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| Frans Hals Militia Company, District IX, Amsterdam 1637 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
"A commission for a civic guard portrait was rarely granted to a painter from outside the city. Quite exceptionally, Frans Hals – from Haarlem – was asked to paint this group portrait. However, he soon found himself at odds with the guardsmen, and the Amsterdam painter Pieter Codde had to step in to finish the seven figures on the right. Known for his small-scale, very smoothly and finely executed works, Codde nevertheless imitated Hals's loose style as best he could."
– curator's notes, Rijksmuseum
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| Jacob Adriaensz Backer Arquebusiers' Civic Guard Company, District V, Amsterdam 1642 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Bartholomeus van der Helst Banquet at Crossbowmen's Guild, Amsterdam 1648 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Rembrandt Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Drapers' Guild 1662 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Rembrandt Danaë 1636 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giovanni Baglione Charity and Justice embracing 1622 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Windsor |
Charity stand on the left holding a child, with two children standing at her feet. The child on the left supports a tablet with inscription. Charity holds the hand of Justice, who is standing on the right, and holds upright a shield, also with inscription. Above the scene is a dove and the figure of Divine Wisdom reclining on a cloud and holding a chain which binds the two below. Probably commissioned in 1617 by Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. Later purchased by Charles I with the Mantua collection.
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| Orazio Gentileschi Joseph and Potiphar's wife ca. 1630-32 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Sibyl ca. 1635-38 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Hercules and Omphale ca. 1655-60 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Nicolas Poussin Holy Family with St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist ca. 1655 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jan Victors Angel taking leave of Tobit and his family 1649 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi River landscape with fishermen before 1680 oil on canvas National Trust, Great Britain |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Ceiling panels Queen's House, Greenwich ca. 1635-38 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
Nine separate canvases by Orazio Gentileschi, completed in 1638, decorated the ceiling of the newly built Great Hall at the Queen's House, Greenwich. Their owner, Queen Henrietta Maria of England, enjoyed these amenities only briefly – from 1639 until 1642 – "when she departed for the continent at the outbreak of the Civil War." In the long panels around the central scene are the nine Muses. In the corners are tondi with personifications of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Music.
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| Orazio Gentileschi Ceiling panel Queen's House, Greenwich ca. 1635-38 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
The central roundel is an allegory of Peace Reigning over the Arts. The cloud-borne figure of Peace with olive brand and staff presides over twelve female personifications of arts and sciences, each with distinctive attributes