Eugene de Blaas (1870-1879)



Eugene de Blaas, also known as Eugene von Blaas or Eugenio Blaas ( July 24 1843 – February 10 1932), was an Italian painter in the school known as Academic Classicism. He was born at Albano, near Rome, to Austrian parents.  

Claude Monet - The Artist’s House at Argenteuil


Claude Monet and his family lived at Argenteuil, outside Paris, from 1871 to 1878. Here he depicted his five- or six-year-old son, Jean, playing with a hoop and his wife, Camille, standing in the doorway of their vine-covered house. The pleasant weather and neatly kept garden, a forerunner of the artist’s celebrated garden at Giverny, give a sense of tranquility and well-being to this painting. This was a period of financial security for Monet thanks to recent sales of his work to the Paris art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel.

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Battle of Hohenfriedberg - Attack of the Prussian Infantry and Attack of the Prussian Infantry in the Battle of Leuthen, 1757



Carl Röchling (May 21, 1855 – May 6, 1920) was a German painter and illustrator known for his representation of historical military themes. While in Berlin, he was a pupil of the great master painter Anton von Werner, with whom he participated in the creation of various panoramic paintings such as Der Schlacht von Sedan ("The Battle of Sedan"). Later he became well known for his independent work of historical and military paintings in the turn of the 19th century. He died on May 6, 1920 in Berlin.

Nudes


Study of a Half-Naked Woman c.1650


“Puberty”, 1894, Edvard Munch.


Francesco Hayez, Susanna at her Bath, 1850

Paint

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. Pablo Picasso

Man has been endowed with reason,

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. -- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian Dramatist and Writer