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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)

Retrato do Dr. Fausto Pompeu do Amaral

painting
by François-Auguste Biard (20th century)
necktie man portrait at bust length black hair moustache coat shirt portrait

Allegory of Freedom for Ransomed Barbary Captives, in Gratitude to Jerome Bonaparte

painting
by François-André Vincent (1806)
man

Historical Impression of Former City Hall

painting
by Jacob van der Ulft (1660s)
Dam Square Old City Hall of Amsterdam

Navio e barco a vela

drawing
by Eduardo de Martino
Brazil war

Le ministre Américain, à Rio-Janeiro, refuse de mettre pied à terre devant la voiture de la Reine de Portugal

print
(1823)
Rio de Janeiro Figura humana

Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1621)
Gaius Mucius Scaevola Lars Porsena

The Departure of Jeanne d'Arc

painting
by Jean-Jacques Scherrer (20th century)
Joan of Arc Vaucouleurs

Vapor Marquês de Olinda em Assunção

painting
by Eduardo de Martino (1870s)
watercraft War of the Triple Alliance Empire of Brazil Second Reign sea shipping Vapor Marquês de Olinda

Alexandre 1er présente à Napoleon les Kalmoucks, les Cosaques et les Baskirs de l'armée Russe, 9 juillet 1807

painting
by Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret
general staff soldier Napoleon

La Fête de la Fédération

sculpture
by Léopold Morice (1883)
Fête de la Fédération

Brasão com Armas de São Vicente

painting
by José Wasth Rodrigues (21st century)
coat of arms

Elizabeth would steal out and lay the child upon the altar

illustration / drawing
by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1910)
Elizabeth of Hungary

The Magnanimity of Scipio Africanus

painting
by Jan Victors (1640)
Scipio Africanus

Retrato de D.Pedro II, 1879

painting
by Antônio de Souza Lobo (1878)
moustache man folk costume military uniform necklace embroidery insignia medal blond beard portrait

The Foire Saint-Germain after the fire of the night of 16 to 17 March 1762.

painting
by Pierre-Antoine Demachy (1762)

Retrato de Antonio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada

painting
by Oscar Pereira da Silva (1925)
man old age military uniform necklace embroidery white hair portrait

Arredores de Guadalajara (México)

painting
by Felix Bernardelli
stone tree man sombrero Indigenous peoples of America Guadalajara

Sem Título/Legenda 24

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (1898)
vase monster cockade angel

Retrato do Padre José de Anchieta

painting
by Benedito Calixto (1902)
Joseph of Anchieta sea walking stick Bible white hair Indigenous peoples of America crucifix man gull old age medal portrait plant

Run on the Tuileries on 10. Aug. 1792 during the French Revolution

painting
by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux (1793)
major trauma cadaver cannon horse flag spear palace Paris drum

Alexander before Achilles' Tomb

painting
by Hubert Robert (1754s)
Alexander the Great human clothing in the ancient world column pyramid landscape tomb Achilles ruins statue Heracles temple Roman temple

Matriz de Piracuruca

painting
by Hans Nöbauer (1928)
sacred architecture Baroque Colonial Brazil Catholic Church Piauí Piracuruca

Taras Shevchenko is a shepherd (“I was thirteen…”)

painting
by Ivan Yizhakevych (1939)
Taras Shevchenko

Quintus Sertorius and the horse tail

painting
by Gerard van der Kuijl (1638)
horse man

Women coming to Quebec in 1667, in order to be married to the French Canadian farmers. Talon and Laval are waiting for the arrival of the women

watercolor painting
by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (20th century)
woman Quebec City Jean Talon François de Laval

Combate de Bandeirantes de Mogi das Cruzes com Guaicurus

painting
by Oscar Pereira da Silva
Bandeirantes Guaycurú horse tree spear sword hill

Anno 1664. Michiel de Ruyter meets his boyhood slave-friend Jan Kompany in Gorée (Dakar)

painting
by Johannes Hinderikus Egenberger (1860)
Michiel de Ruyter Gorée Jan Kompany

Marius Curius Dentatus

painting
by Andrea Schiavone (1560)
Manius Curius Dentatus

Leitura da sentença dos inconfidentes

painting
by Eduardo de Sá (1921)
Minas Gerais Conspiracy sentence Tiradentes

Rua Tabatinguera, 1860

painting
by Bertha Worms
house street Rua Tabatinguera São Paulo 1860

Ponte Coberta de Cubatão, 1850

painting
by Oscar Pereira da Silva (1920)
tree boat street house gravel watercraft person hill cloud landscape plant bridge

Mastros e velames

drawing
by Eduardo de Martino
Brazil war

Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists Exhibiting at the Salon of 1824 at the Louvre January 15th 1825

painting
by François Joseph Heim (1825s)
Charles X of France Joseph-Ferdinand Lancrenon Nicolas-Antoine Taunay Gioachino Rossini Sosthène de La Rochefoucauld Jean-François Le Sueur Luigi Cherubini Charles de Maillé de La Tour-Landry Nicolas Gosse Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin Jean-Victor Bertin Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin René Théodore Berthon Alphonse de Cailleux Pierre Claude François Delorme Jean-Bruno Gassies Charles-René Laitié Jean Pierre Marie Jazet Daniel Saint Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers Paul Gayrard Pierre-Joseph Redouté Jean-Baptiste Isabey Léon Cogniet Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld Auguste Couder Louis Etienne Watelet Eugène Isabey David d'Angers Auguste Guenepin Jean-Antoine Constantin Guillaume Guillon-Lethière Hippolyte Le Bas Louis-Léopold Boilly Etienne-Barthélémy Garnier Abel de Pujol Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Jean-Victor Schnetz François-Louis Dejuinne Charles Dupaty Ambroise Louis Garneray Jean-Louis de Marne François-Frédéric Lemot Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot Virginie Ancelot Quatremère de Quincy Pierre Alexandre Tardieu Théophile Bra Nicolas Raggi Michel Martin Drolling François Kinson Jérôme-Martin Langlois Jan Frans van Dael Charles Giraud Louis Daguerre Louis Petitot Jean Baptiste Joseph Debay Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux François Joseph Heim Jean-Pierre Cortot Marie-Victoire Jaquotot Charles de Steuben Louis Ducis Antoine Ansiaux Pierre Cartellier Jacques-Philippe Le Sueur Antoine Vaudoyer Marie-Éléonore Godefroid Carle Vernet Jean-Nicolas Huyot Charles Thévenin Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier Charles Meynier Lizinska de Mirbel François Joseph Bosio François-Édouard Picot Louis Marie Baptiste Atthalin Paul Delaroche Jean Alaux James Pradier Charles Nodier Horace Vernet Théodore Gudin Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Alphonse Legros Charles Marie Bouton Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor André Galle Louis Dupré Claude Ramey painting museum Louvre Museum Salon of 1824 The Raft of the Medusa Louise Marie-Jeanne Hersent-Mauduit

A Carioca

painting
by Pedro Américo (1882)
woman nudity sitting

Matriz Colonial de Santos

painting
by Benedito Calixto (1868)
sea Bartolomeu de Gusmão house school church building Society of Jesus 20th century people boat plant slavery

Lady Godiva

painting
by Marshall Claxton (1850)
Lady Godiva woman hipshot public nudity loincloth see-through clothing toplessness barefoot back long hair blond headband horse dog tread street sky cloud dress waist

Timoclea Kills the Captain of Alexander the Great

painting
by Elisabetta Sirani (1659)
man woman Timoclea well

Death of Sophonisba

painting
by Nicolas Régnier (1655)
woman Sophonisba

Zakhary Lyapunov's quarrel with the Tsar Vasili Shuysky at Kremlin.

painting
by Nikolai Nevrev (1886)
Zakhary Lyapunov Vasili IV of Russia table masonry heater

Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer

painting
by Rembrandt (1653)
Aristotle Homer portrait at bust length statue belt robe man

Emperor and electors

painting
by anonymous (1470s)
man Maximilian I

Le roi Louis-Philippe et la famille d'Orléans visitent la statue de Jeanne d'Arc dans les galeries de Versailles

painting
by Auguste Vinchon (1848)
statue de Jeanne d'Arc family Joan of Arc Louis Philippe I museum king Versailles

Disaster on the Railway between Versailles and Bellevue, 8th May 1842

painting
(1842)
man woman railway accident flame Versailles rail accident

Zenobia found by Sheperds on the banks of the Araxes

painting
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1850)
Zenobia woman herder man clothed female, naked male toplessness dress sandal bracelet necklace earring black hair long hair headband toga tunic loincloth white hair barefoot male toplessness Herding dog beard standing kneeling rural area major trauma shore Aras River sky cloud overcoat

Retrato de D.João VI

painting
by Jean-Baptiste Debret (19th century)
man folk costume military uniform necklace button insignia medal decoration costume accessory crown black hair portrait