samedi 31 décembre 2011
Jan Davidsz. Heem - Still Life with a Glass and Oysters
Jan Davidsz. Heem
1606, Utrecht - 1684, Antwerp
Jan Davidsz. Heem
Still Life with a Glass and Oysters
c. 1640
25.1 x 19.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
25.1 x 19.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Still-life with Fruit and Butterflies
c. 1645-1655
32.8 x 48.8 cm
National Gallery of Canada
32.8 x 48.8 cm
National Gallery of Canada
17th-century Dutch masters
Gerrit Dou, Woman at a Window, 1663.
Oil on panel, 38.5 x 27.7 cm
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Gerard ter Borch, Woman Washing her Hands, c.1655.
Oil on panel, 53 x 43 cm
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
Quiringh Gerritsz. Van Brekelenkam,
Confidential Conversation, 1661.
Oil on panel, 47 x 36 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Gerrit Dou, A young woman at her toilet, 1667.
Oil on panel, 75,5 x 58 cm.
Donation: Henry Deterding 1936
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Pieter de Hooch,
The Courtyard of a House in Delft, 1658.
Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 60 cm
The National Gallery, London. Bought, 1871
Jacobus Vrel,
Woman at a Window, waving at a Girl, c. 1650.
Oil on panel, 47.5 x 39.2 cm
Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt
Johannes Vermeer - The National Gallery
Johannes Vermeer 1632-1675
A Young Woman seated at a Virginal about 1670-2
A Young Woman standing at a Virginal about 1670-2
( a very comprehensive website about Johannes Vermeer )
jeudi 29 décembre 2011
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida - la sieste
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923)
La Sieste, 1911
Huile sur toile - 200 x 201 cm
Madrid, Museo Sorolla
La Sieste, 1911
Huile sur toile - 200 x 201 cm
Madrid, Museo Sorolla
mardi 27 décembre 2011
dimanche 25 décembre 2011
Katherine Mansfield - The Doll's House
The Doll's House
by Katherine Mansfield
1888-1923 New Zealand
When dear old Mrs. Hay went back to town after staying with the Burnells she sent the children a doll's house. It was so big that the carter and Pat carried it into the courtyard, and there it stayed, propped up on two wooden boxes beside the feed-room door. No harm could come of it; it was summer. And perhaps the smell of paint would have gone off by the time it had to be taken in. For, really, the smell of paint coming from that doll's house ("Sweet of old Mrs. Hay, of course; most sweet and generous!") -- but the smell of paint was quite enough to make any one seriously ill, in Aunt Beryl's opinion. Even before the sacking was taken off. And when it was . . .
When dear old Mrs. Hay went back to town after staying with the Burnells she sent the children a doll's house. It was so big that the carter and Pat carried it into the courtyard, and there it stayed, propped up on two wooden boxes beside the feed-room door. No harm could come of it; it was summer. And perhaps the smell of paint would have gone off by the time it had to be taken in. For, really, the smell of paint coming from that doll's house ("Sweet of old Mrs. Hay, of course; most sweet and generous!") -- but the smell of paint was quite enough to make any one seriously ill, in Aunt Beryl's opinion. Even before the sacking was taken off. And when it was . . .
samedi 24 décembre 2011
Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Hunters in the snow
Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1525-1569 - Hunters in the snow 1565
Oil on panel, 117 x 162 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
vendredi 23 décembre 2011
mercredi 21 décembre 2011
mardi 20 décembre 2011
Picasso -Femme couchee au bord de mer 1920
Picasso - Femme couchée au bord de mer 1920
Picasso Femme allongee sur un divan (Dora Maar) 1935
lundi 12 décembre 2011
dimanche 11 décembre 2011
dimanche 4 décembre 2011
Rembrandt Self-portrait,aged 51
Rembrandt van Rijn 1606-1669
Rembrandt Self-portrait,aged 51
SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY
SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY
