Marking 300 years since the woefully early death of the master of the Rococo. Early paintings show the development of the fête galante, and its zenith in ‘Embarkation for Cythera’.
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Was there a void in British landscape painting after Turner died? Impressionist works by Whistler, Sickert, Steer, Clausen and others appear to have been forgotten.
Both her entries to the Salon in 1877 had been rejected. Then she submitted this masterpiece to the jury for the American pavilion at the Exposition Universelle in 1878.
After unforeseen conflicts arose when painted two domes back in Zaragoza, he progressed his work at court in Madrid, and painted scenes from childhood.
A selection of paintings from the 20th and 21st centuries, including Ellen Altfest, a modern vanitas, and the fast food bodegone.
The man from Algiers completes the story of how he escaped with the Moorish woman. When a judge arrives at the inn, he thinks he recognises him as one of his brothers.
Chillon Castle, Lake Geneva, Éragny Manor, a mansion in New York City, Kelmscott Manor (home of William Morris), Florence Griswold’s home in Old Lyme, CT, and more.
Palaces of Albert VII, Rubens’ own Het Steen, an imposing Swiss castle, Wivenhoe Park in hiding, and an Australian pastoral station.
Rejected from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition as ‘unsightly’, The Gross Clinic was hidden in an Army hospital. In 2006, it was almost sold for $68 million.
Goya’s series of cartoons for tapestries between 1776 and 1779 introduce the Maja and Majo, which were to appear in many of his later paintings.
