Tagged: fine art

Albrecht Durer Young Hare

Albrecht Durer Young Hare

Albrecht Durer Young Hare Young Hare (German: Feldhase) is a 1502 watercolour and bodycolour painting by German artist Albrecht Durer. Painted in 1502 in his workshop, it is acknowledged as a masterpiece of observational...

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Albrecht Durer Praying Hands

Albrecht Durer Praying Hands Betende Haende, in English Praying hands (also known as Studie zu den Haenden eines Apostels in German, or “Study of the Hands of an Apostle”) is a pen-and-ink drawing by...

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Ernst Haeckel Sea Anemones

Ernst Haeckel Sea Anemones Marine Vintage Illustration The 49th plate from Ernst Haeckel’s natural history book ‘Kunstformen der Natur’ (Art Forms In Nature) of 1904, showing various sea anemones classified as Actiniae. Victorian era...

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Blue Moon Silk Stockings Vintage

Blue Moon Silk Stockings Vintage Advertisement  Blue Moon Silk Stockings, 1920s US vintage advertisement, featuring a beautiful blonde, sitting on a crescent moon. The painting is an interpretation of the masterpiece by Gustav Tenggren....

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Alphonse Mucha Flirt

Alphonse Mucha Flirt Biscuits Lefevre-Utile (1895) Art Nouveau vintage advertising poster. “Flirt” was one of the brands of biscuits made by Lefevre-Utile, who gave Mucha a number of commissions over the years. Mucha was...

Theo van Doesburg Composition 17

Theo Van Doesburg Composition Seventeen

Theo van Doesburg Composition 17 1919 Painting. Theo van Doesburg was a Dutch artist, who practised painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. Colorful...

The Dance Lesson Print

Edgar Degas The Dance Lesson

Edgar Degas The Dance Lesson (1879) Edgar Degas was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his...

The Sleeping Gypsy Print

Henri Rousseau The Sleeping Gypsy

Henri Rousseau The Sleeping Gypsy (1897) The Sleeping Gypsy (French: La Bohemienne endormie) is an 1897 oil painting by French Naive artist Henri Rousseau. The fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping...