
Paul Sieffert was born in Paris in 1874. He was an accomplished and highly regarded painter of nudes and portraits. He was student under the renowned French artist and...

Paul Sieffert was born in Paris in 1874. He was an accomplished and highly regarded painter of nudes and portraits. He was student under the renowned French artist and...

Après le déjeuner appears to have been painted in Bougival, where Impressionist artist Berthe Morisot (1841—1895) and her husband Eugène Manet, the brother of the...

When the Nymphéas show finally opened at Durand-Ruel’s gallery in May 1909, it was an unqualified success. Forty-eight views of the lily pond (including this painting)...

“I don’t believe I shall ever leave Giverny.” – Claude Monet. “I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” – Claude Monet. “The richness I achieve comes from nature,...

Ulpiano Checha y Sanz (1860—1916) was born in Colmenar de Oreja in the center of Spain just outside Madrid and studied at the Madrid Academy. At the age of 19 he became...

Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten (1630—1700) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman from North-Holland. Although he started his career in Haarlem, he spent most of...

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning...

Anthony Oberman (1781—1845) was a Dutch 19th century painter. He specialised in flower still-lifes and portraits of horses, for instance commissioned by the Amsterdam...

Anne Vallayer-Coster died in Paris in 1818, age 73, and following the death of her husband six years later, their substantial collection was sold at auction on 21-22...

Аукционы: New York Jewels Online достигает $14.1 Млн! Самая высокая сумма для онлайн-продажи драгоценностей в Christie's. С кольцом из Кашмира с сапфиром и бриллиантами,...

"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down." — Socrates. Nikolai Dubovskoy, Evening Falls, 1916, Private...

Claude Monet's “The Church at Varengeville, Sunset” was painted on the Normandy coast in 1882 and is one of several historic views of this church that he created that...

The majority of Daniel Seghers’s (1590—1661) extant pictures are garland paintings surrounding religious images executed in collaboration with other artists. By...

The floral bouquets arranged in a glass vase like the present picture constitute a high point in Daniel Seghers’s (1590—1661) oeuvre and were especially prized by...

A celebrated painter who spent his career outside of his native Spain, Raimundo de Madrazo y Garetta (1841—1920) acquired an international reputation for his spirited...

“The Blue Bird” was painted by the English artist Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877—1958) at 2 Edwardes Square Studios, a southerly outpost of the artists' colony in Holland...
Flower Maidens by Émile Eisman-Semenowsky (1857–1911).

This painting is available for purchase at Christie’s British & European Art online auction on 15th of July, London @christiesinc Current bid: £2,200. Émile...

Claude Monet “spends 40,000 francs a year on this Garden of Eden.” The garden in Giverny was “the only major luxury that Monet allows himself,” thought Jean Lorrain in...

"Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment." — Claude Monet. Claude Monet, Water Lilies (detail with filter), 1908, Dallas of Art, USA. Source: Pinterest.

Claude Monet’s “Nymphéas” realised $56,495,000 tonight as a top lot in Collection of Anne H. Bass, who was a leading philanthropist and a generous patron of the arts,...

"It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores" — John Keats. Ernst Baillet, Rowing on a Summer Lake, Private collection. ❤️ If you like this post, please support...

A Venetian painter Guglielmo Ciardi (1842—1917) approached his subject in a manner that was wholly different from artists of other nationalities who painted in the city...

As a young boy, Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (1864—1930) was close to his uncle Henri de Chateaubriant, who encouraged his artistic pursuits. His education was traditional...

In early September 1884, during his second year living and painting at Giverny, Claude Monet (1840—1926) took his studio-boat for a short trip upstream on the Seine to...

"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open." — Rose Wilder Lane. Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Les roses d'Ispahan, c....

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." — William Blake. Henry Ryland, Spring...

It has traditionally been assumed that Charles François Lacroix, called Lacroix de Marseille (1700—1782) was a pupil of Claude-Joseph Vernet and that they were evidently...

American Impressionist painter Childe Hassam (1859—1935) was a regular visitor to the Isles of Shoals, nine small, rocky, treeless islands off the New Hampshire coast...

The painting shows Childe Hassam (1859—1935) at the height of his creativity as an American Impressionist. This series portrays the sumptuous wildflower garden...
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