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Rembrandt - Man with the Golden Helmet [c.1650]
![Rembrandt - Man with the Golden Helmet [c.1650]](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8573/16258719976_28f07c8824_o.jpg)
Rembrandt's portrait was particularly admired by the generation of Impressionist painters as a model example of their own view of art. It has lost none of its popularity, despite commercial exploitation, although it is questionable whether this has contributed to a genuine appreciation of the picture. All too many reproductions have given the public a preconceived image of it, before actually seeing the original. It is therefore all the more necessary to try to make a detached assessment of the work.
The painting is not a portrait in the strictest sense; it was not commissioned, as so many portraits were, by prosperous Dutch citizens. The artist has captured not the splendidly armoured figure of an officer or general of his time but the tired features of an old man, who occasionally sat for him, and the gleaming splendour of an old helmet, which was part of Rembrandt's collection. Recently the attribution to Rembrandt has been questioned by both art historians and conservators.
[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas, 67.5 x 50.7 cm]
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Rembrandt - The Parable of the Rich Man [1627]
![Rembrandt - The Parable of the Rich Man [1627]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7480/16097111358_58917498b5_o.jpg)
The painting, known as The Money-Changer, is also interpreted as the allegory of miserliness. Rembrandt's work is imbued with certain qualities we can call Caravaggesque even if they are not directly derived from the Italian master's work. The highly conscious use of dark and light in constructing compositions is considered part of Caravaggio's legacy. This method was known to Rembrandt through the mediation of Utrecht painters like Gerrit van Honthorst, who brought Caravaggio’s style from Italy to Holland.
[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Oil on oak panel, 31.9 x 42.5 cm]
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Auguste Couder - Le Serment du Jeu de Paume, June 20, 1789 [1848]
![Auguste Couder - Le Serment du Jeu de Paume, June 20, 1789 [1848]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7510/15672220183_3de4146691_o.jpg)
Auguste Couder (Paris, April 1, 1790 - Paris, July 21, 1873) was a French painter. He joined the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1839 and was an officer of the Légion d'Honneur. He married Cornélie Stouf, daughter of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Stouf. Couder was buried in the cemetery of Père-Lachaise.
At the dawn of the French Revolution, just steps away from the seat of the Monarchy, the founding act of French democracy took place. On June 20, 1789, in the Jeu de Paume room near the Palace of Versailles, the deputies took an oath not to adjourn before adopting a Constitution for France. “We swear not to separate and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the Constitution of the Kingdom is established and built on solid foundations.” The founding event of French democracy, the Jeu de Paume Oath is the origin of the separation of powers and national sovereignty. It led to the creation of the National Constituent Assembly which, in August 1789, voted to abolish the feudal system and adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
[Musée National du Château de Versailles et du Trianon - Oil on canvas]
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Eugene Boudin - Laundresses by a Stream [c.1885-90]
![Eugene Boudin - Laundresses by a Stream [c.1885-90]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7478/16104566088_ed9e77f56c_o.jpg)
Although Boudin is best known for his depiction of the seascapes and fashionable crowds on the beaches of Normandy, he was a prolific artist who tackled a variety of subjects including scenes of traditional peasant life, such as these women washing laundry in a stream.
[National Gallery, London - Oil on wood, 17.8 x 22.9 cm]
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Adolph Menzel - Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclopes) [1872 -75]
![Adolph Menzel - Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclopes) [1872 -75]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7538/16113100809_42b94922c6_o.jpg)
[Alte und Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas, 158 x 254 cm]
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Adolph Menzel - Art William I Departs for the Front on July 31, 1870 [1871]
![Adolph Menzel - Art William I Departs for the Front on July 31, 1870 [1871]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7480/16113397017_328945e494_o.jpg)
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870 (July 19, 1870 – May 10, 1871), was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.
[Alte und Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas, 63 x 78 cm]
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Jan Steen - The Life of Man [c.1665]
![Jan Steen - The Life of Man [c.1665]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7468/15685378114_d3fb682684_o.jpg)
The curtain is lifted to give us a clear view of an inn, where young and old are enjoying eating, drinking, playing and flirting. But for Jan Steen, it was not just about cheerful conviviality. His message is concealed in a small detail by the window. Up in the dark attic, a boy is blowing bubbles next to a skull. Although life is wonderful, eventually it will burst like a bubble.
[Mauritshuis, The Hague - Oil on canvas, 68.2 x 82 cm]
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Leon Lhermitte - Les Halles [1895]
![Leon Lhermitte - Les Halles [1895]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7521/16120247908_9d04a40902_o.jpg)
[Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris - Oil on canvas, 404 x 635 cm]
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Vincent van Gogh - Long Grass with Butterflies [1890]
![Vincent van Gogh - Long Grass with Butterflies [1890]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7493/15696911403_8caa83850a_o.jpg)
Van Gogh was a patient at the asylum at St-Rémy, near Arles, from May 1889 to May 1890. During this time he was restricted to working in the asylum's grounds, and shortly after his arrival he described the 'abandoned gardens' in which 'the grass grows tall and unkempt, mixed with all kinds of weeds'. This view of these gardens was painted at the end of the painter's stay at the asylum.
[National Gallery, London - Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 80.7 cm]
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Camille Pissarro - The Louvre Under Snow [1902]
![Camille Pissarro - The Louvre Under Snow [1902]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7576/15696913793_6f2ff0a8a8_o.jpg)
This is one of a series of views painted by Pissarro from the apartment he took in 1900 at 28 Place Dauphine on the Ile-de-la-Cité in Paris. Here he is looking west along the River Seine. The Pont-des-Arts and the Louvre are seen in the distance. The railings and steps on the left enclose the 19th-century statue of Henri IV.
[National Gallery, London - Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 87.3 cm]
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Carl Spitzweg - The Poor Poet [1837]
![Carl Spitzweg - The Poor Poet [1837]](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8566/16323816262_fb8da40cd3_o.jpg)
Carl Spitzweg (Unterpfaffenhofen, February 5, 1808 - Munich, September 23, 1885) was a German painter and poet. Spitzweg was self-taught as an artist, starting out by copying the works of Flemish masters. He contributed his first work to satirical magazines. Upon receiving an inheritance in 1833, he was able to dedicate himself to painting.
In the late 1930s an art forgery case in Germany involved 54 paintings which had been passed off as Spitzweg originals. They had been painted by a Traunstein copyist named Toni who worked from reproductions and picture postcards. Toni signed the works with his own name as "after Spitzweg", but fraudsters later removed his name and artificially aged the paintings in order to sell them as originals. At the Stuttgart Criminal Court Assizes the conspirators were jailed for up to ten years for the swindle.
[Alte und Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas, 44.9 x 37.6 cm]
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Caspar David Friedrich - The Monk by the Sea [1808-10]
![Caspar David Friedrich - The Monk by the Sea [1808-10]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7566/15704791073_8f5ec9d22d_o.jpg)
A single figure, dressed in a long garment and with his chin on one hand, stands on a low dune sprinkled with grass. The figure, usually identified as a monk, has turned almost completely away from the viewer and surveys a rough sea and a grey, blank sky that takes up about three quarters of the picture. It is unclear whether he is standing on a high rock or only on a gentle slope to the sea. The dune forms an inexpressive triangle in the composition, at the farthest point of which is the figure. Contrasting with the dark ocean there are several whitecaps of waves sometimes mistaken for seagulls.
Although Friedrich's paintings are landscapes, he designed and painted them in his studio, using freely drawn plain air sketches, from which he chose the most evocative elements to integrate into an expressive composition. The composition of The Monk by the Sea shows evidence of this reductive process, as Friedrich removed elements from the canvas after they were painted. Recent scientific investigations have revealed that he had initially painted two small sailing ships on the horizon, which he later removed. Friedrich continued to modify the details of the painting right up to its exhibition, to the sky's grey was added blue, with stars and a moon, but the basic composition always stayed the same.
[Alte und Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas, 100 x 171.5 cm]
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Cornelis de Vos - Magdalena and Jean-Baptist de Vos, the Children of the Painter [c.1622]
![Cornelis de Vos - Magdalena and Jean-Baptist de Vos, the Children of the Painter [c.1622]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7479/16331211862_b7408b8a6e_o.jpg)
Cornelis de Vos (Huist, 1584 - Antwerp, May 9, 1651) was a Flemish Baroque painter best known for his portraiture. De Vos was most successful as a painter of individual and group portraits in which he developed his own style. Cornelis often collaborated with colleagues as was common in Antwerp at the time: he painted the staffage in still lifes by Frans Snyders and in return Snyders and his brother Paul painted the fruit, animals, silver plate and armour in his own work. Jan Wildens assisted with the landscapes in many of his works
[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas, 78 x 92 cm]
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Judith Leyster - Man Offering Money to a Young Woman [1631]
![Judith Leyster - Man Offering Money to a Young Woman [1631]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7486/15712158503_95b2fc0364_o.jpg)
This painting is by one of the few women painters of the seventeenth century, Judith Leyster. By the light of an oil lamp, a young woman is bowed over her needlework, with her feet on a foot warmer. A man is trying to attract her attention with a handful of coins, he wants to buy her love. But the woman does not respond to his offer, and works on undisturbed. She is a model of virtuousness.
[Mauritshuis, The Hague - Oil on panel, 30.9 x 24.2 cm]
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