Tag: portrait
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November 03, 2009 05:38 AM EST --
Job. 1896. Color lithograph. 66.7 x 46.4 cm.
Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha (1860-1939) was a prolific Moravian painter of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries and a key figure in the Art Nouveau movement. . . .
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November 04, 2009 04:15 AM EST --
Portrait of the Actress Juditta Pasta as Anne Boleyn. 1834. Oil on canvas. The Theater Museum "La Scala", Milano, Italy.
Karl Pavlovich Brulloff (also rendered Briullov, although he himself used the . . .
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October 28, 2009 02:36 PM EDT --
I have decided to show some as they show up durring the day when I am working. This is acually the second one
Portrait of O. P. Ferzen on a Donkeyback. 1835. Watercolor on paper. The Tretyakov Gallery, . . .
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November 01, 2009 04:46 AM EST --
A Turkish Girl. 1837-1838. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Karl Pavlovich Brulloff (also rendered Briullov, although he himself used the "Bruloff" spelling) was a Russian painter . . .
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July 10, 2009 05:53 AM EDT --
Aleksey Petrovich Antropov was born in 1716 into the family of a soldier. His inclination for art was revealed early. He studied painting under Andrey Matveev and Ivan Vishnyakov. Since the 1740s he took . . .
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July 15, 2009 04:29 AM EDT --
Half-Naked Woman Bending Over. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France.
François Boucher was born in the autumn of 1703, Rue de la Verrerie, 11th district of Paris, into the family of a modest . . .
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July 20, 2009 06:48 AM EDT --
Sunday. 1889. Oil on canvas. The Novgorod Art and History Museum, Novgorod, Russia
Andrey Petrovich Ryabushkin encountered far more trials and hardships than joys in his short life. Very modest, . . .
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July 23, 2009 04:12 AM EDT --
The artist Valentin Alexandrovich Serov was born into the family of a famous Russian composer Alexander Serov. In 1871 his father died, and in 1872-73 the little boy with his widowed mother, née . . .
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July 24, 2009 06:01 AM EDT --
The Blue Bower. 1865. Oil on canvas. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti is an English poet, painter and translator. He was born to . . .
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July 28, 2009 06:19 AM EDT --
Portrait of the Artist Grigory Myasoyedov. 1872. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy is an outstanding representative of the democratic culture in Russia . . .
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August 04, 2009 05:30 AM EDT --
Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary. 1877. Oil on canvas. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges and brought up in Paris, where his father, a tailor . . .
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August 05, 2009 06:56 AM EDT --
Portrait of Marguerite-Charlotte David. 1813. Oil on canvas. 72 x 63 cm. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
Jacques-Louis David was born into the family of a wealthy Parisian merchant . . .
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August 06, 2009 05:47 AM EDT --
La Belle Epicière. 1918. Oil on canvas. 100 x 65 cm. Private collection.
Amedeo Modigliani, one of the most popular artists of the 20th century, was born on July 12, 1884 into the family of Flaminio . . .
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August 09, 2009 06:14 AM EDT --
Red Jew. 1915. Oil on cardbord. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was a Russian-Jewish painter of the 20th Century and one of the best known representatives of the . . .
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August 15, 2009 04:14 AM EDT --
Woman of Algiers. 1870. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges and brought up in Paris, where his father, a tailor with a large family, . . .
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August 16, 2009 07:20 AM EDT --
Girl at the Piano (Overture to Tannhäuser). Portrait of the Artist's Sister and Mother. c. 1868-69. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Paul Cézanne was born into a family . . .
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August 20, 2009 05:40 AM EDT --
The Visit (Two Sisters). 1902. Oil on canvas pasted on panel. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 to Don José Ruiz Blasco (1838-1939) and Doña . . .
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August 21, 2009 06:22 AM EDT --
Portrait of N. F. Matveyeva. 1909. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Kharkov, Ukraine.
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov was born in Krasnoyarsk into a family of Siberian Cossacks, whose ancestors came to . . .
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September 08, 2009 05:54 AM EDT --
Salome Paraphrase. 1894-98. Watercolor, ink and pencil. 46 x 32.6 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway.
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a turn-of-the-century Norwegian artist, best known for his extremely personal . . .
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September 13, 2009 06:21 AM EDT --
Portrait of a Young Girl. c. 1645. Oil on panel. Private collection.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born on 15th July, 1606, in Leiden, the eighth of nine children of Harmen Gerritszoon van . . .
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