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The Athenaeum

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

This is a reproduction of Gilbert Stuart’s “The Athenaeum” which was begun in 1796.  Stuart never finished the original painting and sold his own copies of it for $ 100 each.  He was forty-one when he produced this masterpiece which has been used as the template for the one-dollar bill and many United States postage stamps and other documents.  Stuart went on to become the foremost American portraitist and completed paintings of the first six American presidents.  Originally from Rhode Island, he died on July 9, 1828.  The original of this masterpiece measures 88 by 101 cm and is in the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Ossian on the Bank of the Lora

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

This is a reproduction of “Ossian on the Bank of the Lora invoking the Gods to the Strains of a Harp” by Francois Pascal Simon Gerard of 1801.  This French baron was thirty-one when he created this masterpiece.  He was born in Rome of a French baron and an Italian lady.  He studied under David and became involved in the French Revolution.  At the same time he rose in the estimation of art connoisseurs and he became known as one of the foremost portraitists by 1799.  He was aghast at the rise of Romanticism after 1815 and died on January 11, 1837.  This painting is based on the Poem of Ossian which was an early nineteenth century forgery which was largely believed by an entire generation including Jefferson, Napoleon and Goethe.    The painting is 180.5 cm wide and 198.5 cm high.  The masterpiece is currently in the Kuntstalle, Hamburg, Germany.

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