Roseate Spoonbill by John James Audubon from Birds of America.
Audubon was trained with famous Neo-Classicist Jacques-Louis David and used his skills to capture the and document the birds of America a scientific and artistic masterpiece. It remains one of the most important works on ornithology.
Chateaubriand, 1809 by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.
Chateaubriand was an important French historical figure and writer whose English chef would make him more famous than his exploits.
Mr. Hulings’ Picture Rack, 1888 by William Harnett, Private Collection.
Harnett was a master of the Trompe L’Oeil (trick the eye) painting. The Greeks and Romans painted in this style but the term was coined in the Baroque period.
Kitaj was born in Cleveland, but lives and works mostly in England. This chaotic piece portrays the gates at Auschwitz and references T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land.
Self-portrait with Model, c. 1910 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
Kirchner’s self-portrait is the main focus of this work (who could ignore that robe). His work was branded “degenerate” by the Nazi’s.
October, 1877 by James Tissot, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Another example of a Tissot model Kathleen Newton, the same one (I believe) as here. Often artists used the same models, even the same costumes as similar garments turn-up again and again.
Louise de Broglie, The Countesse d’Haussonville by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Frick Collection
Ingres was a French 19th Century painter known for his realism. I am particularly fond of his fabrics – so realistic and so lush.
Still Life with Three Puppies, 1888 by Paul Gauguin, the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
This was painted by Gauguin the same year he lived with van Gogh.
Landscape: A Man Looking at a Waterfall, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian.
The first time someone told me to look at Chinese paintings up and down instead of across, it made seeing the whole image so much easier.
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