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Harriet Christina Cany Peale (1799 – 12 January 1869) was an American landscape, portrait, and genre painter of the mid-nineteenth century. Although sometimes described as a copyist, a greater share of her oeuvre has been made public in recent years, allowing Cany Peale to earn recognition for her genre and landscape paintings.
The nurse, with her charge, is always a conspicuous figure on the streets of a Russian city. The fantastic garb of coronet and beads constitute one of the most picturesque costumes in Russia; and you can tell by its color whether her charge is a boy or a girl. If a boy, the prevailing color will be blue; if a girl, pink. [38] 1892: USA Philadelphia
Girl Interrupted at Her Music [165] c. 1658–1659 oil on canvas Johannes Vermeer: 1632–1675 Mistress and Maid [166] 1666−1667 oil on canvas Johannes Vermeer: 1632–1675 Officer and Laughing Girl [167] c. 1657 oil on canvas Paolo Veronese: 1528–1588 The Choice Between Virtue and Vice [168] c. 1565 oil on canvas Paolo Veronese: 1528–1588
The Ashcan school was a group of New York City artists who sought to capture the feel of early-20th-century New York City through realistic portraits of everyday life. These artists preferred to depict the richly and culturally textured lower class immigrants, rather than the rich and promising Fifth Avenue socialites.
Of a study that Van Gogh made for Girl in a Wood or Girl in White in the Woods, [10] he remarked at how much he enjoyed the work and explains how he wishes to trigger the audience's senses and how they may experience the painting: "The other study in the wood is of some large green beech trunks on a stretch of ground covered with dry sticks ...
Clothes on the Grass [62] National Gallery, London 092 16.2 × 24.8 More images: 1883 The Seine with Clothing on the Bank [63] National Gallery of Art, Washington. D.C. 093 17.5 × 26.3 More images: 1883 Boy with Horse near Asnières [61] Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh 094 15.9 × 25 More images: 1883 Figure on the banks of the Seine and ...
Nudity in art—painting, sculpture, and more recently photography—has generally reflected social standards of the time in aesthetics and modesty/morality. At all times in human history, the human body has been one of the principal subjects for artists. It has been represented in paintings and statues since prehistory.
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga is a large full-length portrait in oil painted in 1787–88 by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. [1] It depicts a boy three or four years of age, standing in red clothes, with birds and cats.