Old Masters Art
OLD MASTERS
Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.
The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.
Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.
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Style: Old Masters
Artist: Honoré Daumier
John Bull vows that he is tied to the son of Theodorus by an indissoluble band.
Located in Storrs, CT
John Bull jure qu'il est attaché au fils de Théodoros par un lien indissoluble. (John Bull vows that he is tied to the son of Theodorus by an indissoluble band.)
Delteil catalog3657 state ii/ii (with letters). 9 5/8 x 8 1/4 (sheet 12 x 11 3/16). Series: Actualités, (News of the Day), plate 189. Published in Le Charivari...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Art
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Lithograph
Le Moulin du Télégraphe (Nouvelles d'Espagne) - Lithograph by H. Daumier - 1830s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 31.5 x 25 cm.
Published on: La Caricature, October 16, 1834
Not Signed. It includes passepartout.
Good conditions except some mowings.
Category
1830s Old Masters Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Ce Matin Avant l'Aurore, " Original Lithograph Genre Scene by Honore Daumier
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ce Matin Avant l'Aurore" is an original lithograph by Honore Daumier, the second state of three.
Original Text:
Ce matin, avant l'aurore,
Un Dieu vint me réveiller ;
Il me dit : tu dors encore…
Est-il temps de sommeiller ?
De ton Papa c’est la fête,
Fais lui quelque don flatteur
En lui posant sur la tête
Une Couronne de fleurs.
Translation:
This morning before dawn
A God came to wake me up
The curtains they were drawn
And my snoring had to stop
It is your daddy's birthday,
A time for gifts and flowers
To be placed on his head so gray
Instead of his morning showers.
Artwork Size: 9 1/4" x 9 1/4"
Frame Size: 20 1/2" x 17 5/8"
Artist Bio:
Daumier was a prolific draftsman who produced over 4000 lithographs, he was perhaps best known for his caricatures of political figures and satires on the behavior of his countrymen, although posthumously the value of his painting has also been recognized. His works offer a commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century.
French caricaturist and painter, born at Marseilles. He showed in his earliest youth an irresistible inclination towards the artistic profession, which his father vainly tried to check by placing him first with a huissier, and subsequently with a bookseller. Having mastered the technique of lithography, Daumier started his artistic career by producing plates for music publishers, and illustrations for advertisements; these were followed by anonymous work for publishers, in which he followed the style of Charlet and displayed considerable enthusiasm for the Napoleonic legend. When, in the reign of Louis-Philippe, Philipon launched the comic journal, La Caricature, Daumier joined its staff, which included such powerful artists as Devéria, Raffet and Grandville, and started upon his pictorial campaign of scathing satire upon the foibles of the bourgeoisie, the corruption of the law and the incompetence of a blundering government. His caricature of the king as "Gargantua" led to Daumier's imprisonment for six months at Ste. Pélagie in 1832. The publication of La Caricature was discontinued soon after, but Philipon provided a new field for Daumier's activity when he founded the Charivari. For this journal Daumier produced his famous social caricatures, in which bourgeois society is held up to ridicule in the figure of Robert Macaire, the hero of a then popular melodrama. Another series, "L'Histoire Ancienne", was directed against the pseudoclassicism which held the art of the period in fetters. In 1848 Daumier embarked again on his political campaign, still in the service of Charivari, which he left in 1860 and rejoined in 1864. In spite of his prodigious activity in the field of caricature -- the list of Daumier's lithographed plates compiled in 1904 numbers no fewer than 3958 -- he found time for flight in the higher sphere of painting. Except for the searching truthfulness of his vision and the powerful directness of his brushwork, it would be difficult to recognize the creator of Robert Macaire, of Les Bas bleus, Les Bohémiens de Paris, and the Masques, in the paintings of "Christ and His Apostles" at the Ryks Museum in Amsterdam, or in his "Good Samaritan", "Don Quixote and Sancho Panza", "Christ Mocked...
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1830s Old Masters Art
Materials
Lithograph
The return
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LA RENTRÉÉE.
C'est drôle, je ne vois pas revenir la petite Confiance.
(The return
It's strange that , I don't seem to see little Confiance return.)
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Art
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Lithograph
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