(All of the drawings in this post are by eighteenth and nineteenth-century students of the…
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Donato Barcaglia (Italian, 1849-1930) La Giovanezza che Tenta di Arrestare il Tempo, or Beauty Holding…
Ilya Repin (Russian, 1844-1930) Portrait of Vasily Polenov, Detail (c. 1880) Oil on canvas. 80…
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“Not a day without drawing,” was a motto often repeated by Menzel and recalled by…
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[This post was inspired by a conversation I had with the talented and thoughtful painter…
Read the PostThe Ideal versus the Observed in Nineteenth-Century Painting
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, c. 1900 Bridgman was a born in Tuskegee, Alabama and died in…
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Francois Joseph Heim (French, 1787-1865) Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists Exhibiting at the Salon…
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William Adolph Bouguereau. Pieta (1876) Oil on canvas. 230 BY 148CM. Dallas Museum of Fine…
Read the PostManet versus Bouguereau: The 100 Year Prediction
Via BibliOdyssey is a series of drawings by the Polish painter and illustrator Józef Rapacki.…
Read the Post“Warsaw Street Types” by Józef Rapacki (1871-1929)