Eddie Pensier writes:

Another batch of paintings from my visit to the AGNSW, this one focusing on European and British artists. I’m particularly fond of Strutt’s coolly triumphal David’s First Victory, the barely suppressed sexuality under the surface of Sallé’s The Anatomy Class at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and  Rivière’s Requiescat, which might be conventionally sentimental, but it works, damn it.

A bit o’ nudity (and other stuff) after the break.

Antonio Canaletto, The Piazza San Marco, Venice, c1742-6

Peter Paul Rubens, Self-Portrait, 1623

Jacopo Amigoni, Bacchus and Ariadne, c1740-42

William Strutt, David’s First Victory, 1868

Lucian Freud, And The Bridegroom, 1993

François Sallé, The Anatomy Class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, 1888

Briton Rivière, Requiescat, 1888

Paul Cézanne, The Banks of the Marne, c1888

Vincent van Gogh, Head of a Peasant, 1884

Claude Monet, The Château d’Antibes, 1888

John William Waterhouse, Diogenes, 1882

Joshua Reynolds, James Maitland, 7th Earl of Lauderdale, 1759-60

Eugène Delacroix,Angelica and the Wounded Medoro, 1860

Peter Paul Rubens, Constantius appoints Constantine as his Successor, 1622