Tuesday, October 20, 2026

 Hyacinthe Rigaud
 (18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743)
 
Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud, was a French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinthe_Rigaud
 

Madame Rigaud in Two Different Poses
1695
Oil on canvas
83 x 103 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010062532

Monday, October 19, 2026

 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 
(16 July 1796– 22 February 1875)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the neoclassical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corot


La femme à la perle
c. 1869
Oil on canvas
70 x 55 cm 
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059135


Sunday, October 18, 2026

 Jean-Honoré Fragonard
(5 April 1732 – 22 August 1806)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism.


L'Étude, dit aussi parfois Le Chant. 
(“Studying” also called “the singing” )
c. 1750
Oil on canvas
82 x 105 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059524

Saturday, October 17, 2026

 Thomas Lawrence
(13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830)

Sir Thomas Lawrence  was an English painter who served as the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at the Bear Hotel in the Market Square. At age ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits.
He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, a full member in 1794, and president in 1820. At his death, he was the most fashionable portrait painter in Europe. His reputation waned during Victorian times, but has since been partially restored.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lawrence

Madam Isaac Cuthbert
1817 
Oil on canvas
143 x 182 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010064316

Friday, October 16, 2026

 Hans Holbein the Younger
(c. 1497 – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) 

Hans Holbein the Younger was a German painter and printmaker active in Switzerland and England. He worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire, and Reformation propaganda, and he made a significant contribution to the history of book design. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his father Hans Holbein the Elder, an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Holbein_the_Younger

Portrait d'Érasme (1467-1536) écrivant
c. 1528 
Oil on wood
43 x 33 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010062617


Holbein made several portraits of the great humanist and scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam. His close association with the humanist and scholar is reflected not only in these and other admiring portraits but also in the letters of introduction written on Holbein's behalf by Erasmus to his friends in England when the artist traveled there in 1526. It was through Erasmus that Holbein was commissioned to paint portraits of Sir Thomas More and his family.

Thursday, October 15, 2026

 Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun
(16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842)
 
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élisabeth_Vigée_Le_Brun

Madame Vigée Le Brun Holding Her Daughter in Her Arms (Maternal Tenderness)
1786 
Oil on wood
105 x 132 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010063406

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

 Jacques-Louis David
(30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) 

Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened feeling, which harmonized with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David


Portrait of Madame Récamier
1800 
Oil on canvas
173 × 243 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059215

 Hyacinthe Rigaud  (18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743)   Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud, was a French baroque pa...