- 11:52am
Charles Sprague Pearce - The Death of the Firstborn - 1877 - S A A M, Washington D.C.
Pearce's orientalist opus portraying the lamentation over Death of the Pharaoh's First-born
- 11:38am
Alexandre Cabanel - Albaydé - 1848 - Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Cabanel, inspired by a Victor Hugo poem, painted the doe-eyed, languid Albaydé
- 11:21am
Ernest Jean Delahaye - Mademoiselle Fifi - 1899 - Musée des Beaux-Arts, Carcassonne
Delahaye depicts Rachel murdering Fifi in Maupassant's short story ' Mademoiselle Fifi '
- Jul 3, 8:06am
Lovis Corinth - The Temptation of Saint Anthony - 1897 - Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Corinth's sensuous opus portraying the spiritual torment of Saint Anthony the Great
- Jul 3, 7:53am
Paul Cezanne - Apples and Oranges - 1899 - Musee d' Orsay, Paris
Cézanne utilized a complex spatial construction to imbue dynamism into Apples and Oranges
- Jul 3, 7:38am
Carlos Vasquez y Obeda - Cléo de Mérode at the Salon - 1909 - Private Collection
Cléo de Mérode, the Belle Époque danseuse immortalized in sculpture by Alexandre Falguière
- Jul 1, 11:01am
Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres - Angelica saved by Ruggiero - 1839 - National Gallery, London
Angelica rescued from a sea-monster by Ruggiero mounted on a Hippogriff
- Jul 1, 10:36am
Max Liebermann - Country Pub in Brannenburg - 1893 - Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Liebermann's muted tonality enhances the relaxed rustic charm of Country Pub in Brannenburg
- Jul 1, 10:21am
Dosso Dossi - Allegory of Fortune - 1530 - The Getty Center, Los Angeles
Dossi's lost allegory rediscovered serendipitously, the Ferrarese masterpiece Allegory of Fortune
- Jun 30, 9:12am
Félix Vallotton - The Rape of Europa - 1908 - Kunstmuseum Berne
King Agenor's daughter abducted by Zeus disguised as a bull, the beauteous Europa
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