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Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt - Cattle [1794]
This is a typical example of Schweickhardt's work in the manner of Cuyp and Potter. It may be the painting entitled Cattle, exhibited by the artist at the Royal Academy in 1794. Schweickhardt (or...
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Caravaggio - The Fortune Teller [c.1594]
This painting exists in two versions, the first from 1594 (now in the Musei Capitolini in Rome), the second from 1595 (which is in the Louvre, Paris). The dates in both cases are disputed. The painting...
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Claes Hals - Girl Reading [c.1660]
[Mauritshuis, The Hague - Oil on panel, 30.8 x 24 cm]
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Aelbert Cuyp - A Landscape with Horseman, Herders and Cattle [c.1655-60]
The figures and animals in the foreground are silhouetted against a bright sunny sky. The panoramic vista that stretches before them is inspired by the landscape between Nijmegen and Cleves in the...
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Luis Meléndez - Still Life with Figs and Bread [c.1770]
Luis Meléndez (1715 – 1780) is now recognised as the premier still-life painter in 18th-century Spain, indeed one of the greatest in all of Europe, though his reputation had long been eclipsed by the...
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Roberto Bompiani - A Roman Feast [c.1887]
Except for the portly man at the table's centre, the figures are quintessential Marble School creatures, physically perfect, with soft, smooth skin as polished as the marble that surrounds them....
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Paul Delaroche - The Young Martyr [1855]
[Musée du Louvre, Paris - Oil on canvas, 171 x 148 cm]
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Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun - Madame d’Aguesseau de Fresnes [1789]
Politics played an important role in the career of Madame Vigée-Lebrun. A painter to Marie Antoinette since 1779, she was elected to the Royal Academy of Painting by the queen's decree in 1783. Her...
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Henri Rousseau - Luxembourg Gardens, Monument to Chopin [1909]
Rousseau's best known paintings depict jungle scenes, even though he never left France or saw a jungle. Stories spread by admirers that his army service included the French expeditionary force to...
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Wilhelm Trübner - Ludgate Hill, London [1884]
Wilhelm Trübner (Heidelberg, February 3, 1851 - Karlsruhe, December 21, 1917) was a German realist painter. The early 1870s were a period of discovery for Trübner. He travelled to Italy, Holland and...
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Saw the pre-op CT scan yesterday and couldn't believe how much damage I'd inflicted upon myself - in contrast, the post-op x-ray showed excellent metalwork and pinning skills - airport alarm systems...
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Gustav Klimt - Nuda Veritas [1899]
[Österreichisches Theatermuseum, Vienna - Oil on canvas, 252 x 55.2 cm]
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Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel - Poldervaart Mill (In the Month of July)...
A windmill in a polder landscape on a hot, sweltering July day. The water of the Poldervaart reflects the sky and the mill. The painter Paul Gabriel (working in Scheveningen) placed the mill in a...
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James Jebusa Shannon - The Sevres Vase
James Jebusa Shannon (Auburn, New York, 1862 - London, 1923) was an Anglo-American artist. When he was sixteen, he went to England, where he studied at South Kensington, and after three years won the...
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Vincent van Gogh - The Flowering Orchard [1888]
This painting belongs to a series of fourteen blossoming orchards that Van Gogh painted in spring 1888, shortly after his arrival in Arles, the Provençal town in the south of France where he worked...
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Camille Corot - Houses near Orleans [c.1830]
A countryside path cuts across a mustard-yellow field and slopes downward toward a small village. Under a cloudless sky, crisp, strong sunlight brightens a zigzag row of roofs and chimneys. Contrasting...
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Paul Wagner - Trost in Leid
Paul Wagner (1852 - 1937) was a German artist.[Bukowski’s Auctions, Stockholm - Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 84 cm]
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