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5 years later @GettyMuseum acquired the Annunciation from the same ensemble. It's said that there are others still in private hands. https://t.co/l8O2CKmhIK
40 years ago Dieric Bouts' stunning Resurrection @NortonSimon emerged to be auctioned @Sothebys
It includes the recently cleaned Stag Hunt by Wouwerman https://t.co/kiIhQJygTm
Odd that a French artist should produce an Apotheosis of #Nelson. At least in this particular sketch by Pierre-Nicolas Legrand from c.1818 @walters_museum the artist has the Admiral's surviving arm correct.
Fairies of the Meadow (1850): a Swedish vision of #Spring by short-lived artist Nils Blommér @NatMus_SWE. The 19thc developed landscapes of national histories and myths.
In the same vein as Dürer's self portrait @Pinakotheken, Johann Herz painted himself - not quite as strikingly - as St John @GNM_Nuernberg
Voyerism. Swings can be of doubtful morality #Lancret @cincyartmuseum #Fragonard @WallaceMuseum
19thc immediacy. Against the light background, the brilliancy of van Dyck's head studies is even more apparent.