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A portrait of Aline Masson, Madrazo´s favorite model and the esthetic ideal of femininity in late-nineteenth-century bourgeois Paris. The white mantilla over a red embroidered shawl and the flowers in [+]
Seated Woman reflects the type of genre scene popular for cabinet paintings in the eighteenth century. Of small format and refined colour, it depicts an exquisitely dressed young woman, her heading re [+]
This cartoon for a tapestry to be placed over a door or window shows a street vendor, a subject based on the popular and very widely distributed etchings by the Bolognese artist Annibale Carracci (156 [+]
This painting displays the same stylistic characteristics as works by an anonymous painter who worked in Rome in Caravaggio’s circle and whose activity is documented between 1610 and 1620. Woman with [+]
These two paintings (P7804 and P7805) are part of a series on similar subjects, yet they stand out among Giandomenico`s work. These works are small depictions of everyday life in Venice, exquisitely r [+]
The hammock suggests a tropical setting, possibly Puerto Rico where Paret lived between 1775 and 1778 after he was banished by Charles III. The sumptuous curtain evokes a dream-like space, while the v [+]
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This painting depicts the baptism of Prince Juan. It is based on the description of that event from Historia de los Reyes Católicos (History of the Catholic Kings) by Andrés Berná [+]
After establishing himself in Paris as portrait painter to the elegant and cosmopolitan high society of his time, Raimundo de Madrazo cultivated a particularly abundant clientele among the great ladie [+]
This is one of four depictions of spectacles from ancient Rome that Domenico Gargiulo and Viviano Codazzi painted for the large History of Rome series at the Buen Retiro Palace. Of those four, in whic [+]
In Tomás Hiepes´s Delftware fruit dish and two flower vases, a large bowl made from the ceramic typical of the Dutch city of Delft, filled with apples, pears and plums, is placed at the centre [+]
Esta obra es parte de la serie de seis tablas con escenas de monos del Museo Nacional del Prado (P01805 a la P01810). El temario arranca del repertorio de Pieter Brueghel el Viejo y meter Van der Borg [+]
This simple, intimate portrait based on a range of grey tones is one of the few known examples of portraiture in the artist´s work. Ribelles may have known the celebrated poet Quintana in his youth th [+]
Establecido en París desde 1873, Palmaroli desarrolló un tipo de pintura de género que le proporcionó un extraordinario éxito. Esta refinada tabla, la versión más depurada de un asunto que repitió en [+]
These two paintings (P7804 and P7805) are part of a series on similar subjects, yet they stand out among Giandomenico`s work. These works are small depictions of everyday life in Venice, exquisitely r [+]
Manzano, a skilled portraitist and leading painter of genre scenes, highlights the fact that -despite his poverty- the boy can read, an uncommon skill in the nineteenth century, even among the middle [+]
The principal beams are decorated with secular scenes, including dances, jousts or men fighting monsters, and with the coats-of-arms of Castile and León and those of the Luna and Rojas families [+]
Esta obra es parte de la serie de seis tablas con escenas de monos del Museo Nacional del Prado (P01805 a la P01810). El temario arranca del repertorio de Pieter Brueghel el Viejo y meter Van der Borg [+]
