The 1000++ Artworks created around 1775 and ...

A Masterpiece from Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Germany

Discover the beauty and historical significance of The Ruins of the Old Kreuzkirche in Dresden...

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Discover the beauty and elegance of Basket of Peaches, a masterpiece created in 1768 by the renowned French artist Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin. This stunning painting is housed in the prestigious Musée du Louvre in Paris, France.

A Masterpiece of Rococo Style

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The dark, forest-green canopies of trees to our right are silhouetted against a sky that warms from pale blue along the top edge of the composition to butter yellow along the horizon, which comes about a quarter of the way up this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted so many d...

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In 2013, the Museum of Fine Arts acquired “The Watering Place” and “The Rock” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. These pictures seem to form a pair in that their subjects, composition, and dimensions are very similar.However, a material analysis revealed that “The Watering Place” was probably painted in abou...

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The partial ruins of a stone lion on a tall pedestal stands at the edge of a body of water in a verdant green landscape in this horizontal painting. The lion statue is broken so only the back half of the body and one front paw remain. The animal’s tail winds through the back legs, and the front paw ...

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Portrait of Pieter Cornelis Hasselaer, council of India and mayor of Amsterdam with his family. Suggested, from left to right: Hendrik Nicolaas (1749-1810) with book, Cornelis Pieter (1741-67) with microscope, Clara Suzanna (1752-1808), Geertruida Constantia (1746-94), Wendela Eleonora (b. 1743) wit...

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The portrait shows the iron-foundry proprietor and businessman John Jennings, his brother and sister-in-law. John Jennings is shown sitting at the front of the painting, proudly showing off his relations with a sweeping gesture. This group portrait invites us into the androgynous role-playing of the...

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On 4 February 1771 the two royal brothers Gustav and Fredrik arrived in Paris. By that time Roslin had already had time to paint a portrait of their middle brother, Karl, who had left the French capital a few months earlier. New sittings now followed – in the mornings the Crown Prince and his younge...

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Wheatley was among the best painters of the small-scale group portrait, or conversation piece, one of the most innovative genres of eighteenth-century English art. Here he shows a couple and their little girl, traditionally identified as members of the Saithwaite family. The lady’s dress, with its s...

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