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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)

Poultry-yard with angered cock

painting
by Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1600)

The birth of Pindar

painting
by Henri-Pierre Picou (1848)

The Great Comet of 1843

painting
by Charles Piazzi Smyth (1843)
Great Comet of 1843 night star sunset man mountain

Riachuelo

painting
by Eduardo de Martino (1873)
naval warfare

Retrato de Francisca Miquelina Pompeu do Amaral

painting
by Franco Sá Luís (1894)
woman portrait at bust length folk costume dress costume accessory earring white hair portrait

(sem título)

drawing
by Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre
Brazil

The Saint Elizabeth’s Day Flood

painting
by Master of the St. Elizabeth Panels (1490s)

Canoas em vigília no Chaco

painting
by Eduardo de Martino (1868)
Brazil Gran Chaco watercraft War of the Triple Alliance Paraguay sea shipping

Estudo para náufragos em jangada

drawing
by Eduardo de Martino
Brazil war

The Monologue

painting
by Jean Béraud (1882)
soirée woman man piano Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin

The Lampugnani Conspiracy

painting
by Francesco Hayez (1826)

Carretão para beneficiar café - Campinas, 1850

painting
by Alfredo Norfini (1920)
cattle coffee bean canoe truck child man mode of transport history painting door

Embarkation of the body of Gustavus II Adolphus at the Port of Wolgast 1633

painting
by Carl Gustaf Hellqvist (1885)
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden

Estudo de veleiro

drawing
by Eduardo de Martino
Brazil war

Retrato do General José Couto de Magalhães

painting
by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (1888)
plant man folk costume military uniform costume accessory belt hat boot necklace button insignia medal decoration white hair beard moustache portrait

Caminho do Mar - Calçada de Lorena, 1826

painting / watercolor painting
by Oscar Pereira da Silva
tree sidewalk man folk costume shirt helmet costume accessory hat sea merchant

The burning of the English fleet near Chatham, June 1667, during the second Anglo-Dutch war

painting
by Willem Schellinks (17th century)
boat

Homem com Chapéu, Camisa Branca

painting
by Adrien Henri Vital van Emelen (20th century)
man hat portrait

La Rencontre d'Henri III et du duc de Guise by Pierre-Charles Comte

painting
by Pierre Charles Comte (1855)

Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons

painting
by Hans Holbein
Thomas Vicary

Loggio Dell Innoco

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli
flower ceiling man goat angel arch

(Igreja de Santa Rita - Paraty)

painting
by Manoel de Oliveira Pastana (20th century)
None sacred architecture Paraty

Sem Título/Legenda 13

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (30 March 1914)
wall volute leaf coat of arms flower cross arch

The Battle of Lauffeldt

painting
by Pierre L'Enfant (18th century)
pitched battle

Lagoa do Boqueirão e Aqueduto da Carioca

painting
by anonymous (18th century)
Carioca Aqueduct None sacred architecture Colonial Brazil Conde de Bobadela Teles’ House and Arch Reduto do Morro de Santa Teresa Rio de Janeiro

The Death of Priam

painting
by Jules Lefebvre (1861)
Priam elderly man toga male toplessness umbilicus beard moustache white hair combat cadaver Neoptolemus military personnel cuirass combat helmet sword sandal overcoat ancient Greek temple altar Troy column looting massacre conflagration flame smoke night woman kneeling shoulder belt soldier

Liberty Leading the People

painting
by Eugène Delacroix (1830)
riot civil war liberty people barricade Notre-Dame de Paris multi-storey urban building île de la Cité Marianne dress phrygian cap tricolour flag of France rifle bayonet walking cadaver nudity pubic hair military personnel military uniform cuirass gaiters epaulette street child day pistol vest dress shirt trousers man worker top hat blunderbuss beard brown hair briquet banderole headscarf smoke crowd sky

Casa dos Contos

painting
by Hans Nöbauer (1920s)
None Colonial Brazil old town economics Minas Gerais Ouro Preto

The End of the Fire of the Opéra, Second Room of Palais-Royal, 8 June 1781

painting
by Hubert Robert
Second Salle du Palais-Royal

Joan of Arc

painting
by Jules Bastien-Lepage (1879)
Joan of Arc

Alexander the Great Giving Campaspe to Apelles

painting
by Charles Meynier (1822)
Alexander the Great soldier Campaspe enslaved person slavery obedience Apelles painter fauteuil painting tapestry palette carpet flower studio lyre nudity putto helmet veil breast

Death of Sardanapalus

painting
by Eugène Delacroix (1827)
Sardanapalus woman nudity enslaved person horse bed cushion half reclining man clothed male, naked female eunuch

Fazenda Soledade - Campinas, 1850

painting
by Henrique Manzo
costume accessory man triumphal arch coffea sidewalk shirt helmet coat house hat child arrow folk costume landscape plantation Bovini stream shoe plant

Matriz de Jaú 04

painting / watercolor painting
by Oreste Sercelli (12 January 1921)
cross wall flower saint Sacred Heart

Passarola

painting
by Henrique Manzo
water wood mode of transport Passarola

Panorama de Santos, 1822

painting
by Benedito Calixto (1922)
Santos sailing ship boat hill Atlantic Ocean

[no title]

painting
by anonymous (1670s)
Bridge of Segovia calle de Bailén Cuesta de la Vega, Madrid Royal Alcazar of Madrid

Death of Dido by Joseph Stallaert

painting
by Joseph Stallaert (1872)
Dido woman column

Retrato do Conselheiro Francisco de Paula Mayrink

painting
by Franco Sá Boris (1890)
Order of Christ man portrait at bust length blond beard moustache coat shirt portrait Francisco de Paula Mayrink

Marítime Scene

painting
by Leandro Joaquim
Niterói

The Excommunication of Robert the Pious

painting
by Jean-Paul Laurens (1875)
Robert II of France Bertha of Burgundy excommunication sadness throne crown sitting bishop votive candle Romanesque architecture column archivolt Tympanum wall tapestry sceptre woman man platform

Esquema da Passarola

painting
by Henrique Manzo
ring barge rope Passarola candle steering wheel

Ladeira do Colégio, 1860 (Ladeira do Palácio, Ladeira João Alfredo, Ladeira General Carneiro)

painting
by Benedito Calixto
slope street house horse stone

The childhood of Sixtus V.

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1853s)

A ilusão do Terceiro Reinado

painting
by Aurélio de Figueiredo (1905)
Ilha Fiscal Empire of Brazil republic Rio de Janeiro Second Reign ball