“But whom to love? To trust and treasure? Who won’t betray us in the end? And who’ll be kind enough to measure Our words and deeds as we intend?” — Alexander Pushkin,...
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Dennis Perrin’s (1950—2021) Impressionist style works are done fully from life and express his love of beauty in the figures, in the landscape or flowers. He painted...
Jean Ranc (1674—1735) was a French Baroque painter known for his court portraits. At the behest of Philip V of Spain, he traveled to Madrid in 1722 to make various...
Kazimierz Mordasewicz (1859—1923) was born in Minsk. As a young man he pursued a militry career. He then began an artistic career entering the Warsaw School of Drawing...
“Come back... even as a shadow, even as a dream...” — Euripides. Parker Hagarty, Grief, 19th century, Private collection. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
A painter of still-lifes, portraits, and genre scenes, William J. McCloskey (1859—1941) was an important figure in California’s early art scene and best known for...
This painting illustrates a scene from Goethe’s Faust. Specifically, the moment when Margaret finds a jewelry box in her bedroom closet. Mephistopheles gave it to Faust...
Gustav Pope (1831—1910) was a British Victorian painter of Austrian origin. After his migration from Austria, he entered the country’s artistic scene through the...
Lauded for his dazzling brushwork and ability to capture the likeness of the subject, American artist Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861—1948) became the artist of choice for a...
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” — Émile Zola. Tuke Henry Scott, Miss Muriel Lubbock, 1898,...
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“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” — Nicole Krauss, The History of Love....
This painting is one of the finest examples of Rafael Tegeo’s qualities as a portrait painter, although the landscape in the background recalls his work in other...
A lady of the Parrella family, she belonged to the circle of friends of Federico de Madrazo, who would portray various of its members. Elisa y Tapia Parrella was married...
The portrait of Rafaela Flores Calderón is part of an anthology of Spanish Romantic child portraits. Rafaela leans on a large empty cage while an African Grey Parrot...
Federico de Madrazo (1815—1894) interprets the elegance and refinement of the French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres with a personality of his own, especially in...
«She is wonderful and of a living! But she not only speaks—she winks—and the philistine will find her vulgar.» — wrote about this portrait Henry James. The painting...
The artist, who charged seven thousand pesetas for the portrait, included it in his important personal exhibition at the Georges Petit gallery in Paris in 1906 and two...
François Flameng (1856—1923) was a successful society portraitist who received commissions in Paris, London, St. Petersburg and New York. François Flameng, Portrait of a...
In ‘Arranging the Bouquet’, the artist Fernand Toussaint (1873—1963) fused the crosscurrents of French Modernism and Post Impressionism with the Academic portraiture of...
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