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Thursday, February 26, 2015
Allegory of Painting
Frans van Mieris the Elder, Pictura (An Allegory of Painting), Dutch, 1661, Oil on copper, 12.7 x 8.9 cm
I'm always drawn to paintings where the subject is painting itself.
Source: Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
Swan in Action
Jan Asselyn (?) The Threatened Swan, c. 1650 Oil on canvas, 144 x 171 cm
Source: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Nocturne Scene
Oswald Achenbach, Fireworks in Naples, 1875 Oil on canvas, 66 x 102 cm
The term 'Old Masters' typically refers to painters active prior to 1800*. This painting is from 1875.
Source: The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Musical Moment
Dirck van Baburen, Man Playing a Jew's Harp, 1621. Oil on canvas, 65 x 53 cm
Source: Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Painters Self-Portrait and Painting within Painting
Pieter Jansz van Asch, Self-Portrait, Oil on panel, 52 x 44 cm.
Painting within painting.
Source: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Jacob van Ruisdael, Landscape with a Wheatfield
Jacob van Ruisdael, Landscape with a Wheatfield, Dutch, about late 1650s - early 1660s, Oil on canvas, 15 3/4 x 18 in.
This 17th century work by Jacob van Ruisdael seems to anticipate the later work of American painter Thomas Hart Benton, with its serpentine handling of the wheat fields and winding roads.
Source: Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
The Evolution of Family
Johann Zoffany, John, Fourteenth Lord Willoughby de Broke, and his Family, English, about 1766, Oil on canvas, 40 1/8 x 50 1/8 in.
Note the Romantic landscape painting. A painting within a painting.
Source: Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
Expressions, Joseph Decruex's Self-Portrait
Joseph Ducreux, Self-Portrait, Yawning, 1783, Oil on canvas, 46 3/8 x 35 3/4 in.
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
Tiepolo and Alexander the Great
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles, 1740. Oil on canvas
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
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