Saturday, March 28, 2015

Women reading indoors by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919


1897 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Young Girl Reading


Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Reading an Illustrated Journal 1880


 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  The Reader 1875-1876



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Girl Reading 1886



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Woman Reading



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Girl Reading



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Girl in Blue Reading 1890



 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Woman Reading 1877



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Graziella 1910



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)



 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)   Young Girl Reading



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  1909



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Reading


Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)


Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Les Deux Soeurs 1889



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)


Thursday, March 26, 2015

18C Reading Indoors or How to flirt with a book


At first, of course, there is the innocent, virtuous young girl...


Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) The Virtuous Girl

Italian painter Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707-1762), was a highly successful, itinerant artist who traveled painting portraits of wealthy patrons across Europe. As a young man he studied under Antonio Balestra in Rome & Francesco Trevisani in Naples. Thereafter he returned to Verona where he set up a studio for a while, before he began to travel.  His work attracted royal & aristocratic patrons in Dresden, Vienna, Munich, & Saint Petersburg.  In order to earn a living between commissioned portraits, he created many genre portraits, often images of pretty young girls casting coquettish glances. He died in St Petersburg, where he had traveled to paint for the Russian court.

Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Young Woman with a Book 1762



Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Girl with a Book



Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Young Lady with a Book



Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Self Portrait


Sunday, March 22, 2015

Precious gentlemen...



Lovis Corinth (German artist, 1858-1925) The Freemasons

If you read this blog regularly, you know that I seldom include paintings with completely male subjects; but this one is just too precious to pass by.  Oh my...


Saturday, March 14, 2015

The Female Saints of Francisco de Zurbarán 1598–1664


Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Apolonia

Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), born at Fuente de Cantos & active mainly in Seville, devoted himself almost entirely to religious works. He worked for churches & monasteries over a wide area of southern Spain and his paintings were also exported to South America. His simple compositions & emotionally direct altarpieces, combining austere naturalism with mystical intensity, made him an ideal Counter-Reformation painter.


Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda of Burgos



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda. c 1630-1645



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Dorotea



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Dorothea



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Eufemia



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Isabel



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Margaret. c 1630-1635



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Marina



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Eulalia



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Rufina. Early 1630s



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ursula



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Santa Lucia 1625



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Santa Lucia 1633



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Agatha



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ursula



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Lucy



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Mathilda



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Barbe



Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ines


Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Catherine of Alexandria


Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Engracia


Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Engracia
  

Sunday, March 8, 2015

1700s Bringing the Harvest to the Table with Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776)


Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) Lady at a Table Laden with Food

One of my favorite 18th-century Flemish painters is Peter Jakob Horemans (1700-1776), who was active as court painter in Munich. Horemans’s lovingly detailed images, part portrait & part still life, capture the richness of everyday life in southern Germany.

Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) Gentleman at a Table Laden with Food



Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) The Soup Eater



Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) Gentleman with Wine



Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) Kitchen Still Life "The Feeling" 1760



Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) The Sleeping Kitchen Maid