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The Ninth Wave
"The Ninth Wave" is an 1850 painting by the Russian Armenian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky. It is his best-known work.
The title refers to an old sailing expression referring to a wave of incredible size that comes after a succession of incrementally larger waves.
It depicts a sea after a night storm and people facing death attempting to save themselves by clinging to debris from a wrecked ship.
The painting has warm tones, which reduce the sea's apparent menacing overtones and a chance for the people to survive seems plausible.
This painting shows both the destructiveness and beauty of nature.
Lady with an Ermine
Lady with an Ermine is a painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci from around 1489–1490 and one of Poland's national treasures. The portrait's subject is Cecilia Gallerani, painted at a time when she was the mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, and Leonardo was in the Duke's service.
It is one of only four portraits of women painted by Leonardo, the others being the Mona Lisa, the portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, and La belle ferronnière.
Haystacks
(Monet series)
"paintings by Claude Monet"
Wheatstacks (End of Summer)
Location Art Institute of Chicago
Grainstacks, Snow Effect, 1890–91, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Grainstacks, White Frost Effect, 1889. Oil on canvas. Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT
Grainstack at Giverny, 1888–89. Oil on canvas. Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Stacks, End of Summer, (Meules, fin de l'été), 1891. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. W1266
Haystacks, 1890, Oil on canvas. Private Collection (Sold for $110.7 million on Sotheby's May 14, 2019.) W1273
Monet haystacks-at-sunset-frosty-weather-1891 W1282
Grainstack in the Sunlight, 1891. Oil on canvas. Private collection. W1290
Haystack in the Evening Sun, 1891. Oil on canvas. Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation.