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, a...

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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

Basket of Peaches i...

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Fragonard was a gifted landscapist who combined his knowledge of earlier Dutch painting, notably the dramatic light effects and craggy trees of artists like Jacob van Ruisdael, and his experience in Italy, including its formal gardens and ancient ruins. He returned repeatedly to the subject of a lon...

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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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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 a deeply shadowed room, two women and several children are gathered at the center of this wide, oval painting, looking toward a young man and donkey who peer in over a half-door to our left. The people all have light skin, and all of the children have blond hair. Light coming into the darkened ro...

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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 Death of General Wolfe is a well-known 1770 painting by Anglo-American artist Benjamin West depicting the death of British General James Wolfe during the 1759 Battle of Quebec of the Seven Years' War. It is an oil on canvas of the Enlightenment period. West made an additional and nearly identica...

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In the midst of a verdant forest, a young man and woman eagerly rush forward, their feet just reaching the edge of a fountain/

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In the 18th century, the celebrated Sèvres porcelain manufacturer produced elaborate table services with sometimes hundreds of pieces. The striking bleu celeste (“heavenly blue”) pieces displayed here are part of a service meant for serving both dinner and desserts. Cheese, meat, soup, cakes, custar...

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Richard Dana (1700–1772) was a justice of the province of Massachusetts and a leading figure of the Boston bar. During the early stages of the Revolution, the city depended on his sage legal advice. He was a member of the committee that investigated the Boston Massacre in 1770, at about the same tim...

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Led by Empress Catherine the Great, eighteenth-century Russia’s elite commissioned and collected works by Paris’s most famous painters, sculptors, and craftsmen. Varvara Nikolaevna Golitsyna and her husband Prince Sergei Sergeyevich Gagarin seem to have visited Paris during a honeymoon tour of Europ...

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Disguise was frequently used by fashionable portraitists like Drouais. It allowed sitters to convey added layers of information about themselves through reference to myth and ancient history. Traditionally, Vestal Virgins were ancient Roman women devoted to Vesta, goddess of the hearth, alluded to h...

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