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Obedient Unto Death - 1240 Latin Medieval Bible Manuscript - pen ink religious

1240

Cao meticulously places each smaller image to form a dynamic gradient from dark to light which tricks the eye into seeing one image. This expertise in contrast is exemplified in all ...

Auguste Chabaud was born in Nimes, France and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Avignon and Paris.He lived in the area of Montmarte where he had a studio and painted various scene...

This lithograph is part of my private collection and in very good condition. It is original, numbered and signed by the artist in the plate and on the print. Guilde de la Gravure.

Horses resting at the watering place Oil on canvas by Jules Pierre Van Biesbroeck Jules Van Biesbroeck was born in Italy in 1873 during h...

France-Lise McGurn (British, b. 1983) In Pub-Lik, 2021 Medium: Painting on silkscreen base, on paper Dimensions: 60 cm x 60 cm Edition of 10 (with same silkscreen base): Hand-signed,...

France-Lise McGurn (British, b. 1983) In Pub-Lik 5, 2021 Medium: Paint on silkscreen base, on paper Dimensions: 60 cm x 60 cm Edition of 10 (each uniquely painted, on same silkscreen...

"Reflecting Thoughts About Remembering" - Monoprint on Paper Sepia colored monoprint of a male figure "reflecting and remembering." A nude male figure sits with his head facing down...

"Etch A Sketch Sampler" - 1989 Multimedia on Paper Lithograph titled "Etch A Sketch Sampler" by Lilya Vorobey. From a suite of prints from College of San Mateo class of 1989, instru...

A rare serigraph by world-renowned Giancarlo Impiglia. This is an opportunity not to be missed. Born in Rome, Impiglia moved to New York in the 70s, where he established a signatur...

As Florence Ingersoll-Smouse wrote in 1921 in her book devoted to Jean-Baptiste Pater, "a painter of the Fête galante, Pater is interesting both by his intimacy with Watteau, to whom many of his works are still attributed, and by his own value as an artist.” This sanguine, full of life and spontaneity, is typical of the preparatory studies made by the painter to be used later in the composition of his paintings. 1. Jean-Baptiste Pater, pupil and disciple of Antoine Watteau Antoine Pater, Jean-Baptiste's father, belonged to the petty bourgeoisie of Valenciennes where he worked as a merchant-sculptor. His brother Jacques was a local painter who was probably involved in his nephew's training. Born on December 29, 1695, Jean-Baptiste Pater was first trained with Jean-Baptiste Guider, a local painter whose death in 1711 was probably the reason for Jean-Baptiste’s departure alongside Watteau, who was visiting Valenciennes. Watteau's difficult character led to their separation in 1713. Back in Valenciennes, Jean-Baptiste Pater encountered difficulties with the powerful Corporation of Saint-Luke (to which he refused to belong) which forced him to return to Paris in 1718. He reconciled with Watteau shortly before his death (on July 18th 1721), inherited the commissions that Watteau had been unable to fulfil and completed some of his paintings. Pater was accepted by the Académie Royale in 1725 but did not produce his reception painting The soldier’s revels until three years later. Throughout his brief career (he died at the age of forty on July 25th 1736), he mainly had a clientele of amateurs and received only one royal commission, shortly before his death. 2. Description of the drawing and related artworks Pater had adopted his master Watteau's method of composition. His study drawings were carefully glued in a notebook and were used to animate his compositions. His paintings sometimes suffer from a somewhat artificial composition, since the figures seem to be pasted one next to the other. This point has also been made about Watteau’s. The theme of military scenes (which was at the time included in the genre of Fêtes galantes!) was one of Pater’s favourite subjects. Together with the Bathing Women...