Category: amorous game
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01 painting, The amorous game, Francesco Vinea’s Serenade in the Tavern, With Footnotes #84
Sold for 20,000 USD in January 2011 Francesco Vinea (Forlì, August 10, 1845 – Florence, October 22, 1902) was an Italian painter, known for his period costume genre subjects. He studied first at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, but had to discontinue his studies due to his poverty, and spent some time traveling without a…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Fountain of Love, With Footnotes #83
The scene depicts love as a natural force and uncontrollable passion, stronger than the people affected by it. This perception of love was still recent around 1785 when Fragonard painted the two versions. While the image of a fountain of love was known, e. g. from Aristotle, the image is Fragonard’s pictorial invention without a…
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01 Photograph The amorous game, Robert Doisneau’s Le Baiser de l’Hôtel de Ville/ The Kiss at City Hall with Footnotes #86
Estimated for €20,000 EUR – €25,000 EUR in June 2011 Doisneau’s photo was not without controversy. Many years later, a couple, Jean and Denise Lavergne, stepped forward to pronounce themselves the lip-locked subjects. Doisneau took the couple to lunch, and not wanting to “shatter their dream,” he let them go on thinking they were indeed…
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01 Work, The amorous game, Abraham Bloemaert’s Amorous Shepherd and Shepherdess, with Footnotes #87
Estimate for 4,000 – 6,000 USD in January 2023Abraham Bloemaert (1566 – 27 January 1651) was a Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and engraving. He was one of the “Haarlem Mannerists” from about 1585, but in the new century altered his style to fit new Baroque trends. He mostly painted history subjects and some landscapes. He…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Henry Guillaume Schlesinger’s Dangerous liaisons, with Footnotes #85
Sold for GBP 13,700 in Jan 2008The present work is a charming example of the subjects favoured by Schlesinger. The scene depicts a group of fashionable figures engaged in narrative interaction surrounding a print. The two ladies turn away in modesty and giggle at its content, while the gentleman leans over them. The elegant interior,…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Antoni Casanova Estorach’s The Center of Attention, with Footnotes #84
Sold for 11,340 USD in January 2023Antonio Casanova y Estorach was a Spanish painter known for his romanticized depictions of everyday scenes or Costumbrismo. He studied under masters such as Federico de Madrazo and Claudio Lorenzale, and he showed great promise at a young age, exhibiting his work at major exhibitions in Madrid and Barcelona beginning at…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Victor Guerrier’s Au café, with Footnotes, #83
Sold for 7 500EUR in Octobre 2017 Victor Guerrier, (French, 1893-1968) was born and trained in Lyon living much of his life at Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or. He began his career as an illustrator but made his name painting Belle Epoque subjects and Parisian life between the wars. Clearly inspired by the work of Impressionist masters…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Jacob Toorenvliet’s seated couple drinking wine, With Footnotes #82
Sold for 8,750 GBP in September 2019 Here, two figures are seated before a stone wall around a wooden table. Behind the male figure at left, who with his left hand reaches for the chin of the female beside him and raises a glass in his right, is an evening vista. Great detail has been used…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Friedrich Sturm’s Paolo and Francesca, With Footnotes #83
Sold for 6,300 EUR in November 2022 In the late eighteenth century, a romantic admiration for Dante spread throughout Europe and a whole generation of artists was inspired by his writings. Sturm, like artists such as Ingres before him, chose to illustrate the theme of the famous Canto V of Dante’s Inferno, which relates the last…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Jacob Toorenvliet’s Inequal love, With Footnotes #83
Sold for 5,040 EUR in November 2022 The painting shows the theme of the ill-matched couple, a popular theme in the arts of the period, though generally the one making the proposition is a man to a courtesan, not a woman to a man. The theme generally shows the man offering the woman a ring in…
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02 Paintings, The amorous game, Odd Nerdrum’s Daddy’s Girl, With Footnotes #80
In this 2014 oil painting Nerdrum returns to the beautiful nude couple of Summer Nights (see below). But now they are aged and decrepit, the woman lay dying across the lap of her grieving partner. Yet at their feet the infant still sleeps… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings, The amorous game, Pieter Breughel the Younger’s Marriage Procession, With Footnotes #81
Flemish wedding processions, as depicted here, publically announced the union of two families before the private, religious ceremony was held at a church. The bride wears her hair down and uncovered except for the wedding headpiece. The groom, wearing a wedding crown atop his bright red cap, is followed by two men, probably the fathers…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Hugh Goldwin Riviere’s Garden of Eden, with Footnotes #97
The Garden of Eden depicts a young couple walking through Kensington Gardens by Lancaster Gate on a rainy day. It is a touching scene of two otherwise insignificant people made significant by the love they bear each other. Their fixed gazes show the depth of their affection that converts, for them, the dreariness of the chilly…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Christoph Gertner’s Mercenary Love, with Footnotes #95
Sold for EUR 46,080.- in November 2022 The subject of matchmaking is a recurrent theme in North European painting. In the present painting the notion of a transaction is implicit and the painting appears to be an allegory of mercenary love. On the table are coins and wine which are emblematic of vice. Christoph Gertner was probably…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Marcus Stone’s Sain et Sauf/ Safe and Sound, with Footnotes, #94
Sold for £4,462.50 22 November 2022 The scene depicts the joyful moment when a French soldier returns home from battle to his beloved wife who is in bed after the birth of their child; hence both husband, wife and newborn are “safe and sound”. Whilst he embraces his wife, his daughter points at her new sibling…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Alexandre Marie Guillemin’s Spinning a yarn, with Footnotes #93
This work was Sold for £1,100 on Nov 22, 2022 Alexandre Marie Guillemin was born in 1817 in Paris. He was a student of the prominent French painter Antoine Jean Gros. Guillemin was especially known as genre artist specializing in the themes from the lives of peasants and petit bourgeois from Brittany to Pyrenees, frequently captured in…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Hafidh Al Droubi’s The Couple, with Footnotes #92
This work sold for GBP 30,240 on3 Nov 2022Hafidh Al Droubi (1914-1991) was an Iraqi painter and draughtsman, noted for his Cubist paintings and for his approach to professionalising Iraqi art education in the early to mid 20th-century. He was a prolific painter, an important artist in the Pioneer generation, a key figure in the development…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Luis Ricardo Falero’s young player with the statue of Pan, with Footnotes, #91
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he is also recognized as the god…
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15 Paintings, The amorous game, by Heribert Potuznik, Alfred Kornberger, Kaiser Leander, Fritz Aigner, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Gustav Klimt, Max Schwimmer, Maurice Chabas and Guillaume Seignac, with footnotes
If you are shot with a mythological arrow by Cupid, the Greek god of love, you may find yourself feeling amorous and have strong feelings of love, especially romantic love… Please follow link for full post
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01 painting, The amorous game, Moses Soyer’s Couple, with Footnotes, #90
Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer married in 1922 to Ida Chassne, a dancer. Together they had one son, David Soyer. Dancers were a recurring subject in his paintings. Soyer studied art in New York with his twin Raphael, first at Cooper Union, and continued his…
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