(after) Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

Port Scene

Circa 1780

Roman master (c. 1650) - The Fall of Phaeton. 40.5 x 52.5 cm without frame, 56.5 x 59.5 cm with frame. Oil on copper, in carved and gilded wooden fra...

Provenance: Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, until 1996 Private Collection, USA Giovanni Battista Viola was born in Bologna a...

The scene of Christ carrying the cross is imagined in a rocky landscape. Two soldiers press the cross onto his shoulders, another leads him, holding the rope. A line of soldiers and prisoners moves from right to left. In front of them the three Marys kneel and pray for Christ. A nursing woman, symbol of Caritas, sits in the right foreground. Some dogs and playing kids enliven the scenery. Simon de Vos was born in Antwerp, and was first taught by Cornelis de Vos...

This small painting (oil on paper attached on a wood panel, 18 x 12.5) represents Saint Jerome, dressed up as a cardinal, sitting outside, in reference to his experience as a peniten...

As the Dutch painter Philips Wouwerman often did, this artist painted travellers stopping at an inn or a farm. One of the men got off his horse to urinate against the facade of the building. The motif of a peeing man was far from an exception in Dutch genre paintings...

Isaac and Rebecca had two sons: the twins Esau and Jacob. Esau was the first-born, giving him the birthright. Among Jews the birthright gave the eldest son authority over the family,...