The Courtauld Gallery is home to one of the greatest collections of art in the UK and an annual programme of focused exhibitions, displays and contemporary commissions. All housed in a beautiful human-sized gallery at Somerset House.
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In this particular painting, Young Woman Powdering Herself, the modulation of light and shadow on the wall is achieved with the use of small dots of pure colour juxtaposed in...
Dishes with profiles of men and women dressed in the style of ancient Rome made fashionable gifts and sometimes hung in pairs. Although not portraits of real people, they can...
Dishes with profiles of men and women dressed in the style of ancient Rome made fashionable gifts and sometimes hung in pairs. Although not portraits of real people, they can...
Dishes with profiles of men and women dressed in the style of ancient Rome made fashionable gifts and sometimes hung in pairs. Although not portraits of real people, they can...
The Forest of Radnor, a plateau in mid-Wales used as a royal hunting ground in the medieval period, looms against clouds. The view may well have been taken from the...
Dishes with profiles of men and women dressed in the style of ancient Rome made fashionable gifts and sometimes hung in pairs. Although not portraits of real people, they can...
On a hill overlooking a river, a hunter takes aim at two rabbits as his dog looks on and another hunter appears to stalk him with a spear. The subject...
Dishes with profiles of men and women dressed in the style of ancient Rome made fashionable gifts and sometimes hung in pairs. Although not portraits of real people, they can...
Pieter Bruegel created this detailed drawing as a design for an engraving. Celebrated for his vivid depictions of peasant life, Bruegel here shows revellers at a festival in the Flemish...
Dishes with profiles of men and women dressed in the style of ancient Rome made fashionable gifts and sometimes hung in pairs. Although not portraits of real people, they can...
Dishes with profiles of men and women dressed in the style of ancient Rome made fashionable gifts and sometimes hung in pairs. Although not portraits of real people, they can...
Primarily known as an Impressionist painter, Berthe Morisot turned to printmaking late in her career. This sensitive self-portrait, showing her working under the gaze of her eleven-year-old daughter Julie, is...
