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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)

4th August 1789

sculpture
by Léopold Morice (1883)
Night of August 4, 1789

Roma S. Ma Del Papolo

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (14 October 1890)
flower angel saint man woman seashell Ramalhete

Convoi funébre d'un membre de la Confrérie de Ne. De. de la Conception

print
by Thierry Frères (1839)
Rio de Janeiro funeral

Veleiro

drawing
by Eduardo de Martino (1875)
Brazil war

The Battle of the Boyne

painting
by Benjamin West (1778)
Battle of the Boyne William III

The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan

painting
by Eugène Delacroix (1826)
horse man battle equestrianism sky rural area Arabs cloud combat

Convento de Itanhaém, 1884

painting
by Benedito Calixto (20th century)
convent cross hill house fence plant tree

Toilete Senhoras

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (1 July 1916)
wall flower volute seashell woman leaf Ramalhete

Índia Carajá Fumando o Cachimbo Feito da Fruta do Raricocó

painting
by Adrien Henri Vital van Emelen (20th century)
pipe oca portrait Indigenous peoples of America indigenous people

History Painting

painting
by Rembrandt (1626)
Titus

Vapore Inglese - 'Gladiator'

drawing
by Eduardo de Martino (1871)
Rio de Janeiro war

The Conquest of Tunis by Charles V (1535)

painting
by Peter Paul Rubens (1639)
man Tunis Charles V

The continence of Scipio

painting
by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1653)
Memorial Gilded Ewer for Amsterdam Guild in Memory of the Artist's Brother Scipio Africanus

Procissão marítima diante do Hospital dos Lázaros

painting
by anonymous (18th century)
Colonial Brazil religious festival watercraft hospital Society of Jesus Passeio Público Rio de Janeiro Saint Christopher

Dopo la Battaglia

drawing
by Eduardo de Martino
Brazil war

Batalha de Ituzaingó

painting
by José Wasth Rodrigues (1939)
Battle of Ituzaingó weapon war knight horse sword man history painting plant military uniform

Christian IV på "Trefoldigheden" i slaget på Koldberger Heide 1644

painting
by Wilhelm Bendz (1828)
Christian IV of Denmark

The Return of Marcus Sextus

painting
by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1799)
cadaver pain woman

Retrato de José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva

painting
by Oscar Pereira da Silva (1922)
Independence of Brazil portrait José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva

Julia and Fulvia

painting
by Nicolai Abildgaard (1800)
Julia Domna Fulvia Plautilla

The Death of Seneca

painting
by Jacques-Louis David (1773)
Seneca

Décoration du Ballet Historique donné au Théatre de la Cour, à Rio de Janeiro, le 13 Mai 1818

print
by Jean-Baptiste Debret (1839)
allegory Aclamação

Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Ajuda

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (20 March 1914)
ceiling leaf chalice volute rosette star saint angel

Igreja de São Pedro

painting
by Hans Nöbauer (1927)
sacred architecture Christian Church church building Mariana, Minas Gerais

Antigo Chafariz de Goiás

painting
by Alexandre Mário Parko (1928)
None fountain Goiás

Pateo do Colégio, 1858

painting
by José Wasth Rodrigues (1918)
Pátio do Colégio costume accessory woman man sidewalk coat house hat church building folk costume 20th century dress

Antony and Cleopatra

painting
by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1883)
Mark Antony Cleopatra man woman sitting brown hair diadem earring crook and flail see-through clothing fur barefoot garland throne domestic worker flautist western concert flute beard toga ancient Roman military clothing combat helmet boat oar galley Mediterranean Sea Roman navy dais curtain drapery Egyptian hieroglyphs meeting hopper barge frankincense thurible None None Uraeus dress Bernice Zimmern femme fatale dark brown enslaved person

The suicide of Lucretia

painting
by Master with the Parrot (1500)
Lucretia woman toplessness blond necklace pendant long hair poignard major trauma sitting breast dress fauteuil nipple blood see-through clothing pigtail

Rua do Rosário (Rua Xv de Novembro)

painting
by José Wasth Rodrigues (1920)
Rua 15 de Novembro (São Paulo) street house horse shop

Montcalm leading his troops at the Plains of Abraham

painting
by Charles William Jefferys (1908)
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm horse soldier

Navio

drawing
by Eduardo de Martino
Brazil war

Henry VIII with Anne Boleyn at Cardinal Wolsey's ball

painting
by Karl von Piloty (1872)
Henry VIII of England Anne Boleyn

Igreja e praia da Glória

painting
by anonymous (18th century)
sacred architecture Guanabara Bay Colonial Brazil Outeiro da Glória fishing Rio de Janeiro sea shipping

Navio 20 (atribuído)

painting
by Carlos Balliester (1915)
watercraft republic sea shipping

Vue de l'extérieur de la galerie de l'acclamation : du Roi D. Jean VI (à Rio de Janeiro)

print
by Thierry Frères (1839)
Rio de Janeiro

The Last Spike

painting
by Thomas Hill (1881)
Promontory Central Pacific Railroad Union Pacific Railroad railway First Transcontinental Railroad Golden spike Union Pacific No. 119 Central Pacific Railroad 60 “Jupiter” crowd train locomotive man woman flag of the United States worker shovel Leland Stanford Collis Potter Huntington Charles Crocker Theodore Judah Edwin B. Crocker Mark Hopkins Aaron A. Sargent Sidney Dillon Oakes Ames Anson P.K. Safford Benjamin B. Redding Silas Sanderson Samuel S. Montague David Hewes John S. Casement Milton Latham William Tecumseh Sherman Harvey Wilson Harkness Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman

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

print
by Jean-Baptiste Debret (1835)
landscape urban landscape Pedro I

Le sénat français reçoit les drapeaux pris dans la campagne d'Autriche, 1er janvier 1806

painting
by Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1811)
Joseph Buonaparte justice marshal parliament

Retrato da Baronesa de Sabará

painting
by Campos Ayres (20th century)
America's Best Dance Crew woman black hair braid dress glove earring necklace handbag child portrait

Napoléon signe son abdication à Fontainebleau, 4 avril 1814

painting
by anonymous (1843)
geographic map Duc de Bassano Fontainebleau Napoleon

Retrato de Francisco de Canto e Mello

painting
by Ferdinand Piereck (1881)
lampshade man black hair goatee beard moustache military uniform decoration curtain portrait

Washington Crossing the Delaware

painting
by Emanuel Leutze (1851)
George Washington Delaware River James Monroe Nathanael Greene boat soldier American Revolutionary War Washington's crossing of the Delaware River man

Vista de Cubatão, 1826

painting
by Benedito Calixto (1922)
tree bullock cart house horse fence person mode of transport mountain hill landscape plant river Cubatão

Cleopatra and Caesar

painting
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1866)
Cleopatra Julius Caesar

Matriz de Jaú 05

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (22 January 1922)
window ceiling flower cross Bible chalice wall Espírito Santo Ramalhete