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Paul Cézanne – The Card Players – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435868

The Painting: In his mid-fifties and at the height of his career, Paul Cézanne began a series of paintings, drawings, and watercolors of card players. The unprecedented repetition of the theme of card players and the monumental scale at which he chose to work in two of the later canvases demonstrate the significance of the project for him
The painter worked in a conventional manner, scaling up to work on a canvas almost

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Joseph Mallord William Turner – Whalers – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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This picture is one of four whaling subjects by Turner; the other three form part of the artist’s bequest at Tate Britain, London. The Met’s painting and another of the same title were shown at the Royal Academy in 1845, receiving a mixed reception
colour; depicting the peril and excitement of Whale-fishing, in a vague, imaginative manner

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Petrus Christus – Head of Christ (Ecce Homo) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Artist: For a biography of Petrus Christus, see the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.The Painting: This mesmerizing image of Christ derives from the Gospels of Mark (15: 17–18) and John (19: 1–5) wherein Jesus was beaten, crowned with thorns, and dressed in a purple robe, subsequently to be presented by Pilate to the jeering crowd of Jews with the words „Ecce Homo“ (Behold the man)
surrounded by the painted trompe l’oeil frame that was rendered in a very sensitive manner

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Michelangelo Buonarroti – Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Signature: [On recto, annotated in pen and light brown ink at lower left:] di Michel Angelo bona RotiInscription: On verso, annotated in pen and brown ink at upper right: 58 Annotated by early 16th century hand at lower center, following the same numbering system of the Michelangelo drawings in the Buonarroti family: nº
The manner of the weight-bearing on the toes of the sibyl’s left foot was crucial

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Copy after Robert Campin – Virgin and Child in an Apse – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Painting: In a small apsidal chapel, the Virgin Mary tenderly embraces the Christ Child while nursing him. She wears a blue underdress beneath a very pale blue robe and mantle. Her long, curly hair cascades down her shoulders
It is important to note that the varnish is discolored and in an uneven, patchy manner

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Antoine Watteau – The French Comedians – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437925

Watteau did not participate in public exhibitions, nor title his pictures, whose meaning is often difficult to fathom. This late work is clearly a theatrical subject, and as he is known to have made drawings of comic actors and quacks from an early age, he must have been interested in the theater throughout his short life
pp. 70, 98–99, 113, 150, observes that the gestures suggest a tragedy in the manner

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