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Adolph Menzel - Procession in Hofgastein [1880]
When this painting was shown in Munich and Berlin in the 1880s and 1890s, critics marvelled at Menzel’s ability to depict the ritual procession of Catholic clergy and laity in traditional dress through...
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Johannes Vermeer - Girl Interrupted at Her Music [c.1658-59]
Music-making, a recurring subject in Vermeer’s interior scenes, was associated in the seventeenth century with courtship. In this painting of a duet or music lesson momentarily interrupted, the amorous...
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Johannes Vermeer - Lady with Her Maidservant Holding a Letter -[1667-68]
The subject of writing and receiving letters, which recurs frequently in Vermeer’s work, is given an exceptional sense of dramatic tension in this painting of two women arrested in some moment of...
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Johannes Vermeer - A Lady Writing [c.1665-66]
Above all, Johannes Vermeer was a painter of light. In this exquisite painting, diffused light softly illuminates the tabletop, the woman’s face, and her rich lemon-yellow morning jacket. Accents on...
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Joseph Wright of Derby - Penelope Unraveling Her Web [1783-1784]
The potter Josiah Wedgwood commissioned this painting from Joseph Wright of Derby as a tribute to female loyalty and industry. In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope, awaiting the return of her husband Odysseus...
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Édouard Leon Cortès - Place de la Madeleine
Édouard Leon Cortès (Lagny-sur-Marne, April 26, 1882 - Lagny-sur-Marne, November 26, 1969) was a French post-impressionist painter, He is known as";Le Poete Parisien de la Peinture" or "the Parisian...
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Pieter Claesz - Still Life with a Salt Shaker [1640]
[Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - Oil on panel, 52.8 x 44 cm]
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Jean-Charles Tardieu - Scene du Marche des Innocents [1814]
Jean-Charles Tardieu (Paris, September 3, 1765 - Paris, April 3, 1830) was a successful French painter. His work was primarily historical, but also included landscapes, portraits and religious...
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Joke Frima - Simulacrum
Joke Frima was born in The Hague in 1952 and currently lives and works in France. Although she attended two art schools in The Netherlands, Frima had to go to Florence to find the kind of training she...
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Arthur von Ferraris - Captive Audience, Cairo [1891]
[Sold for £469,250 at Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 61 cm]
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Armand Schönberger - Self Portrait, with His Daughter Vera [1928]
Armand Schönberger (Galgóc, 1885 - Budapest, 1974) was a Hungarian painter. The highlight of Schönberger artistry came in the late 1920s and early 1930s. This period was characterised not only by the...
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Jan Lievens - The Young Draftsman [c.1630]
The Young Draftsman is an early work by Jan Lievens. Until 1631, while they were both still living in Leiden, Lievens was the colleague and great rival of Rembrandt. The two served apprenticeships...
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Pieter de Hooch - A Man Smoking and a Woman Drinking in a Courtyard [c.1658-60]
[Mauritshuis, The Hague - Oil on canvas, 78 x 65 cm]
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Pieter Codde - Merry Company with Masked Dancers [1636]
Pieter Codde was known for his skill at rendering interior subjects such as soldiers in guardrooms, merry companies, tavern scenes, and other subjects, Codde was a leading practitioner of such scenes...
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Gerard van Honthorst - Allegory of Painting [1648]
In this painting, Van Honthorst conflates allegory and portraiture. The female sitter uses the tools of the trade, brushes, palette, and mahlstick, to finish the fictive canvas bearing a portrait....
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