Johan Christian Dahl - The Fjord at Holmestrand [1843]
Johan Christian Dahl (Bergen, February 24, 1788 - Dresden, October, 14, 1857) was a Norwegian artist who is considered the first great romantic painter in Norway, the founder of the "golden age" of...
View ArticleProbably Syria - Bottle with Blue Trails and Blobs [12th century]
This appealing pale green bottle was initially blown into a mould with narrow vertical ribs and then inflated so that the ribs appear in very shallow, nearly imperceptible relief. A long, thin trail of...
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View ArticleJuliëtte Wytsman - Flower Garden
Juliëtte Wytsman, born Juliëtte Trullemans (Brussels, July 14, 1866 – Keyenveldstraat, March 8, 1925) was a Belgian Impressionist painter. On February 16, 1886 she married Rodolphe Wytsman. It was an...
View ArticleCarl Fredrik Hill - The Flowering Fruit Tree [1877]
Carl Fredrik Hill (May 31, 1849 - February 22, 1911) was a Swedish painter. Born the son of a mathematics professor, Hill grew up in the narrowness of the university town of Lund in southern Sweden and...
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View ArticleAdolph Menzel - Flute Concert with Frederick the Great in Sanssouci [1850-52]
Frederick the Great wanted to cultivate plums, figs and wine on Potsdam’s doorstep. In 1744, he had a terraced garden designed in Sanssouci Park for this reason. But, due to the exceptionally beautiful...
View ArticleAuguste Herbin - Flowers [c.1906]
Auguste Herbin (Quievy, April 29, 1882 - Paris, January 30, 1960) was a French painter. His background is reflected in this northern French artist's painting with its rational approach and explicit...
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View ArticleJohn Ferguson Weir - Forging the Shaft [1874-77]
John Ferguson Weir (West Point, New York, 1841 - Providence, Rhode Island, 1926) was an American painter and sculptor.[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 132.1 x 186.1 cm]
View ArticleHans von Marées - The Four Ages of Man
This was a wedding present to the painter's friend, the distinguished art theorist Konrad Fiedler (1841-1895). Only thirty years after its completion in 1878 was it entitled The Four Ages of Man. On...
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View ArticleClaude Monet - The Four Trees [1891]
Monet settled in Giverny, about forty-five miles northwest of Paris, in 1883. Although he took frequent trips, venturing as far as London and Venice, it was the landscape within a two-mile radius of...
View ArticleFrederic Bazille - Fragment of a Portrait of D’Edmond Maitre [1867]
[Sold for £86,500 at Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 35.3 x 28.4 cm]
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View ArticleLuis Graner y Arrufi - Fresh News
Luis Graner y Arrufi (1863 - 1929) was a Spanish artist. He began his studies at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Barcelona at the age of twenty-one, focusing his works in the subject of genre painting....
View ArticleJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Francis I Receives the Last Breath of...
Following his stay in Rome as a guest at the French Academy, Ingres stayed in Italy until 1824. The painter then made a living from portrait commissions and painted small historical scenes for private...
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View ArticleClaude Monet - Water Lilies [1917-19]
Although Monet has unmoored viewers in this painting by eliminating banks and borders to ground us, he creates extraordinary volume of space below the pond and an incredible dome of space above from...
View ArticleGustave Loiseau - Poplars along the Eure (Peupliers au bord de l’Eure) [1903]
Gustave Loiseau’s Peupliers au bord de l'Eure is a wonderful evocation of the French countryside. In his landscapes, Loiseau (1865 - 1935) often experimented with a high horizon line and created a...
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