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Art writers noted several elements of the painting as dominant, either visually or thematically. Moir, for example, notes the key role that the contrast between light and shadow plays in the composition: a window placed high on the left allows a ray of light to penetrate the room, illuminating, as it slides over the wall, the boy, the lush fruit basket, the shirt sleeve, the sensual bare ...
This painting depicts Headley's first four children: Chris, Didi, Kirk and Jill. The painting originally hung at the home he built at Bull Run Plantation. The house was later renamed Kinhega ...
Portrait of the Duchess of Berry is an 1825 portrait painting by the English artist Sir Thomas Lawrence. It depicts the Italian-born French royal Marie-Caroline, Duchess of Berry , the widowed daughter-in-law of the reigning French monarch Charles X .
Albert Jacques Franck (2 April 1899 – 28 February 1973) was a Canadian artist. He is known for his realistic paintings [1] of Toronto winter scenes, [2] dilapidated neighbourhoods [3] [4] and back lanes.
Photograph of Thomas Eakins c. 1882 This is a list of professionally authenticated paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Thomas Eakins (1844–1916). As there is no catalogue raisonné of Eakins' works, this is an aggregation of existing published catalogs. Background During his lifetime, Thomas Eakins sold few paintings. On his death, ownership of his unsold works passed to his widow, Susan ...
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.
The assembled crowd, led by the boy's great uncle Louis XVIII, respond with delight. The Duke of Berry had been assassinated by a Bonapartist at the Paris Opera in February 1820. Seven month's later his wife gave birth to a son, considered a miracle baby as it seemed to secure the succession of the House of Bourbon for another generation. [ 3 ]
The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770. Oil on canvas 70 in × 48 in (180 cm × 120 cm) Pinkie owes part of its notability to its association with the Gainsborough portrait The Blue Boy. According to Patricia Failing, author of Best-Loved Art from American Museums, "no other work by a British artist enjoys the fame of The Blue Boy."