Oil Painting - Examples of Famous Works

Examples of Famous Works

  • Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck, 1434

  • La donna velata, Raphael, 1516

  • The Rape of Europa, Titian, 1562

  • The Raising of the Cross, Peter Paul Rubens, 1610–11

  • Bust of an old man with helmet, Rembrandt, 1630

  • Innocent X, Velázquez, c 1650

  • The Toilet of Venus, François Boucher, 1751

  • The Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough, 1770

  • Le Moulin de la Galette, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1876

  • Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Vincent van Gogh, 1890

  • The Cardplayers, Paul Cézanne, 1892

  • Water Lilies, Claude Monet, 1916

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