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Fishing boats in rough seas near Dragør - Christian Mølsted (1862–1930)
Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880) was a German historical and landscape painter.
Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children (1779) is an oil on canvas portrait by Joshua Reynolds. The National Gallery of Art describes the work as a "majestic group portrait".
Mars Being Disarmed by Venus is the last painting produced by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. He began it in 1822 (aged 73) during his exile in Brussels and completed it three years later, before dying in an accident in 1825. (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium) #David
The Baptism of Christ with a Donor (A Gentleman in Adoration before the Baptism of Christ), Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1550s. One of #Moroni's most significant innovations was in the painting of devotional works in which the donor plays a dominant, integral role. Although his
Portrait of the Opera singer and Actress Signora Sestini by Ozias Humphry (1742–1810), portrayed as Terpsichore, Muse of Dance and the dramatic chorus, in a lavender and white dress, playing a lyre.
Joseph Willibrord Mähler's portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, painted in approximately 1804 or 1805, is the first of four portraits the painter made of the German composer and pianist. Today it hangs in the Pasqualati House of the Vienna Museum. #Beethoven
The Swing (French: L'Escarpolette), also known as The Happy Accidents of the Swing, is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era, and is #Fragonard's best known work.
The panels are now housed in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, in Lisbon, Portugal. #NunoGonçalves
The Prayer Before Meal (c. 1740) is a painting by Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin in the Louvre Museum. #Chardin