Old paintings

Leopold Schmutzler (1864-1940) was a Bohemian-born German painter, specialized in portraits, figures and Rococo-style genre scenes. His style was gene

Painted in 1817, this highly important sketch is an early preparatory study for The White Horse, the first of Constable's famous ‘Six-Footers’, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1819. One of the artist’s most celebrated works, The White Horse is a seminal painting in the history of British"u2026

Told you my degree would come in handy, Mom.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Ariadne. 49 x 42.8 cm, Oil on mahogany panel, Wallace Collection, London

According to Sargent, twenty-six-year old Elizabeth Chanler had "the face of the Madonna and the eyes of a child." This portrait shows a beautiful, well-bred woman who has learned to be strong.

Автор - lomovolga . Это цитата этого сообщения Old masters. Beautiful painting Details \5\ lomovolga Girl with a Pearl Earring detail, 1665, Mauritshuis, The Hague, Johannes Vermeer Corelli *Sonate 5 in G minor 4 для скрипки и клавесина.Vivace* Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn Artemis,…

Painted by Winterhalter in 1857. Claire-Émilie, marquise de Las Marismas, vicomtesse Aguado, née MacDonell. (October 24, 1817, Algiers - April 23, 1905, Paris). When I first started composing this post, I could find nothing on this lovely woman other than her name and the dates of her birth and death. And then, depending on where I read it, even the date of her death and the spelling of her maiden name varied. As I struggled on, I began getting bits and pieces, mostly from French and Spanish…