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Frederic Lord Leighton - Study at a Reading Desk [1877]
Leighton has transformed this traditional subject seen often in European art by including a supposed oriental setting and the exotic costume. The real subject of the painting is in Leighton's...
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Gerard Dou - An Old Woman Reading [c.1631-32]
The book is rendered in such detail that it is easy to see what the woman is reading: the beginning of chapter 19 of the Gospel of Luke. The passage states that those who wish to do good must give away...
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Ferencz-Franz Eisenhut - A Caravan Outside a Mosque
Ferencz-Franz Eisenhut (Nova Palanka, January 25, 1857 - Munich, June 2, 1903) was a prominent Danube Swabian Realist and Orientalist painter. Many of his paintings were reproduced by woodcutting...
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Victor Paul Joseph Dargaud - The Construction of Sacré-Coeur, Monmartre [1878]
Dargaud's Paris studio was located at 34, Boulevard de Clichy not far from the the building site of Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre. The present work was painted in 1878, three years after the basilica's...
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Winslow Homer - Haymaking [1864]
Winslow Homer, one of America’s foremost Realist painters in the nineteenth century, is still one of America’s best known artists. He took up oil painting during the Civil War, after working as a...
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Julien Dupré - Haymaking
Julien Dupré (Paris, March 18, 1851 - Paris, April 16, 1910) was a French painter. Throughout his career Dupré championed the life of the peasant and continued painting scenes in the areas of Normandy...
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Anthon van Rappard - Weaver [1884]
[Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - Oil on canvas on panel, 26.3 cm x 35.3 cm]
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Alessandro Milesi - The Weaving Factory
Alessandro Milesi (Venice, 1856 – 1945) was an Italian painter, mainly depicting genre subjects. He achieved success with portraits of the Venetian middle classes at the beginning of the new century...
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Jeffrey T Larson - Electrolux [2008]
See: jeffreytlarson.com/[Private Collection - Oil on canvas, 66.04 x 147.32 cm]
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Gustave Caillebotte - A Man at His Bath [1884]
Caillebotte often painted Parisian men and women on the street or in their homes. Here a lone male bather inhabits a private space, devoid of decoration. Caillebotte painted both male and female nudes,...
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Louis-Remy Sabattier - The Departure
As a pupil of Gérôme and Boulanger in Paris, Sabattier was an active member of the Societé des Artistes Français. He exhibited primarily marine paintings at the Salons of 1890, 1893, 1894, and 1898....
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Dennis Miller Bunker - Chrysanthemums [1888]
Bunker (American, 1861 - 1890) made this picture after returning to Boston from a summer spent in England painting with John Singer Sargent. Sargent and Bunker had been experimenting with...
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Faust Zonaro - Bayram (The Celebration)
Faust Zonaro (Masi, September 18, 1854 - Sanremo, July 19, 1929) was an Italian painter, best known for his Realist style paintings of life and history of the Ottoman Empire. The turning point in...
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Edwin Lord Weekes - Market in Ahmadabad, India
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 55.2 cm]
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David Farquharson - Wharton Village, near Lancaster [1879]
David Farquharson (Blairgowrie, November 17, 1839 - Baltimore, July 12, 1907) was a Scottish landscape painter. He painted the highland hills and moors and peat mosses, river valleys and views in...
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Camille Corot - Ville d’Avray, the Pond and the Cabassud House
[Musée du Louvre, Paris - Oil on canvas]
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