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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)

Bataille de Constantin contre Maxence

painting
by Nicolas Tournier (1600s)
Battle of the Milvian Bridge Constantine Louis XIII of France horse Maxentius

Saint Bonaventure's Body Lying in State

painting
by Francisco de Zurbarán (1629)
Bonaventure man bishop Franciscan Gregory X James I of Aragon prayer

Retrato do Dr. Affonso D'Escragnolle Taunay

painting
by Henrique Manzo (1979)
Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay Museu Paulista portrait

Bonaparte Crossing the Alps

painting
by Paul Delaroche (1848)
Napoleon snow Great St Bernard Pass mule None Hand-in-waistcoat man

Sem Título/Legenda 06

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (17 July 1907)
vase ceiling flower leaf angel woman wall door volute Ramalhete

The Fire in the Tuileries

painting
by Georges Clairin (May 1871)
Tuileries Palace ruins Paris Commune red flag group of humans smoke sky conflagration rifle pistol bayonet Seine bridge Pont Neuf cadaver flag woman civil war palace Paris

Rescue of passengers of the Ocean Monarch by the Brazilian Frigate Alfonzo

painting
by Samuel Walters (1850)

Death of Dragut

painting
by Giuseppe Calì (1867)
Turgut Reis Siege of Malta death man tent turban spear

Héroïsme des marins du vaisseau Le Vengeur commandés par le capitaine Renaudin

painting
by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (1795)
Glorious First of June French ship Vengeur du Peuple major trauma phrygian cap cadaver cannon flag shipwrecking republic sabre health care sailing ship

Phryne before the Areopagus

painting
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1861)
Phryne Areopagus woman man clothed male, naked female public nudity sandal necklace bracelet beard glabrousness baldness headband toga hipshot Hypereides legal process hetaera tunic drapery coffer elderly libido statue Athena Classical Athens sitting Androcracy acquittal Eleusinian Mysteries appellate court armpit mons pubis

Philippe Auguste prend l'oriflamme à Saint-Denis, 24 juin 1190

painting
by Pierre Révoil (1841)
archbishop blessing Crusades flame Saint-Denis

Gustav Vasa as Child in front of King Hans

painting
by Jenny Nyström (1881)
Gustav I of Sweden

Árab violin player

painting
by Pedro Américo (1884)
rebec curtain Arabs

Convoi funèbre dun fils de roi nègre

print
by Thierry Frères (1839)
Rio de Janeiro funeral slavery

Retrato de José Joaquim da Rocha

painting
by Domenico Failutti (1925)
José Joaquim da Rocha portrait

The Story of Lucretia

painting
by Sandro Botticelli (1498)
Lucretia woman

Acampamento brasileiro no Chaco

painting
by Eduardo de Martino (1871)
Brazil Gran Chaco War of the Triple Alliance Paraguay religious servant

Cleopatra discovered by her servants

painting
by Artemisia Gentileschi (1635)
woman Cleopatra snake bed domestic worker

Erasistratus the Physician Discovers the Love of Antiochus for Stratonice

painting
by Benjamin West (1772)
Seleucus I Nicator Erasistratus Antiochus I Soter Stratonice of Syria bed crown

The Magnanimity of Scipio Africanus

painting
by Simon de Vos (1641)
Scipio Africanus

Consulting the Oracle

painting
by John William Waterhouse (1884)

The Death of Queen Sophie Amalie

painting
by Kristian Zahrtmann (1882)
Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg death

Długosz and Saint Casimir.

painting
by Florian Cynk (1869)
Jan Długosz Saint Casimir Wawel Cathedral fur clothing

Décoration du Ballet Historique : Donné au Théatre de la Cour, à Rio de Janeiro, le 13 de mai 1818; à l’occasion de l’acclamation du Roi D. Jean VI et du mariage du Prince Royal D. Pedro, son fils

print
by Thierry Frères (1839)
Rio de Janeiro Aclamação allegory

A Conversão de São Paulo a Caminho de Damasco

painting
by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (1888)
horse Paul

Estudo para Os Bandeirantes de Juiz de Fora

drawing
by Rodolfo Amoedo (1920)

Stephen Báthory at Pskov

painting
by Jan Matejko (1872)
Stephen Báthory Antonio Possevino

Cérémonie de sacre de D. Pedro 1er. Empereur du Brésil : à Rio de Janeiro, le 1er. Decembre 1822

print
by Thierry Frères (1839)
Rio de Janeiro Coronation

The Taking of the Malakoff Redoubt

painting
by Horace Vernet (1858)
Crimean War battle Sevastopol Malakoff Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta general officer Zouave flag tower cadaver flag of France Battle of Malakoff Malakoff

Resposta de Tiradentes

painting
by Leopoldino Faria

Retrato de Francisco Aranha Barreto

painting
by Tarsila do Amaral
man moustache portrait at bust length blond shirt goatee vest necktie Order of the Southern Cross coat portrait

Le Rêve

painting
by Édouard Detaille (1888)
soldier Grande Armée sky

Sem Título/Legenda 08

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (1902)
door ceiling butterfly flower angel leaf trefoil wall landscape

Sophonisba Receiving the Poisoned Chalice

painting
by Simon Vouet (1623)
woman Sophonisba chalice poison

The Death of Socrates

painting
by Jacques-Louis David (1787)
trial of Socrates Conium maculatum Socrates suicide bed stairs scroll robe man

Count Ugolino and his Children in the Dungeon

painting
by Joshua Reynolds
Ugolino della Gherardesca prison

Petrarch and Laura at Avignon

illustration / watercolor painting
by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1919)
Petrarch Laura de Noves Avignon

Cidade de Areias, 1827

painting
by José Canella Filho (1941)
fence 20th century church building house plant tree mountain

Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, Entering Düsseldorf

painting
by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1713)
Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine

Igreja de Santo Antonio, 1826

painting
by José Wasth Rodrigues
costume accessory woman man sidewalk shirt vest folk costume church building coat dress

Monastery of Light

painting / drawing
by Miguelzinho Dutra
1835 São Paulo Museum of Sacred Art

Retrato do Conselheiro Rodrigues Alves

painting
by Carlo De Servi (1913)
Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves man white hair chair portrait

Laying out the March Dead

painting
by Adolph von Menzel (1848)
Revolutions of 1848 in the German states coffin Deutscher Dom Gendarmenmarkt human

Parede

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (14 July 1916)
wall cockade flower angel vase door Ramalhete

Retrato do Brigadeiro Raphael Tobias de Aguiar

painting
by Maximiliano Scholze (20th century)
man white hair military uniform coat sidewalk glove insignia epaulette belt medal sword furniture table tablecloth portrait