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David Teniers the Younger - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery in...
Among the elements often found in views of picture galleries are the paintings propped up in the foreground and the opening of the perspective to the rear, sometimes through a door or, as here, through...
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Thomas Le Clear - Amory Sibley Carhart [c.1860-65]
Thomas Le Clear (Owego, New York, March 17, 1818 - Rutherford Park, New Jersey, November 26, 1882) was an American painter. He began to follow art professionally before he had had any instruction, and...
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Paul Klee - The Barbed Noose with the Mice [1923]
[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Watercolour and gouache on paper, bordered with gouache, mounted on cardboard, 22.9 x 30.8 cm]
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Florent Willems - The Important Response
A lady in early 17th-century attire is seated at a table pondering a letter she is writing. In the background is a high Japanese screen. The artist has lavished great care in the rendering of the...
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Marten van Heeskerck - Woman sitting at Her Spinning Wheel [1529]
Marten van Heeskerck (Heemskerk, June 1, 1498 - Haarlem, October 1, 1574) was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and...
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William Bouguereau - Biblis
In Greek mythology, Biblis, daughter of Miletus, fell in love with her twin brother, Caunus. Though she realised that her feelings were taboo, she could not help but try to woo him and sent him a...
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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida - Jaime Garcia Banus [1892]
[Museo Nacional del Prado - Oil on canvas, 85.5 x 110 cm]
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Henri Rousseau - La Seine à Suresnes
Rousseau painted this moonlit landscape in Suresnes, a suburb west of Paris just beyond Puteaux which would later become the epicentre of the Salon Cubists. The artist angles the composition towards...
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Vilhelm Hammershøi - Interior [1890]
Interior, with its bright light and breezy atmosphere, exudes a certain playfulness and joie de vivre, reflective of Hammershøi's personal happiness and professional success at the time. By 1890, his...
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Mariano Fortuny Marsal - Old Man Naked in the Sun [c.1871]
[Museo Nacional del Prado - Oil on canvas, 76 x 60 cm]
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Vincent van Gogh - Piles of French Novels [1888]
This picture is a study for a slightly larger work which Van Gogh named Romans Parisiens (Parisian Novels). Vincent was an admirer of such French Naturalist writers as Emile Zola and Guy de Maupassant....
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Edgar Degas - Musicians in the Orchestra [1872]
[Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt - Oil on canvas]
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Jean Duplessis-Bertaux - The Storming of the Tuileries on August 10, 1792 [1793]
On August 10, 1792, during the French Revolution, revolutionary Fédéré militias, with the backing of a new municipal government of Paris that came to be known as the “insurrectionary" Paris Commune and...
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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps - The Suicide [c.1836]
The palette, pistol, and note lying on the floor suggest the tragic sequence of events that has taken place. An artist overcome by adversity has taken his life. Although no particular victim is...
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Pedro Américo - Hamlet’s Vision [1893]
Pedro Américo (Areia, April 29, 1843 - Florence, October 7, 1905) was one of the most important academic painters of Brazil. [Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo - Oil on canvas, 95 x 170 cm]
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