Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Francisco Laso
(1823 - 1869)
 
José Francisco Domingo Laso de la Vega y de los Ríos was a Peruvian painter and politician. During his lifetime he was mostly known for his portraits, but is now better known for creating works that were precursors to indigenismo in art.

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

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


The Three Races or Equality before the Law
1859
Oil on canvas
105 x 81 cm
MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru

Three persons—of Indigenous, African, and European descent—sit around a table, quietly absorbed in a game of cards. Laso, a Peruvian painter known for his early explorations of national identity, presents this ordinary scene with a quietly radical message: shared space, shared rules, and shared attention suggest a vision of equality more intimate than idealized. The game is never named, but everyone is playing.
Giorgione
(1477-78 - 1510)
 
Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco known as Giorgione was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties. He is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are firmly attributed to him. The uncertainty surrounding the identity and meaning of his work has made Giorgione one of the most mysterious figures in European art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgione</i>

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Titian
(1477-78 - 1576)
 
Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, 'from Cadore', taken from his native region.

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

The Sleeping Venus (Italian: Venere dormiente)
1893
Lithograph
62.1 x 46 cm (sheet)
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden Germany
https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/294844

The Sleeping Venus (Italian: Venere dormiente), also known as the Dresden Venus (Venere di Dresda), is a painting traditionally attributed to the Italian Renaissance painter Giorgione, although it has long been widely thought that Titian completed it after Giorgione's death in 1510. The landscape and sky are generally accepted to be mainly by Titian. In the 21st century, much scholarly opinion has shifted further, to see the nude figure of Venus as also painted by Titian, leaving Giorgione's contribution uncertain. It is in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden. After World War II, the painting was briefly in possession of the Soviet Union.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Venus_(Giorgione)
 

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

James Ward
(1769 - 1859)
 

James Ward RA was an English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver. From 1810 or so onward, Ward specialised in painting horses within landscapes; slightly later, he turned to very large-scale landscapes, of which Gordale Scar (Tate, London), completed in 1814 or 1815 and depicting Gordale Scar (Yorkshire) as an example of the sublime, is considered his masterpiece and a masterpiece of English Romantic painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ward_(English_artist)


Sleeping Pig
Undated
Black and red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly, cream wove paper
14x 26 cm
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1909

Monday, April 28, 2025

 Jules Bastien-Lepage
(1848 - 1884)
 
Jules Bastien-Lepage  was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of naturalism, an artistic style that grew out of the Realist movement and paved the way for the development of impressionism. Émile Zola described Bastien-Lepage's work as "impressionism corrected, sweetened and adapted to the taste of the crowd."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Bastien-Lepage



Les Foins (Hay making)
1877
oil on panel
195 x 160 cm.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
https://www.artizon.museum/collection/art/19500


Sunday, April 27, 2025

Jean-Louis Forain
(1852 - 1931)
 
Jean-Louis Forain was a French Impressionist painter and printmaker, working in media including oils, watercolour, pastel, etching and lithograph. Compared to many of his Impressionist colleagues, he was more successful during his lifetime, but his reputation is now much less exalted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Forain


After the Ball, the Reveler
1882
Pastel on paper
31 x 47 cm
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, US
http://collections.dixon.org/objects/214/after-the-ball-the-reveler?ctx=81c6cdf0c8ebc7bb9f28c44510d8cfe46dcd5337&idx=10

Saturday, April 26, 2025

Odilon Redon
(1840 - 1916)
 
Odilon Redon was a French Symbolist draftsman, printmaker, and painter. Redon is perhaps best known today for the dreamlike paintings created in the first decade of the 20th century, which were inspired by Japanese art and leaned toward abstraction. His work is considered a precursor to Surrealism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odilon_Redon
 
 
Les Yeux clos (Closed Eyes)
1890
Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
44 x 36 cm
Musee d’Orsay, Paris
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/les-yeux-clos-476


Friday, April 25, 2025

 Francisco Goya
(1746 - 1828)

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes  was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

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


The sleep of reason produces monsters (El sueño de la razon produce monstruos)
1799
Etching, aquatint
Plate: 21.2 x 15.1 cm, sheet: 29.5 x 21 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/338473

This is the best known image from Goya's series of 80 aquatint etchings published in 1799 known as 'Los Caprichos' that are generally understood as the artist's criticism of the society in which he lived.

 George de Forest Brush (1855 - 1941)
 George de Forest Brush was an American painter and Georgist. In collaboration with his friend, the ar...