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On this day in 1875, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot died in Paris.
A pivotal figure in landscape painting, Corot was a leading artist of the Barbizon School.
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On this day in 1925, the @NewYorker published its first issue.
The magazine’s first ever cover art – an illustration of dandy ‘Eustace Tilley’ by then-art editor Rea Irvin – has become a recurring mascot for the magazine.
#OTD #OnThisDayInArtHistory
On this day in 1817, French painter Charles-François #Daubigny was born in Paris.
A painter of the Barbizon school, Daubigny broke with classical conventions, committed to capturing nature precisely “as it was”.
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Fishermen gather their haul under a late-afternoon orange sky in this stunning 1745 painting by Claude Joseph Vernet.
This type of painting, combining pleasant subjects, truer-than-life light and warm colours, was the basis of Vernet’s success, even catching the eye of Louis XV.
Jean Fautrier was a major practitioner of Tachisme, an abstract style popular in France in the 40s & 50s.
This 1939 still life is a pivotal work, halfway between his figurative interwar period paintings and his later ‘Otages’ series evoking the French Resistance & Nazi torture.
Dutch Golden Age painter Adam Willaerts was born in London in 1577, his Flemish parents having fled Antwerp for religious reasons.
Later based in Utrecht, Willaerts is known for his depictions of maritime battles, as exemplified in this 1640 painting. #artbreak
This stunning Flemish Renaissance landscape is today’s #artbreak.
The work, titled ‘La Prédication de saint Jean-Baptiste’ (The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist) was painted in around 1550.
It sold for €138,306 last December.
This 1760 portrait by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein depicts Louis Claude de Régnier, comte de Guerchy.
It sold for €22,300 at auction.
Discovery of a drawing by #Picasso hidden under one of his still lifes from 1922
In order to better understand the technique used by Picasso, experts from the @artinstitutechi used X-rays and infrared rays. They discovered a hidden drawing of the master!