Favorite Painting

[Dalia]

Bonsoir, this thread will be about the historic of a painting you need to give the name of the painter and the title of the painting and the year if possible

Thank You.

Petrus Christus
Portrait of a Young Girl, circa 1470

 

[Kat]

Awesome!

 

[Pogo]

Mine's already in my avatar. It's called "O Fado" (the Fado, a traditional Portuguese music that has been a strong melodic basis for Lusophonic music in general most notably Brazilian) and was painted by José Vital Branco Malhoa in 1910.

(José Malhoa = "zho-ZEH MAHL-oo-ah")

 

[Dalia]

This Canadian painted not very well know but the painting is very beautiful.

No name for the painting

Florence Carlyle (1864 – May 2, 1923)
Florence Carlyle - Wikipedia

 

[Dalia]

Elizabeth Countess of Warwick 1787 by Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792 The Frick Collection 1906

 

[Pogo]

Bonsoir, this thread will be about the historic of a painting you need to give the name of the painter and the title of the painting and the year if possible

Thank You.

Petrus Christus
Portrait of a Young Girl, circa 1470

Ah, salut à mes amis dans la France. Autrefois j'habité la-bas comme Vendengeur (et puis, au-pair garçon). Je connais Lyon un petit peu.

 

[Dalia]

Salut c'est très bien Lyon il fait bon d'y vivre

 

[boedicca]

"The Astronomer" Vermeer, 1668

 

[Tilly]

I like Holbeins 'The Ambassadors' (1533) (year Elizabeth I was born) because of it's rather clever anamorphic skull in the foreground bottom centre. You have to look at the canvas acutely side on to see it is actually a human skull.

The anamorphic skull viewed from the side of the canvas.

Also the still life items are magnificent, and I love the lute with the broken string. My better half has several lutes and he plays early music on them.

The scientific instruments are also wonderful to behold - here the polyhedral sundial:

Also, in the top left of the painting, at the edge of the curtain is a tiny figure of Christ:

The painting if full of religious, alchemical and political symbolism, although ostensibly it is simply about two wealthy French dignitaries at Henry VIIIs court. There is a rather good reinterpretation of the painting by John North - The Ambassador's Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance Paperback – December 9, 2004.
The Ambassadors can be seen at The National Gallery in London.
What a lovely thread, btw Dalia

 

[boedicca]

Mary Magdalene
about 1535-40, Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo

 

[Fueri]

Two Seated Young Girls

Renoir - 1892

 

[Iceweasel]

Madam X by John Singer Sargent. It's striking as a photo but I almost fell over when I saw it in person. She looked like she was coming out of the canvas.

 

[Kat]

Love, love these! ♥♥♥

 

[boedicca]

Raphael (1483–1520), Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn, ca. 1505–1506. Oil on canvas, transferred from panel, 26 5/8 x 20 15/16 in. (67.7 x 53.2 cm). Galleria Borghese, Rome, inv 371

 

[Iceweasel]

for the ladies ...

Portrait of Dr. Samuel Jean Pozzi. 1881.
John Singer Sargent. American 1856-1925.
oil/canvas.

 

[boedicca]

Wheat Field with Cypresses, Van Gogh, 1889

 

[Dalia]

American painter Andrew Wyeth

painting Christina's World
Andrew Wyeth - Wikipedia

 

[Iceweasel]

Albert Bierstadt is one of my favorite landscape painters.

 

[Dalia]

Ophelia
Artist John Everett Millais
Year 1851–1852
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 76.2 cm × 111.8 cm (30.0 in × 44.0 in)
Location Tate Britain, London

 

[Dalia]

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Au Moulin Rouge