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Titled Jeune femme faisant du crochet (Julie Lemmen), 1890, the painting portrays the artist’s sister, Julie Fréderique ...
The AGO’s exhibition includes Tissot’s print reproductions of the paintings and one original ... can be gleaned from his art. Tissot’s 19th-century admirers certainly recognized his ...
Ewa Juszkiewicz’s painting, based on an early 19th-century portrait of Madame Saint ... After the boudoir genre paintings that brought him fame largely through graphic reproductions, Boilly also ...
D.C., to create reproductions of famous paintings by George Catlin. These paintings were a series of 19th century portraits depicting various Kickapoo leaders from Central Illinois. Catlin was ...
Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring 2,000 paper portrait silhouettes, including those of George Washington and Thomas ...
Visitors can see where the family hid freedom seekers under the kitchen floor, and there’s a reproduction ... In the 19th century, photographic portraits largely replaced painted miniatures.
Yet the photographic portrait has long been seen as one of the most accurate ways of capturing someone's true likeness. The Library of Congress The president's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln ...
Contemporary biases, I suggest, may hide mothers far more than did 19th-century portrait conventions. These images remind thoughtful viewers that babies are held and nursed, soothed and protected ...
and 19th-century watercolor sketches were snapped up by bidders. But the rare, pre-Civil War portrait of the formally-dressed Black man that was expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000 was ...
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a rare 19th-century portrait featuring an enslaved person, helping restore to view a young mixed-race boy who was painted out of history—figu ...
In the office of Manuel Bellod Álvarez de Lorenzana’s family home in Galicia, Spain, a 19th-century portrait of Bellod ... with heavy wood-and-leather reproductions in the style of the ...