Caravaggio | John the Baptist feeding the Lamb

- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio | John the Baptist feeding the Lamb, end of the first decade of the 17th Century, oil on canvas, 78x122 cm

John the Baptist (sometimes called John in the Wilderness) was the subject of at least eight paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610).

Ludwig Passini | The pretty fruit vendor / La bella venditora di frutta

Ludwig Johann Passini (1832-1903) was an Austrian narrative and genre painter and printmaker.

Ludwig Passini was born on 9 July 1832 in Vienna, the son of the engraver Johann Nepomuk Passini - the Passini family moved to Trieste in 1850.

On 9 November 1864 Passini married Anna Warsaw (1841-1866) at Berlin, she the daughter of Robert and Mary Warschauer, the great-granddaughter of banker Joseph Mendelssohn and the great-great-granddaughter of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

Guillaume-Charles Brun | Young Rag Seller, 1870

Charles Guillaume Brun (Montpellier, 1825 - Paris, 1908) was registered in 1847 at the Paris Beaux-Arts school, where he studied under the direction of François- Edouard Picot (1786-1868) and of Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889)**.
His participation in the Paris Salon began in 1851 with genre subjects (Young girl doing her morning prayer), but as soon as 1853, he regularly sent Orientalist scenes, located in Algeria (Prayer in 1859, Rendez-vous in Constantine in 1861, Moorish woman in 1867), strongly architecturally designed, animated with sharp contrasts in lighting effects and showing a fine sensitivity while modulating his grays. 

In addition to numerous landscapes of Algeria, he was also known as military portraitist, painting accurately uniforms, and he naturally became official painter to the Ministry of War, where he worked with Alexandre Cabanel**. He was also the author of decoration of churches, including that of Villemomble (Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, 1857). Brun became a member of the French Artists society from 1883.

Edvard Munch | Girls on the Bridge, 1899

Girls on a Bridge
Edvard Munch
Date: 1899 - 1900
Style: Expressionism
Period: European period
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Private Collection

Perhaps more than any of Munch's painting, Girls on the Bridge has gained a wide measure of justly deserved popularity. The theme engaged and held Munch's interest through many versions in paint and print, from the waning years of the nineteenth century to his old age.

Antonietta Brandeis | The Ponte Vecchio, Florence

Antonietta Brandeis was born in Miskowitz, Austria in 1849. She studied under Karel Javurek in Prague before moving to Venice to become a pupil at the Academy.

The development of international tourism in the nineteenth century meant that many more people were travelling to the beauty spots of Europe.

Venice was a very popular destination for these travellers and the demand for paintings of Venice grew. This demand resulted in an influx of artists to Venice who all produced topographical views of the city and its environs.

Vincent van Gogh | Irises, 1890

Title: Irises

Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853-1890, Auvers-sur-Oise)

Date: 1890

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 29 x 36 1/4 in. (73.7 x 92.1 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Gift of Adele R. Levy, 1958

Accession Number: 58.187

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 825.

Vincent Van Gogh | White Roses, 1890