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Portrait of Patience Escalier is a painting of 1888 by the Russian Impressionist Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). The oil on canvas painting is a part of the Improvisations series and is drawn on Post-Impressionism style and portrait genre and it measures 69 by 56 centimeters. It was painted in Arles-s...

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Provenance:Probably commissioned directly from the artist by Sir John Finch, Florence;By descent in the Finch family, at Burley-on-the-Hill, until 1947;Major James Hanbury, Burley-on-the-Hill (his sale, Christie’s, London, 20th June 1947, lot 20);Swedish private collectionExhibited:Florence, Palazzo...

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The Persistence of Memory is by far Salvador Dali’s most recognizable painting, and there are many references to it in popular culture. Although it was conjectured that the soft melting watches were the result of Dali’s interpretation of the theory of relativity, Dali himself state that their inspir...

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After receiving a camera as a gift from her daughter, Julia Margaret Cameron began her career in photography at the age of forty-eight. She produced most of her work from her home at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. Many of her models were family members, (including her husband and grandson), her do...

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Portal in a staircase with a descending man, presumably the situation as it looked just before the attack on Prince Willem I in the Prinsenhof in Delft. On the stairs a dog waits for the man who walks down with a pile of books. Above the door to the stairs is a portrait bust, right above a gun.

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This civic guard piece was the second executed by Jacob Backer. His earlier portrait in this genre was dated 1638 and adorned the vestibule of the Kloveniersdoelen (the headquarters of the arquebusiers’ civic guard), but is now, unfortunately, lost.8 The present picture was also commissioned for tha...

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'The rule of absolute autonomy being given to each single scene is successfully broken in this panel. The two episodes, told by John, occur simultaneously but in different places and the stairs, a material link in space, also connect the time-factor. While Jesus is brought before the High Priest Ann...

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John Singer Sargent, an American artist born in Florence in 1856, was known for his portraits and landscapes. In 1885, he painted 'Claude Monet Painting by the Ed...

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Boy standing in front of a work table in an interior of a study. On the table an open book, map, lute, ink set, globe and a statue of Venus. Against the wall shelves with books and a map on rolls. In the foreground are on the floor a book, a map and a plaster head. On the right a staircase to the up...

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The kimono is the traditional Japanese garment for both males and females. The original form of today’s kimono, “kosode”, or short-sleeve, dates to the thirteenth to fourteenth century AD. The forms of kimono have greatly changed throughout its long history. During the Edo period (AD 1603-1867), the...

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