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    Portrait of Monsieur Bertin is an 1832 oil on canvas painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. It depicts Louis-François Bertin (1766–1841), the French...
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    Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (category 19th-century painters of historical subjects)
    of Art, Washington DC Portrait of Monsieur Bertin (1832), the Louvre Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville (1845), Frick Collection, New York Portrait of...
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    the Castiglione portrait. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Portrait of Monsieur Bertin, 1832. Portrait de l'ami en homme de cour. Portrait de Balthazar Castiglione...
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    The Wedding at Cana (category Cultural depictions of Francis I of France)
    story of the Wedding at Cana, at which Jesus miraculously converts water into red wine (John 2:1–11). Executed in the Mannerist style (1520–1600) of the...
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    Liberty Leading the People (category Vandalized works of art)
    by a Dutch portrait of a fighting Anne Bonny. The Phrygian cap she wears had come to symbolize liberty during the first French Revolution, of 1789. The...
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    figure, though the actual pose of a reclining figure looking back over her shoulder is directly drawn from the 1800 Portrait of Madame Récamier by Jacques-Louis...
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    Mona Lisa (category Portraits of women)
    [ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it...
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    Dying Gaul (category Roman copies of Greek sculptures)
    230 and 220 BC by Attalus I of Pergamon to celebrate his victory over the Galatians, the Celtic or Gaulish people of parts of Anatolia. The original sculptor...
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    Saint John the Baptist (Leonardo) (category Paintings of John the Baptist)
    and Hans Holbein's Portrait of Erasmus. In 1649, Charles's collection was sold, whereupon the painting entered into the hands of the banker Eberhard...
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    a French painter and contemporary of Géricault, provided one answer: "Monsieur Géricault seems mistaken. The goal of painting is to speak to the soul and...
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    which the artist produced no paintings. His next portrait would be his 1832 Portrait of Monsieur Bertin. Still in his collection on his death, it was inherited...
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    the same directness as Ingres' 1832 Portrait of Monsieur Bertin, the image is softened by the attractiveness of both her pose and dress. This warmth...
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    Louvre (category Order of Arts and Letters of Spain recipients)
    Degas; pastel; 58 × 42 cm Portrait of elderly woman, by Matthias Grünewald Portrait of a young woman, by Hans Holbein Head of a man, by Andrea del Sarto...
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    figure in the history of law and the document as a true legal code. The U.S. Capitol has a relief portrait of Hammurabi alongside those of other historic lawgivers...
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    The Virgin of the Rocks (Italian: Vergine delle rocce), sometimes the Madonna of the Rocks, is the name of two paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist...
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  • Thumbnail for Oath of the Horatii
    Oath of the Horatii (French: Le Serment des Horaces) is a large painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 and 1785 and now on display...
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    portrait of Madame Moitessier (1856). The face of the woman with her arms raised above her head in the near right is similar to a croquis (1818) of the...
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  • Thumbnail for The Astronomer (Vermeer)
    shows the Finding of Moses—Moses may represent knowledge and science ("learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians"). The provenance of The Astronomer can...
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    Portrait of Madame Récamier is an 1800 portrait of the Parisian socialite Juliette Récamier by Jacques-Louis David showing her in the height of Neoclassical...
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    of 21.6 metres (71 ft). Its square base has sides of 34 metres (112 ft) and a base surface area of 1,000 square metres (11,000 sq ft). It consists of...
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  • 1832 in art (category Years of the 19th century in art)
    The Great Wave off Kanagawa Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Portrait of Monsieur Bertin Henry Inman - "Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co" James Arthur O'Connor – A Thunderstorm:...
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    Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Death of Sardanapalus is based on the tale of Sardanapalus, a king of Assyria, from the historical library of Diodorus Siculus...
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  • Thumbnail for Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs
    the School of Fontainebleau painting, Portrait présumé de Gabrielle d'Estrées et de sa sœur la duchesse de Villars (Presumed Portrait of Gabrielle d'Estrées...
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    Ingres's level of research can be seen in the painting's portrait of Nicolas Poussin, which is directly copied from Poussin's 1650 self-portrait now in the...
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    ʿAin Ghazal statues (category Sculpture of the Ancient Near East)
    ʿAin Ghazal statues are a number of large-scale lime plaster and reed statues discovered at the archeological site of ʿAin Ghazal in Amman, Jordan, dating...
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    Mesha Stele (category Kingdom of Israel (Samaria))
    only at the upper end as mentioned by Monsieur Ganneau. In the lower corner sides there are not as many words of the inscription missing as would be the...
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    first decades of the 17th century—unearthed in the grounds of Santa Maria della Vittoria, near the Baths of Diocletian and within the bounds of the ancient...
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  • Thumbnail for Women of Algiers
    Women of Algiers in their Apartment (French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement) is the title of two oil on canvas paintings by the French Romantic painter...
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    from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico) of a chapel dedicated to Osiris in the Hathor temple at Dendera, containing images of Taurus (the bull)...
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    The Seated Scribe (category Sculptures of ancient Egypt)
    The sculpture of the Seated Scribe or Squatting Scribe is a famous work of ancient Egyptian art. It represents a figure of a seated scribe at work. The...
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