Tag: PORTRAIT OF A LADY
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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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03 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #20
Konstantin Korovin, (1861–1939) Portrait of Vera Fokina Oil on canvas 82 × 66 cm (32.3 × 26 in) Private collection Fokina, Vera (1886–1958), a Russian ballerina. Born Vera Petrovna in 1886; died in New York on July 29, 1958; graduated from the St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1904; married Michel Fokine, in 1905 (died 1942); children:…
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05 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #17
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, (1606–1669) Portrait of a Young Woman (Magdalena van Loo?), 1665 Oil on canvas Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Titus van Rijn was born in Amsterdam on September 22, 1641, the fourth child of the famed artist Rembrandt van Rijn and his wife Saskia van Uylenburgh. In 1668, Titus married Magdalena van Loo…
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05 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #16
John Duncan Fergusson, R.B.A. 1874–1961 In the Patio: Margaret Morris Fergusson Oil on canvas 71 x 61 cm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art This is a portrait of the artist’s wife Margaret Morris (1891-1980), an influential innovator in modern dance and an accomplished artist in her own right. She studied dance in Paris and by 1910…
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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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12 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #11
Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova, (1884-1967), Self portrait, c. 1921 Private collection Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova, (1884-1967), was a Modernist Russian painter, and was one of the best known and most highly regarded of her time. She was the daughter of the sculptor Evgenii Lanceray and was said to have been raised in an environment that helped to foster a…
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12 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. # 24
Pedro Sáenz y Sáenz Chrysanthemums/ Madame Butterfly, ca. 1900 Oil on canvas 81 x 55 cm Propiedad de la Excma. Diputación Provincial de Málaga Madame Butterfly: In 1904, a U.S. naval officer named Pinkerton rents a house on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan, for himself and his soon-to-be wife, “Butterfly”. Her real name is Ciocio-san. She is…
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