An important painting in its social context by Watts, tackling the evils of Victorian Britain, 2 from Moreau, and one of only 3 surviving paintings by a French history painter.
Category Archive: Life
The majority of portraits and genre paintings of women washing clothes are thoroughly demur, without the slightest innuendo.
Looking at paintings of women doing their laundry in a landscape view in historical context.
Rough weather seen on the canvases of Bierstadt, Monet, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, and other fine artists.
Includes brilliant paintings of coastal storms by Vernet, Constable, JWM Turner, and Courbet.
She mastered drypoint, aquatint, and monotype processes, combining them to produce superb prints – as well as wonderful pastel paintings.
One of Ovid’s best stories of a tragic end to a blissful marriage, with superb paintings by Veronese, Poussin, Rubens, and others.
Lurking in the shadows were well-dressed, affluent men, wearing top hats, white ties and gloves. They weren’t just there to chat.
Putting Degas’ many paintings and drawings of the ballet and its dancers into context – here are contemporary paintings.
The evolution of her painting in oils and pastels, and the start of her print-making – which was to become so important in her later work.
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