PHILIPPE-LAURENT ROLAND (1746-1816) Allegorical Group with the Bust of an Architect (1780-90) Terracotta: Height 67,3 cm Paul J. Getty Museum, Los Angeles To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" The son of a wood carver, Philippe-Laurent joined the atelier of the famous Agustin Pajou (1730-1809) at the age of …
Month: February 2018
Sir Andrew Fountaine
WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764) Conversation piece with Sir Andrew Fountaine (1730-35) Oil on canvas 47,6 x 58 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art To enlarge the picture right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" On the left are two young women sitting at a circular table, on which stand a wicker flask, some fruit and …
Vanity
PIETER VAN ROESTRAETEN (1630-1700) Vanitas Still-Life Oil on canvas (146 x 97 cm) Private collection To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Van Roestraeten was the son-in-law, as well as the pupil, of Frans Hals with whom he studied from 1646 to 1651. He started painting burlesque genre scenes, …
Castel Sant’ Angelo
GASPAR VAN WITTEL (1653-1736) also known as VANVITELLI Castel Sant' Angelo seeing from the South (1690-1700) Oil on canvas measures unknown Private collection To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Gaspar van Wittel began his studies in his hometown Amersfoort, training under the landscape painter Jan van der Heyden. …
An Officer and a Gentleman
NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERE (1656-1746) Portrait of an Officier, c. 1715 Oil on canvas (66 x 55 cm) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Unjustly neglected by art historians, particularly the Anglo-Americans, in favour of his contemporary and rival Hyacinthe Rigaud …
Nicolaas Rockox
PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640) Nicolaas Rockox Oil on wood (56 x 65 cm) To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Rubens was one of the greatest, most energetic and most fruitful artists whose output, in its variety, extent and quality, has rarely been achieved by any. Although Peter Paul …
Venetian Vedute
FRANCESCO ZUCCARELLI (1702-1788) Capriccio with San Giorgio Maggiore Capriccio with the Prison from the Riva Schiavone Oil on canvas (86 x 128 cm) Private collection Zuccarelli is considered the most important landscape painter to have emerged from his adoptive city of Venice during the first half of the XVIIIth century. Born in Pitigliano, he spent …
A Greek Tale
GUIDO RENI (1575-1642) Atalanta and Hippomenes (1622-25) Museo del Prado, Madrid Oil on canvas (206 x 297 cm) To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Born in Bologna Guido Reni was apprenticed at the age of 10 to the Flemish master Denis Calvaert, after a few years he joined …
An Elderly Lady
GEORGE BEARE (?-1749) Portrait of an Elderly Lady and a Girl (1747) Oil on canvas (127 x 102 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" George Beare's distinctive Portrait of an Elderly Lady and a Girl is unquestionably his masterpiece. …
A Sad Gentleman
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Henry Hutchinson O'Hara (1763) Oil on canvas (74 x 61 cm) Private collection Born in Lucca, Tuscany, the son of a goldsmith, Pompeo Batoni came to Rome when he was 21 and remained there for the rest of his life. He became the leading Italian painter of his generation. He specialized in …
Old Masters 