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22 December 2020
- 18:5618:56, 22 December 2020 diff hist +487 N .NTgyMA.Mzg1OQ Created page with "in graphite: 62 heading in green ink: --Dieppe. -- Water in the foreground with shipping to the left. On the opposite side is the railway station of Dieppe, the Cath..." current
- 18:5218:52, 22 December 2020 diff hist +466 N .NTgxOQ.Mzg1OA Created page with "in graphite: 61 heading in green ink: Le Village de Gloton - (Opposite Bonnières.) A river occupies foreground and distance. On the right bank a village, the houses..." current
- 18:4818:48, 22 December 2020 diff hist +503 N .NTgxOA.Mzg1Nw Created page with "in graphite: 60 heading in green ink: Les Laveuses. In the preface of the Lavernier[?] Catalogue (1894) - L. Rogers Mills mentions "Les Laveuses" as having "such bea..." current
- 18:2918:29, 22 December 2020 diff hist +422 N .NTgxNg.Mzg1NQ Created page with "in graphite: 58 from all other pictures, and from that moment, Millet was to me the greatest of modern painters. symbol in green ink: Ŧ heading in green ink: Hi..." current
- 18:2518:25, 22 December 2020 diff hist +878 N .NTgxNQ.Mzg1NA Created page with "in graphite: 57 heading in green ink: Woman Sewing By The Lamp. The "Woman Sewing By Lamplight" shows a young sunburned peasant, her hands coarsened by labor in the f..." current
- 18:1418:14, 22 December 2020 diff hist +892 N .NTgxNA.Mzg1Mw Created page with "in graphite: 56 heading in green ink: Jean François Millet 1814-1875 The son of Norman peasants, was born at Gruchy near Cherbourg. Received a simple but sound educ..." current
- 16:4216:42, 22 December 2020 diff hist +708 N .NTgxMw.Mzg1Mg Created page with "in graphite: 55 which the spectacle of life in such a remote country place would convey to a sensitive observer. To Titian or Rubens such a thing might have seemed hardly..." current
- 16:2816:28, 22 December 2020 diff hist +871 N .NTgxMg.Mzg1MQ Created page with "in graphite: 54 play of the brush as with Rubens, but a method which at first sight recalls the niggling of an amateur. In what then does the supreme merit of Rousseau's..." current
- 16:2316:23, 22 December 2020 diff hist +709 N .NTgxMQ.Mzg1MA Created page with "in graphite: 53 and redeemed from sheer ugliness by the scanty trees and hedges round them. The trees have none of the grace of Corot's slender birches and poplars, as th..." current
- 16:1816:18, 22 December 2020 diff hist +9 .NTgxMA.Mzg0OQ No edit summary current
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- 16:0816:08, 22 December 2020 diff hist +320 N .NTgxMA.Mzg0OQ Created page with "in graphite: 52 heading in green ink: The Village of Becquigny Rousseau set out to be a naturalist painter pure and simple, and Mr. Frick's most characteristic pictu..."
- 15:1815:18, 22 December 2020 diff hist +58 .NTgwOQ.Mzg0OA No edit summary current
- 15:1815:18, 22 December 2020 diff hist +303 N .NTgwOQ.Mzg0OA Created page with "in graphite: 51 After a disagreement with the Salon, he went to Barbizon, where he spent much of the remainder of his life. After enduring many disappointments, Rousseau..."
- 15:1415:14, 22 December 2020 diff hist +688 N .NTgwOA.Mzg0Nw Created page with "in graphite: 50 heading in green ink: Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau 1812-1867 An only child, was born in Paris. His father, a native of the Jura, who had married..." current
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- 15:0715:07, 22 December 2020 diff hist +406 N .NTgwNw.Mzg0Ng Created page with "in graphite: 49 heading in green ink: La Mare Aux Vipères. Forest scene. In the centre a pool, on the borders of which are many trees; their foliage, which is refle..."
- 15:0315:03, 22 December 2020 diff hist +536 N .NTgwNg.Mzg0NQ Created page with "in graphite: 48 and studied Corregio's pictures in the Louvre, later on, becoming interesting in Delacroix. year in green ink: 1831 Exhibited at the Salon in Paris. ..." current
- 14:5814:58, 22 December 2020 diff hist +754 N .NTgwNQ.Mzg0NA Created page with "in graphite: 47 heading in green ink: Narcisse-Virgilio Diaz De La Peña. 1808-1876 The son of Spanish refugee patriots, was born at Bordeaux. Soon after his birth,..." current
21 December 2020
- 21:3421:34, 21 December 2020 diff hist +386 N .NTgyNA.Mzg2Mw Created page with "heading in green ink: Pasture In Normandy. In the centre foreground a brown and white cow, to the left some sheep, in the middle distance more sheep with cattle beyond. F..." current
- 21:3021:30, 21 December 2020 diff hist +589 .NTgwNA.Mzg0Mw No edit summary current
- 21:1221:12, 21 December 2020 diff hist +336 N .NTgwNA.Mzg0Mw Created page with "in graphite: 46 heading in green ink: Ville d'Avray La rare et caressante chose qu'un beau Corot! Celui-ci en estime, certainement. J'ai prolongé ma station devant..."
- 21:0621:06, 21 December 2020 diff hist +905 N .NTgwMw.Mzg0Mg Created page with "heading in green ink: Le Lac de Garde - "Le Matin" - It is of course, impossible to say which is the finest of Corot's pictures, for every work to which he gave serious..." current
- 20:4520:45, 21 December 2020 diff hist +435 N .NTgwMg.Mzg0MQ Created page with "in graphite: 44 heading in green ink: L'Etang -- In the immediate foreground, a woman and child, and just beyond, a small pool of water. In the middle distance, a c..." current
- 20:4220:42, 21 December 2020 diff hist +427 N .NTgwMQ.Mzg0MA Created page with "in graphite: 43 'Mr. Young now possesses the most important of all Corot's works, the magnificent "Le Lac," of which a large etching has been published.' symbol in gree..." current
- 20:3020:30, 21 December 2020 diff hist +565 .NTgwMA.MzgzOQ No edit summary current
- 20:1220:12, 21 December 2020 diff hist +262 N .NTgwMA.MzgzOQ Created page with "in graphite: 42 quality in the paint which seems to draw and model at the same time, it is by comparison loose, fragmentary, elusive. Yet there is a science in its freshn..."
- 20:1020:10, 21 December 2020 diff hist +910 N .NTc5OQ.MzgzOA Created page with "in graphite: 41 heading in green ink: Le Lac To pass to the delightful picture by Corot is to pass into a different world. We may still, perhaps, be reminded here an..." current
- 20:0220:02, 21 December 2020 diff hist +276 .NTc5OA.MzgzNw No edit summary current
- 19:5819:58, 21 December 2020 diff hist +673 N .NTc5OA.MzgzNw Created page with "in graphite: 40 heading in green ink: "Le Lac" - (Recueillement.) C'est l'été: les arbres géants, chênes et hêtres, Sur le bord de l'étang, dressent leur fron..."
- 19:3919:39, 21 December 2020 diff hist +800 N .NTc5Nw.MzgzNg Created page with "heading in green ink: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot 1796-1875 Was born in Paris. His father was a prosperous hair-dresser, and his mother, a milliner. For seven years, he w..." current
- 19:1419:14, 21 December 2020 diff hist +945 N .NTc5Ng.MzgzNQ Created page with "in graphite: 38 heading in green ink: Antwerp: Van Goyen Looking For a Subject. White towers of town and cathedral to right of center, large fishing boat with figures..." current
- 19:0519:05, 21 December 2020 diff hist +496 N .NTc5NQ.MzgzNA Created page with "in graphite: 37 heading in green ink: History of the Picture. The seat of William Moffatt Esq. R. A. year in green ink: 1826 Painted in year in green ink: 18..." current
- 18:0518:05, 21 December 2020 diff hist +768 N .NTc5NA.MzgzMw Created page with "in graphite: 36 by a close examination of the way these foreground shadows are cast, why, for example, does the shadow strike sharp across the pathway and yet become blur..." current
- 17:2917:29, 21 December 2020 diff hist +781 N .NTc5Mw.MzgzMg Created page with "in graphite: 35 are enveloped in golden air, so that, like the roof, they fuse gently with the distance instead of cutting sharply against it, as trees in nature and in a..." current
- 17:2417:24, 21 December 2020 diff hist +946 N .NTc5Mg.MzgzMQ Created page with "in graphite: 34 occupy so large a section of the actual picture space. In the center of the composition the far-off riverbank is joined to the house by a row of trees onl..." current
- 17:1217:12, 21 December 2020 diff hist +919 N .NTc5MQ.MzgzMA Created page with "in graphite: 33 with the contrast and get effect of light by the fusion of pale luminous tones. He still retains a trace of his former methods of construction, but the es..." current
- 17:0317:03, 21 December 2020 diff hist +946 N .NTc5MA.MzgyOQ Created page with "in graphite: 32 heading in green ink: Mortlake Terrace - (Early Morning.) The photogravure plate, while it can convey no adequate idea of the luminous tone, the ligh..." current
- 16:5316:53, 21 December 2020 diff hist +448 N .NTc4OQ.MzgyOA Created page with "in graphite: 31 Calais was one of the spots that fascinated Turner when he first visited the Continent, and he more than once found there, material and inspiration. (?)..." current
- 16:4616:46, 21 December 2020 diff hist +487 .NTc4OA.MzgyNw No edit summary current
- 16:4216:42, 21 December 2020 diff hist +419 N .NTc4OA.MzgyNw Created page with "filled with the closest possible observation of nature, but in its tonality, it is artificial. In its conception, too, we cannot deny that there is something of the same artif..."
- 16:3916:39, 21 December 2020 diff hist +344 .NTc4Nw.MzgyNg No edit summary current
- 16:3716:37, 21 December 2020 diff hist +559 N .NTc4Nw.MzgyNg Created page with "in graphite: 29 heading in green ink: Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbour Students of Turner will immediately recognize that this picture is contemporaneous with t..."
- 16:0716:07, 21 December 2020 diff hist +991 N .NTc4Ng.MzgyNQ Created page with "in graphite: 28 heading in green ink: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 The son of William and Mary Turner, was born in Lindon. Began his career as an infant p..." current
- 15:1215:12, 21 December 2020 diff hist +256 N .NTc4NQ.MzgyNA Created page with "himself, who is seen strolling along the path to the left. [[heading in green ink: History of the Picture. Painted in: year in green ink: 1826 Collection: Stephen G. Hol..." current
- 15:1015:10, 21 December 2020 diff hist +931 N .NTc4NA.MzgyMw Created page with "in graphite: 26 heading in green ink: The Cathedral of Salisbury. The following, is a letter to Constable from his intimate friend Bishop Fisher, written from Close,..." current
- 15:0015:00, 21 December 2020 diff hist +801 N .NTc4Mw.MzgyMg Created page with "heading in green ink: John Constable 1776-1837 The son of a wealthy miller, was born in Suffolk County. Went to school at Lavenham and Dedham. Against his own will, he wa..." current
18 December 2020
- 20:5120:51, 18 December 2020 diff hist +238 N .NTc4Mg.MzgyMQ Created page with "in graphite: 24 heading in green ink: Christ Expelling the Money Changers. This picture was purchase from Beruete (Madrid) in April, 1910 - There is a picture by Gre..." current
- 20:4920:49, 18 December 2020 diff hist +656 N .NTc4MQ.MzgyMA Created page with "in graphite: 23 heading in green ink: Theotocopuli Il Greco. 1548 (?)-1625. Was born in Crete. Went to Italy, probably to Venice, first. year in green ink: 1570..." current