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Pope Joan Giving Birth
A c. 1450 illustration showing Pope Joan giving birth during a procession. Pope Joan was a legendary female pope of the Middle Ages said to have reigned from 855 to 858. Her existence is disputed. (Spencer Collection)
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Working the Land by Gauguin
An 1873 oil on canvas, Working the Land (aka Landscape), by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Painted before Gauguin decided to become a full-time artist and his first major canvas. It shows the influence of...
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Where Do We Come From? What are We? Where Are We Going? by Gauguin
An 1897 oil on canvas, Where Do We Come From? What are We? Where Are We Going?, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), the French post-impressionist painter. This huge frieze-like canvas measures 4.5 metres (15 ft) in length, but none of its ambiguous...
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Merahi Metua no Tehamana by Gauguin
An 1893 oil on canvas, Merahi Metua no Tehamana (Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana), by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Painted in Tahiti, one of the final works completed by the artist...
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When Will You Marry? by Gauguin
An 1892 oil on canvas, When Will You Marry? (Nafea Faa Ipoipo), by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Painted in Tahiti, the artist obviously valued this work highly since he set it as the most expensive in his...
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Breton Peasant Women by Gauguin
An 1894 oil on canvas, Breton Peasant Women, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Painted in Brittany. The figures are an excellent example of the cloisonnist style where areas of a single colour are bordered...
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Vision after the Sermon by Gauguin
An 1888 oil on canvas, Vision after the Sermon, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), the French post-impressionist painter. The scene shows Breton women in their traditional headgear watching an enactment of a sermon they have just heard (from the...
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What's New by Gauguin
An 1892 oil on canvas, Parau Api (What's New?), by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Painted in Tahiti. In a letter to his wife, Gauguin wrote: "And these people are called savages!...They sing; they never steal...
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Siege of the Bastille
An eye witness paiting of the Siege of the Bastille, by Claude Cholat, c. 1789. In the Musée Carnavalet.
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Desmoulins Making a Call to Arms, 12 July 1789
Depiction of Camille Desmoulins' call to arms at the Palais-Royal in the days preceding the Storming of the Bastille. By Pierre-Gabriel Berthault (1802)
