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Oil paintings on canvas

  • A Philosopher Lecturing on the OrreryA Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery is a painting completed in 1766 by Joseph Wright of Derby, and it holds a quiet but radical claim.
  • The PeacemakersThe Peacemakers is an 1868 painting by George P.A. Healy, and it captures a moment that almost no one alive at the time knew had happened.
  • Bonaparte at the Pont d'ArcoleBonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole is an oil-on-canvas portrait that began with an unusual problem: the man it was meant to capture could not sit still.
  • Bonaparte, First ConsulBonaparte, First Consul is a portrait painted by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in 1804, showing Napoleon Bonaparte at the height of his early authority.
  • The Last Day of PompeiiThe Last Day of Pompeii is a large history painting by Karl Bryullov, produced between 1830 and 1833, depicting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
  • The Coronation of NapoleonThe Coronation of Napoleon is a painting nearly ten meters wide and more than six meters tall, completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David.
  • Amor Vincit Omnia (Caravaggio)Amor Vincit Omnia, the painting by Caravaggio completed around 1601-1602, shows a boy with enormous dark eagle wings sitting astride a heap of trampled…
  • The Lament for IcarusThe Lament for Icarus arrived at London's Royal Academy exhibition in 1898 and was purchased the same year through the Chantrey Bequest, a public fund…
  • The Third of May 1808The Third of May 1808 is a painting that asks you to look at something almost unbearable. Francisco Goya completed it in 1814, and it shows the moments…
  • Bonaparte Crossing the AlpsBonaparte Crossing the Alps is an 1848-1850 oil painting by French artist Paul Delaroche, and it begins with a choice that scandalized some viewers from the…