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Jacob de Backer - Paris Being Admitted to the Bedchamber of Helen
When Rembrandt van Rijn settled in Amsterdam in about 1631, students flocked to him; participation in his workshop seemed to assure success. Following that pattern, Jacob Backer (1608 - 1651) studied...
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Thomas Eakins - The Pair-Oared Shell [1872]
Eakins was an oarsman himself, and when he returned from his studies in Paris in 1870 he began a series of paintings on the modern sport of rowing. In 1872, he befriended the celebrated John and...
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Gino Severini - Plastic Synthesis of the Idea of War [1915]
Severini did not take part in the fighting but, in 1914 and 1915, he attempted to paint it from the experiences of the French Cubists and the Italian Futurists, of which he was a leading exponent. To...
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Georges de La Tour - The Pea Eaters [c.1620]
[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas, 74 x 87 cm]
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Hans Holbein - Portrait of a Man with Lute [c.1533-36]
[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Oil and tempera on oak, 43.5 x 43.5 cm]
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Christian Gottlieb Schick - Portrait of Heinrike Dannecker [1802]
Christian Gottlieb Schick (Stuttgart, August 15, 1776 - May 7, 1812) was a German Neoclassical painter. Between 1802 and 1811 he stayed in Rome, and became an important figure in that city's artistic...
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Gustave Caillebotte - Portraits in the Countryside [1876]
[Musée Baron Gérard, Bayeux - Oil on canvas, 95 x 111 cm]
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Bernardus Johannes Blommers - Preparing the Fish (De Speetster)
Bernardus Johannes Blommers (The Hague, January 30, 1845 - The Hague, December 12, 1914) was a Dutch etcher and painter. His early paintings were mostly genre works depicting fishermen and their wives,...
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Quentin Massys - The Purchase Contract
If anyone has further information about this paintings I would be glad to receive it. [Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Oil on panel]
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Alphonse Mucha - Princess Hyacinth [1911]
Oskar Nedbal's ballet-pantomime, Princess Hyacinth, premiered in 1911 at the National Theatre, Prague, with libretto by Ladislav Novák. Mucha's poster advertising the performance features the portrait...
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir [1892] The Reading
[Musée du Louvre, Paris - Oil on canvas, 55 x 65.5 cm]
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Alfred Sisley - River Banks of Saint-Mammes [1884]
Much of Sisley's work depicts the area around the Ile-de-France, as in this view of the banks of the river at Saint-Mammes. The gentle landscapes which are characteristic of his work overall reveal a...
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Roman Campagna, with the Claudian Aqueduct...
The sketch is one of the open-air studies produced by Corot during his stay in Rome in 1825-8. Executed in oil on paper, the painting is noteworthy for the freedom and spontaneity of its handling, a...
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Aelbert Cuyp - A River Scene with Distant Windmills [c.1640-42]
Aelbert Cuyp, who was later to develop a personal interpretation of the so-called Dutch Italianate landscape style, began his career as a landscape artist in the near-monochrome manner of Jan van...
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