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A highly finished drawing showing a winged spirit swooping down, trumpeting a message to a muscular nude youth leaning on a globe. Both are perched on a box containing a pile of masks, and groups of writing bodies blend into the background.

Il Sogno (The Dream)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

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A painting by Paul Gauguin that combines beauty and eroticism with a strong feeling of unease. The young woman is not at rest but anxiously aware of the bird and the strange beings behind her, who may be evil spirits.

Nevermore

Paul Gauguin

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A sketch of a nude female form, with her back to the viewer in a relaxed reclining pose. The sketch stops at her neck and the right hand, leaning on her hips, is not finished.

Study for La Grande Odalisque

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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Adam and Eve are depicted at the fateful moment when they disobey God and commit the first sin.

Adam and Eve

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Cranach and his workshop made over 50 versions of this subject. This painting is one of the largest and most beautiful....

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Ornate jug with saz leaves on a green fish-scale ground and an embellished curved silver handle and rim, Circa 1560

Jug

Probably Iznik, Around 1560

From the early 16th century, the Ottoman Empire became Venice’s main trading partner in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Ottomans exported to Europe their highly prized pottery made in the imperial workshops of Iznik, near Istanbul. Jugs like this were...

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A detailed etching print depicting a rabbit hunt in action. On a hill overlooking a river, a hunter takes aim at two rabbits as his dog looks on - another hunter appears to stalk him with a spear. A castle can be seen in the top right of the scene.

Rabbit Hunt

Pieter the Elder Bruegel

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (1841- 1919) La Loge, 1874

La Loge (The Theatre Box)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir showed La Loge (The Theatre Box)  at the first Impressionist group exhibition in Paris in 1874....

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The painting offers a disorienting scene of partially constructed floor levels, jutting beams and extremes of light and dark. Auerbach’s use of red throughout the work gives fiery intensity to the painting, as if we are witness to an intense, almost hellish, vision.

Rebuilding the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square

Frank Auerbach

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A black and brown ink drawing on slightly aged paper. Abstract lines and parallel-like hatchings, which look slightly like either eyelashes or crosshatches, form a spiralling composition from the upper right corner of the sheet downwards. The artist marking 'K', circled, and the number '16'. are visible in the bottom left corner.

Untitled

Wassily Kandinsky

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A splendid marble portrait of King Charles I

Workshop of Roubilliac

Around 1759

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A detailed, busy drawing of peasant life. Scenes of drinking and dancing, with figures relieving themselves, and an archery contest in the bottom right. In the upper left, the state of a saint is carried at the head of a religious procession.

Kermis at Hoboken

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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A painting of three women in conversation. The woman on the left leans into the other two in earnest discussion. They sit in front of an open window with a bouquet of flowers visible.

A Conversation

Vanessa Bell

A Conversation  is one of Vanessa Bell's major achievements, which she worked on at various points over several years....

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