Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Pêcheur à la coquille
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Oil on fiberboard.
Hungarian painter. After studying in Munich and Paris, he settled down in Budapest, his native town, where he was first engaged in illustrations, then in studies of heads (“Hungarian Peasant Woman”) and portraits. He was famous for his portraits which were as accurate as photos. Even his larger pictures had a miniature-like treatment of textures and details of faces. He was a typical representative of the so-called Art Gallery naturalism. He ran a private art school in Budapest for some time.
He was awarded several prizes. He became a teacher of the Art School, Budapest in 1928. His major works include “Gyula Rózsavölgyi”, “Female Nude in Workshop”, “István Kléh” (1920), “G.H. Becker, Minister of Education, Prussia” (1932), “Árpád Ódry as Hamlet” and “Self Portrait”, all in the collection of the Hungarian National Gallery.
Herbert Gustave SCHMALZ (1856-1935) Blind Girl of Pompei
Herbert Gustave Schmalz (1856-1935)
Born near Newcastle in 1856 to a German father, Schmalz moved to London at the age of seventeen before enrolling at the South Kensington Art School and later, the Royal Academy. After studying in Antwerp, Schmalz returned to London to establish his career.
Time spent in Jerusalem in 1890 served him well for his New Testament work in the years to follow. A mixture of Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian Neo-Classicism the paintings are effective for their atmospheric use of light in creating a mood of foreboding and sorrow.
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http://bibleillustration.blogspot.com/2008/06/herbert-gustave-schmalz-1856-1935.html
The Sack of Rome by the Visigoths on 24 August 410 by J-N Sylvestre (1890)
Are there any contemporary representations of Alaric? If not, why not?
Le Désespoir, Jean-Joseph Perraud
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Jean-Joseph Perraud (1819, Jura - 1876) was a French academic sculptor. According to Eaton, “During the Second Empireno sculptor enjoyed a greater reputation,” although his style fell out of fashion soon after his death. Perraud was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1843 under Etienne-Jules Ramey and Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, co-winner of the Prix de Rome in 1847, officer in the Legion of Honor in 1867, and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
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Fernand Cormon. Cain.
“You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
Don’t know the relationship of the previous painting to this one.
Janelle and the Volume of Treasures, by Sir William Russell Flint, 1960
nice take on “women and books” (dare one say “bovaryism”…) Wikipedia mentions: “a perceived crassness in his eroticized treatment of the female figure” by the art critics….
In the Woods at Giverny, Blanche Hoschedé at Her Easel with Suzanne Hoschedé Reading, 1887, Claude Monet.
Félix Edouard Vallotton, Femme assise dans un fauteuil
GPOY I’M GLAD MONDAY IS ALMOST OVER
Julia Gukova. Illustration from The Legendary Unicorn, 2004
Wingate Paine
6in:
Ushio Amagatsu
Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, The Uninvited Guest