Alphonse Mucha Flirt

Alphonse Mucha Flirt Biscuits Lefevre-Utile (1895) Art Nouveau vintage advertising poster. “Flirt” was one of the brands of biscuits made by Lefevre-Utile, who gave Mucha a number of commissions over the years. Mucha was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, …

Jean-Honore Fragonard Young Girl Reading

Jean-Honore Fragonard Young Girl Reading A Young Girl Reading, or The Reader (French: La Liseuse), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honore Fragonard. The painting features an unidentified girl wearing a yellow saffron dress. It is one in a series of paintings by Fragonard featuring young girls. Buy Jean-Honore Fragonard prints

Theodore Rousseau Pond At The Edge Of A Wood

Theodore Rousseau Pond At The Edge Of A Wood Theodore Rousseau was a French Realist painter and the leader of the Barbizon School. Rousseau studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From the 1830s onwards, Rousseau became a passionate and appreciative interpreter of nature. Buy Theodore Rousseau prints

Edouard Manet The Railway

Edouard Manet The Railway The Railway, widely known as Gare Saint-Lazare, is an 1873 painting by Edouard Manet. It is the last painting by Manet of his favourite model, the fellow painter Victorine Meurent, who was also the model for his earlier works Olympia and the Luncheon on the Grass. Buy Edouard Manet prints

Thomas Cole The Voyage Of Life Youth

Thomas Cole The Voyage Of Life: Youth 1842 The Voyage of Life, painted by Thomas Cole in 1842, is a series of paintings that represent an allegory of the four stages of human life: childhood, youth, manhood, and old age. The paintings follow a voyager who travels in a boat on a river through the …

Auguste Renoir Girl With A Watering Can

Auguste Renoir A Girl With A Watering Can (1876) A Girl with a Watering Can is an Impressionist painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1876. The work was apparently painted in Monet’s famous garden at Argenteuil. This painting is of Mademoiselle Leclere in her blue dress holding a watering can. Buy Auguste Renoir Girl With A …

Paul Gauguin Self Portrait

Paul Gauguin Self-Portrait (1889) Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer. His bold experimentation with coloring …

Winslow Homer Breezing Up

Winslow Homer Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) 1873-1876 Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) is an oil painting by American artist Winslow Homer. It depicts a catboat called the Gloucester chopping through that city’s harbor under “a fair wind” (Homer’s original title). Inside the boat are a man, three boys, and their catch. Buy Winslow Homer …

Titian Venus With A Mirror

Titian Venus with a Mirror c. 1555 Painting Italian High Renaissance Venus with a Mirror is a painting by Titian, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The pose of the Venus resembles the classical statues of the Venus de’ Medici in Florence or the Capitoline Venus in Rome, which Titian may …

Raphael Alba Madonna

Raphael The Alba Madonna 1510 Painting The Alba Madonna is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, depicting Mary, Jesus and John the Baptist, in a typical Italian countryside. John the Baptist is holding up a cross to Jesus, which the baby Jesus is grasping. All three figures are staring at the cross. …

The Cholmondeley Ladies

The Cholmondeley Ladies Painting British School 17th century art The Cholmondeley Ladies is an early 17th-century British oil painting depicting two women seated upright and side by side in bed, each holding a baby. It was painted on a wooden panel, probably in the first decade of the 17th century. Buy The Cholmondeley Ladies prints

Paul Klee In The Style Of Kairouan

Paul Klee In The Style Of Kairouan (1914 ) Watercolor Painting Paul Klee’s highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was also a student of orientalism. After Klee’s visit to Tunisia, where he was inspired by the quality of light, he returned home with the determination …

Gustav Klimt Hope II

Gustav Klimt Hope II (Abandoned Hope ) 1908 Painting Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body; his works are marked by a frank eroticism. …