Cornelis van Haarlem - A Fool with Two Women [1595]
Van Thiel lists and reproduces two copies, both of whose whereabouts are unknown. Both these copies, like the present picture until a recent cleaning, have had the sausage painted out, presumably due...
View ArticleEmilio Ocón y Rivas - Preparing for the Catch [1897]
Emilio Ocón y Rivas (Malaga, 1845 - Malaga, 1904) was a Spanish painter. [Museo CarmenThyssen, Málaga - Oil on canvas, 56 x 89 cm]
View ArticleAuguste Couder - Opening of the Estates General, May 5, 1789
Summoned by King Louis XVI to propose solutions to his government's financial problems, the Estates-General sat for several weeks in May and June 1789 but came to an impasse over the first item on the...
View ArticlePiero di Cosimo - A Satyr mourning over a Nymph [c.1495]
A nymph lies on the grass, displaying wounds to her hand, wrist and throat. A satyr kneels, apparently mourning over her, while a dog sits at her feet. In the background other creatures, including a...
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View ArticleCamille Pissarro - Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen [1896]
While visiting Rouen in spring and fall 1896, Pissarro wrote of his interest in the "motif of the iron bridge on a rainy day, with much traffic, carriages, pedestrians, workers on the quays, boats,...
View ArticleIvan Aivazovsky - Constantinople
Ivan Aivazovsky was a famous Russian artist specialising in seascape and landscape portraits. He was born into the family of a destitute Armenian merchant in the Crimean city of Feodosia on July 17,...
View ArticleJan Brueghel the Elder - Parish Fair in Schelle [1614]
[Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna - Oil on wood, 52 x 90.5 cm]
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View ArticlePaul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry - The Wave and the Pearl [1862]
Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (La Roche-sur-Yon, November 7, 1828 - Paris, January 17, 1886) was a French painter. His talent from the first revealed itself as strictly academical, full of elegance and...
View ArticleWinslow Homer - Winter Coast [1890]
In 1891, one critic described Winter Coast as "A most bleak, cold, 'shivery' place." Winslow Homer knew this shivery place well, as this cliff was visible from his studio in Prout's Neck, Maine.Many of...
View ArticleStephen Bauman - When I Was Young
See: www.stephenbaumanart.com/[Art Renewal Centre Salon - Oil on canvas, 45 x 60 inches]
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View ArticleBartolomeo Veneto and Workshop - A Lady Playing a Lute [c.1530]
Once thought to be a portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, this painting is now associated with Bartolomeo Veneto (Italian, active 1502 - Turin, 1531). Head tilted to the side and wearing an enigmatic...
View ArticleJean-Léon Gérôme - L’Eminence Grise [1873]
[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Oil on canvas, 27 x 39 inches]
View ArticleJohn Collier - Lady Godiva [1898]
[Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry - Oil on canvas, 142.2 x 183 cm]
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View ArticleFollower of Jacopo Tintoretto - The Nativity [c.1590]
The design, which is probably Venetian in origin, is known in several versions. One has been attributed to Tintoretto. This picture may have been executed in the Veneto. The date is uncertain.[National...
View ArticleAnnika Wallenberg - Nest Egg [1987]
[Bukowski’s Modern & Contemporary Auction, Helsinki - Assemblage, 94.5 x 63.5 cm]
View ArticleWilliam Henry Bartlett - The Neighbours [1881]
William Henry Bartlett (London, March 26, 1809 - Malta, September 13, 1854) was a British artist. Bartletts primary concern was to render "lively impressions of actual sights", as he wrote in the...
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