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instance of: painting (1,294) | watercolor painting (112) | drawing (76) | print (66) | illustration (16) | sculpture (13) | sketch (4) | study (3) | fresco (3) | reredos (2) | diptych (2) | cyclorama (2) | oil sketch (2) | artwork original version (2) | triptych (1) | mural (1) | anonymous work (1) | cassone (1)

commissioned by: Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay (10) | Napoleon (3) | Louis Philippe I (3) | Marie de' Medici (3) | Louis XIV of France (2) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (2) | Salon of 1881 (2) | Niccolò Machiavelli (1) | Louis XVI of France (1) | Sophie of Württemberg (1) | Charles IV of Spain (1) | Piero Soderini (1) | Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas (1) | Museu Paulista (1) | Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato (1) | Marco Cornaro (1) | William I of the Netherlands (1) | Louis Phélypeaux, marquis de La Vrillière (1)

owned by: France (15) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (4) | South African National Gallery (4) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (3) | Jacques-Louis David (2) | Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer (2) | Sabadell Art Museum (2) | Ajuntament de Sabadell (2) | Poland (1) | Italy (1) | Russia (1) | Rennes (1) | Hamburg (1) | Palace of Versailles (1) | Napoleon III (1) | Joseph Buonaparte (1) | Toulouse (1) | Bucharest (1)

movement: academic art (32) | neoclassicism (23) | Orientalism (9) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (9) | Romanticism (8) | Dutch Golden Age painting (8) | Art Nouveau (5) | mannerism (4) | Venetian school (4) | Egyptian Revival (4) | classicism (3) | High Renaissance (3) | Romantic painting (3) | Troubadour style (3) | Baroque (2) | Caravaggisti (2) | rococo (2) | Flemish Primitives (2)

named after: Charles XII of Sweden (1) | Doria (1)

based on: death of Cleopatra (24) | Vita Nuova (2) | Orlando Furioso (2) | Ab urbe condita libri (2) | Don Quixote (1) | New Testament (1) | Hamlet (1) | Franco-Prussian War (1) | Aeneid (1) | Commentarii de Bello Gallico (1) | Battle of Thermopylae (1) | July Revolution (1) | French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1) | Horatii (1) | Antony and Cleopatra (1) | Battle of Magenta (1) | Augustan History (1) | Rape of the Sabine Women (1)

artist: Oreste Sercelli (95) | Eduardo de Martino (68) | Jean-Baptiste Debret (66) | Thierry Frères (63) | Firmin-Didot Frères (50) | Adrien Henri Vital van Emelen (38) | Oscar Pereira da Silva (37) | José Wasth Rodrigues (33) | Benedito Calixto (30) | Henrique Manzo (30) | anonymous (29) | Peter Paul Rubens (23) | Hans Nöbauer (22) | Jan Matejko (18) | Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (18) | Jacques-Louis David (16) | Pedro Américo (15) | José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (15)

part of the series: Marie de' Medici cycle (4) | Watson and the Shark (3) | Napoleon Crossing the Alps (2) | The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (2) | Картины по русской истории (1)

depicts: man (285) | woman (220) | portrait (128) | horse (102) | landscape (102) | flower (80) | house (79) | folk costume (68) | soldier (64) | Brazil (63) | shirt (61) | war (60) | hat (59) | tree (58) | wall (56) | white hair (52) | Rio de Janeiro (50) | angel (46)

material used: oil paint (1,090) | canvas (626) | watercolor paint (126) | canvas (123) | paper (97) | wood (79) | graphite (53) | India ink (38) | panel (18) | bronze (12) | gouache paint (12) | plywood (11) | oak (10) | tempera (9) | paint (8) | cardboard (8) | board (8) | charcoal (7)

collection: Museu Paulista collection (377) | Brasiliana Iconográfica (130) | Paulista Museum Fund Collection (128) | Oreste Sercelli Collection (95) | Museu Histórico Nacional collection (95) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (84) | Museum of the History of France (79) | IMS Prints and Drawings Collection (61) | National Library collection (46) | National Museum in Warsaw (41) | Rijksmuseum (31) | private collection (26) | Musée d'Orsay (23) | Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (23) | Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo collection (18) | Fundação Estudar collection (16) | Hermitage Museum (14) | Musée des Augustins (14)

location: Museu Paulista (377) | National Historical Museum (105) | Rijksmuseum (31) | Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (23) | museum's storage space (21) | National Museum in Warsaw (20) | Musée d'Orsay (18) | Museum of the History of France (14) | Piazzetta (14) | Hermitage Museum (13) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (12) | Galerie des Batailles (11) | Musée des Augustins (11) | Museo del Prado (10) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (10) | Statens Museum for Kunst (10) | Louvre Palace (10) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (8)

part of: None (50) | Monument to the Republic (12) | Álbum: Voyage Pittoresque dans le Brésil (11) | Álbum de Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre (5) | Dance amongst swords (4) | album (2) | Judgement of Cambyses (2) | The Abduction of the Sabine Women (2) | Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1) | Proclamation of the German Empire (1) | Watson and the Shark (1) | The Battle of San Romano (1) | Marie de' Medici cycle (1) | Skizzen zum Medici-Zyklus (1) | Views and Costumes of the City and Neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro (1) | Franz Joseph Frühbeck's album (1) | Consul Titus Manlius Torquatus laat zijn zoon onthoofden en Aeneas bij Latinus (1)

country of origin: Brazil (412) | France (30) | United States of America (29) | Spain (10) | Italy (7) | Denmark (5) | Peru (2) | Belgium (1) | United Kingdom (1) | Romania (1) | South Africa (1) | Soviet Union (1) | Kingdom of Italy (1)

exhibition history: L'invention du passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée en Europe, 1802-1850 (23) | Salon of 1808 (14) | Marinhas – De Martino (12) | Exposição Paisagens Cariocas (12) | Salon of 1837 (8) | Salon of 1810 (8) | Salon of 1827 (6) | Europeana 280 (6) | Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (5) | Salon of 1819 (5) | Salon of 1817 (5) | Salon of 1831 (4) | Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napoléon (4) | Salon of 1838 (4) | Salon of 1849 (3) | Salon of 1887 (3) | None (3) | Salon of 1789 (2)

main subject: death of Cleopatra (24) | suicide of Lucretia (11) | the continence of Scipio (9) | rape of Lucretia (7) | Rio de Janeiro (2) | Rape of the Sabine Women (2) | Independence of Brazil (2) | Passage of Humaitá (2) | Rome (1) | Cleopatra (1) | Socrates (1) | Joan of Arc (1) | Moses (1) | whaling (1) | Santos (1) | Battle of Somosierra (1) | Battle of Narva (1) | Eleanor of Austria (1)

donated by: heir (2) | bequest (1) | Calouste Gulbenkian (1) | Juan José Zapater Rodríguez (1) | Mrs. Preston Davie (1)

location of final assembly: Brazil (45) | Minas Gerais (23) | Rio de Janeiro (14) | Paris (4) | Rome (4) | Pernambuco (2) | Espírito Santo (2) | Spain (1) | United States of America (1) | Poland (1) | Portugal (1) | Germany (1) | Paraguay (1) | Florence (1) | Madrid (1) | Mantua (1) | Ceará (1) | Goiás (1)

fabrication method: lithography (58) | oil painting (26) | haut-relief technique (12) | watercolor (7) | chromolithography (4) | fresco painting (3) | etching (1) | intaglio printing (1) | grisaille (1) | monochrome painting (1)

time period: Baroque (1)

Battle of Fontenoy, 11th May 1745

painting
by Pierre L'Enfant (1747)
cavalry infantry Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy crown prince

Retrato do Frei Francisco de Santa Teresa Sampaio

painting
by Oscar Pereira da Silva (1925)
man folk costume costume accessory eyeglasses white hair cassock portrait hair

Embarquement des troupes a Prahia Grande : pour l'expédition contre Monte-Video

print
by Thierry Frères (1839)
Montevideo Niterói troop beach

Emperor Alexander II declares the 1863 Diet session open

painting
by Robert Ekman (1865)
Säätyvaltiopäivät 1863

The Death of Marat

painting
by Jacques-Louis David (October 1793)
Jean-Paul Marat bathtub cadaver letter quill inkwell murder July 13 1793 drapery agony bathing writing box knife wound blood nudity sitting headgear washing man

Bataille de Poitiers

painting
by Charles de Steuben (1837)
Arabs Odo the Great massacre Poitiers

The storming of Valenciennes

painting
by Jean Alaux (1837)
general staff fortification infantry death bridge door Valenciennes

Mise of Amiens, 1264

painting
by Georges Rouget (1820)
diplomacy nobility

Fazenda Santo Antonio, 1870

painting
by Henrique Manzo
tree house building hoe man church building mountain landscape worker

Estudo para navio

drawing
by Eduardo de Martino
Brazil war

Homem com Chapéu e Cigarro de Palha

painting
by Adrien Henri Vital van Emelen (20th century)
man cigarette hat portrait

Reddition d'Abd-El-Kader

painting
by Augustin Regis (1847)
Algeria Henri d'Orleans, Duke of Aumale

Negro de Perfil com Chapéu

painting
by Adrien Henri Vital van Emelen (20th century)
man suit hat negro portrait

Surrender of Lord Cornwallis

painting
by John Trumbull (1819)
Siege of Yorktown George Washington Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau Benjamin Lincoln

Barco

drawing
by Eduardo de Martino
Brazil war

The Death of Cleopatra

painting
by Felice Ficherelli (1650s)
Cleopatra woman toplessness brown hair long hair turban dark brown aspic viper handbra breast nipple crown snakebite bracelet drapery shoulder suicide agony shirt eyebrow gaze towards the viewer

The Mortally wounded Mark Anthony with Cleopatra

painting
by Louis Moritz (1823)
Mark Antony Cleopatra woman man

Frederik II Builds Kronborg Castle at Elsinore

painting
by Nicolai Abildgaard (1781)
Frederick II of Denmark Kronborg Castle dog horse cannon round shot man body armor

Proclamation of the Republic

painting
by Benedito Calixto (1893)
Proclamation of the Republic

The Proclamation of the Abolition of the Monarchy

sculpture
by Léopold Morice (1883)
proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy

Embarquement des troupes a Prahia Grande : pour l'expédition contre Monte-Video

print
by Thierry Frères (1839)
Montevideo Niterói troop beach

Bandeirantes a Caminho das Minas

painting
by Oscar Pereira da Silva (1920)
firearm tree boot dog horse hat belt person man mode of transport landscape history painting plant clothing bag domesticated animal

Prussian Homage

painting
by Jan Matejko (1879)
St. Mary's Basilica Albert, Duke in Prussia Sigismund I the Old Sigismund II Augustus Piotr Opaliński Józef Szujski George Frederick II of Legnica Łukasz II Górka Piotr Tomicki Friedrich von Heydeck sword Hieronymus Jaroslaw Łaski Jan Łaski Anna Radziwiłł Janusz III of Masovia Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg Mauritius Ferber Krzysztof Kreutzer Bona Sforza Teodora Matejko Piotr Kmita Sobieński Przecław Lanckoroński Konstanty Ostrogski helmet Jan Tarnowski Andrzej Kościelecki Krzysztof Szydłowiecki globus cruciger Mikołaj Firlej flag of Poland Andrzej Tęczyński Albertas Goštautas Stańczyk Bartolommeo Berrecci Seweryn Boner soldier executor Columbidae Prussian Homage

Retrato de Antonio Queiroz Telles (Conde de Parnaíba)

painting
by Franco Sá Boris (1888)
necktie man portrait at bust length black hair beard moustache coat shirt portrait

Return of Queen Zabel of Armenia

painting
by Vardges Sureniants (1909)
Isabella I, Queen of Armenia

Capitão Alfredo Índio Carajá

painting
by Adrien Henri Vital van Emelen (20th century)
portrait indigenous people

The Moscow Kremlin in the era of Ivan Kalita

painting
by Apollinary Vasnetsov (1921)

Retrato de Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada

painting
by Oscar Pereira da Silva (1925)
white hair man old age portrait suit

the painter Hugo van der Goes in the Rouge-Cloître Abbey

painting
by Emile Wauters (1872)
Choir Boys Hugo van der Goes chair priest

Battle of Chesma

painting
by Ivan Aivazovsky (1848)

Rochefort's Escape

painting
by Édouard Manet (1881)
prison escape bagne de Nouvelle-Calédonie Henri Rochefort Charles Bastien Achille Ballière Paschal Grousset Olivier Pain François Jourde barque oar sailing ship wind wave night March 19 1874 New Caledonia man Bagno sea

Retrato de Dona Veridiana Prado

painting
by Carlo De Servi (1899)
portrait woman chair

Homem com Chapéu

painting
by Adrien Henri Vital van Emelen (20th century)
man hat portrait

Sem Título/Legenda 19

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (14 October 1917)
door wall seashell leaf angel landscape fountain

Manius Curius Dentatus and the Samnite Ambassadors

painting
by Jan Steen (1670)
woman Manius Curius Dentatus meals

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fresco
by Eugène Delacroix (1838s)
Attila

The Hunt of the Calydonian Boar

painting
by Battista Dossi (1520)
hunting Calydonian Boar man spear

The Death of Lucretia

painting
by Frans van Mieris the Elder (1679)
woman Lucretia

Tropeiros à Beira da Estrada, 1830

painting
by Adrien Henri Vital van Emelen (20th century)
road tropeiro horse man landscape hill

La Mort de Bara

painting
by Jean-Joseph Weerts (1883)

Retrato de Dona Leopoldina de Habsburgo e Seus Filhos

painting
by Domenico Failutti (1921)
Maria Leopoldina of Austria Pedro II of Brazil Princess Francisca of Brazil Princess Paula of Brazil Maria II of Portugal Princess Januária of Brazil art of painting woman child baby folk costume dress costume accessory belt glove necklace ruffle dog bird doll portrait painting

Couronnes, scepters et manteaux

print
by Thierry Frères (1839)
Coronation

The Arrival of the Elector Frederick V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth Stuart in flushing on 29 April 1613

painting
by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (1623)
Joyous Entry ship

Bolesław the Brave Entering Kiev,

painting
by Piotr Michałowski (1837)
Golden Gate Bolesław I the Brave horse

The Founder of English Astronomy

painting
by Eyre Crowe (1891)
Jeremiah Horrocks transit of Venus, 1639 transit instrument room globe