Jesper Christiansen - From Sketches of the Past 2012


Jesper Christiansen (né en 1955) est un peintre danois.

Jesper Christiansen (born 1955) is a Danish painter.

Titian - Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese 1542

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Tiziano Vecellio, Tiziano Vecelli ou Tiziano da Cador, plus communément appelé Titien ou le Titien en français (vers 1488-1576) est un peintre et graveur italien de l'école vénitienne, auteur d'une importante œuvre picturale. Il est considéré comme un des plus grands portraitistes de cette époque, notamment grâce à son habileté à faire ressortir les traits de caractère des personnages. 

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, known in English as Titian (c.1488-1576) was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. 

Edward Arthur Walton - Bluette 1891

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Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922) est un peintre écossais. Spécialiste des paysages et des portraits, il est lié à l'école de peinture de Düsseldorf.

Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922) was a Scottish painter of landscapes and portraits, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Edward Arthur Walton - Portrait of Cecile Walton


Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922) est un peintre écossais. Spécialiste des paysages et des portraits, il est lié à l'école de peinture de Düsseldorf.

Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922) was a Scottish painter of landscapes and portraits, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

The portrait depicts Cecile Walton (1892–1956), the artist's oldest daughter aged 13, presumably in Walton's studio in his house at 7 Belford Park, Edinburgh where he had moved in 1904. Cecile is depicted in the painting looking at a portfolio with a pencil in her hand. This reflects her interest in art from an early age and her childhood mania for drawing which eventually led to her becoming a successful artist and part of the Edinburgh art scene herself, exhibiting with 'The Edinburgh Group' from 1919.

Edward Arthur Walton - Magnolia

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Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922) est un peintre écossais. Spécialiste des paysages et des portraits, il est lié à l'école de peinture de Düsseldorf.

Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922) was a Scottish painter of landscapes and portraits, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Edward Arthur Walton - The Fortune Teller, Miss Jane Aitken

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Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922) est un peintre écossais. Spécialiste des paysages et des portraits, il est lié à l'école de peinture de Düsseldorf.

Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922) was a Scottish painter of landscapes and portraits, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Edward Arthur Walton - Eager Heart

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Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922) est un peintre écossais. Spécialiste des paysages et des portraits, il est lié à l'école de peinture de Düsseldorf.

Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922) was a Scottish painter of landscapes and portraits, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Alois Hans Schram - Four Graces and Flowering Trees 1899

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Alois Hans Schram (1864-1919) est un artiste autrichien.

Alois Hans Schram (1864-1919) was an Austrian Art Nouveau artist.

Alois Hans Schram

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Alois Hans Schram (1864-1919) est un artiste autrichien.

Alois Hans Schram (1864-1919) was an Austrian Art Nouveau artist.

Alois Hans Schram - Piano Lesson 1902

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Alois Hans Schram (1864-1919) est un artiste autrichien.

Alois Hans Schram (1864-1919) was an Austrian Art Nouveau artist.

Fortunato Depero - I and My Wife 1940

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Fortunato Depero (1892-1960) est un peintre italien appartenant au mouvement futuriste.

Fortunato Depero (1892-1960) was an Italian futurist painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer.

Sandro Botticelli


Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (1445-1510), dit Sandro Botticelli, est un peintre italien. Botticelli est l'un des peintres les plus importants de la Renaissance italienne et de l'histoire de l'art.

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (1445-1510), known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a "golden age". Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then, his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.

Hugues Merle

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Hugues Merle (1822-1881) est un peintre français.

Hugues Merle (1822-1881) was a French painter who mostly depicted sentimental or moral subjects. He has often been compared with William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Ramón Casas i Carbó 1901

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Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866-1932) est un peintre et affichiste espagnol, promoteur du modernisme catalan. Il est surtout connu pour ses portraits et caricatures de l’élite catalane, espagnole et française.

Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866-1932) was a Catalan Spanish artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid. Also a graphic designer, his posters and postcards helped to define the Catalan art movement known as modernisme.

Cesare Saccaggi - The Duet

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Cesare Saccaggi (1868-1934) est un peintre italien de la fin du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle.

Cesare Saccaggi (1868-1934) was an Italian painter.

Alfred Stevens - Young Woman Reading 1856

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Alfred Stevens (1823-1906) est un peintre belge. Élève de Ingres à École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris à partir de 1844, sa carrière a connu une ascension fulgurante tant en Belgique qu'en France où il a passé la plus grande partie de sa vie. Très introduit dans les milieux artistiques et mondains de la capitale, il était l'ami d'Édouard Manet et Berthe Morisot.

Alfred Stevens (1823-1906) was a Belgian painter, known for his paintings of elegant modern women.

Firmin Baes 1917

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Firmin Baes (1874-1943) est un artiste peintre impressionniste belge.

Firmin Baes (1874-1943) was a Belgian painter.

Ishibashi Kazunori - Lady Reading Poetry 1906

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Ishibashi Kazunori (1876-1928) est un peintre japonais.

Ishibashi Kazunori (1876-1928) was a Japanese painter active in both yōga and nihonga. He is also known as Ishibashi Wakun, Ishibashi Kazukuni, and Gagen.

Jean Bourdichon - Saint Margaret and the Dragon (The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany) 1503-1508

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Jean Bourdichon (1456/1457-1520/1521) est un peintre et enlumineur de la cour de France entre la fin du XVe siècle et le début du XVIe siècle. Il fut peintre en titre de quatre rois de France, Louis XI, Charles VIII, Louis XII et François Ier. Jean Bourdichon est surtout connu comme l'enlumineur de son œuvre principale, les Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne.

Jean Bourdichon (1456/1457-1520/1521) was a miniature painter and manuscript illuminator at the court of France between the end of the 15th century and the start of the 16th century, in the reigns of Louis XI of France, Charles VIII of France, Louis XII of France and Francis I of France. He was probably born in Tours, and was a pupil of Jehan Fouquet. He died in Tours. One of Bourdichon's most famous works is the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany.

Albert Anker - Sleeping Girl on a Wooden Bench

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Albert Anker (1831-1910) est un illustrateur et peintre suisse. On l'appelle fréquemment le « peintre national » de la Suisse en raison de ses représentations durablement populaires de la vie des villages de son pays au XIXe siècle.

Albert Anker (1831-1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.