The sitter has not been identified, but her dress dates the portrait to the 1570s. Around her neck she wears a piece of coral, a common gift to children, believed to protect them from evil; the carnations on her headdress may serve them same purpose, but ...
This sketch is one of a number of representations of this subject by the artist which relate to a larger painting of 1883 (Paris, Musee d' Orsay). The motif of a partially clothed woman having her hair combed had long appealed to artists, & most notably ...
In Greek myth Charon was the boatman who took the souls of the dead across the river Styx to Hades. This is a copy of a picture in the Louvre of about 1735 & the composition also appears in the picture by Subleyras of his studio (Academy, Vienna). ...
This portrait & the portrait of 'A Woman', presumably of a husband & wife, are a pair & were perhaps originally joined together as a diptych. The backs are marbled, which suggests that they were not intended to be hung against a wall. The sitters ma ...
The man holds a piece of paper which is inscribed '38'. This must refer to his age at the time the portrait was painted. The portrait conveys a tangible sense of volume. The shadow of the head appears on the wall in the background. The picture probably dat ...
It is the artist's intention to ridicule the soldier. He is a swaggering, over-dressed figure who might have stepped from the pages of one of the many contemporary plays by Coster, Rodenburgh & others that mocked the pretensions of soldiers. Quast painte ...
This landscape was probably painted at about the same time as a very similar work by Berchem that is dated 1653 & is now in Vienna (Akademie). The dating is also supported by the form of the signature, which Berchem used until the mid-1650s but rarely later. This painting was owned by the French artist François Boucher in the mid-18th century. ...
Possibly from North Italy but perhaps not by an Italian artist, this portrait is unusually intimate (it is rare for a man to be painted with his hand around his wife's neck). It was also slightly unusual for a woman to stand on her husband's right-hand si ...
The woman has fallen asleep with a glass in one hand & a pipe in the other. The two men seem to mock her state, & the picture may be intended to illustrate the saying ' De Wijn is een spotter' (Wine is a Mocker). This picture was probably painted in the early 1660s. Steen often painted pictures on the theme of female drunkenness, see for example ' The Effects of Intemperance'. ...
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A Man And A Child Eating Grapes
The composition of a man and child eating grapes is unfinished; areas such as the body of the man have not been established and the table top has only been sketched in. This painting has formerly been attributed to Velazquez and to Pedro Nunez de Villavic
The composition of a man & child eating grapes is unfinished; areas such as the body of the man have not been established & the table top has only been sketched in. This painting has formerly been attributed to Velazquez & to Pedro Nunez de Villavic
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