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Rose Van Lear
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A beauty to behold like a diamond in the coal

Interests include music, HGTV, and art.
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Louis XV (1710-1774) at the Age of Five in the Costume of the Sacre, ca. 1716-24
Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743) and Workshop
Oil on canvas
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One of a number of replicas of Rigaud's original painting, now at the château de Versailles, it depicts the king, age five, wearing coronation robes. The carved inscription in the medallion at the base of the original frame states that this example was given by Louis XV to Monsieur Dombreval in 1724. Nicolas Ravot d'Ombreval (1680-1729) was a French magistrate and administrator who served as lieutenant general of police in Paris from 1724 to 1725. #art #painting
December 31, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Door panel, ca. 1520-40
Oak
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The crown, initial F, and salamander engulfed in flames are emblematic of François I, who reigned from 1515 to 1547. Considered impervious to fire, the salamander symbolized the king's constancy and integrity as a ruler. Carved in wood or stone, variations on this device figured prominently in the decoration of François's châteaux, including Fontainebleau and Chambord. #art
December 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Venus and the Sphinx, modeled in 1868
Antoine-Augustin (called Auguste) Préault
Tinted plaster
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Like much of the sculpture of the Romantic movement in French art, Préault's work was rejected from the Paris Salons throughout the 1830s and 1840s. Official recognition came after the Revolution of 1848. This plaster group is the working model for a commission of 1867 for the imperial palace at Fontainebleau. #art #sculpture
December 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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The Ropewalk in Edam, 1904
Max Liebermann
Oil on canvas
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Laborers manufacture rope by twisting together strands of fiber, which are strung along a path called a ropewalk. Liebermann, who was German, made this scene during a visit to the Dutch town of Edam, which is situated outside of Amsterdam, on what was once an inlet of the North Sea. In the background is a canal linking Edam to the larger body of water. Liebermann's bold, rapid brushwork and vivid palette opened up new directions in German art of the period; notable in this work are the touches of light-colored paint that convey the effect of sunlight passing through the trees. #art #painting
December 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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The Old Actress, 1926
Max Beckmann
Oil on canvas
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The Old Actress, 1926 Max Beckmann Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Persian Letters, 1958
René Magritte
Oil on canvas
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As a Surrealist artist, Magritte painted ordinary objects in unusual circumstances in order to question our perceptions of reality. He also frequently chose titles that seem unrelated to his works, challenging viewers to devise their own meanings for his paintings. Here, for instance, Persian Letters is the title of an 18th-century literary satire describing the travels of two Persian noblemen in France. When we look at Magritte's painting, however, what we see is a pair of trousers standing on top of a table. This unexpected juxtaposition prompts several questions, such as "what do trousers have to do with 18th-century France, and where is the person who should be wearing them?" #art #painting
December 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Green Chimera with Stigmata, 1961
Robert Smithson
Oil on canvas
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Green Chimera with Stigmata, 1961 Robert Smithson Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Birsk, 1916
Liubov Popova
Oil on canvas
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A key member of the Moscow avant-garde, Liubov Popova was a leader of the Bubnovyi Valet (Jack of Diamonds) group, whose inaugural 1910 exhibition featured Expressionists like Alexei Jawlensky, Vasily Kandinsky, and Gabriele Münter alongside Cubists Henri Le Fauconnier and Jean Metzinger. In 1912, Popova studied with the two Frenchmen in Paris, engaging with Cubism's splintering planes and Italian Futurism's dynamic motion. Following her 1913 return to Moscow, Popova became a primary exponent of Cubo-Futurism, producing works such as Birsk. In this composition, she combined the faceted structures and activated forms characteristic of both styles with the vibrant palette of Russian folk art. Popova likely began Birsk while visiting her former governess, who lived near the Ural Mountains in the town that gave the painting its title. By late 1916, she had embraced Suprematism, whose leader, Kazimir Malevich, saw Cubism and Futurism as necessary exercises to realize this non-objective idiom. #art #painting
December 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Court of Two Sisters, ca. 1940
Clarence Millet
Oil on wood panel
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Court of Two Sisters, ca. 1940 Clarence Millet Oil on wood panel #art #painting
December 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Ecce Homo, early 1570s
Luca Cambiaso
Oil on canvas
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Ecce Homo, a Latin phrase meaning "behold the man," represents a scene from the Passion, Christ's last week on earth (John 19:5). The Roman governor Pontius Pilate presents Jesus, bound and crowned with thorns, before a crowd demanding his crucifixion. Here, the usual tumult of the scene is replaced by a quiet, almost meditative atmosphere. The direction of Pontius Pilate's gaze and his gesture suggest that the painting would have been hung above eye level, thus giving the viewer the same vantage point as those in the crowd gathered outside the governor's headquarters. Near life-size figures also offer a sense of immediacy. Through its simplified composition, Luca Cambiaso's Ecce Homo invites the viewer to focus on the figure of the tormented Christ. #art #painting
December 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Woman on Balcony, between 1965 and 1985
Robert Malcolm Rucker
Oil on canvas
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Woman on Balcony, between 1965 and 1985 Robert Malcolm Rucker Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Sunset, Winter, 1862
Louis Rémy Mignot
Oil on canvas
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Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Louis Rémy Mignot was one of few Southerners to succeed in the competitive New York art world. During the war years, however, Mignot found himself torn between his Southern allegiances and his life in the North. In 1862, Mignot arranged an auction of forty-seven of his paintings to raise funds for passage overseas. The haunting Sunset, Winter was among these works. Mignot settled in England, never to return. He died of smallpox at the age of thirty-nine. #art #painting
December 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Bookstore, ca. 1930
Alberta Kinsey
Oil on canvas
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Bookstore, ca. 1930 Alberta Kinsey Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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La Vicomtesse de Poilloüe de Saint-Périer
(Marie Jeanne de Kergolay), 1883
John Singer Sargent
Oil on canvas
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This portrait of Marie Jeanne de Kergolay (1849-1897) shows Sargent's ability to adapt his bold style to appeal to the Parisian elite. As in his portrait of Dr. Pozzi in a brilliant red dressing gown against a red curtain, here Sargent uses a similar color scheme but softens the glaring red-on-red effect by darkening the background and adding details traditionally associated with court portraiture of noblewomen, such as the floral garland. Kergolay's face is carefully observed, while her dress, flowers, and the indefinite background allow Sargent the opportunity for free, vivid brushstrokes. Sargent exhibited this portrait at the Cercle de l'Union Artistique, a select gentlemen's club where both he and the sitter's husband were members, perhaps hoping to catch the eye of future patrons. #art #painting
December 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Stoop Scene, 1970s
Robert Malcolm Rucker
Oil on canvas
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Stoop Scene, 1970s Robert Malcolm Rucker Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Untitled, 1971
Luchita Hurtado
Oil on canvas
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Untitled, 1971 Luchita Hurtado Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Humanscape #56 (San Antonio Circus), 1969
From the series Humanscape, 1965-89
Mel Casas
Acrylic on canvas
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Driving at night in San Antonio, Mel Casas was inspired by the distant sight of a drive-in movie theater screen. This scene led him to begin his Humanscape series, which explores different variations of this Americana iconography. Each painting includes a rectangular, screen-like image contrasted against a competing drama in the foreground, often parodying racist stereotypes of Latinx culture. In this painting, Casas critiques Fiesta, San Antonio's annual festival commemorating the defeat of the Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto and the establishment of the Republic of Texas in 1836. Every year, the festival crowns a white Fiesta queen by the Order of the Alamo, a group that limits membership on the basis of race and class. Casas's painting asserts that the celebrated Texan revolution was actually an entrenchment of Latinx subjugation. #art #painting
December 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848-1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872-1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875-1895), 1878
Auguste Renoir
Oil on canvas
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In this commissioned portrait, as Marcel Proust observed, Renoir gave expression to "the poetry of an elegant home and the beautiful dresses of our time." In the Japanese-style sitting room of her Parisian townhouse-the décor and chic gown testifying to her stylish taste-Marguerite Charpentier sits beside her son, Paul. At age three, his locks are still uncut and, in keeping with current fashion, he is dressed identically to his sister Georgette, perched on the family dog. The well-connected publisher's wife, who hosted elite literary salons attended by such writers as Flaubert, the Goncourts, and Zola, used her influence to ensure that the painting enjoyed a choice spot at the Salon of 1879. #art #painting
December 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows, 1916
Man Ray
Oil on canvas
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The tightrope dancer at the top of this monumental canvas, represented by three overlapping silhouettes, originated as patterns cut from colored paper to represent the figure in motion. Man Ray traced the form as an empty space in white paint, a move that anticipates airbrush paintings and rayographs he made years later. The lower portion of the composition, depicting the dancer's "shadows," is based on leftover pieces of paper that he had initially abandoned. Blown up, these "negative spaces" of color suggest figural elements like an arm or a head moving through space and give the work a striking graphic quality. #art #painting
December 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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December 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Portrait of Madeleine Castaing, ca. 1929
Chaim Soutine
Oil on canvas
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Portrait of Madeleine Castaing, ca. 1929 Chaim Soutine Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Violiniste (Green Violinist), 1923-24
Marc Chagall
Oil on canvas
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Violiniste (Green Violinist), 1923-24 Marc Chagall Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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The Lyrical, 2018
OSGEMEOS
Acrylic, spray paint, and sequins on MDF
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The Lyrical, 2018 OSGEMEOS Acrylic, spray paint, and sequins on MDF #art #painting
December 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Venus and Adonis, c. 1540s/c. 1560 - 1565
Titian and workshop
Oil on canvas
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Venus and Adonis, c. 1540s/c. 1560 - 1565 Titian and workshop Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Madonna and Child with Two Angels, St. Francis, and St. Louis of Toulouse, ca. 1375
Paolo di Giovanni Fei
Tempera and silver gilt on panel
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In this altarpiece that originally may have hung in a Franciscan chapel, the Christ child's gesture invites us to draw near, into the realm of angels. Kneeling in the foreground are St. Francis of Assisi on the left—identifiable by his humble burlap robe and the stigmata on his hands resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ-and St. Louis of Toulouse on the right, who became a Franciscan monk after renouncing his right to the French throne, symbolized by the cast-off crown at his feet. #art #painting
December 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM