The 140 Artworks created around 1850 and containing the word guiseppe canella, aircrafts, 1850

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Inspired by the French Revolution, people of color on the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic) successfully revolted against their French and Spanish colonizers; Haiti became an independent republic in 1804. Boyer was a soldier, one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolu...

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Are you an art enthusiast looking to add a masterpiece to your collection? Look no further than Jean-François Millet's Harvesters Resting, now availa...

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Discover the masterpiece of Realism, The Stone Breakers, by Gustave Courbet.

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This likeness of the wife of the French ambassador to the Vatican expresses Chassériau’s subtle defiance of J. A. D. Ingres, his teacher. He subverted Ingres’s approach by casting a melancholic mood over the picture, by banishing bright colors, and by abandoning the master’s meticulous naturalism an...

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Photograph with Prince Arthur (1850 - 1942), later the Duke of Connaught, seated on a chaise longue, facing the viewer and Prince Alfred (1844 - 1900), later Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, also seated on the chaise longue in left side profile. Both Prince/

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Portrait of Rodolphe le Chevalier, merchant in Amsterdam and one of the three founders of the Dutch Iron Railway Company. Halfway there, sitting at a table with some papers and books. In the right hand a folded letter.

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The painting William Bouguereau 'Dante and Virgil' was inspired by a short scene from the Inferno, set in the eighth circle of Hell (the circle for falsifiers and counterfeiters), where Dante, accompanied by Virgil, watches a fight between two damned souls: Capocchio, a heretic and alchemist is atta...

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This painting of a horsewoman (in French, amazone) was first observed in Courbet’s studio in the late 1850s by the artist and critic Zacharie Astruc (1833–1907). He did not provide the sitter’s name, and her identity has never been confirmed. The artist Mary Cassatt admired this picture as 'the fine...

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This landscape, probably painted in the mid-1850s, stands at the beginning of a long series of views of the countryside of Courbet’s native town. It may be identified by the distinctive church steeple rising above the cluster of houses along the banks of the river Loue. The cliff in the distance is ...

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References to the wells of Abraham, as they are commonly known, are found in Genesis (21:23–24 and 26:23–33). Coubertin typically painted religious subjects, but in this picture he depicted the site as a scene of contemporary life. This painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1850–51.

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In 1857, the inventor of a coal-burning stove, Jordan Mott, commissioned Christian Schussele to paint this group portrait of nineteen scientists and inventors of the United States who “had altered the course of contemporary civilization.” Schussele represents the group gathered around a table discus...

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Fishing boats on calm water. At a jetty on the left, a fisherman in a rowboat holds a fish up.

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