"people working with food and drink. Velázquez has painted the interior of a kitchen with two half-length women to the left; the one on the left appeared in his ""Old Woman Cooking Eggs"" from the same period. On the table are a number of foods, perhaps the ingredients of an Aioli (a garlic mayonnaise made to accompany fish). These have been prepared by the maid. Extremely realistic, they were probably painted from the artist's own household as they appear in other ""bodegones"" from the same time. In the background is a biblical scene, generally accepted to be the story of"
"Portrait of an Old Woman with Folded Hands Portrait of an Old Woman is a c. 1640 portrait painting painted in the style of Jacob Adriaensz. Backer. It shows an old woman with folded hands. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Several portraits of older people of 17th-century Amsterdam have survived, and sometimes these were pendants and sometimes they were individual portraits. This painting was attributed to Rembrandt for more than a century, but the name of the sitter is unknown. During the course of the 20th-century this painting was attributed to Jacob Adriaensz. Backer,"
"Velázquez married Juana Pacheco (June 1, 1602August 10, 1660), the daughter of his teacher. She bore him two daughters—his only known family. The elder, Francisca de Silva Velázquez y Pacheco (1619–1658), married painter Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo at the Church of Santiago in Madrid on August 21, 1633; the younger, Ignacia de Silva Velázquez y Pacheco, born in 1621, died in infancy. Velázquez produced notable works during this time. Known for his compositions of amusing genre scenes, also called bodegones, such as ""Old Woman Frying Eggs"". ""Christ in the House of Martha"" (1618) combines this bodegón type in a"
"by Gainsborough (""see above"") and is dated to about 1782 or 1784. The third portrait is by Benjamin West and was painted shortly before Octavius's death. Furthermore, among these five portraits, there are two enamels, both after Gainsborough's 1782 portrait; one is by William Bone and the other one is by an anonymous master. The sixth and last portrait represents the apotheosis of Octavius and Alfred (""see above"") and was painted by West. Another portrait, this time of Queen Charlotte, features Octavius. Painted in 1779 by West, this is both a portrait of the Queen and her children, who are"
"in the Gemäldegalerie. Since that painting has yet to be recovered after WWII, it is assumed lost. Other details may give clues, such as the black band may be a sign of mourning and the small wrist collars could mean the Mennonite faith. Portrait of an Old Woman with Folded Hands Portrait of an Old Woman is a c. 1640 portrait painting painted in the style of Jacob Adriaensz. Backer. It shows an old woman with folded hands. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Several portraits of older people of 17th-century Amsterdam have survived, and"
"portraits of the Infanta was ""Las Meninas"" (1656), currently in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. In it, the artist painted the 5-year-old Infanta in his studio while working on a portrait of her parents. She is surrounded by her maids of honor and other courtiers, but her eyes are riveted to her parents, whose reflection is visible in the mirror on the wall. The canvas was the inspiration for Picasso, who in 1957 created more than forty variations of this pattern. The image of Margaret in the paintings by Velázquez inspired not only painters. The poet Boris Pasternak mentions"
"who painted three versions of the subject in the early 18th century (two are in the Getty Center and Bayreuth, Germany). In both the Italian and northern traditions the subject fitted well into existing genres showing lavish dining, with the added attraction of making a more prestigious history painting with an impeccable and exotic classical origin. It often formed part of cycles on Antony and Cleopatra with other subjects including the ""Meeting of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony"", the ""Death of Cleopatra"", and sometimes her meetings with Julius Caesar and Octavian. The Banquet of Cleopatra The Banquet of Cleopatra is the"
"La Fornarina The Portrait of a Young Woman (also known as La fornarina) is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, made between 1518 and 1519. It is in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini, Rome. It is probable that the picture was in the painter's studio at his death in 1520, and that it was modified and then sold by his assistant Giulio Romano. In the 16th century the picture was in the house of the Countess of Santafiora, a Roman noblewoman, and subsequently became property of the Duke Boncompagni and then of the Galleria"
"The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) is a painting by Leonora Carrington. The painting is considered one of her most famous works as it sold for almost $1.5 million in 2009. Carrington created the Giantess circa 1947 in Mexico City after becoming a resident of Mexico in 1942. The tempera on wood panel painting is 117 x 68cm. The Giantess now resides in the private collection of Miguel S. Escobedo in Mexico. Carrington wrote, “... it’s a sort of a giantess with a moonlike face in a field of wheat which is"
"Portrait of an Elderly Woman Portrait of an Old Woman is a small oil on wood panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling, completed c 1475–80, and in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, since 1944. The panel has obviously been cut down given its tight framing. The woman's face and headdress dominate the remaining pictorial space; they create a strong contrast between her cream headgear and the black background and the lower portion of the painting, which was originally bluish green, but has darkened with age and accumulated dirt. Yet the panel is"
"Porciuncula"", and for the Dominicans the picture which long served as a veil to the wondrous image of ""Our Lady of the Forsaken"". He died at Valencia in 1714. The Museum of Valencia possesses a pleasing picture of ""Christ and the Virgin enthroned"", the latter with the bright complexion peculiar to Valencian beauty. Attribution: Gaspar de la Huerta Gaspar de la Huerta (1645–1714) was a Spanish artist born at Campillo de Altobuey in Cuenca. At an early age, seeking instruction in Valencia, he fell into the hands of Jesualda Sanchez, the bustling widow of Pedro Infant, a third-rate painter, who"
"Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest Sons Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest Sons (1775) is an oil on canvas portrait by Joshua Reynolds. Work began on the picture in 1773, and, in Grand Manner fashion, Reynolds exploited two classical paintings: the attitude of the child on the left was modelled on Cupid in Velázquez's ""Toilet of Venus"" whilst the general composition was inspired by Anthony van Dyck's ""Charity"". The painting passed to Mister Cockburn's son George, and then to his daughter, Mister Hamilton, the wife of Sir James Hamilton. It was bequeathed to London's National Gallery in 1906. The"
"Portrait of a 62-year-old Woman, possibly Aeltje Pietersdr Uylenburgh Portrait of a 62-year-old Woman, possibly Aeltje Pietersdr Uylenburgh is a 1632 portrait painting painted by Rembrandt. It shows an elderly woman with a small and sober millstone collar. It is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Several oval portraits of a woman of 17th-century Amsterdam have survived, and sometimes these were pendants and sometimes they were individual portraits. This painting, without a pendant, has been attributed to Rembrandt since the 19th century. This painting came into the collection via the major gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk"
"a painting of the Holy Family, painted in the 17th or 18th century. From the same time period is an image of the Most Pure Virgin on the third level, but it is not in its original place. On the fourth level, there is another image of Christ which dates from the 16th or 17th century and another on the fifth level from the 17th century. Our Lady of Mount Carmen appears on the fifth level, painted in the 17th century and the Martyrdom of Saint Peter is on the sixth level, painted in the 17th or 18th century. Also"
"Washington copy, signed and dated to 1738; another in Munich, signed and dated to 1746; a copy given by Count Rudolf von Rothenburg for Frederick II of Prussia, lost since 1918; and the fourth copy in the Netherlands, believed to be a studio copy. The existence of four copies of the painting attests to the success of the painting with some copies, such as the Washington copy, being at some point acquired by royals such as the Prince of Liechtenstein. The Kitchen Maid (Chardin) The Kitchen Maid is a 1738 painting by Jean Simeon Chardin. The painting features a young"
"time as a quarter to eleven (11.45). The main painting shows the Birth of Our Lady which is attributed to the school of Mattia Preti (1613-1699) whilst at the side there are two paintings by Stefano Erardi (1650-1733) which show the Flight to Egypt and the Adoration of the Magi. Other paintings which show the Madonna and Child, St Cajetan, St Aloysius Gonzaga, Our Saviour and Our Lady of Sorrows are the work of the Maltese painter Frangisku Zahra (1680-1765). In the sacristy hangs the antique painting showing Our Lady of the Rosary which was painted on wood by Gio"
"by the founders and with the help of other benefactors, the foundation has assembled an important collection of works of art. The main collection is “Nins”, which began over 40 years ago with a painting by the Majorcan painter Joan Mestre i Bosch (1826-1893) ""Portrait of a girl with cherries"" and now consists of more than 150 Old Master portraits of children from the 16th to the 19th centuries from different European countries. Most of the works represent portraits of royalty or nobility in their childhood, although there are some bourgeois and provincial paintings. Part of this collection is on"
"collection of European art was shaped by the Crocker family's purchase of paintings during their grand tour of Europe between 1869 and 1871. This core collection focuses on Central European painting of the 19th century, Dutch and Flemish 16th- and 17th-century painting, and Italian-Baroque painting. Painters represented at this art museum include Antonio Joli, Guido Cagnacci, Gerrit van Honthorst, Nicolaes Maes, Nicolaes Molenaer, Pieter Quast (""Quarreling Women""), Bernhard Reinhold (""Young Mason Eating Lunch""), Andreas Achenbach, Karl von Piloty, Paul Blondeau (""Dordrecht""), Arnold Marc Gorter (""Canal Landscape With Trees""), Andreas Schelfhout, and Charles Christian Nahl. Since midcentury, the Museum has followed"
"on the biographical research he conducted on Irene Parenti Duclos. A segment featuring the life and works of Irene Parenti Duclos is part of the PBS television special"" Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence"", an Emmy-winning program (2013) based on the 2009 book of the same title by Jane Fortune. Irene Parenti Duclos Irene Parenti Duclos (or Irene Parenti, or her academic nickname Lincasta Ericinia) (1754–1795) was an Italian painter and poet. Her work as an expert copyist of old master paintings was highly valued in her era, and brought her honors from several Italian art academies. Moreover, she achieved"
"Canada as a colony and serving in diplomatic positions in the Bahamas and British Honduras. Lady Cockburn's daughter, Augusta, was wed in 1807. Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest Sons Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest Sons (1775) is an oil on canvas portrait by Joshua Reynolds. Work began on the picture in 1773, and, in Grand Manner fashion, Reynolds exploited two classical paintings: the attitude of the child on the left was modelled on Cupid in Velázquez's ""Toilet of Venus"" whilst the general composition was inspired by Anthony van Dyck's ""Charity"". The painting passed to Mister Cockburn's son George,"
"believed a restored original, a credible corroboration is unlikely to ever be produced. In the parish accounts, the painting is first mentioned in 1636, at which time a """"M. Jacob Conterfeyer"""" was recorded as having ""renewed the painting hanging on the northern wall"". Modern scholarship has convincingly identified Jacob Heinrich Elbfas (1600–1664), guild master from 1628 and court painter of Queen Maria Eleonora from 1634, as the artist responsible. Based on the brief note referencing the painting's ""renewal"" in 1636, it was long assumed that the extant painting was in fact the original from 1535, and that the work performed"
"Portrait of a Lady in Yellow Portrait of a Lady in Yellow was painted by the Florentine artist Alesso Baldovinetti sometime in the second half of the 15th century, most likely c. 1465. For centuries the work was mis-attributed; it was purchased by the National Gallery London in 1866 as a portrait of Countess Palma of Urbino, attributed to Piero della Francesca. In 1911 art historian Roger Fry established that it was by Baldovinetti. However, there is no evidence of the source of the commission, and doubt remains as to the identity of the sitter; the most plausible theory is"
"Potitus felling an idol"" and ""Saint Potitus curing the madness of Antoninus' daughter Agnes"". Diano also painted a 1791 depiction of the ""Immaculate Conception"" in the third chapel on the right, whilst in the first chapel on the right is Luca Giordano's 1663-65 ""Our Lady of the Rosary"". A 17th century Calvary is in the first chapel on the left, the second chapel on the left has stucco depicting Saint Cajetan and the third chapel on the left has a painting of ""Our Lady with Saints Antony the Great and Roch"" by Andrea Vaccaro. The sacristy contains two paintings by"
"paintings is the largest in quantity among other western collections. Section starts with works of remarkable artists of the XVII century including “Rinaldo and Armida” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, “Head of a Young Woman” by Jean-Baptiste Greuze and works of Jean-Marc Nattier, Nicolas de Largillière, François-Hubert Drouais, Charles-André van Loo, Jacques Courtois etc. Recently the gallery received a canvas “Young woman with a flower” by one of the most prominent representatives of rococo - François Boucher. There are other works within the same style – “The Italian actors” by Nicolas Lancret and “Sleeping child with angels” by François Lemoyne. Sentimentalism and"
"The Ugly Duchess The Ugly Duchess (also known as A Grotesque Old Woman) is a satirical portrait painted by the Flemish artist Quentin Matsys around 1513. The painting is in oil on an oak panel, and measures 62.4 by 45.5 cm. It shows a grotesque old woman with wrinkled skin and withered breasts. She wears the aristocratic horned headdress of her youth, out of fashion by the time of the painting, and holds in her right hand a red flower, then a symbol of engagement, indicating that she is trying to attract a suitor. However, it has been described as"
"1830. It was exhibited in the collection of the art dealer Katz in 1938 and was subsequently in the collections of André Meyer and Wildenstein & Co. In 2017 it was sold from the divided estate of Paul-Louis Weiller for GBP 3,368,750. Portrait of Petronella Buys Portrait of Petronella Buys (1610–1670) is a 1635 portrait painting painted by Rembrandt. It shows a young woman with a very large and impressive millstone collar. It is in a private collection. Several oval portraits of a woman of 17th-century Amsterdam have survived, and sometimes these were pendants and sometimes they were individual portraits."
"Elders"" (particularly the 1610 in Pommersfelden) and ""Judith Slaying Holofernes"" (most famous is her 1614-20 in Galleria degli Uffizi) and ""Judith and Her Maidservant"" (her version of 1625 at the Detroit Institute of Arts). She was known for being able to convincingly depict the female figure, anywhere between nude and fully clothed. Artemisia was also famous for her skill and talent in handling color, both overall in the composition but also in building depth. That she was a woman painting in the seventeenth century and that she was raped as a young woman by Agostino Tassi and participated in the"
"altered. For example, at first Velázquez's own head inclined to his right rather than his left. The painting has been cut down on both the left and right sides. It was damaged in the fire that destroyed the Alcázar in 1734, and was restored by court painter Juan García de Miranda (1677–1749). The left cheek of the Infanta was almost completely repainted to compensate for a substantial loss of pigment. After its rescue from the fire, the painting was inventoried as part of the royal collection in 1747–48, and the Infanta was misidentified as Maria Theresa, Margaret Theresa's older half-sister,"
"be a member of the Bufalini family of Città di Castello, or Emilia Pia da Montefeltro, due to similarities with the ""Portrait of Emilia Pia da Montefeltro"", now at Baltimore Museum of Art in the United States. <br> La donna gravida La donna gravida (or simply ""La gravida""; Italian for ""The Pregnant Woman"") is an oil on wood portrait by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1505 and 1506, during Raphael's stay in Florence, Italy. It is currently housed in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The portrait depicts a woman who is pregnant sitting with her"
"Portrait of Infante Isabella Clara Eugenia The Portrait of Infante Isabella Clara Eugenia is a painting by Rubens of Isabella Clara Eugenia. It is dated to 1625 and shows her in the habit of the Poor Clares, which she assumed on 22 October 1621 after the death of her husband Archduke Albert of Austria. She visited the painter's studio while on her way back from Breda in 1625 to see the painting begun, as a master copy from which several others could be drawn. The master copy is now in the Galleria Palatina in Florence, having been traded in the"
"de San Fernando, it is generally considered highly unlikely. The Milkmaid of Bordeaux The Milkmaid of Bordeaux (Spanish: La lechera de Burdeos) is an oil-on-canvas painting completed between 1825 and 1827, generally attributed to the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828). Although the picture is held in great esteem and widely admired by critics and the public, doubt has been cast by art historians as to whether it is an actual Goya. If authentic then it is likely a portrait of either Rosario Weiss, or more likely, her mother Leocadia Weiss—the artist's nurse during the last years of his life. Leocadia"
"Double Portrait of an Old Man and an Old Woman Double Portrait of an Old Man and an Old Woman refers to a group of two 1654 oil on canvas portraits by Rembrandt, ""Portrait of an Old Man"" and ""Portrait of an Old Woman"", usually identified as a pair. Signed and dated by the artist, both works were in the collection of Heinrich von Brühl, whose heirs sold them to Catherine II of Russia in 1769. They are both now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, to which they were transferred from the Hermitage Museum in 1930. Their subjects are"
"Pietro degli Ingannati Pietro degli Ingannati, also Pellegrino di Giovanni di Antonio, (active 1529–1548) was an Italian Renaissance painter who is known for his paintings of the Virgin and Child and his portraits. Ingannati's exact dates of birth and death are not known. Ingannati was probably born in Veneto. The importance of the artist has only relatively recently been recognized as his work used to be confused with that Francesco Bissolo, an artist who also worked in a style reminiscent of Giovanni Bellini. He trained in the studio of Alvise Vivarini. His early works show the influence of Giovanni Bellini,"