict-s- of Charles V - Walters 37123 -...
Baron Leys was regarded as Belgium's foremost artist in the mid 19th century. About 1851, he adopted a deliberately archaizing style resulting in part from a visit to Germany in 1852. This scene is set in the a... More
Jean August Hendrik Leys - The Edict-s- of Charles V - Walters 37123 -...
Baron Leys was regarded as Belgium's foremost artist in the mid 19th century. About 1851, he adopted a deliberately archaizing style resulting in part from a visit to Germany in 1852. This scene is set in the a... More
Jean August Hendrik Leys - The Edict-s- of Charles V - Walters 37123 -...
Baron Leys was regarded as Belgium's foremost artist in the mid 19th century. About 1851, he adopted a deliberately archaizing style resulting in part from a visit to Germany in 1852. This scene is set in the a... More
Jean August Hendrik Leys - The Edict-s- of Charles V - Walters 37123 -...
Baron Leys was regarded as Belgium's foremost artist in the mid 19th century. About 1851, he adopted a deliberately archaizing style resulting in part from a visit to Germany in 1852. This scene is set in the a... More
Jean August Hendrik Leys - The Edict-s- of Charles V - Walters 37123 -...
Baron Leys was regarded as Belgium's foremost artist in the mid 19th century. About 1851, he adopted a deliberately archaizing style resulting in part from a visit to Germany in 1852. This scene is set in the a... More
Jean August Hendrik Leys - The Edict-s- of Charles V - Walters 37123
Baron Leys was regarded as Belgium's foremost artist in the mid 19th century. About 1851, he adopted a deliberately archaizing style resulting in part from a visit to Germany in 1852. This scene is set in the a... More
Joachim Beuckelaer - Brothel - Walters 371784
Animated scenes of carousing in village inns and brothels were enjoyed as amusing evidence of the instincts of peasants. The motifs, including a drunk balancing unsteadily on his head, suggest that the scene is... More
Louis Gallait - Art and Liberty - Walters 3778
This painting typifies the so-called "juste-milieu" (middle path) for which Gallait was so admired during his lifetime. The subject is Romantic in its idealization of the poor but virtuous itinerant musician, w... More
Louis Gallait - Peace - Walters 37119
When this pair of allegorical paintings (together with Walters 37.124) was completed in 1872, a Belgian critic wrote: M. Gallait just finished two paintings forming a pendant pair that rank among the ... More
Louis Gallait - Power of Music - Walters 37134
A letter written by the artist to William Walters dated July 20, 1860 illuminates the subject of this painting. It shows a brother and sister resting before an old tomb. The brother is attempting to comfort his... More
Louis Gallait - War - Walters 37124
When this pair of allegorical paintings (together with Walters 37.119) was completed in 1872, a Belgian critic wrote: M. Gallait just finished two paintings forming a pendant pair that rank among the ... More
Master of the Mansi Magdalen - Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Walters...
Simple images of the Virgin and Child were often found in private homes as an inspiration to prayer and meditation. The Gospels tell us little of the Holy Family's flight into Egypt to escape the wrath of Hero... More
Master of the Virgo inter Virgines - Saint John the Baptist and a Bish...
The ethereal but naively drawn figures set against a landscape of flattened mounds are typical of the haunting compositions of this master, identified only through a group of works related to a painting of the ... More
Netherlandish - Figures from a Deposition - Walters 61147
In this group from a carved altarpiece (Walters 61.148), Mary swoons in a visual echo of the dead body of Christ - her suffering paralleling his suffering. The figures loosely derived from the great painter Ro... More
Paul-Jean Clays - Moonlight In Holland - Walters 37125
In this nocturnal view of an unidentified Dutch harbor ships with slackened sails rest at their moorings while sailors row their skiffs ashore.
Peeter van Avont - Holy Family Departing for Egypt - Walters 371197
In the Gospel of Matthew, after the departure of the Wise Men, an angel warned Joseph to flee with Mary and Jesus to Egypt. While Jesus and his cousin John tenderly say goodbye, Joseph, escorted by angels who w... More
Pieter Bruegel II - Peasant Wedding Dance - Walters 37364
Scenes of peasant celebrations that Pieter Bruegel the Elder made popular in the 1560s were still so in the 1600s, and his son Pieter II devoted himself to filling that demand. This lively scene by the son is d... More
Robert Campin - Madonna and Child - Walters 37297
The unprecedented realism and sense of solidity conveyed by Robert Campin's figures made the painter (ca. 1375-1444) one of the greatest 15th-century Netherlandish artists. His powerful, full-length depiction o... More
Simon de Vos - Merrymakers in an Inn - Walters 371741
This party of fashionably dressed young people is interrupted by intruders with masks and a lighted torch suggesting that these revels take place during Carnival. Well-bred young ladies did not join parties in ... More
Théodore Rousseau - A Swamp in the Landes - Walters 37991
Rousseau worked on the Normandy coast early in his career but also studied the sea on a visit to the Landes region in southwestern France in 1844. Here, he depicts a luminous view looking out across expansive m... More
Gallait Fiddler and a gypsy
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