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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)

The Oath of Brutus

painting
by Édouard Cabane (19th century)
Marcus Junius Brutus oath poignard Lucretius agony man statue Lucius Junius Brutus Lucretia

Queen Jadwiga's oath.

painting
by Józef Simmler (1867)
Jadwiga of Poland oath Bible ermine crown

Mehemet Effendi, ambassadeur turc arrive aux Tuileries, 21 mars 1721

painting
by Charles Parrocel (1721)
embassy garden palace Paris Turkey

The Battle of Valmy

sculpture
by Léopold Morice (1883)
Battle of Valmy

La Continence de Scipion

painting
by François Lemoyne (1726)
Scipio Africanus

Filippo Lippi, esclave à Alger, fait le portrait de son maître

painting
by Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret (1819)

The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome

painting
by Andrea Mantegna (1505s)
Cybele family grave

The Triumphal Entry of Henry IV into Paris

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1627)

A Roman Slave Market

painting
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1884)
slave market auction woman clothed male, naked female enslaved person merchant crowd ancient Rome slavery in ancient Rome hipshot long hair brown hair toga Huequitos para Andrea buttocks baldness white hair chignon column intergluteal cleft Gluteal sulcus public nudity hip waist platform

La Mort de Ravana

painting
by Fernand Cormon (1875)
Ravana death cadaver couple woman

Arrivo del filo Elettrico In Copacabana

drawing
by Eduardo de Martino
Rio de Janeiro war landscape

Le Maire de Rennes

painting
by Thérèse Moreau de Tours (1887)
Jean Leperdit man crowd rampart

Retrato de Nicolau de Campos Vergueiro

painting
by Domenico Failutti (1925)
embroidery button white hair Costeleta man old age folk costume insignia portrait military uniform Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro

Louis XIV recevant les clés de Strasbourg

painting
by Constantijn Francken
Louis XIV of France

Inundação da Várzea do Carmo

painting
by Benedito Calixto (1892)
None Serra da Cantareira Mooca Rua 25 de Março Convento do Carmo Pátio do Colégio Tamanduateí River flood

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist

painting
by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (1524)
Salome woman human head tray

Rape of the Sabine Women

painting
by Pietro da Cortona (1627)
Rape of the Sabine Women

The Mystical Wedding between the Bishop and the Abbess of Pistoia

painting
by Kristian Zahrtmann (1894)
Pistoia

Sem Título/Legenda 31

painting
by Oreste Sercelli
angel ceiling woman

Carlos III leaving the Port of Naples, as Seen from the Land

painting
by Antonio Joli (1759)
Naples

The Battle of Sinop on 18 November 1853 (Night after Battle)

painting
by Ivan Aivazovsky (1853)
Battle of sinope

Defense of Moscow from khan Tokhtamysh. 17th century

painting
by Apollinary Vasnetsov (1918)

Acceptation provisoire de la constitution de Lisbonne: à Rio de Janeiro, en 1821

print
by Thierry Frères (1839)
Rio de Janeiro landscape urban landscape

Jacareí, 1827

painting
by José Canella Filho (1941)
Jacareí 1827 horse farm hill cattle fence house church building bridge stream

Costume des archers

print
by Thierry Frères (1839)
Rio de Janeiro

Retrato de Joaquim P. de Albuquerque (2º Barão de Pirajá)

painting
by Domenico Failutti (1925)
necklace man embroidery button hair black hair folk costume insignia medal portrait military uniform

Retrato de Augusto de Souza Queiroz

painting
by Karl Ernest Papf (1901)
man old age costume accessory necktie portrait at bust length folk costume shirt coat white hair portrait

Brother Juniper and the Beggar

painting
by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1646)
Franciscan gift landscape ruins beggar

Emperor Titus granting rights to Rome

painting
by Franciszek Smuglewicz (1785)
Titus lictor fasces woman

Retrato de Antônio Pereira Rebouças

painting
by Domenico Failutti (1925)
man hair black hair shirt decoration folk costume insignia coat portrait Antônio Pereira Rebouças

Departure of Spanish Occupation Troops from Breda, October 10, 1637

painting
by Hendrick de Meijer (17th century)
Breda

L'Agitateur du Languedoc

painting
by Jean-Paul Laurens (1887)
Bernard Délicieux Catharism Inquisition Order of Friars Minor Dominican Order judiciary

Chafariz da Samaritana

painting
by Hans Nöbauer (1928)
Baroque fountain Mariana, Minas Gerais Minas Gerais

Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581

painting
by Ilya Repin (1883)
Ivan IV Vasilyevich Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia murder

Monument et convoi funèbres de l'Impératrice Léopoldine : à Rio de Janeiro

print
by Thierry Frères (1839)
Rio de Janeiro funeral

Queen of Sheba before Solomon

painting
by Nikolaus Knüpfer (1640s)
Queen of Sheba

Fazenda Monte Alegre - Piracicaba, 1850

painting
by Henrique Manzo
Bovinae coffea house building mountain landscape plantation Bovini plant

Sem Título/Legenda 21

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (18 February 1927)
wall flower landscape boat flag Roof lantern

Negra com Cachimbo, Turbante Branco Lavando Roupa

painting
by Adrien Henri Vital van Emelen (1931)
woman pipe negro washerwoman water house door window portrait

Entry of Charles VIII to Naples, May 12, 1495

painting
by Éloi Firmin Féron (1837)
flag Naples Regalia body armor

[no title]

painting
by Kristian Zahrtmann (1873)
Johann Friedrich Struensee Christian VII of Denmark Caroline Matilda of Great Britain table chess hand fan chair pearl parrot wig rapier pillow lady-in-waiting silk bobbin lace gold

Ciclo da Caça ao Índio

painting
by Henrique Bernardelli (1922)
Slavery among the indigenous peoples of the Americas slave hunter Bandeirantes rock tree hat man forest history painting

Queen Katharine

illustration / watercolor painting
by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1919)
Category:Catherine Howard

The Death of Cleopatra

painting
by Jean-André Rixens (1874)
Cleopatra suicide woman bed black hair long hair nudity Uraeus glabrousness umbilicus breast ring bracelet necklace eyebrow cadaver domestic worker toplessness mourning crying curtain fur bedroom Egypt soldier mural stool

First hearing of Independence Anthem

painting
by Augusto Bracet (1922)
1822 Pedro I Evaristo da Veiga Hino da Independência Independence of Brazil First Empire of Brazil