Landseer paints a La Fontaine fable; Bonnard, Corinth, and others complete the history.
Category Archive: Life
For the last 3,500, monkeys have often appeared in European paintings. Here’s a brief survey, with examples from Botticelli, Brueghels, Clara Peeters, Watteau, and others.
Lead antimonate yellow was the original Naple Yellow, but had first been used long before in glassware. Paintings by Claude Lorrain, Böcklin, Renoir, and others.
Vociferous opponent of Impressionism, hugely successful and popular, he taught more than 2,000 pupils. The start of a systematic account of his narrative paintings.
A bloke leans over the back of a seat in a railway carriage, trying to chat up a young woman who is just returning from a funeral. Is this an early Prussian problem picture?
Marthe starts painting, but Bonnard falls in love and has an affair. More superb paintings, here mainly in northern France.
The story of the Roman general who was made sole ruler of Rome for five terms, and saw the occupying Gauls off twice.
The remarkable satirical paintings of courts and lawyers by Forain, and modern court artists.
From cautionary tales for judges to Daumier’s wicked satire, courts of law have been an important theme for the artist, including Poussin, Rowlandson, and Gérôme.
Known from ancient times, in the Renaissance it was the standard underpainting for flesh. Fine examples from Michelangelo, Vermeer, and others.
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