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Struggles in getting your Christmas box. How are you doing this week? Message or comment if you need anything.
[Richard Newton, "Christmas Boxes," hand-colored etching, 25.7 x 30.5 cm, 1794, British Museum.] #ArtHistory #GraphicArts #Satire #Caricature #18thCentury
It’s #MicroMonday time! Do you know this painting?
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Though Thomas Rowlandson lampoons the artist ignoring his family for his creative work in Chamber of Genius, perhaps the scene hits home for working parents during the pandemic!
1/ Hand-colored etching at the Met (April 2, 1806).
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Congratulations 2020 and 2021 graduates! This portrait of an unknown Graduate of Merton College, Oxford is attributed to George Knapton (c. 1754/1755, @ngadc). 1/
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Though the embroiderer is unknown, the Cooper Hewitt version features exquisite painted details for the figure of Fame, along with an array of complex stitching to form textured leaves, an eye-catching tomb, and swirling drapery. 3/
#WomensArt #embroidery #Kaufmann #Neoclassicism
Viller's #portrait of d'Ognes was initially attributed to Jacques Louis David, but in 1995 Margaret Oppenheimer made a strong case for it to be the work of Villers. 2/
#19thCentury #Long18thCentury #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth #Louvre #FrenchPainting #Portraiture