Curator insights - Richard Beresford
Richard Beresford, senior curator of European art, looks at a selection of the Gallery’s European masters. Discover a deeper, richer engagement, with these much loved works, and view them through an expert’s eye. Curator insights run for around 5 minutes each.
All photographs © AGNSW unless otherwise stated
All works © the artist or the artist's estate unless otherwise stated
© Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2013
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Ford Madox Brown
Chaucer at the court of Edward III 1847-1851
oil on canvas, 372.0 x 296.0cm stretcher; 391.0 x 315.0 x 8.0cm frame
Purchased 1876 -
121
Alphonse de Neuville
The defence of Rorke's Drift 1879 1880
oil on canvas, 181.4 x 301.5cm stretcher; 261.0 x 377.0 x 29.0cm frame
Purchased 1882 -
125
Jacques Blanchard
Mars and the vestal virgin 1638
oil on canvas, 130.0 x 110.4cm stretcher; 143.0 x 121.9 x 8.0cm frame
Purchased with funds resulting from a gift by James Fairfax AO and with the support of the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales 2007 -
126
François Boucher
A young lady holding a pug dog mid 1740s
oil on canvas, 34.5 x 28.6cm [oval] ; 49.0 x 42.5 x 7.5cm frame
Gift of James Fairfax AO 1992 -
127
Claude Lorrain
Pastoral landscape 1636-1637
oil on copper, 27.9 x 34.7cm panel; 43.1 x 50.0 x 6.0cm frame
Gift of James Fairfax AO 1992 -
128
Évariste Vital Luminais
The sons of Clovis II 1880
oil on canvas, 190.7 x 275.8cm stretcher; 218.8 x 335.0 x 8.5cm frame
Purchased 1886 -
129
Sano di Pietro
Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, John the Baptist, Bernardino and Bartholomew 1450-1481
gold leaf and tempera on panel, 60.5 x 43.2cm panel; 93.5 x 52.2 x 9.0cm frame
Gift of John Fairfax and Sons Ltd. to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the founding of the Sydney Morning Herald 1971 -
130
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Constantius appoints Constantine as his successor 1622
oil on panel, 37.6 x 30.2 x 0.5cm panel; 61.5 x 53.4 x 9.5cm frame
Gift of James Fairfax AO 1993 -
131
François Sallé
The anatomy class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts 1888
oil on canvas, 218.0 x 299.0cm sight; 239.0 x 321.6 x 10.0cm frame
Purchased 1888
