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Jun 21 2011
A Seaport at Sunrise
French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “A Seaport at Sunrise” of 1674 by Claude Lorrain. This early Baroque masterpiece was created when the artist was about sixty-nine. He was born in Lorraine and orphaned at twelve. He lived with a brother, in Rome and then in Naples was apprenticed under Goffredo Wals. Returning to Rome in 1625 he was again apprenticed and then traveled in Germany and France where he produced minatures. Turning to landscapes in Rome again in 1627, he befriended Nicolas Poussin and they traveled the Campagna doing landscape sketches together. He continued to produce many works and accumulated considerable wealth. He died in November, 1682 in Rome leaving a nephew and adopted daughter. This masterpiece is 96 cm wide and 72 cm high and is in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
Reproduction for sale on Zazzle
Jan 23 2011
Woman with Parasol (Madame Monet and her son), Claude Monet, 1875
French / Impressionist / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This a reproduction of Claude Monet’s “Woman with Parasol” of 1875. Oscar Claude Monet was born in 1840 Paris and founded the Impressionist movement in fine art. At the age of seventeen he began painting "en plein air", an outdoor method of painting in which gestural and suggestive use of oils is made. After two years of military service in Algeria, Monet returned to Paris and painting and initiated the Impressionist style with collaborators, Renoir, Bazille and Sisley. He married Camille Doncieux in 1870 and painter her in several works until her death in 1879. This "Woman with Parasol" is one of those. This masterpiece is on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.
Nov 10 2010
Houses of Parliament, 1904, Claude Monet
French / Impressionist / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of “Trouee de soleil dans le brouillard, Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog”. This is one of ten paintings created or begun by Claude Monet in his stay at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London in 1900. These were created in a succession of series of paintings including Haystacks, Rouen Cathedral and Water Lilies. The series appears to have been completed by 1905, twenty-one years before the artist’s death at Giveryny, France on December 5, 1926 at the age of eighty-six years. The original of this particular painting is in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.
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