Showing posts with label Fruit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fruit. Show all posts

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Mother and Child

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Lord Frederick Leighton
(English, 1830-1896)
Mother and Child, 1865
Oil on canvas

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Invocation

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Lord Frederick Leighton
(English, 1830-1896)
Invocation, ????
Oil on canvas

Luminous.

Friday, October 15, 2010

A Still Life with Grapes and Wine on a Table

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Johann Laurentz Jensen
(Danish, 1800-1856)
A Still Life with Grapes and Wine on a Table, 1834
Oil on canvas

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

A Pensive Moment

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Eugene de Blaas
(Austrian, 1843-1931)
A Pensive Moment, 1896
Oil on cradled panel

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Courtship

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Edmund Blair Leighton
(English, 1853-1922)
Courtship, ????
Oil on canvas

I like that this couple looks less well-to-do than Leighton's usual ones. :)

Monday, June 21, 2010

The Flower Merchant

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Kate Perugini
(English, 1839-1929)
The Flower Merchant, ????
Oil on canvas

Kate Perugini was not only the wife of one of my favorite artists, she was also the daughter of Charles Dickens, and modeled for one of my favorite paintings! You can read more about this interesting lady here.

Monday, May 31, 2010

The Barn Owl

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Valentine Cameron Prinsep
(English, 1838-1904)
Il Barbagianni (The Barn Owl), ????
Oil on canvas

Friday, May 28, 2010

Autumn Leaves

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John Everett Millais
(English, 1829-1896)
Autumn Leaves, 1855-56
Oil on canvas

The Victorian Web has an interesting entry on this painting. A catalogue entry from 1984 points out that:
The season, the dead leaves, the smoke and the sunset are all images of transience, reminders that all things must pass It is a setting redolent of decay and death that makes us conscious that the girls in the foreground, for all their youth and beauty, must inevitably go through the same processes.
And that the apple the smallest girl is holding is also an emblem of autumn, but may also be intended to recall Original Sin, which made mankind mortal. It goes on to talk about his poetic inspiration. If you are interested, you can read the full entry here.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Basket of Fruit

 
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Caravaggio
(Italian, 1571-1610)
Basket of Fruit, 1597
Oil on canvas

I think this is the same basket as the one in Supper at Emmaus:
For some reason I love it with that plain background. :)

Monday, March 1, 2010

In the Orangery

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Charles E Perugini
(English, 1839-1918)
In the Orangery, ????
Oil on canvas

Definitely enlarge to get the full effect. It positively glows! :)

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Still-Life with Flowers and Fruit

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Jan Davidsz de Heem
(Dutch, 1606-1684)
Still-Life with Flowers and Fruit, 1650
Oil on canvas

The Dutch were masters of light and texture.

Friday, February 19, 2010

The Symbol

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Sir Frank Dicksee
(English, 1853-1928)
The Symbol, 1881
Oil on canvas

The full title is continued "Is it Nothing to You, All Ye That Pass By?" That, and taking a closer look, make the painting's story plain.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

The Orange Gatherers

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John William Waterhouse
(English, 1849-1917)
The Orange Gatherers, 1890
Oil on canvas

This is one of my favorite paintings. However, in all the photos I had seen of it (I haven't seen it in person) I always thought the colors seemed much to dark for such a sunny scene,  So I was overjoyed when I saw this photo of the same painting:
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The quality of the image isn't as good, but it seems to imply that the painting is brighter in person!