JOHANN ZOFFANY (1733-1810) The Gore Family with George, 3rd Earl Cowper (1775) Oil on canvas (78 x 98 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Of Hungarian and Bohemian origin Johan Zoffany was born in Frankfurt on 13 March 1733. …
Month: February 2018
The Four Times of Day
CLAUDE JOSEPH VERNET (1714-1789): Morning and Night (c. 1757) Oil on copper (29,5 x 43,5 cm) Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide To enlarge the images, right-click on them on open in a new tab “It would be difficult to cite, before M. Vernet, a painter who has understood as well as he, the …
Charles Etienne Jordan
ANTOINE PESNE (1683-1757) Portrait of Charles Etienne Jordan (1740) Oil on canvas 145 x 110 cm Huis Doorn, The Netherlands To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "open in a new tab" Antoine Pesne, a nephew of the history painter Charles de La Fosse (1636-1716), went to Italy in 1704 after winning the prestigious …
Sir Robert Clive
ANTON VON MARON (1713-1808) Portrait of Sir Robert Clive (1766) Oil on canvas 150 x 120 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Roma To enlarge the images, right-click on them and "Open in a new tab" The first picture was scanned by me from the book "Settecento: L´Europe a Rome", catalogue of the exhibition …
Gerard Meerman
JEAN-BAPTISTE PERRONEAU (1715-1783) Portrait of Gerard Meerman (c.1761) Pastel on paper 88 x 68 cm Museo Meermanno-Westreenianum, The Hague To enlarge the image right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" In the 1750s, two of the best portrait painters of the XVIIIth century; Jean-Baptiste Perroneau and the Swiss Jean-Etienne Liotard came to the …
The Abduction of Europa
CLAUDE LORRAIN (1600-1682) Landscape with the Abduction of Europa (1647) Oil on canvas: 96 x 167 cm Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" This painting is usually called "The Rape of Europa"; however, since the word rape in the English language has …
“Vanitas” by Largilliere
NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERE (1656-1746) Vanitas (1677) Oil on canvas 74 x 61 cm Stichting Hannema-de Stuers Foundation, Heino, The Netherlands To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Nicolas de Largillière (or Largillierre) was born in Paris but his family moved to Antwerp in 1659. At an early age, he …
Allegory of Arithmetic
LAURENT DE LA HYRE (1606-1656) Allegory of Arithmetic (1650) Oil on canvas 103 x 109 cm Stichting Hannema-de Stuers Foundation, Heino, The Netherlands To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Laurent de La Hyre was a pupil of Jean Baptiste Lallemand, although the strongest influence in his formation was …
Maria Josepha of Saxony
JEAN-MARTIAL FREDOU (1710-1795) Portrait of Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France (1760) Oil on canvas 64 x 54 cm Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "open in a new tab" Unfortunately, we do not know who was creator of this beautiful portrait is, according to the records of …
A Double Portrait
JEAN BAPTISTE DE CHAMPAIGNE (1631-1681) NICOLAS DE PLATTEMONTAGNE (1631-1706) Double portrait of the artists (1654) Oil on canvas 132 x 185 cm Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" The drawing board on the left announces that Nicolas de Plattemontagne painted the portrait, presumably referring …
Old Masters 