This painting by Leon de Smet takes my breath away — another favorite artist to research! 🙂 Click for Enlarged Details:
Day: October 25, 2018
Maurice Prendergast: Along the Seine (1894)
Click for Enlarged Image: Along the Seine by Maurice Prendergast (1892-1894),Height: 33.02 cm (13 in.), Width: 24.13 cm (9.5 in.), Whitney Museum of American Art – New York, NY, Painting – oil on canvas, Public domain, Image source: The Athenaeum Thanks for Visiting! 🙂 The End
James Jebusa Shannon: Jungle Tales (Contes de la Jungle) 1895
Reading Kipling’s Jungle Book? Shannon studied in London during the 1880s and remained there, enjoying success as a society portraitist and figure painter. (In 1922 he renounced his United States citizenship in order to accept a knighthood.) “Jungle Tales” portrays the artist’s wife reading to their daughter, Kitty, shown in profile, and another child. The…
