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Wang Huaiqing - Wordless Encounter [1992]
In this painting, silence trumps sound. The subjects in the painting, it appears, have seen their share of the rhythms and cycles of life, and now, in the stillness, they slowly recall their days. When...
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Cheong Soo Pieng - Lady by the Lake [1980]
This painting portrays a woman seated in the foreground of a landscape that recedes into the backdrop. Soo Pieng’s brilliant use of linear perspective, influenced by principles of Western art, provides...
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Velázquez - The Communion [1855]
[Bilbao Fine Arts Museum - Oil on copper, 26.5 x 39.7 cm]
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David Teniers - Company at the Meal
Two thousand paintings are thought to have been painted by Teniers. Smith's Catalogue Raisonné gives descriptions of over 900 paintings accepted as original productions of Teniers. Few artists ever...
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Gerard ter Borch - The Concert [c.1675]
In contrast to Pieter de Hooch, Ter Borch maintains his fine taste and craftsmanship in his genre pieces until the very end. His contact with Vermeer in Delft in 1635 may have had an impact on the...
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Comtesse de la Châtre [1789]
When this portrait was painted in 1789, the sitter, daughter of Louis XV's "premier valet de chambre," was the wife of the comte de la Châtre. She later married François Arnail de Jaucourt. For daily...
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Jan Brueghel the Elder - The Conversion of Saul [1567]
[Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna - Oil on panel, 108 x 156 cm]
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Corner of the Moulin de la Galette [1892]
[National Gallery of Art, Washington - Oil on cardboard, 100 x 89.2 cm]
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William Holman Hunt - Cornfield at Ewell [1849]
An inscription on the label on the back of this sketch suggests that it was made on a farm owned by William Holman Hunt’s uncle in Ewell in Surrey. It also tells us that it was probably made outdoors...
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Vincent van Gogh - Cottages [1890]
The painting was executed in Auvers not long before van Gogh's death. He repeated the motif of peasant juts on many occasions: "In my opinion, the most marvellous of all that I know in the sphere of...
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Paul Henry - Cottages, West of Ireland [1928-30]
Henry (1876 - 1958) studied in Belfast and Paris, and then in Whistler’s studio. He admired Millet, Van Gogh, Cézanne and Whistler, and these traces are evident in his work. This painting is possibly...
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Andrea Vaccaro - The Crucifixion
Andrea Vaccaro (Naples, May 8, 1600 - January 18, 1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. His initial paintings soon after 1620 show the influence of Caravaggio and his Neapolitan...
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Alberto Pasini - Damascus [1880]
From 1848-71, Alberto Pasini (Italian, 1826 – 1899) resided in Paris and found inspiration in the atmospheric North African views of Eugène Fromentin. In 1855, he accompanied a French diplomatic...
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