Rudolf Jordan in His Studio, Painting a Couple in an Interior

"Here is portrayed three Moods of the Sky and the effects on the Fish and Animals. Sharks and Turtles come to the Surface when it is Raining. Wallabies and Kangaroos are out feedin...

Edgar Degas received a thorough academic art education. He studied with a pupil of Ingres and completed the course at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Initially, he attempted a traditiona...

“I also hold that painting is a quite concrete art, and can consist of nothing but the representation of real, tangible things, ” wrote Gustave Courbet in an open letter to his stu...

Georges Demarées’ father was French while his mother was from a family of artists from the Low Countries. As an adult he lived and work in Germany but began in his training in Stoc...

Georges Demarées’ father was French while his mother was from a family of artists from the Low Countries. As an adult he lived and work in Germany but began in his training in Stoc...

The painting shows a naked man with his head held high standing on a gilded sleigh drawn by four strong men, two pulling and two pushing. A one-eyed priest is shown in the centre o...

Known in the 20th century as Frans Hals and his Family, this image falls within the category known as he group portrait. A widely used genre in Holland, the first known example by ...

Portrait of Rudolf II The emperor is shown here as an older man in the chest pattern slightly to the right. His gaze is directed indefinitely. In addition to a mustache and natural...