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The Dutch painter #GerritDou died #onthisday 1675.

This studio replica based on a painting by Dou, dated 1646, depicts a hermit in monkish garb surrounded by vanitas symbols. Alongside the skull, the hourglass and candle present recall the brevity and fragility of human life.

This monumental work is by Dutch painter #JacobvanRuisdael, one of the most famous landscape painters of #17thcentury Holland.

Ruisdael was particularly successful at conveying the majesty and power of nature, investing many landscapes with an emotional, poetic dimension.

#TheSouvenir, painted c.1775-80 by iconic French artist #JeanHonoréFragonard, depicts a young girl carving an initial into the bark of a tree.

Only 25cm tall, the scale and careful technique show Fragonard echoing the contemporary taste for Dutch #17thcentury cabinet paintings.

A similar figure had already been introduced about eight years earlier in another version now in Lyon, wearing a bright yellow tunic.

The clothes are based on a real Turkish outfit borrowed from a merchant friend while his facial features relate to those of the sixteenth-century Berber prince Mulay Ahmad, whose portrait Rubens had copied ten years earlier.

Cushioned between the rich blues of velvet drapery and the waves of the sea, Venus, the Roman goddess of love and fertility, is seen here laying alongside two amours, or loves.

The piece was painted by the studio of iconic French artist #FrançoisBoucher c.1760.

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The Italian painter, #FrancescoGuardi was well known for his ‘#capricci’, fantastical paintings which combined his scintillating brushwork with some recognisable elements and imaginative additions.

This fanciful scene depicts the Doge’s Palace in Venice, and dates to the 1770s.

Great patron of the arts and mistress to Louis XV, #MadamedePompadour was born #onthisday 1721.

This painting, by French artist #FrançoisBoucher, was painted in 1759.⁠

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At the posthumous sale of his collection in 1826, Landscape with a Waterfall was described as: ‘a rustic landscape, the melancholy of which inspires reverie…’ More to the point, the catalogue entry clearly stated: ‘It was Monsieur Denon’s favourite picture’.

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Perhaps the planks of wood on the right, recalling the shape of the Christian cross, confirm that a spiritual interpretation was indeed intended.