Description of the picture: Flutist – David Teniers the Younger. The beginning of the 1640s. Canvas, oil. 24.7×19.5 The Teniers’ piece presents an enthusiastically playing music flute player who personifies the Auditus from allegory "Five senses". Since the Renaissance,… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: View of Collioure – Henri Matisse. 1906. Oil on canvas. 53.5 x seventy three cm Minimal use of halftones, bright open paints, wide free strokes, large planes and associative use of warm and cold tones… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of Count M. M. Speransky – Pavel Alekseevich Ivanov. 1806. Bone, watercolor, gouache. 7.5×6.3 The art of portrait miniatures on bones reached its peak in the 18th – first half of the 19th centuries. Small… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: The educational house in Moscow – Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev. Watercolor on paper, 30.2 x 46.5 cm At the beginning of the 19th century, the famous master of urban landscape F. Ya. Alekseev, on the instructions of… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Meal – Vasily G. Perov. 1865-1876. Canvas, oil. 84×126 Vasily Grigorievich Perov is an outstanding master of the 1860-1870s, whose theme was the exposure of the imperfections of modern society. His paintings reflected the fate… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev – Ilya Efimovich Repin. 1903. Oil on canvas. 68,5×53 For all the breadth of his artistic interests, Repin was still primarily a portrait painter. A deep connoisseur of people and a… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of E. N. Khrushchova and Princess E. N. Khovanskaya – Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky. 1773. Oil on canvas. 164×129 The paintings present the viewer with cheerful, full of girlish enthusiasm and beauty of young girls. The… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Tradeswoman with a mirror – Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev. 1920. Oil on canvas. 141×108 Youth always attracts with its brightness, beauty, freshness. The artist presents us with an ordinary scene from a merchant’s life. A young… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of the artist N. N. Ge – Nikolay Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko. 1890. Oil on canvas. 92.5×73.5 Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko (1848-1896) is one of the main participants in the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions. Having secured the… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of Diego de Villamayor – Juan Pantocha de la Cruz. 1605. Oil on canvas. 88.5×70.5 The talent of the Spanish painter Juan Pantoja de la Cruz was especially evident in the field of ceremonial… Continue Reading