Portrait de famille – Adriaen van OSTADE (Haarlem, 1610 – 1685)
When I looked at this painting for the first time, I wondered whether the artist was commissioned to paint this. If he had been commissioned, how did the client react when he saw it for the first time? Was he expecting a formal, rather serious looking painting or this informal, rather playful one? And for [...]
Le Christ mort couché sur son linceul – Philippe de CHAMPAIGNE
I don’t know of any other painter who has painted the Christ lying on his shroud all alone (in his tomb, perhaps). The dimensions of this painting make it look as if it’s a cross-sectional view of a coffin /a shallow space. Philippe de Champaigne painted this in 1654. FIN This is the fifth post [...]
Rue du Mellah à Mogador – Jean LAIR
I couldn’t find much info. about Jean LAIR (b. 1889). In fact, this painting, ‘Rue du Mellah à Mogador’ / ‘Street in the Mellah in Mogador’ is not dated. I like the artist’s simplistic approach towards painting the people in this painting. I also found an old photo of this street online: This painting becomes [...]
Le panier d’oeufs – Henri-Horace-Roland DELAPORTE
These eggs are all of two hundred and twenty three years old but they shine as if they were just laid! I noticed them from miles away. I could not find a wikipedia page for Henri-Horace-Roland Delaporte, the man who painted this in 1788. In fact, I found only very little about him online. However, [...]
Cornélie, mère des Gracques – Joseph-Benoît SUVÉE
This painting, ‘Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi’ by Joseph-Benoît Suvée dates back to 1795. I opened a photograph of this painting in Photoshop and ran down a few lines. This is his centre line: The line going down from the top of the pillars intersects the woman’s chin, the tips of the fingers and toes and [...]
L’intérieur d’une cuisine – Martin DRÖLLING
‘L’intérieur d’une cuisine’ / inside the kitchen was painted in 1815 by Martin Drölling, a French painter born in Paris. This painting was completed seven years before Nicéphore Niépce made the first ever permanent photograph in 1822. I was most amused by the expression on the women’s faces. It appears to me as if they [...]
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