#Open Book

[huariqueje]

The Book She Left Open - Jess Allen , 2023.

British , b. 1966 -

Oil on canvas. , 50 x 60 cm.

[newblvotg]

[whilereadingandwalking]

Cozy reading nights. ♥️

[galleryofart]

A Fireside Read

Artist: William Mulready (Irish, 1786-1863)

Date: 1825

Medium: Oil on wood

Collection: Private Collection

Description

This picture, painted in Mulready’s liquid palette of warm caramel tones, is an unusually intimate study of domestic quiet. The little painting on the mantelpiece looks also to be by Mulready. The sitter resembles a Mrs. Leckie, with whom Mulready had a relationship.

[koredzas]

Gerard David - The Annunciation. Detail. 1509

[royalty-nobility]

Comtesse de la Chatre, Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglae Bontemps

Artist: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842)

Date: 1789

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, United States

Description

The portrait depicts the Comtesse de la Châtre, wife of the Comte de la Châtre and future wife of François Arnail de Jaucourt. She had a penchant for wearing white muslin dresses, both for daily purposes and for portraits.

[portrait-paintings]

The Artist's Wife and his Setter Dog

Artist: Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)

Date: c. 1884–1889

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Eakins began this portrait shortly after his marriage in January 1884 to his former student, Susan Hannah Macdowell (1851–1938), a talented painter and photographer. The setting is his studio at 1330 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, where the couple—and their dog, Harry—lived from 1884 to 1886. A photogravure of the painting from 1886 reveals a more robust woman, suggesting that Eakins reworked the portrait, amplifying the effect of the skylight’s illumination. The alterations may have reflected Eakins’s anguish over his controversial dismissal from the school of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, partly for removing the loincloth from a male model in a co-ed class.

[sugifsgalore]

Open Book Gif Set

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Duet

Artist: Lucy Madox Brown (British, 1843–1894)

Date: 1870

Medium: Painting

Collection: Private Collection

[huariqueje]

Still Life with Bunnies - Christina Renfer Vogel , 2024.

American , b. 1980 -

Oil on canvas , 48 x 60 in.

[allegorypaintings]

An Allegory of Intelligence

Artist: Caesar Dandini (Italian, 1596–1657)

Date: ca. 1656

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

[whilereadingandwalking]

Spring is coming. We’re almost there, y’all!

[galleryofart]

The Grey Parrot

Artist: Walter Howell Deverell (English, 1827-1854

Date: c. 1852-1853

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

[mythologypaintings]

Penelope Reading a Letter from Odysseus

Artist: Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (French, 1725–1805)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Private Collection

Description

Penelope is a character in Homer's Odyssey. She was the queen of Ithaca and was the daughter of Spartan king Icarius and Asterodia. Penelope is known for her fidelity to her husband Odysseus, despite the attention of more than a hundred suitors during his absence. In one source, Penelope's original name was Arnacia or Arnaea.

[portrait-paintings]

Laura Battiferri

Artist: Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) (Italian, 1503–1572)

Date: ca. 1560

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy

Laura Battiferri

Laura Battiferri (1523–1589), also called Laura Battiferri Ammannati, was an Italian poet during the Renaissance period. She was born in Urbino, Marche, Italy as the illegitimate daughter of Giovanni Antonio Battiferri from Urbino and Maddalena Coccapani from Carpi, Emilia-Romagna. She published two books of poetry: The First Book of Tuscan Works (Florence, 1560) and The Seven Penitential Psalms… with some Spiritual Sonnets (Florence, 1564). She died in 1589 while compiling a third, Rime, which was never published. She married the sculptor, Bartolomeo Ammannati in 1550 and they remained married until her death. The couple had no children.