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Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 –1506)
*Lamentation over the dead Christ, c.1483.
Collection & ph © @museobrera
* Detail east wall fresco of the Camera degli Sposi, Ducal palace, Mantua. Horse & poss. Alaunt dogs, 1474.
Comm. by Ludovico Gonzaga, Marchese of Mantua
#Perspective
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (Cluny, 1758 - Paris, 1823)
L'impératrice Joséphine (1763-1814), 1805.
Collection & photo © @MuseeLouvre
Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin (Paris, 1699 - Paris, 1779)
Le buffet, 1728
collection & © @MuseeLouvre
Lovely photos of the gorgeous gardens created by Vita Sackville-West & hubby Harold Nicolson.
Vita, age 18.
Painted by Philip de Laszlo, 1910. https://t.co/ilZbLNX1kM
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Paris, (1725–1805)
Head of a young woman, c.1780s.
Her expression of, possibly sorrowful longing—typical of têtes d’expression- used in an artist's academic training.
Collection & photo © @metmuseum
Dutch, anonymous.
A Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigorica viridissima Linneaeus), a Clioniona Spider, & a mystery Beetle, c.17th c.
Collection & © @metmuseum
#Entomology
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo, Seville (1617–1682)
Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal, 1665-1772.
Collection & photo © @metmuseum
Italy or France, unknown artist.
Unfinished portrait of a woman, 19th c.
Collection & photo © @NationalGallery #NeoClassicism
John Singer Sargent.
Portrait of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland, 1904.
Collection & © @MuseoThyssen