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View ArticleRembrandt - Man with the Golden Helmet [c.1650]
Rembrandt's portrait was particularly admired by the generation of Impressionist painters as a model example of their own view of art. It has lost none of its popularity, despite commercial...
View ArticleRembrandt - The Parable of the Rich Man [1627]
The painting, known as The Money-Changer, is also interpreted as the allegory of miserliness. Rembrandt's work is imbued with certain qualities we can call Caravaggesque even if they are not directly...
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View ArticleAuguste Couder - Le Serment du Jeu de Paume, June 20, 1789 [1848]
Auguste Couder (Paris, April 1, 1790 - Paris, July 21, 1873) was a French painter. He joined the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1839 and was an officer of the Légion d'Honneur. He married Cornélie Stouf,...
View ArticleEugene Boudin - Laundresses by a Stream [c.1885-90]
Although Boudin is best known for his depiction of the seascapes and fashionable crowds on the beaches of Normandy, he was a prolific artist who tackled a variety of subjects including scenes of...
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View ArticleAdolph Menzel - Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclopes) [1872 -75]
[Alte und Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas, 158 x 254 cm]
View ArticleAdolph Menzel - Art William I Departs for the Front on July 31, 1870 [1871]
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870 (July 19, 1870 – May 10, 1871), was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the German states of the...
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View ArticleJan Steen - The Life of Man [c.1665]
The curtain is lifted to give us a clear view of an inn, where young and old are enjoying eating, drinking, playing and flirting. But for Jan Steen, it was not just about cheerful conviviality. His...
View ArticleLeon Lhermitte - Les Halles [1895]
[Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris - Oil on canvas, 404 x 635 cm]
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View ArticleVincent van Gogh - Long Grass with Butterflies [1890]
Van Gogh was a patient at the asylum at St-Rémy, near Arles, from May 1889 to May 1890. During this time he was restricted to working in the asylum's grounds, and shortly after his arrival he described...
View ArticleCamille Pissarro - The Louvre Under Snow [1902]
This is one of a series of views painted by Pissarro from the apartment he took in 1900 at 28 Place Dauphine on the Ile-de-la-Cité in Paris. Here he is looking west along the River Seine. The...
View ArticleCarl Spitzweg - The Poor Poet [1837]
Carl Spitzweg (Unterpfaffenhofen, February 5, 1808 - Munich, September 23, 1885) was a German painter and poet. Spitzweg was self-taught as an artist, starting out by copying the works of Flemish...
View ArticleCaspar David Friedrich - The Monk by the Sea [1808-10]
A single figure, dressed in a long garment and with his chin on one hand, stands on a low dune sprinkled with grass. The figure, usually identified as a monk, has turned almost completely away from the...
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View ArticleCornelis de Vos - Magdalena and Jean-Baptist de Vos, the Children of the...
Cornelis de Vos (Huist, 1584 - Antwerp, May 9, 1651) was a Flemish Baroque painter best known for his portraiture. De Vos was most successful as a painter of individual and group portraits in which he...
View ArticleJudith Leyster - Man Offering Money to a Young Woman [1631]
This painting is by one of the few women painters of the seventeenth century, Judith Leyster. By the light of an oil lamp, a young woman is bowed over her needlework, with her feet on a foot warmer. A...
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