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Jacob de Backer - Paris Being Admitted to the Bedchamber of Helen

January 30, 2015, 2:39 am
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Jacob de Backer - Paris Being Admitted to the Bedchamber of Helen

When Rembrandt van Rijn settled in Amsterdam in about 1631, students flocked to him; participation in his workshop seemed to assure success. Following that pattern, Jacob Backer (1608 - 1651) studied with Rembrandt for a short time after years of training in Leeuwarden, Holland, and in no time, he was successful. By 1633 the Amsterdam Orphan Home had commissioned a group portrait from him, and he painted three more large groups during his short career. Though he also painted mythological and allegorical works, Backer became known as a portrait specialist. Backer's style is characterised by quiet restraint, smooth, thin paint, and ornamental brushwork. His lighting can be more diffused than Rembrandt's focused, expressive illumination. During the 1640s Backer fell under the spell of Bartholomeus van der Helst's fashionably pale, cool tonality, but the warmth of Backer's palette during the last decade of his life indicates that he continued to study Rembrandt's works. Backer was one of Amsterdam's most famous painters. 

[Getty Centre, Los Angeles - Oil on canvas, 47 x 67.24 inches]
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Thomas Eakins - The Pair-Oared Shell [1872]

January 30, 2015, 2:40 am
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Thomas Eakins - The Pair-Oared Shell [1872]

Eakins was an oarsman himself, and when he returned from his studies in Paris in 1870 he began a series of paintings on the modern sport of rowing. In 1872, he befriended the celebrated John and Bernard (Barney) Biglin when they came to Philadelphia to compete for the world championship of pair-oared shells. Eakins painted them repeatedly over the next two years. Here, the brothers are shown practicing on the Schuylkill River in the early evening, in the shadow of the old Columbia Railroad Bridge.

[Philadelphia Museum of Art - Oil on canvas, 61 x 91.4 cm]
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January 30, 2015, 2:41 am
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Gino Severini - Plastic Synthesis of the Idea of War [1915]

January 31, 2015, 3:41 am
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Gino Severini - Plastic Synthesis of the Idea of War [1915]

Severini did not take part in the fighting but, in 1914 and 1915, he attempted to paint it from the experiences of the French Cubists and the Italian Futurists, of which he was a leading exponent. To description, he preferred the composition of large symbolic ensembles using the juxtaposition of details and words according to the logic of Cubist collage established as of 1912 by Picasso and Braque. Thus the war is defined by adding together the general mobilisation order, a ship's anchor, an artillery gun carriage, range-finding instruments, an aircraft wing bearing the red, white and blue roundel, a factory chimney and the date of the declaration of war. Significantly, Severini does not introduce, or even allude to, any human presence, preferring to use the working drawings of engineers as the building blocks of his pictorial language. The association between industrial modernity and artistic modernity is obvious.

[Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich - Oil on canvas]
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Georges de La Tour - The Pea Eaters [c.1620]

January 31, 2015, 3:43 am
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Georges de La Tour - The Pea Eaters [c.1620]

[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas, 74 x 87 cm]
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January 31, 2015, 3:43 am
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Hans Holbein - Portrait of a Man with Lute [c.1533-36]

February 1, 2015, 3:27 am
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Hans Holbein - Portrait of a Man with Lute [c.1533-36]

[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Oil and tempera on oak, 43.5 x 43.5 cm]
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Christian Gottlieb Schick - Portrait of Heinrike Dannecker [1802]

February 1, 2015, 3:29 am
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Christian Gottlieb Schick - Portrait of Heinrike Dannecker [1802]

Christian Gottlieb Schick (Stuttgart, August 15, 1776 - May 7, 1812) was a German Neoclassical painter. Between 1802 and 1811 he stayed in Rome, and became an important figure in that city's artistic life. In Schick's last years, his style of Raphaelesque classicism gradually acquired a romantic orientation.

[Alte und Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas, 119 x 100 cm]
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February 1, 2015, 3:29 am
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Gustave Caillebotte - Portraits in the Countryside [1876]

February 2, 2015, 3:04 am
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Gustave Caillebotte - Portraits in the Countryside [1876]

[Musée Baron Gérard, Bayeux - Oil on canvas, 95 x 111 cm]
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Bernardus Johannes Blommers - Preparing the Fish (De Speetster)

February 2, 2015, 3:06 am
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Bernardus Johannes Blommers - Preparing the Fish (De Speetster)

Bernardus Johannes Blommers (The Hague, January 30, 1845 - The Hague, December 12, 1914) was a Dutch etcher and painter. His early paintings were mostly genre works depicting fishermen and their wives, heavily influenced by Jozef Israëls. The later works (from about 1890) are more loosely painted, although maritime and genre scenes remained the primary subject matter. His work was critically successful during his lifetime, being sought after by English, Scottish and American collectors.

[Sold for Euro 17,050 at Sotheby’s, Amsterdam - Oil on panel, 19 x 14.5 cm]
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February 2, 2015, 3:06 am
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Quentin Massys - The Purchase Contract

February 3, 2015, 2:46 am
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Quentin Massys - The Purchase Contract

If anyone has further information about this paintings I would be glad to receive it. 

[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Oil on panel]
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Alphonse Mucha - Princess Hyacinth [1911]

February 3, 2015, 2:48 am
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Alphonse Mucha - Princess Hyacinth [1911]

Oskar Nedbal's ballet-pantomime, Princess Hyacinth, premiered in 1911 at the National Theatre, Prague, with libretto by Ladislav Novák. Mucha's poster advertising the performance features the portrait of the popular actress Andula Sedláčková, who starred in the title role. A village blacksmith dreams that his daughter becomes the Princess Hyacinth and that she is abducted by a sorcerer. Mucha makes reference to the plot by incorporating hearts, the blacksmith's tools, a crown and instruments of sorcery. A hyacinth motif is used throughout the decorative details.

[Colour lithograph, 125.5 x 85.5 cm]
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February 3, 2015, 2:49 am
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir [1892] The Reading

February 4, 2015, 7:41 am
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir [1892] The Reading

[Musée du Louvre, Paris - Oil on canvas, 55 x 65.5 cm]
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Alfred Sisley - River Banks of Saint-Mammes [1884]

February 4, 2015, 7:43 am
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Alfred Sisley - River Banks of Saint-Mammes [1884]

Much of Sisley's work depicts the area around the Ile-de-France, as in this view of the banks of the river at Saint-Mammes. The gentle landscapes which are characteristic of his work overall reveal a delicate understanding of the life and the poetry of the more modest aspects of nature.

The Impressionist approach to painting allowed the artist to capture weather effects, and particularly the changing qualities of light and air. Sky is one of the most important components in any depiction of unspoilt nature and the artist used light, mobile brushstrokes to give a sense of the sky's complexity and dynamism. Water and reflections are also a frequently recurring motif in Impressionist art, and in the narrow river here we can see the current, almost feel it, as the reflection of the sky is broken up and seems to move on the surface of the water. This dappled reflection in water was for the Impressionists a symbol of the changeability of nature.

[Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg - Oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm]
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February 4, 2015, 7:44 am
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Roman Campagna, with the Claudian Aqueduct [c.1826]

February 5, 2015, 3:34 am
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Roman Campagna, with the Claudian Aqueduct [c.1826]

The sketch is one of the open-air studies produced by Corot during his stay in Rome in 1825-8. Executed in oil on paper, the painting is noteworthy for the freedom and spontaneity of its handling, a forerunner of the open-air sketches that Corot was to produce in the years after his return to France, like the Seine near Rouen of about 1830-5. A morning scene, the painting shows the Alban Hills and the aqueduct of the Aqua Felice with a medieval tower in the centre. To the right and left are the arched ruins of the Aqua Claudia. The dense shadows contrast with the otherwise sunlit landscape.

[National Gallery, London - Oil on paper, laid on canvas, 22.8 x 34 cm]
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Aelbert Cuyp - A River Scene with Distant Windmills [c.1640-42]

February 5, 2015, 3:36 am
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Aelbert Cuyp - A River Scene with Distant Windmills [c.1640-42]

Aelbert Cuyp, who was later to develop a personal interpretation of the so-called Dutch Italianate landscape style, began his career as a landscape artist in the near-monochrome manner of Jan van Goyen. This work, showing a calm river scene with small boats and windmills on the low horizon, was painted shortly before he changed his style under the influence of Jan Both, who returned from Italy in 1641.

[National Gallery, London - Oil on oak, 35.6 x 52.4 cm]
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