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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.

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Time Saving Truth from Falsehood

Academician / Baroque / French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy” of 1737 by Francois Lemoyne.  This allegorical Rococo masterpiece was produced when Lemoyne was fifty-nine years old and completed the day before his suicide.  He began his studies when he was thirteen and won the Prix de Rome in 1711.  Seven years later at the age of thirty he became a member of the Academie and became a professor in 1733.  He led in the in the fashion of large allegorical paintings which disappeared upon his death on June 4, 1737.  His suicide was probably prompted by insanity which overcame him after the death of his wife.

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Blind Man’s Bluff

Academician / French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Blindekuhspiel” of 1776 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.  This French artist was forty-four when he created this Late Rococo landscape depicting a game of blind man’s bluff.  The vivid colors and veiled sensuality were precursors of later Romanticism.  He won the Prix de Rome in 1752 and four years later arrived at the Eternal City at the age of twenty-four.  He became influenced by the Dutch Masters and by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and returned to Paris in 1761 where he entered the Academy within four years.  He became a great favorite of the members of the court of Louis XV but fled Paris at the outset of the French Revolution.  He lived quietly in the south of France until near his death when he returned to Paris where he died in 1806.  This work is 198 cm wide and 216 cm high and is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.

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Bonaparte at the Bridge of Arcole

French / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Bonaparte at the Bridge of Arcole” by Antoine-Jean Gros of 1801.  It depicts the masterful victory of Napoleon against the Austrians during their third attempt to raise the siege of Mantua in 1796.  The painting, along with several others, depicts a crucial moment on the first day of the battle in which Napoleon seized the Tri-color and exposed himself to withering Austrian fire in an effort to inspire his men.  Bonaparte eventually won the battle and campaign.  The painting is 59 cm wide and 73 cm high.  The masterpiece is currently in Louvre, Paris.

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Justice and Vengence Pursuing Crime

French / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Justice and Divine Vengence Pursuing Crime” by Pierre-Paul Prud’hon of 1808.  This French Romanticist was best known for his allegories of which this is his finest masterpiece.  He went to Italy in 1784 and furthered his studies so that when he returned to Paris three years later he became a favorite at the court of Napoleon.  He received the Legion of Honor for “Justice and Vengence” in 1808 and was a strong influence on the later work of Gericault.  He survived the Napoleonic regime but was unhinged by the suicide of his mistress in 1821.  He died two years later.

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Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau

French / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau” by Antoine-Jean Gros of 1808.  Gros was a disciple of the Neoclassicist David, but departed from those norms in this epochal painting.  Napoleon’s compassion towards the dead and wounded is depicted with focus in the foreground of huge corpses.  Gros was thirty-seven when he produced this masterpiece and he was at the height of his career.  His later life was focused on an increasing failure to stem the tide of Romanticism.  He died at his own hand on June 25, 1835.  The original of this masterpiece is in the Louvre and is 784 cm wide and 521cm high.

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Composition VI by Wasily Kandinsky

Academician / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Composition VI” by Wasily Kandinsky of 1913.  Kandinsky was born in 1866 Moscow and was a lawyer in his twenties.  He began to paint only at the age of thirty when he moved to Munich and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts.  Beginning in 1911 he began using music terms for his art and started calling his elaborate works, compositions.  He became influenced by Theosophy and his first seven compositions are abstract images heralding the upcoming Apocalypse.   In Composition VI Kandinsky is imaging the Apocalypse by Water.  Kandinsky fled to France when the Nazi came to power and became a French citizen in 1939.  He died in France in 1944.  This painting is 300 cm wide and 195 cm high and is in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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The Lock, John Constable, 1824

Academician / British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Lock” of 1824 by John Constable.  The artist was a native of Suffolk who died in 1837 at the age of sixty-one years.  He is one of the greatest English landscape painters but did not become recognized until he was elected to the Royal Academy at the age of fifty-two.  He struggled financially until then with his works selling better in France than in England.  This landscape features the lock and canal system of England which led to its industrial growth in the Nineteenth Century.  The painting is 120 cm wide and 142.2 cm high and is in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

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The Effect of Fog and Snow seen through a ruined Gothic Colonnade

Academician / British / French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of ” The Effect of Fog and Snow seen through a ruined Gothic Colonnade” of 1826 by Louis Daguerre.  This masterpiece was produced by the inventor of the Daguerreotype system of photography.  In his mid-thirties he invented the Diorama in 1822.  Three years later he partnered with Niepce, the inventor of the first permanent photograph, in an effort to further the invention.  In 1839 he announced the completion of the project and was awarded a patent by the French government.  When it was released to the public domain by the government, a pension was given to Daguerre and Niepce’s son.  The inventor died in 1851.  The original painting is 60.5 inches wide and 40 inches high and is the third in a series of Scottish Dioramas.  Daguerre was apparently awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honour by Charles X for the three paintings.

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A Stop, Evening Bivouac, Karl Bodmer

American / German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “A Stop, Evening Bivouac” by Karl Bodmer of 1833.  This watercolor was completed after the artist’s party camped for the night on the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota.  They camped on the night of November 3, 1833.  Bodmer was a Swiss artist who was twenty-four when he produced the watercolor and was on an expedition with the German explorer Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied.  After the expedition Bodmer returned to Europe where he died on October 30, 1893.
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