Friday, April 14, 2017

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painting

Christ Carrying the Cross
by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770)
circa 1738, oil on canvas, 20.5" x 24.8"
Tiepolo was an Italian painter and printmaker, he was born in Venice.


Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Louis-François Cassas painting

Stroll in the Palace Garden
by Louis-François Cassas (1756 - 1827)
1822, watercolor on paper, 22" × 32.7"
Cassas was a French landscape painter, sculptor, architect, archeologist, and antiquary.
He was born in Azay-le-Ferron, France.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Joseph Wright of Derby painting

A View of Vesuvius from Posillipo, Naples
by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797)
circa 1788-90, oil on canvas, 2.13" x 3.05"
Wright was an English landscape and portrait painter.

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Jules Tavernier painting

Mountain Landscape
by Jules Tavernier (1844–1889)
Oil on canvas, 50.8" × 91.4"
Tavernier was a French artist, he was born in Paris.

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Gottfried Pulian painting

Landscape near Cochem on the Moselle
by Gottfried Pulian (1809–1875)
1858, oil on canvas, 11.6" x 18.1"
Pulian was a German landscape and architectural painter, he was born in the town of Meissen in the Kingdom of Saxony.

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Carlos de Haes paintings

The Pathway
by Carlos de Haes (1826–1898)
1871, oil on canvas, 36.9" × 23.8"
Haes was a landscape artist in the realism style, he was born in Brussels.

Near Friesland (Holland)
by Carlos de Haes (1826–1898)
1878 - 1884, oil on canvas, 42.9" × 78.3"

Egyptian Landscape
by Carlos de Haes (1826–1898)
1883, oil on canvas, 51.2" x 74.8"

The Mancorbo Canal in the Picos de Europa
by Carlos de Haes (1826–1898)
1876, oil on canvas, 66.1" × 48.4"

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Albert Rieger paintings

Sailboats in Front of Venice
by Albert Rieger (1834-1905)
1869, oil on canvas, 23.2" x 34.4"

Evening on the Nile
oil on canvas, 31.5" x 47.2"

Mill on the Mountain Stream
oil on canvas, 29.1" x 39.4"


Mountain Stream
oil on canvas, 23" x 37.4"


Saturday, March 4, 2017

Ettore De Maria Bergler painting

Taormina
by Ettore De Maria Bergler (1850-1938)
1907, oil on canvas, 57.28" x 91.14"
Bergler was an Italian painter, he was born in Naples.

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Rudolf Koller painting

The Gotthardpost
by Rudolf Koller (1828–1905)
1874, oil on canvas, 54.7" × 46.3"
Koller was a Swiss painter, he was born in Zürich.

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Childe Hassam painting

Columbian Exposition, Chicago
by Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
1892, gouache on paper, 10.6" x 14"
Hassam was an American Impressionist painter, he was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Emil Theodor Richter painting

Salzburg with the Untersberg in the Distance
by Emil Theodor Richter (1801–1878)
1858, oil on canvas, 32.7" x 47.2"

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Literature Pick #104

The Terror from the Depths
by Sewell Peaslee Wright
From the November 1931 issue of Astounding Stories comes this fantastic science fiction short story, an action-packed tale starring Commander John Hanson, a character who appeared in ten stories from 1930 to 1933.



Monday, February 13, 2017

John Brett painting

Val d'Aosta
by John Brett (1831-1902)
1858, oil on canvas, 34.5" x 26.8"
Brett was a Pre-Raphaelite artist; he was born near the town of Reigate in Surrey, England.

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Johann Heinrich Bleuler painting

The Staubbach Falls in the Lauterbrunnen Valley in the Canton of Bern
by Johann Heinrich Bleuler (1758-1823)
1820, gouache, 20.5" x 27.6"
Bleuler was a Swiss painter and engraver, he was born in Zollikon.

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Homer Watson painting

Near the Close of a Stormy Day
by Homer Watson (1855-1936)
1884, oil on canvas, 38" x 56.1"
Watson was born in Doon, Ontario, Canada.