Painting

Text on the reverse side: Illustration by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, featuring ‘hedgehog’ in various languages. The word 'hedgehog' was first used...

Text on the reverse side: Painted by Carl Spitzweg. The love for books is expressed showing a man intently reading a book up close to his face, ho...

Text on the reverse side:In Greco-Roman mythology, the peacock tail was said to have the "eyes" of the stars. Peacocks with their graceful beauty, ...

Text on the reverse side:By the French painter, Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), the unidentified girl is portrayed in profile, reading a little ...

Text on the reverse side:Depicted is Monet's first wife Camille Doncieux. Prior to their marriage, she had been his mistress whilst serving as a mo...

Text on the reverse side: In 1888 Monet painted Antibes repeatedly, captivated by its interplay of sea, sky, and old stone. His morning scene refl...

Text on the reverse side: Le Chat Noir, or The Black Cat, was an entertainment venue in Paris in the 19th century, located in the artistic locale ...

Text on the reverse side: This map was created in 1660 by Dutch engraver and print publisher Justus Danckerts. The Danckerts cartographic family b...

Text on the reverse side: It is said that from not wanting to paint outdoors for his vulnerability to eye infections and his aversion to the busy ...

Text on the reverse side:The books depicted in the painting by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), are recognisable as French paperback novels of the tim...

Text on the reverse side:Monet was a passionate horticulturist and in 1893 he purchased a property near Giverny and built his water lilies garden. ...

Text on the reverse side: Louis Wain spent years as an inpatient in hospitals due to mental health problems. His work from this period is marked b...

Text on the reverse side: Pissarro’s home in Normandy was in Eragny, where he lived from 1884 until his death. Painted during the last artistic ph...

Text on the reverse side:Two children reading c.1919 by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, an Australian illustrator of children's books. The artist first publ...

Text on the reverse side:Illustration by John Tenniel (1820-1914) from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Depicted is the White Rabbit saying to its...

Text on the reverse side:Japanese woodblock prints exercised a lasting influence on Van Gogh. The iris flower in Japanese art is a motif said to pu...

The scene of the “Café Terrace” was painted by Van Gogh at the location, where he opted to paint during the night in order to catch a glimpse of th...

Text on the reverse side:Monet is quoted to have said: "the richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. [...] Perhaps my or...

Text on the reverse side:Van Gogh's "Portrait of a Courtesan" is not simply a copy of the original by Eisen, but a composite picture of different J...

Text on the reverse side: Lautrec’s first major poster commission made La Goulue, the Moulin Rouge’s most famous dancer, an icon of Belle Époque P...

Text on the reverse side: This oil on canvas painting depicts cresting waves off the Normandy coast. Courbet applied paint in thick, energetic str...

Text on the reverse side: This painting marks Cross’s early mastery of Divisionism. Depicting the famed “Golden Isles”, he captures a coastline in...

Text on the reverse side: Robert Buss, an admirer of Charles Dickens’ writings, painted the piece five years after the author’s death. Filled with...

Text on the reverse side: A part of an album including 326 paintings, this piece was painted by Shaikh Zain al-Din. Although the painter was train...

Text on the reverse side:The Chinese silks and leather shapes skilfully portray the Bodhisattva Manjushri, whose name means Gentle Glory in Sanskri...

Text on the reverse side:An engraving by the Dutch artist Cornelis Bloemaert II (1603-1692). The text below in Dutch reads "Wat baet keers off bril...

Text on the reverse side:Did you know that a group of cats is called a clowder, a male cat is called a tom, a female cat is called a molly or queen...

Text on the reverse side:Junger Dackel (Young dachshund) by the artist Karl Reichert (1836–1918). He studied at the Academy of Drawing in Gratz, c...

Text on the reverse side:The expression is widely accepted to the extent that even the Oxford English Dictionary officially recognised the phrase i...

Text on the reverse side:Illustration by draughtsman and print maker Jean Bernard (1732-1797). According to a study, cats typically sleep between 1...

Text on the reverse side:The image based on an antique tile by Minton Hollins & Co. Birds in several ancient cultures, symbolise the human soul...

Text on the reverse side:Capturing the hustle and bustle of Parisian life, the use of short and quick brushstrokes creates simply the "impression" ...

Text on the reverse side: Monet painted multiple views of Pourville in 1882, experimenting with changing tides, weather, and light—an early step t...

Text on the reverse side: One of thirteen kimono-clad portraits made between 1893 and 1896, this work features a Dutch hatmaker’s daughter who bec...

Text on the reverse side: A colourised adapation of a lithograph by Charles Radclyffe, who worked in London in 1842 to capture this South Western ...

Text on the reverse side: An example of a vanitas painting - a genre that became popular in the Netherlands during the 17th century, this still-li...