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The Musicians or Concert of Youths (c. 1595) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). [1] The work was commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who had an avid interest in music. [2]
It shows a group of people playing croquet, a very fashionable game at that time. The group comprises the painter Alfred Stevens, artists' models Victorine Meurent and Alice Lecouvé and, in the background, Manet's friend Paul Roudier. [1] This painting was bought by the impressionist art collector Albert Hecht.
This painting, mentioned for the first time by Karel van Mander in 1604, was acquired in 1594 by Archduke Ernest of Austria. It was suggested that it was the first in a projected series of paintings representing the Ages of Man, in which Children's Games would have stood for Youth. If that was Bruegel's intention, it is unlikely that the series ...
A painting by one of the Le Nain brothers, hung in an Aix-en-Provence museum near the artist's home, depicts card players and is widely cited as an inspiration for the works by Cézanne. [6] [7] The models for the paintings were local farmhands, some of whom worked on the Cézanne family estate, the Jas de Bouffan. [6]
The piece was in some way influenced by Rubens and starkly contrasts with Delacroix's violent Tiger Hunt, though both (and other Delacroix paintings in this subject) capture the ferocity and tenderness that these animals are capable of: [4] two different works showing a duality of behavior.
Although best known for playing James Bond and starring in other classics, Brosnan began pursuing the visual arts as a young boy living in Ireland. Pierce Brosnan unveils deeply personal paintings ...
The Lute Player is an oil-on-canvas painting from 1623 or 1624 now in the Louvre by the Haarlem painter Frans Hals, showing a smiling actor wearing a jester's costume and playing a lute. This painting was documented by Wilhelm von Bode in 1883, Ernst Wilhelm Moes in 1909 and Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote: 98. A FOOL WITH A MANDOLINE. B ...
Game of Bowls is a 1908 painting by the French artist Henri Matisse. The painting shows three young men, probably Matisse's sons and nephew, playing a game of boules . Matisse sees the game as a manifestation of man's creativity, and an instrument to use in understanding the codes of life.