, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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The Flagellation, 1512
Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471
- 1528
engraving on laid paper
11.9 x 7.4 cm
Purchased 1949
National Gallery of Canada (no. 5604)
While Christ is whipped with a birch bundle and a leather thong, Pilate watches solemnly from the left background. The poses of the two men who flog Christ balance one another and recall battle scenes of the Italian Renaissance master Antonio Pollaiuolo.
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The Virgin on a Crescent with a Crown of Stars and a Sceptre
St. Bartholomew Adored by a Prince of the House of Saxony
Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony
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