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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)

Louis XVI donnant des instructions à La Pérouse, 29 juin 1785

painting
by Nicolas-André Monsiau (1817)
geographic map politician seat sphere

Retrato de Marechal Floriano Peixoto

painting
by Oscar Pereira da Silva (20th century)
moustache man military uniform decoration black hair portrait

Richard III

painting
by Nicolai Abildgaard (1787)
Richard III of England

Monjolo Comum - Primórdios da Lavoura Paulista

painting
by Alfredo Norfini
monjolo watermill slavery

Saludo al presidente

painting
by Daniel Hernández Morillo (1921)
Centenario de la Independencia del Perú

30 di Giugno

drawing
by Eduardo de Martino
Brazil war

The Battle of Austerlitz, 2nd December 1805

painting
by François Gérard (1810)
Napoleon cadaver cannon cavalry horse flag emblem equestrianism general staff soldier Slavkov u Brna uniform

Chevalier du Christ exposè dans son cercueil ouvert

print
by Thierry Frères (1839)
funeral

The Death of Cleopatra

painting
by Reginald Arthur (1892)
Cleopatra woman suicide toplessness snakebite aspic viper breast umbilicus agony see-through clothing black hair Uraeus diadem lipstick bed drapery barefoot toe headscarf fur domestic worker long hair nightstand lying bedroom malleolus

Tomyris, Queen of the Scythes, Plunges the Head of the Dead Cyrus Into a Vessel of Blood

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1633s)
Tomyris queen regnant domestic worker vase dress dog tapestry Cyrus the Great head

Seni at the dead body of Wallenstein

painting
by Karl von Piloty (1855)
Albrecht von Wallenstein Giovanni Battista Seni

S Pietro. Volta Dellaltare Maggiare Bologna

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (1899)
rosette column arch flower

Retrato do pintor Pedro Weingärtner

painting
by Henrique Bernardelli
Pedro Weingärtner

Christoph Colombus discovers America

painting
by Francesco Solimena (1715)
boat man Americas navigator Earth

Abolição da Escravatura

painting
by Victor Meirelles (1888)
Brazilian Imperial Family Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil

Combate de Botocudos em Mogi das Cruzes

painting
by Oscar Pereira da Silva (1920)
Bandeirantes Botocudo people costume accessory man triumphal arch weapon tree handbag boot sidewalk helmet hat rifle arrow Gibão de couro Indigenous peoples of America folk costume plant

Retrato de Felisberto Caldeira Brandt (Marquês de Barbacena)

painting
by Oscar Pereira da Silva (1925)
man folk costume military uniform necklace embroidery insignia decoration black hair medal portrait hair Felisberto Caldeira Brant, Marquis of Barbacena

Paisagem do Campo do Ipiranga

painting
by Antônio Parreiras (1893)
Museu Paulista Ipiranga

The Death of Cleopatra

painting
by Juan Luna (1881)
Cleopatra suicide woman

(sem título)

drawing
by Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre
Brazil war

Dance amongst swords

painting
by Henryk Siemiradzki (1898)
dance sword woman nudity

The emissaries of the peace congress of Baden on september 7th, 1714

painting
by Johann Rudolf Huber (1714)
ambassador treaty

The Tennis Court Oath

sculpture
by Léopold Morice (1883)
Tennis Court Oath

Traffic on the Resurrection bridge in the 17th century

painting
by Apollinary Vasnetsov (1926)
Moscow Kremlin Iberian Gate and Chapel Senatskaya Tower Nikolskaya Tower crowd Voskresensky Bridge Neglinnaya River

Ejecución de los comuneros de Castilla

painting
by Antonio Gisbert (1860)
Juan López de Padilla Francisco Maldonado capital punishment Juan Bravo

Cleopatra

painting
by Benedetto Gennari II (1674)
Cleopatra woman suicide snakebite nudity sitting bed drapery breast nipple areola long hair chestnut hair earring pearl agony curtain umbilicus waist bracelet aspic viper eyebrow

Sem Título/Legenda 26

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli
man monster angel

Índio de Perfil

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

Retrato de Cônego Januário da Cunha Barbosa

painting
by Domenico Failutti (1925)
portrait Januário da Cunha Barbosa

Sala de Visita - Teto

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (25 March 1911)
ceiling rosette angel volute flower monster Ramalhete

Joan of Arc

painting
by Gaston Bussière
Joan of Arc long hair tree gaze towards the viewer

Vista de São Vicente, 1870

painting
by Campos Ayres (20th century)
São Vicente street house tree sky

Magnus Stenbock at Helsingborg

painting
by Gustaf Cederström (1892)
Magnus Stenbock

The Chamber of Rhetoric ''Trou Moet Blycken''

painting
by anonymous (1659)
rhetorician chamber of rhetoric blazonry Trou moet Blycken Kleine Houtstraat 37 rhetorician blazon

The Continence of Scipio

painting
by Niccolò dell'Abbate (1555s)
clothing in the ancient world Scipio Africanus elderly woman see-through clothing standing barefoot drapery breast umbilicus nipple glabrousness contrapposto chignon kneeling beard man white hair male toplessness combat helmet fasces group of humans

The Death of Leonardo da Vinci

painting
by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1818)
Leonardo da Vinci Francis I of France Clos Lucé agony man lying sitting standing fauteuil bed table drapery

Entry of Sultan Mehmed II in Constantinople

painting
by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1876)
Mehmed the Conqueror Constantinople military of the Ottoman Empire cadaver Istanbul city gate Turkish people 1453

Dido building Carthage

painting
by J. M. W. Turner (1815)
Carthage Dido

Bênção dos Canoões (Porto Feliz)

painting
by Aurélio Zimmermann (1920)
landscape plant tree house boat slavery flag domestication dog watercraft domesticated animal

Mariage de l'Électeur de Brandebourg

painting
by Johannes Mytens (1646)
wedding Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau Frederick William standing man woman nobility château tapestry chandelier marriage

Sala de Jantar 03

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (22 June 1911)
landscape wall leaf flower vase cornucopia angel door chess

Saint Louis rendant la justice sous le chêne de Vincennes, 1260

painting
by Georges Rouget (1826)
oak court decision Vincennes

Salto de Itú, Piquenique da Família do Dr. Elias Chaves

painting
by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (1886)
Tietê River landscape family man child

Rua da Constituição, 1862 (Rua Florêncio de Abreu)

painting
by Benedito Calixto (August 1918)
tropeiro Igreja de São Bento (São Paulo) Rua da Constituição house street São Paulo

Tarquin and Lucretia

painting
by Titian (1515)
Sextus Tarquinius Lucretia woman man