100 great paintings from Duccio to Picasso explained

100 great paintings from Duccio to Picasso is a selection of European paintings in the National Gallery, London, from the 14th to the 20th century. They were selected by curator Dillian Gordon for a National Gallery book in 1981.[1] [2]

List of illustrations

Image Article Date Painter Catalog code
The Annunciation circa 1300 NG1139
Wilton Diptych circa 1397 No/unknown value NG4451
Madonna and Child 1426 NG3046
Saint Francis and the Poor Knight, and Francis's Vision 1437 NG4757
Saint John the Baptist retiring to the Desert 1454 NG5454
The Vision of Saint Eustace circa 1400 NG1436
The Baptism of Christ 1448 NG665
The Nativity 1460 NG908
Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano 1438 NG583
Tobias and the Angel circa 1470 No/unknown value NG781
Annunciation circa 1450 NG666
Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian 1475 NG292
Venus and Mars 1485 NG915
The Mystical Nativity 1500 NG1034
Virgin of the Rocks circa 1494 NG1093
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist 1499 NG6337
Ansidei Madonna 1505 NG1171
Portrait of Pope Julius II 1511 NG27
The Entombment circa 1500 NG790
Portrait of a young Man 1517 NG690
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time 1545 NG651
1433 NG222
Arnolfini Portrait 1434 NG186
The Virgin and Child before a Firescreen circa 1425 No/unknown value NG2609
The Magdalen Reading 1435 NG654
Donne Triptych 1478 NG6275
Saint Jerome in His Study 1474 NG1418
The Agony in the Garden circa 1450 NG1417
The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius 1486 NG739
Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan circa 1500 NG189
Madonna del Prato circa 1500 NG599
1510 NG1944
Bacchus and Ariadne circa 1520 NG35
Portrait of the Vendramin Family circa 1540 NG4452
The Death of Actaeon 1567 NG6420
Saint George and the Dragon 1555 NG16
The Family of Darius before Alexander 1565 NG294
Madonna of the Basket 1525 NG23
Venus with Mercury and Cupid ('The School of Love') 1527 NG10
Vision of Saint Jerome 1526 NG33
Portrait of a Woman circa 1530 NG4256
The Tailor circa 1567 NG697
Supper at Emmaus 1601 NG172
The Dead Christ mourned by Two Angels 1618 NG22
The Adoration of the Golden Calf 1634 NG5597
The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba 1648 NG14
Saints Peter and Dorothy 1507 NG707
Cupid Complaining to Venus circa 1526 NG6344
Christ Taking Leave of his Mother 1520 NG6463
The Ambassadors 1533 NG1314
The Adoration of the Kings 1564 NG3556
Samson and Delilah circa 1609 Peter Paul Rubens
No/unknown value
NG6461
The Watering Place circa 1618 NG4815
Portrait of Susanna Lunden 1622 NG852
Minerva protects Pax from Mars 1629 NG46
Equestrian Portrait of Charles I circa 1630 NG1172
Portrait of an 11-year-old Boy 1650 NG1137
Philip IV in Brown and Silver 1635 NG1129
Rokeby Venus 1644 NG2057
The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities 1680 NG13
Saint Margaret of Antioch 1631 NG1930
Portrait of Doña Isabel de Porcel circa 1800 NG1473
A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle 1608 NG1346
The Interior of the St. Bavo Church in Haarlem circa 1636 NG2531
Still life with Drinking-Horn 1653 NG6444
Peasants with Cattle by a Ruined Aqueduct circa 1658 NG820
Skittle Players outside an Inn 1663 NG2560
The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague circa 1670 NG1914
Self-Portrait at the Age of 34 1640 NG672
1654 NG54
Portrait of Margaretha de Geer 1661 NG1675
A Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Church 1665 NG990
Woman and Maid in a Courtyard 1660 NG794
A Young Woman standing at a Virginal circa 1670 NG1383
The Avenue at Middelharnis 1689 NG830
1743 NG113
Captain Robert Orme 1756 NG681
Mr and Mrs William Hallett ('The Morning Walk') 1785 NG6209
The Milbanke and Melbourne Families 1769 NG6429
Queen Charlotte 1789 NG4257
The Hay Wain 1821 NG1207
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up 1834 NG524
The Stonemason's Yard 1725 NG127
An Allegory with Venus and Time circa 1754 NG6387
The Young Schoolmistress circa 1735 NG4077
A Lady in a Garden taking Coffee with some Children 1742 NG6422
Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame circa 1763 NG6440
Madame Moitessier 1856 NG4821
Music in the Tuileries 1862 NG3260
Bathers at La Grenouillère 1869 NG6456
Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando 1879 NG4121
Hélène Rouart in her Father's Study 1886 NG6469
The Umbrellas 1881 NG3268
Bathers at Asnières 1884 NG3908
Sunflowers 1888 NG3863
Tiger in a Tropical Storm 1891 NG6421
The Mantelpiece 1905 NG3271
Ophelia among the Flowers circa 1905 NG6438
Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses) 1894 NG6359
Fruit Dish, Bottle and Violin 1914 NG6449

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Notes and References

  1. News: Cole . R. . March 1984 . 100 Great Paintings: Duccio to Picasso (Book Review) . . . 83 . 244–245 . . 2024-08-02 .
  2. News: Hatwell . Don . 1981-11-05 . Treasure Trove of Art . . . 2024-08-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240802103122/https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-post-treasure-trove-of-art/152496801/ . 2024-08-02 .