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2. Woman in Blue - Wikipedia

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   Woman in Blue is an oil-on-canvas portrait of an unknown woman, executed in the late 1770s or early 1780s by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough during his fifteen-year-stay in Bath, Somerset. Some art historians have identified its subject as the Duchess of Beaufort, daughter of Edward Boscawen.

3. Woman Reading a Letter (Vermeer) - Wikipedia

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   46.6 cm × 39.1 cm (18.3 in × 15.4 in) Location. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam. Woman Reading a Letter ( Dutch: Brieflezende vrouw) [1] [2] is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, produced in around 1663. It has been part of the collection of the City of Amsterdam since the Van der Hoop bequest in 1854, and in the ...

4. Girl with a Pearl Earring - Wikipedia

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   Dutch Golden Age painting. Dimensions. 44.5 cm × 39 cm (17.5 in × 15 in) Location. Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands. Girl with a Pearl Earring ( Dutch: Meisje met de parel) [1] [2] is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, dated c. 1665. Going by various names over the centuries, it became known by its present title ...

5. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I - Wikipedia

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   Dimensions. 140 cm × 140 cm (55⅛ in × 55⅛ in) Location. Neue Galerie, New York. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is an oil painting on canvas, with gold leaf, by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a ...

6. The Art of Painting - Wikipedia

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   The woman in blue could be representing poetry,: 175 pointing to Plutarch who observed that "Simonides calls painting silent poetry and poetry painting that speaks", later paraphrased by the Latin poet Horace as ut pictura poesis. If so, the map is representing history.

7. La Parisienne (Renoir painting) - Wikipedia

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   La Parisienne is a painting in oils on canvas completed in 1874, signed and dated by the artist. It shows a young woman in a long layered dress of a striking deep blue, her face turned to the viewer as she puts on her gloves. Originally the painting had as its background a doorway in the upper left and a curtain at the upper right, but these ...