19th century – Page 2

This is the version hanging in the Museum of fine arts in Brussels, Belgium but other versions exist (Claus made […]

Let us continue with Caspar David Friedrich, whose portrait we saw yesterday. Today’s painting Das Eismeer (The Sea of Ice) […]

This is not about Carolina Bardua – a German painter who made primarily portraits – but about who she painted. […]

Meunier was a painter an sculptor who started out working on religious themes. When he visited the Belgian mining areas […]

When asked what the painting was about Homer replied: “I regret very much that I have painted a picture that […]

Almost 35 years before yesterdays self-portrait, Renoir painted Bal du Moulin de la Galette. It depicts a typical Sunday at […]

Delacroix was a Romantic painter with a longing for the exotic. He visited Spain and Morocco shortly after the French […]

Levitan was born in what is now Lithuania. Like so many Russian painters he was inspired by the vast Russian […]

When Napoleon visited the (Belgian) city of Liege in 1803, it was devastated by an Austrian bombardment. He decreed an […]

You have probably never heard of Anton Mauve, yet he gave Vincent van Gogh painting lessons. When Mauve died of […]