Alessandro Magnasco - Prayer of the Penitent Monks.
The tension between their penitence of spirit and the surrounding darkness of the world is very engaging; Magnasco is one of my favorite painters, although he may not have the precise finesse of Jacques-Louis or Caravaggio, his mastery of drama and contrast compensates.
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Alessandro Magnasco - Nuns in their atelier (c. 1725).
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
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Ushio Amagatsu
Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, The Uninvited Guest