A man furtively making off with two loaves, Vermeer’s Milkmaid, baking bread in rural Sweden, a traditional baking oven, and glistening alongside mackerel and glassware.
Raffaëlli
Modern and mixed media such as wax crayons, pencils, oil pastels, oil sticks and oil bars have become increasingly popular, although many age poorly and most have to be kept under glass.
The urban poor, painted by Raffaëlli, George Breitner, Fernand Pelez, Christian Krohg, Geoffroy, Henningsen in cities across Europe.
The evils of absinthe in paintings by Degas, Raffaëlli, Jean Béraud, and other booze like Bocks by Manet and Friant, with artists also drinking heavily.
By the late 19th century, presses were churning out posters promoting events and products. Some came to appear in paintings of Paris and other places.
Paintings by Maurice Prendergast, Childe Hassam, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Bonnard, and others of these popular gardens in the centre of Paris.
The origin of werewolves, early psychiatry, colourful Venice, a coast of foreboding, a brilliant plein air nocturne, London’s best paintings, visual truth, and more.
Paintings of the quais of Paris from Bonington in 1819, through Impressionism to the Divisionism of Signac and Maximilien Luce.
Carrying Caravaggio’s rotting fruit, bread from the cereal harvest, Vermeer’s milkmaid, fish, dirty washing, lambs, rocks and garlic.
From 1890, he painted views of Paris in increasingly loose style. Recognised internationally, he served on the jury for the Carnegie, and competed at the 1912 Olympics.
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