Art History

Large-scale images of art work

These images have been languishing in storage since the late 1970's.  I finally got around to digitizing them so they can be shared.  Many of these pieces may be available elsewhere on the web; however, the images behind the thumbnails on this page are extremely large scale.  If you need detail, this is the place to get it. 

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"Ram in the Thicket," from the Great Death Pit at Ur. Sumer, 2600 BC. British Museum
Egyptian 4th dynasty.  Painted limestone, "Lady of Ninofretmin," 2550 BC.
Egyptian 6th dynasty.  Wooden figure of Meryrehashtef, 2200 BC.
Egyptian, First Period.  Limestone stella of Anhurnakhte, 2150 BC.
Egyptian.  Statue of Ankhrekhu, 12th Dynasty.  Quartzite, c. 1850 BC.  British Museum.
Egyptian 18th dynasty.  Black granite figure of Menkheperresonb, 1450 BC.  Temple of Karnac, Thebes.
Egyptian.  Seated Amenophis III, 18th Dynasty.  Black granite, Thebes, c. 1400 BC.  British Museum.
Egyptian 19th dynasty, "Book of the Dead," Papyrus, c. 1310 BC.
Egyptian 19th dynasty; Limestone kneeling Ramesses II from Abydos, 1280 BC.
Egyptian, Winged human-headed sphinx, 9th - 8th century BC.
Nubian 25th dynasty, Granite Sphinx of Taharqo, 690 - 664 BC; Kawa Temple.
Assyrian.  Stela of King Ashurnasirpal II, 883 - 859 BC.
Detail of painted sandal from King Ashurnasirpal II with attendants; Nimrud, c. 865 BC.        British Museum
King Ashurnasirpal II, detail from pouring libation on dead lion; Nimrud, c. 865 BC.                British Museum
Assyrian.  Lion temple of Ishtar Sharratniphi, 865 - 860 BC.
Lion hunt, King Ashurnasirpal II; Nimrud, c. 865 BC.  British Museum.
King Ashurnasirpal II; Nimrud, c. 865 BC.  British Museum.
Beheading detail.  Assyrian, c. 700 BC, SW Palace, Nineveh.  British Museum.
Assyrian, Ninereb, 700 - 692 BC; Great lion protective spirit.
Cyprus, 575 - 550 BC, Limestone bearded worshipper; Sanctuary of Apollo at Phrangissa, Tamassos.
Centaur and Lapith, Parthenon marbles, S. Metope.  British Museum.
Head of athlete, limestone, 1st century BC, Haifa.
Bust of Pericles, marble, 2nd Century, AD.  Roman villa near Tivoli.  British Museum.
Roman copy of a Greek statue of "Apollo."  Vatican Museum.
Roman period, "Pan," marble; Caesana, 2nd - 3rd century, AD.
Rosetta Stone.  British Museum.
Early Byzantine Ivory, 6th Century AD; from a monastery in Thessaly.
Sutton Hoo, bronze helmet. c. 7th Century.  Possibly made for King Raedwald.
Matthias Grünewald (c.1475-1528), "The Small Crucifixion," oil glaze.
Domenico Puligo (1492-1527), "Enthroned Virgin and Child."
Michelangelo Buonarroti, (1513-1515), "Moses" in San Pietro in Vincoli, 1515.
Unidentified artist, "Elizabeth I," circa 1558.
John Bettes the Younger (1530 - 1580), "Queen Elizabeth I," circa 1585-90.
Attributed to the school of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (circa 1561 - 1636), "Portrait of Elizabeth I," oil on oak panel, circa 1593.
Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn (1572 ? - 1657), "Maria Bultel."
Frans Hals (c. 1580 - 1666), "A Young Man with a Large Hat," 1626 - 29.
Frans Hals (c. 1580 - 1666), "Portrait of a Man," 1648 - 50.
Frans Hals (c. 1580 - 1666), "Portrait of Pieter Jacobz Olycan, Burgomaster of Haarlem."

Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634), "Winter Landscape with Golfers," 1620.
Domenico Fetti (c. 1589 – 1623), "The Veil of Veronica," c. 1618/22.
Anthony Van Dyck (1599 – 9 December 1641), "St. Andrew," 1621.
Adriaen Brouwer (1605-1638), "Youth Making a Face," c. 1632 - 35.
Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669), "Saskia Van Uylenburgh, the wife of the Artist," 1634/35 - 38/40.
Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669) and workshop, "Man in Oriental Costume," c. 1635.
Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669) and workshop, "Old Lady with a Book," 1637.
Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669) and workshop, "The Philosopher," c. 1635.
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato(1609-1685), "Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist," 1656 - 1658.
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato(1609-1685), "Portrait of Cardinal Rapaccioli or Cardinal Paolo Emilo Rondinini"
David Teniers, II (1610-1690), "Peasants Celebrating Twelfth Night," 1635.
David Teniers, II (1610-1690), "Tavern Scene," 1658.
Philippe de Champagne (1602 - 1674), "Omer Talon," 1649.
Adriaen Van Ostade (1610-1685), "The Cottage Dooryard, 1673.
Attributed to Carlo Dolci (1616-1687), "The Blue Madonna," oil on canvas.
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), "Woman Holding a Balance," 1664.
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), "The Girl With the Red Hat," 1665.
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723), "Portrait of Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty," 1689.
Antoine Pesne (1683-1757), "Princess of Prussia," 1683.
Pierre Gaudreau, "The Lovers Pilgrimage."
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779), "The Kitchen Maid," oil.
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), "Moonlight - Italian Landscape," 1785.
John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), "Watson and the Shark," oil.
Benjamin West (1738-1820), "Self-Portrait," 1819.
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), "Voltaire," marble.
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), "Louise Brongniard," marble.
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), "Alexandre Brongniard," marble.
Francisco Jose de Goya (1746–1828), "The Bullfight," oil.
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), "James Madison," c. 1821.
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), "George Washington (Vaughan Portrait)," c. 1795.
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), "George Washington (Athenaeum Portrait)," c. 1821.
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), "John Adams," c. 1821.
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), "Thomas Jefferson," c. 1821.
Canova (1757 - 1822), "Perseus with Head of Medusa."
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), "The Dogana and Santa Maria Della Salute Venice," oil.
Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), "George Washington," 1795.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875), "Italian Girl," c. 1871 - 72.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875), "Ville d'Avray," oil.
George Catlin (1796-1872), "Boy Chief, Ojibbeway," 1830s.
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), "The Lion Hunt," 1861.
George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879), "The Jolly Flatboatmen," 1846.
Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868), "Washington Crossing the Delaware," 1851, Oil on canvas.
Emmanuel Leutze (1816 – 1868), "Nathaniel Hawthorne," 1862.
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), "Portrait of a Young Girl," 1857.
Thomas Buchanan Read (1822 - 1872), "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," 1869.
Jean-Jacques Henner (1829-1905), "Alsatian Girl," 1873.
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), "Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains," 1868.
Camille Pissaro (1830-1903), "Boulevard Des Italienes Morning Sunlight", oil.
Édouard Manet (1832 – 1883), "Philosopher (with Beret)," 1865, oil.
Édouard Manet (1832 – 1883), "LeBal do l'Opera," 1873, oil.
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), "Mademoiselle de Fitz-Jones," 1867.
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), "Self Portrait," 1858.
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), "Portrait of Manet," 1867, oil.
Winslow Homer (1836-1910), "The Gulf Stream," 1899, Oil on canvas.
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), "Burghers of Calis," 1886, bronze.
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), "The Crouching Woman," bronze.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), "The Japanese Footbridge," 1899.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), "Woman with a Parasol," 1875, oil.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), "Rouens Cathedral, West Facade," oil.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), "The Houses of Parliament, Sunset," 1903, oil.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), "Banks of the Seine, Vetheuil," oil.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), "Woman Seated under the Willows," oil.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), "Palazzo de Mula, Venice," oil.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), "Morning on the Seine," 1897, oil on canvas; and detail.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), "Two Haystacks," 1891. "LaMeule (Haystack)," 1891. "Haystacks, Winter," 1891. "Haystacks, Setting Sun," 1891; and detail.
Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919), "A Girl with a Watering Can," 1876.
Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919), "Lady Sewing," 1879.
Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919), "On the Terrace," 1881.
Mary Cassett (1844-1926), "Mother and Child," oil.
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), "The Waterfall," 1910, oil on canvas.
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), "The Equatorial Jungle," 1906, oil.
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), "The Sleeping Gypsy," 1897, oil on canvas.
Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), "Paris, A Rainy Day," 1877, oil.
Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1917), "Juliette Low," founder of the Girls Scouts of the USA, 1887.
Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), "Summer," 1890.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), "Self Portrait," 1886 - 7, oil.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), "The Olive Orchard," oil.
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), "Elizabeth Winthrop Chamber," 1893.
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), "The Hermit (Il solitario)," 1908, Oil on Canvas.
Georges Seurat (1859-1891), "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte," 1884-6, oil on canvas; detail.
Frederic Remington (1861-1909), "On the Southern Plains," 1907, Oil on canvas.
Maurice Pendergast (1861 - 1924), Beach at Glaucester," 1912 - 14, oil on canvas.
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929), "The Great Warrior of Montauban," 1898, bronze.
Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), "Nymph," 1936 - 38, bronze.
Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), "Venus," 1918 - 1928, bronze.
Edmund Tarbell (1862-1938), "Woodrow Wilson", 1921.
J. Bond Francisco (1863-1931), "The Sick Child," 1893.
Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Back I, II, II, & IV I 1909; II 1913; III 1916 - 17; IV 1930.
Henry Salem Hubbell (1870-1949), "Franklin Delano Roosevelt," 1935.
Henri Farre (1871-1934), "Hydroplane in distress - Pilots being rescued by another seaplane," 1916, oil.
Henri Farre (1871-1934), "Improvised Air Defense Early in World War I," 1916, oil.
Constantin Brâncuşi (1876-1957), "La Negresse Blanche," 1928, white marble.
Constantin Brâncuşi (1876-1957), "Sleeping Muse," 1910, bronze.
Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918), "The Song," 1908, wood.
Arthur G. Dove (1880–1946), "Sunrise IV," 1937.
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), "The Visitation," 1926, bronze.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), "The Old Guitarist," 1903, oil.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), "Woman with Folded Arms," 1902.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), "The Tragedy," 1903.
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), "Nighthawks," 1942, oil.
Jean Arp (also called Hans Arp), 1886 – 1966), "Grande Sculpture Classique," 1963 - 1964, bronze.
William Zorach (1887-1966), "Eve," 1951, granite.
Marc Chagall (1887-1985), "American Windows," 1977, Art Institute of Chicago.
Georgia O'Keefe (1887 - 1986), "Cow's Skull with Calico Roses," 1931, oil.
Georgia O'Keefe (1887 - 1986), "Black Cross, New Mexico," 1929, oil; and detail.
Georgia O'Keefe (1887 - 1986), "The Black Place," 1943, oil.
Emily Burling Waite (1887-1980), "Robert H. Goddard," 1967.
Konrad Cramer (1888-1963), "Strife," c. 1912.
Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986), Artwork from 1952 Collier's Magazine series on space exploration.
Grant Wood (1891 - 1942), "American Gothic," 1930, oil.
Museum fatigue (in front of two of the most famous paintings in American art)! 1985
Stuart Davis (1894-1964), Rapt at Rappaport's," 1952, oil on canvas.
Stuart Davis (1894-1964), Ready-to-Wear," 1955, oil.
Norman Percevel Rockwell (1894 – 1978), "Gemini Astronauts Virgil L Grissom and John Young," 1965, oil on canvas.
Paul Sample (American, 1896-1974), "Air Strip, Midway island, France," 1943, oil.
Douglas Chandor (1897-1953), "Franklin Delano Roosevelt," 1945.
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), "Wonderland Circus, Sideshow," 1930.
René Magritte (1898-1967), "Delusions of Grandeur," 1948, oil on canvas.
René Magritte (1898-1967), "Time Transfixed," 1938, oil on canvas.
Ives Tanguy (1900 – 1955), "Naked Water," 1942, oil on canvas.
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), "Monumental Head," 1960, bronze.
Orlando Rouland (1905 - 1939), "John Muir."
Giacomo Manzu' (1908 - 1991), "Small Standing Cardinal."
Lamar Dodd (1909 - 1996), "Rebirth Ia," 1980.
Lamar Dodd (1909 - 1996), "The Mating Room."
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), "Number 3, 1949: Tiger."
Frank Wootton (1914 - 1998), "Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress," 1943, oil.
Robert McCall (1919 – 2010), "Space Station One."
Leonard Baskin (1922-2000), "The Guardian," 1956, limestone.
Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923), "Red White," 1961.
George Segal (1924-2000), "Bus Riders," 1964, plaster.
Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987), "Self Portrait," 1986.
Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987), "Marilyn Monroe's Lips," 1962.
Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987), "Mao," 1973, acrylic and silk screen on canvas.
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), "The Annunciation After Titian," 1973.
Frank Stella (b. 1936), "Hooloomooloo 1, 2, 3," 1994.
Ron Kleemann (b. 1937), "Mustang Sally Forth," 1973, acrylic.
John Rummelhoff (b. 1942), "Apollo Over the Moon," 1974.

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