Tag: Léon François Comerre
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Léon François Comerre’s Egg Seller, with Footnotes. #138
Léon François Comerre (10 October 1850 – 20 February 1916) was a French academic painter, famous for his portraits of beautiful women. Comerre was born in Trélon, in the Département du Nord, the son of a schoolteacher. He moved to Lille with his family in 1853. From an early age he showed an interest in art and…
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13 Paintings, The amorous game, With Footnotes, #3
Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings. Vermeer…
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07 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #15
Ismail Gulgee, 1926 – 2007, PAKISTANI UNTITLED (DANCING WOMAN), c. 1967 Oil on canvas 120 by 90 cm.; 47 1/4 by 35 3/8 in. Private collection This large-scale work of a dancing woman is an excellent example of Ismail Gulgee’s early painterly style, highlighting the artist’s sensitive treatment of colour. The rendition of the jewellery…
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08 Orientalist Paintings by Artists from the 19th Century, with footnotes, 18
Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter,1844 – 1913 Scheherazade Oil on canvas Height: 151 cm (59.45 in.), Width: 211.5 cm (83.27 in.) Private collection Scheherazade is a character and the storyteller in One Thousand and One Nights. This book includes the tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba and many more. The story goes that Shahryar found out one day…