Tag: painting
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July 07, 2009 04:37 AM EDT --
Women Going to the Woods. 1866. Oil on canvas. Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Alfred Sisley was born in Paris on 30th October 1839 into the family of a well-to-do English businessman William Sisley . . .
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May 18, 2007 04:06 PM EDT --
Yesterday I went to the Duluth Art Institute for the opening reception of an exhibit of paintings by Ann Jenkins. Glorious, wonderful paintings.
But I also got to talk . . .
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May 12, 2009 05:25 AM EDT --
Richard Parkes Bonington - View of the Lagoon near Venice. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
Bonington was born in 1802 near Nottingham, England. In about 1817, his family . . .
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June 05, 2009 06:10 AM EDT --
Claude Monet - La Rue de la Bavolle in Honfleur . 1864. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA.
Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14, 1840 but all his impressions . . .
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June 06, 2009 05:35 AM EDT --
Edgar Degas - Ballet Scene. c.1878-80. Pastel on monotype. Whereabouts unknown.
Edgar Degas was born into the family of bankers of aristocratic extraction. His mother died in 1847, so . . .
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March 20, 2009 09:12 AM EDT --
Portrait of Countess Yu. P. Samoilova and Her Ward Amacilia Pacini Leaving a Ball. Not later than 1842. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St-Petersburg, Russia.
Countess Yulia Samoilova (née Palen, . . .
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March 25, 2009 02:14 AM EDT --
Anthony van Dyck. Equestrian Portrait of Charles I, King of England. 1638. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London, UK.
Charles I (1600-1649) king of Great Britain and Ireland, second son . . .
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April 24, 2009 07:51 AM EDT --
Bernardo Bellotto - View of Verona and the River Adige from the Ponte Nuovo. 1747-48. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, Germany.
Bellotto had enormous success and his . . .
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April 26, 2009 05:51 AM EDT --
Edouard Vuillard - Self-Portrait. c. 1889. 24.5 x 19 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
Édouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux . . .
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April 28, 2009 07:28 AM EDT --
Ivan Nikitin - Portrait of Baron S. G. Stroganoff. 1726. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Stroganoff (also Stroganov), Sergei Grigorievich (1707-1758), . . .
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May 09, 2009 04:42 AM EDT --
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon - The Return from Market 1739 (30 Kb); Louvre
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon (1699-1779). French painter, one of the greatest of the . . .
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May 11, 2009 06:42 AM EDT --
Edouard Manet - Luncheon on the Grass; Musee d'Orsay; Oil on canvas, 81 x 101 cm
Manet, Edouard (b. Jan. 23, 1832, Paris, France--d. April 30, 1883, Paris) French painter and printmaker who in . . .
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May 15, 2009 05:31 AM EDT --
Jean-Honoré Fragonard - The New Model. 1760s. Oil on canvas. 34 x 65 cm. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, France.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (called "the Amiable Frago" by . . .
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May 16, 2009 06:14 AM EDT --
Edouard Manet - Roses and Tulips in a Vase . c.1882. Oil on canvas. Foundation E.G. Bührle collection, Zurich, Switzerland.
Edouard Manet was born on January 23, 1832 in Paris . . .
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May 20, 2009 06:13 AM EDT --
Peter Paul Rubens - Landscape with the Château Steen. 1636. Oil on panel. National Gallery, London, UK.
Peter Paul Rubens was born into the family of a Calvinist who had to live in . . .
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March 07, 2009 04:14 AM EST --
Vincent Van Gogh's restless spirit and depressive mental state fired his artistic work with great joy and, sadly, equally great despair.
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March 08, 2009 12:02 PM EDT --
On the Balcony during Carnival, Artist: Mary Cassatt . Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Country of Origin: United States of America.
Bullfights and Balconies: Flirtation and Majismo in . . .
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February 24, 2009 12:23 PM EST --
Meditation
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February 25, 2009 10:33 AM EST --
Slaughtered Ox Rembrandt van Rijn painting
Rembrandt van Rijn's butchered "Carcass of Beef" (also known as the "Flayed Ox"), 37 x 27, hangs, skinned in a dark shed, dominating . . .
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May 04, 2009 08:39 PM EDT --
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov - Reedpipe. 1931. Oil on cardboard. The Saratov Art Museum, Saratov, Russia.
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov was born into the family of a merchant . . .
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