Friday, April 3, 2015
Sewing indoors - 1700s
1747 John Greenwood (Artist in British Colonial America, 1727-1792 Detail
1749-52 John Wollaston 1733-1767 Portrait of a Woman
1773 John Singleton Copley (American artist, 1738-1815) Mr & Mrs Thomas Miffin (Sarah Morris)
1778 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs. Seymour Fort
1788 Charles Willson Peale (American artist, 1741-1827) Ruth Stanley (Mrs John Mix) Detail
1791 Gilbert Stuart (American artist, 1755-1828) Anna Dorothea Foster & Charlotte Anna
1792 Gilbert Stuart (American artist, 1755-1828) Catherine Lane Barker
1792 Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Mrs Richard Alsop
Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Sarah Tucker (with needlework)
Reuben Mouthrop (American artist, 1763-1814) Mrs. Eunecia Street Stebbins
1793 Gilbert Stuart (American artist, 1755-1828) Catherine Brass (Mrs Richard Yates)
Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Mrs Ebenezer Porter (Lucy Patty Pierce Merwin) with lace
Francois DuParc (French painter, 1705-1788) Woman Knitting
Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (French painter, 1702–1766)
Philip Mercier (French painter, 1689- 1760)
Francois-Hubert Drouais (French painter, 1727-1775)
Jacques-Louis David (French painter, 1748-1825) Portrait of Madame Adélaide Pastoret, 1791-1792
Joshua Reynolds (English Rococo Era Painter, 1723-1792) Handwork
Ivan Petrovich Argunov (Russian painter, Иван Петрович Аргунов, 1727–1802) Countess Tolstoy 1768
Angelica Kauffman (French artist, 1741-1807) Turkish Woman Sewing 1773
Archduchess Marie Christine of Austria (1742-1798) Self Portrait 1765
Domestick Amusement - The Fair Seamstress 1764
Domestick Amusement - The Lovely Spinner 1764
Francoise-Marie Pouget c 1775
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
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