The Amaravati Collection
c. 200 BCE · Carved limestone known as Palnad marble
The British Museum, London, Room 33a
The Provenance Record
One page for every work of art: what it is, who has owned it, and what it has made. Every claim cited.
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Sold in Paris in 1816 as the work of an unnamed German master, for ninety francs and eleven centimes. The Met found the signature when it cleaned it in 1919.
Artworks
All 316 artworks
The Messiah
1716 · Spruce table
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani)
c. 1489-1491 · Oil on walnut panel
Princes Czartoryski Museum
The Last Judgment Triptych
c. 1467-1473 · Tempera and oil on oak panel
National Museum in Gdansk
The Toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus')
1647-51 · Oil on canvas
The National Gallery, London
The Art of Painting
c. 1666-68 · Oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemaeldegalerie
The Wedding Feast at Cana (Les Noces de Cana)
1562-1563 · Oil on canvas
Musee du Louvre, Paris, Denon wing, level 1
Saturn Devouring His Son
c. 1820-1823 · Oil on plaster
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
1903-1907 · Oil
Neue Galerie New York
Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee
1633 · Oil on canvas
Unlocated
Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid
c. 1670-71 · Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
The Blue Boy
c. 1770 · Oil on canvas
The Huntington Library
Working today
All 12 living artists
Ai Weiwei
Living · Chinese · born 1957 · works in Montemor-o-Novo
Anish Kapoor
Living · British (born in India) · born 1954 · works in London
Antony Gormley
Living · British · born 1950 · works in London
Cristina Iglesias
Living · Spanish · born 1956 · works in Torrelodones
Artists
All 123 artists
Abraham-Louis Breguet
1747-1823
Adolphe Sax
Belgian, active in Paris from 1842 · 1814-1894
Albrecht Durer
German, Nuremberg · 1471-1528
Alexander Gardner
Scottish-American · 1821-1882
Amedeo Modigliani
Italian · 1884-1920
Andre-Charles Boulle
French · 1642-1732
Andrea Amati
Italian (Cremonese) · 1505-1577
Andrea della Robbia
Florentine · 1435-1525
Antonio Canova
Italian (born Republic of Venice) · 1757-1822
Antonio Stradivari
Italian (Cremonese) · 1644-1737
Artemisia Gentileschi
Italian · 1593-1656
Auguste Rodin
French · 1840-1917
Stolen and recovered
All 51 worksLady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani)
c. 1489-1491 · Oil on walnut panel
Princes Czartoryski Museum
The Last Judgment Triptych
c. 1467-1473 · Tempera and oil on oak panel
National Museum in Gdansk
The Wedding Feast at Cana (Les Noces de Cana)
1562-1563 · Oil on canvas
Musee du Louvre, Paris, Denon wing, level 1
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
1903-1907 · Oil
Neue Galerie New York
The Women Behind the Art
Her hand, her eye, her collectionArtemisia Gentileschi
Italian · 1593-1656
Clara Peeters
Flemish (Southern Netherlands, Antwerp) · c. 1580s - after 1621
Dorothea Lange
American · 1895-1965
Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun
French · 1755-1842
From the Study
All 158 piecesThe Women Behind the Art
What the Opera Paid Marie van Goethem
The model for Degas's Little Dancer is documented in a payroll and two lines of his handwriting. The famous sentence about her face was written about two other drawings.
The Publisher Was the Sitter
Truth sold her own cartes de visite, registered the copyright in her own name and left the photographer unnamed.
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The Half That Was Not Sold
Vera Salomons inherited 57 of her father's Breguet watches. Her mother got the other seventy and they were auctioned.
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The Picture Her Father Refused
The Peacock Room is built around a portrait of Christine Spartali that her own father declined to buy.
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The hammer is the one number most auction houses do not print
Of 232 auction results in this archive, 53 carry no hammer price published by the house that sold the object.
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