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Pedro Américo

14 works

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Large painting of mounted officers waving sabers and hats on a hill while cavalry charges past a farmhouse and oxen cart.

Independence or Death

1888

Large battle painting of cavalry and infantry fighting under a stormy sky, with banners, smoke and fallen soldiers on a plain

Battle of Avay

1872

Painting of a young man in black holding a skull, gesturing toward a pale crowned ghost in a dusky graveyard.

Hamlet’s Vision

1893

Allegorical painting of winged figures and robed women in a classical colonnade, with kneeling figures reaching toward a ligh

The Liberation of Slaves

1889

Painting of a nude man draped over a wooden scaffold with a crucifix, rope noose, blue cloth, and distant village.

Tiradentes quartered

1893

Oil portrait of a standing man in gold-embroidered dark uniform with red sash, medals and sword against red drapery.

Portrait of the Viscount of Santo Amaro

1878

Full-length portrait of a bearded emperor in jeweled crown and embroidered robes holding a gold scepter, with officials and a

The Emperor's speech (Peter II of Brazil in the opening of the General Assembly)

1872

Oil painting of a nude woman seated by a waterfall, arranging her hair, with red drapery and a wooded landscape behind her.

A Carioca

1882

Painting of a woman in ornate gold jewelry raising her arms beside a sword and a severed head on a rug.

Judith and Holofernes

1880

Painting of a kneeling young woman in a rustic courtyard praying beneath a glowing vision of a winged figure.

Joana d’Arc

1883

Painting of a nun with a censer beside lit candles and a crucifix, gazing upward toward a cherub in the dark sky.

The Vote of Heloíse

1880

Painting of a young girl in white veil and red cap playing a violin, against a patterned carpet backdrop.

The Arab rebec player

1884

Full-length portrait of an elderly man in a gold-embroidered dark uniform with medals and a sash, before a red drape.

Portrait of the counsellor Lopes Neto

1882

São Jerônimo

1867

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