The 1000++ Artworks created around 1725

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Jean-Antoine Watteau, a French painter known for his mastery of the fête galante genre, created 'The Embarkation for Cythera' in 1717. This stunning oil on canvas painting measures 129 ...

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Jean-Antoine Watteau's 'Pilgrimage to Cythera' is a masterpiece of French Rococo art, and one of the most famous paintings in the world. This stunning work of art measures 129 x 194 cm and was...

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From a glass of soapy water, a young man blows a bubble, its iridescent, translucent surface caught in the sunlight. A child peers eagerly over the ledge without breaking the atmosphere of silent concentration. In earlier Northern European painting, this subject carried a moralizing message about th...

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This work belongs to the genre of 'pilgrim images,' cult images or likenesses of them that were taken on alms-gathering missions. In a scene reminiscent of the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt, a miracle-working image of the Virgin and Child venerated by the Mercedarians of Quito is transported on a ...

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This celebrated painting and its nearby pendant, The Garter, exemplify a genre of painting known as tableaux de mode (paintings of fashionable society) established by de Troy. Rejecting religious or mythological subjects, artists represented the latest interior decoration, clothing, etiquette, and s...

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About two dozen men and women, almost all with pale skin, gather in a room with high, stone walls, with bars over the windows and iron manacles and chains hanging from the wall to our right in this horizontal painting. Most of the people are men, and many wear knee-length, long sleeved jackets, bree...

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Painted just after Boucher’s return to Paris after several years in Italy, this early work continues the tradition of the capriccio, a fanciful depiction pioneered by artists such as Benedetto Castiglione and often inspired by the rustic countryside surrounding Rome. This view is taken from the Camp...

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Christ is depicted in conversation with a Samaritan woman, a member of a sect despised by the Jewish authorities, signifying the universality of his message. The subject relates to a larger oil on canvas listed in an inventory taken after Luti’s death. However, the high level of finish and surface d...

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Juan Francisco de Aguilera is considered one of the most influential painters of the second decade of the eighteenth century in New Spain. His ability to capture fleeting effects of light and atmosphere heralded a major stylistic change that would mark the next generation of painters. This small pai...

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Ambassador Cornelis Calkoen to Sultan Ahmed III, 14 September 1727. The great visor speaks to the ambassador on the left. On the left is the sultan on his throne. On the right, the ambassador and Turkish ministers. Part of a series of paintings with Turkish subjects brought from Turkey to the Nether...

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