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Today's Painting

William Adolphe Bouguereau • Nymphs and Satyr • 1873 • Neoclassism • Clark Art Institute - Williamstown, Massachusetts

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François Boucher (French, 1703-1770) • La Toilette de Vénus • 1751 • Metropolitan Museum of Art

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This is an unusual painting for Gentileschi. The majority of her work depicts women in dominant, powerful roles. This is an unusual painting for Gentileschi, as it depicts the subject, Venus, in a vulnerable situation. Art historians believe that it was possibly a reaction to the tastes of art patrons. It's very likely that paintings depicting women in role of control over men was not popular in that era. Gentileschi was raped by her art tutor as a teen and we can see by most of her paintings that she worked through that event in her work as a painter.

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Artemisia Gentileschi • Venus and Cupid • 1626 • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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Salomon de Bray (1597-1664) • Young Woman Combing Her Hair • 1635 • The Louvre, Paris

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The Awakening Of The Forest (L'éveil de la forêt) • 1939.

Paul Delvaux • 1897-1994 • Belgian • Surrealist

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Paul Delvaux's canvases contain, among other things, a plethora of female nudes. Like classic nudes, they and their surroundings are painted with precise realism. Unlike classic nudes, however, the women are not posing as such but going about their business within fantasy-filled worlds. They stare vacantly toward the unknown and largely do not engage with one-another. It is as if they are captured in a moment in time. If one were to imagine, though, a Delvaux painting coming to life, these women might very well be engaged in robotic, ritualistic movement - the Stepford wives of a surreal canvas. At times disconcerting, the canvas sometimes include fully-dressed,voiristic men. Enigmatic as they are, Delvaux's women hold a beautiful, enigmatic appeal.

Delvaux's inspiration for his visual imagery came from books he loved as a child. Indeed, the painting above is a recreation of a scene from Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth. He also utilized his childhood fears and dreamscapes as creative material for his visual narratives.

Though not depicted in this post (perhaps next post) skeletons, trains and train stations, and architecture are common themes in Delvaux paintings.

La pause du jour (The Break of Day) • 1937 • The Guggenheim Museum. [This was the first Surrealist painting Peggy Guggenheim added to her collection.]

Below: Femme dans une grotte (Woman in a cave) • 1936 • Oil on canvas • Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

La Sirène au claire de lune (A Mermaid in Full Moonlight) • 1940 • Southampton City Art Gallery, Britain. [ As a boy, Delvaux loved the story of the Sirens in The Odyssey.]

Le jardin nocturne (The Night Garden) • 1941 • Location unknown

Les grandes sirènes (The Great Sirens) • 1947 • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Hommage à Jules Verne • 1971 • Fondation de Paul Delvaux, Saint-Idesbald, Belgium

La Vénus endormie (The Sleeping Venus) • 1944 • Tate Modern, London

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes • French • 1824-1898

The Wine Press , 1865, The Phillips Collection

Puvis de Chavannes is best known for his work as a muralist. He was commissioned to create murals for public spaces in Paris, including the Pantheon (1874 – 78, 1893 – 98), the Sorbonne (1889 – 91), and the Hôtel de Ville (1891 – 94), as well as the museum in Amiens (1880 – 82). He also decorated the staircase of the Boston Public Library (1895 – 96). He was known as "the painter for France" and  Émile Zola described his work as "an art made of reason, passion, and will". His classically-inspired, allegorical themes resonate with the public to this day.

Women by the Sea, 1879

Van Gogh, Gaugin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Picasso all recognized de Chavannes as a visionary, making him an important influence on modernism. He was one of a very few artists of any period who foresaw change and embraced it by not only supporting the avant-garde artists who were to be the future of art, but also by teaching and learning from them.

The Poor Fisherman, 1881, Musée d'Orsay

The tranquil themes of de Chavannes's works served to soothe a French public that was recovering from the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1871-1872.

Fantasy (1866), Ohara Museum of Art

Death and the Maidens, 1872, Clark Art Institute

Puvis's work overlapped with Post-Impressionism, Impressionism, and Symbolism.

The River, 1865, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Allegory of Charity, 1887, Musée d'Orsay

Between Art and Nature, c. 1890–95, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Between Art and Nature (DETAIL)

[Sources: The Art Story, Wikipedia, Wiki Art.]

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Francisco José de Goya, Spanish romantic painter and printmaker (1746-1828) 

Self-Portrait at an easel • 1790-1795 • Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid

Doña Isabel de Porcel • c. 1805 • The National Gallery, London

Portrait of Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga • 1788 • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Portrait of the Duchess of Alba • 1797 • The Hispanic Society of America, New York, N.Y. The subject of the painting is María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, then 35 years old. [Wikipedia]

Goya created a pendant* of the same woman identically posed, but clothed, known today as La maja vestida (The Clothed Maja) also in the Prado, and usually hung next to La maja desnuda.

* In art, a pendant is one of two paintings, statues, reliefs or other type of works of art intended as a pair. [Wikipedia]

La maja desnuda (The Nude Maja) • 1797–1800 • Museo Nacional del Prado

La Maja Vestida (The Clothed Maja) • 1797-1800 •

La familia de Carlos IV (The Family of Charles the IV) • 1800-1801 • Museo del Prado, Madrid

La gallina ciega (Blind Man's Bluff) • 1789 • Museo del Prado, Madrid

Saturno devorando a su hijo (Satan Devouring his Son) • 1819–1823 • Museo del Prado, Madrid

Satan Devouring his Son is traditionally interpreted as a depiction of the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus (known as Saturn in Roman mythology) eating one of his offspring. Fearing a prophecy foretold by Gaea that predicted he would be overthrown by one of his children, Saturn ate each one upon their birth.[a] The work is one of the 14 so-called Black Paintings that Goya painted directly on the walls of his house sometime between 1820 and 1823.[2] It was transferred to canvas after Goya's death and is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

El aquelarre (The Witches' Sabath) • 1798 • Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid

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Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874–1939) Reflections (Marcelle) • c. 1909 • Telfair Museums - Savanah, Georgia

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Kees van Dongen (French/Dutch, 1877-1968) expressionist painter and a prominent member of the Fauves.

"Painting is the most beautiful of lies." ~ Kees van Dongen

Note: All images are of works done with oil on canvas, unless otherwise noted.

Self Portrait • 1895 • unknown location

La Célèbre Fatima et sa troupe • c. 1912 • private collection

Femme aux bas noirs (Woman with Black Stockings) • c. 1907 • private collection

Lucie et son danseur (Lucie and her Dance Partner) • 1911 • Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia

Modjesko, chanteuse soprano • 1908 • MoMA, New York, N.Y.

Modjesko was a African American singer and drag performer whose performance in Paris influenced van Dongen to paint this portrait.

Les lutteuses (Lutteuses du Tabarin) [Tabarin Wrestlers] • 1907–08 • Nouveau Musée National de Monaco

Le Moulin de la Galette • 1906 • private collection

The Sphinx • 1920 • Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris

At the Racetrack • 1950s • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.

La Violoniste • c. 1922 • Musée D'Art Moderne de Paris

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François Boucher (French, 1703-1770) • l'Odalisque brune (Brunette Odalisque) • 1745 • The Louvre

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Gustave Moreau • 1826-1898 • French • Symbolist painter, illustrator, and sculptor.

Note: all images are of oil paintings except where otherwise noted.

Self-portrait of Gustave Moreau • 1850 • Musée National Gustave Moreau, Paris, France

The Chimera • 1867 • oil on panel • Fogg Museum, Harvard

Oedipus and the Sphinx • 1864 • Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jason and Medea • 1865 • Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Perseus and Andromeda • c. 1870 • Bristol Art Museum and Art Gallery, Great Britain

Deianira, Autumn • 1872 • J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

The Infant Moses • c. 1876–78 • Fogg Museum, Harvard University

Salome Dancing Before Herod • 1876 • Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles

Hesiod and the Muse • 1891 • Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Cleopatra • 1887 • Watercolor, gouache, pencil on paper • Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Desdemona • c. 1875 • private collection

Les Licornes • c. 1885 • Musée National Gustave Moreau, Paris, France

The cat transformed into a woman •1884 • Gustave Moreau • Watercolor on paper • Private Collection [illustration for French poet, Jean la Fontain's book Fables]

Jupitor and Semela • 1895 • Musée National Gustave Moreau, Paris, France

Galatea • 1880 • Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640) • Juno and Argus • c. 1610 • Wallraf-Richartz Museum - Cologne, Germany

Rubens's study of the antique and of the new sciences manifests itself in this huge celebratory work which uses the story of Jupiter's love for Io and the jealousy of his wife Juno as an allegory of the cosmos and demonstrates his colour theory.

Rubens's painting represents the concluding scene from the story of Io. The giant Argus of the hundred eyes, whom Juno set to watch over Io, was murdered by Mercury. In memory of Argus Juno took his eyes and set them in the tail of her peacock. ~ Web Gallery of Art

Juno and Argus (detail)

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Today's Painting

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640) • Venus, Cupid, Bacchus and Ceres • 1612 • Baroque • Museumslandschaft Hessen - Kassel, Germany

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Bartholomeus van der Helst (Dutch, 1613–1670) • Nude drawing back the curtain • 1658

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Sandro Botticelli's Venus was painted after his best known work depicting the goddess, The Birth of Venus. Sabauda Gallery/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Narcissus • 1819 • Russian Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia

Karl Bryullov (Russian,1799-1852)

Italian Morning • 1823 • Kunsthalle - Kiel, Germany

A Dream of a Girl Before a Sunrise, 1830-1833, Pushkin Museum

Girl Gathering Grapes • 1837

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