Category: Portrate of a Lady
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #30
Henry Campotosto, (Belgian, 1833-1910) Mother and child, c. 1908 Oil on panel 80 x 114cm (31 1/2 x 44 7/8in). Private collection Henry Campotosto (Belgian, 1833-1910) was a British, painter and draughtsman. He was also known for his genre paintings. Early in his career he lived in Brussels. By 1882 he moved to London. He remained…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #30
Pat Dumez, Netherlands Le regard de ma mère/ The look of my mother Acrylic on Canvas. 23.6 H x 31.5 W x 0.8 in Private collection Pat Dumez: My painting? it is the expression of feelings through portraits of women that we can recognize. In the shortcut fleeting gesture, emotional memories, in light of our fast lives. A…
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01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 16
Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger, (FRENCH 1824 – 1888) Aristocratic ladies promenading at the city walls, c. 1869 Oil on canvas 73 x 50cm Private collection Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (25 April 1824 – October 1888) was a French figure painter known for his classical and Orientalist subjects. He was born at Paris in 1824, and orphaned at age…
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05 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hélène Vary and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, with Footnotes. # 19
During the seven years that Toulouse-Lautrec lived on rue Fontaine, in the company of Dr. Bourges, he felt a special admiration for his neighbor Hélène Vary. Henri photographed her several times to take these snapshots as a model of her works. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864 – 1901 Hélène Vary, c. 1888 Oil on wood 75 x…
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38 Artists Embedded with Joan of Arc’s Military Campaign, (c. 1412–1431), With Footnotes
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc) has inspired artistic and cultural works for nearly six centuries. The following works cover various media to include items of historic interest, enduring works of high art, and recent representations in popular culture. They represent portrayals that a reader has a reasonable chance of encountering rather than a complete catalog.…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #29
George Da Maduro Peixotto, American, 1858-1937 Portrait of Marie-Aimee Roger-Miclos, Pianist, 1893 Oil on canvas 57 1/8 x 74 inches (145 x 188 cm) Private collection Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos ( Toulouse , 1860 – 1950 ) was a great French pianist. She studied piano at the Conservatory of her hometown and in Paris , earning a first prize in…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #29
Jean-Pierre Cassigneul, (b. 1935) Cavalier au bois, c. 1983 Original lithograph on paper 21in. by 29in. Private Collection Jean-Pierre Cassigneul is a French artist who continues the decorative traditions of the early 20th century artists Bonnard and Vuillard. He paints fairly flatly rendered colorful women with stylized classical, dramatic features with large, stylized eyes, who often wear…
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Saturday, March 3, 2018 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #28
Steven Assael, b. 1957, New York Woman with Knitting Needle Oil on Canvas 18 1/2 in. H x 14 1/2 in. W Private collection Steven Assael paints modern-day figures in haunting, quietly psychological portraits. A leader in contemporary figurative painting, Assael works exclusively from live models, fusing his modern subjects—goths and teens, men and women in…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #22
Sir John Everett Millais, Bt 1829–1896 Mariana, c. 1851 Oil paint on mahogany 597 x 495 x 15 mm Tate Rejected by her fiancé, Angelo, after her dowry was lost in a shipwreck, Mariana leads a lonely existence in a moated grange. She is still in love with Angelo – now Deputy to the Duke of Vienna…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #26
Mimmo Frassineti, Italy Marlene Dietrich Acrylic, Ink and Paper on Canvas 23.6 H x 15.7 W x 0.8 in Private collection Marie Magdalene “Marlene” Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship. Throughout her long career, (which spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s)…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #25
Giovanni Boldini, (1842–1931) Luisa Casati, (1881-1957), c. 1908 Oil on canvas Private collection Over the centuries, many powerful monarchs, eccentric aristocrats and fabulously wealthy burghers have commissioned portraits of themselves, arrayed in all their finery, standing, life-size and full-length. This prestigious format was primarily reserved for monarchs and members of the aristocracy. It was not until…
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06 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Cecilia Green and Sir William Russell Flint, , with Footnotes. # 25
Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S., 1880-1969 CECILIA INSPECTING HER ARTIST’S HANDIWORK Model: Cecilia Green Watercolour 25 by 36 cm., 10 by 14 in. Private collection Signed l.l.: W. RUSSELL FLINT-; further signed and inscribed on the backboard: Cecilia Inspecting her Artist’s Handiwork/ by Sir William Russell Flint. R.A./ This little picture is for Cecilia’s own dear…
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04 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #20
John Wesley Jarvis, (American, 1780-1838) Maria Holmes, American 1780-1834) Oil on canvas 28 1/4″ x 24 1/4″ Private collection The subject is depicted in a black dress with lace shawl, her body angled slightly to her right, with part of a red painted chair visible behind her. Mary Jane Holmes (April 5, 1825 – October…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #24
Richard Avedon, (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) Veruschka von Lehndorff, 1966 Countess Vera von Lehndorff-Steinort (born 14 May 1939), also known as Veruschka von Lehndorff, is a German model, actress, and artist who was popular during the 1960s. She is known professionally as Veruschka. Veruschka was born Vera Gottliebe Anna Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort on…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #23
Marco Battaglini, Costa Rica God Save The Queen Oil on canvas Size: 51.2 H x 41.3 W x 0 in Private collection Through an interplay of multiple realities overlapping in the chronotope, Battaglini evidences the contradictions in mental models about the temporal contrast (chronological), and the cultural and linguistic barriers. Battaglini invites us to think that…
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04 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #19
Jean-Joseph Benjamin Constant, French, 1845-1902 Lady with a Jewel Box (Prima Donna Marguerite in “Jewel Song” of Gounod’s ‘Faust’ Oil on canvas 38 3/4 x 24 1/4 inches (98.5 x 61.5 cm) Private collection Marguerite Bériza (1880 – 1970) was a French opera singer who had an active international career during the first half of the 20th…
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05 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #24
Franz Xaver Winterhalter, (1805-1873), German Elisabeth Kaiserin von Österreich, c. 1865 Oil painting on canvas 117 × 158 cm (46.1 × 62.2 in) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria Elisabeth of Bavaria (24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898) was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, and many others (see Grand title of the Empress of Austria) by…
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09 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Raphael’s muse Margarita Luti, Part 1, with Footnotes. #22
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci,…
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07 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #20
John Singer Sargent, 1856 – 1925 A Fellah Woman Oil on canvas 22 x 18 in Private collection Fellah is a farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa. The word derives from the Arabic word for “ploughman” or “tiller”. Due to a continuity in beliefs and lifestyle, the fellahin of Egypt have…
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06 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #19
Jules Joseph Lefebvre, 1836 – 1912 FATIMA, c. 1883 Oil on canvas 21 3/4 by 18 in., 55.2 by 45.7 cm Private collection Jules Joseph Lefebvre (14 March 1834 – 24 February 1912) was a French figure painter, educator and theorist. Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, on 14 March 1834. He entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts…
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