Among his many exhibits at the Paris Salon of 1763, Greuze showed a head of a boy and two heads of girls; all were the same relatively small size of the present picture but no two were identified as a pair
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris) ca. 1760–80 Girl’s Head Manner
Dr. Otto Friedrich Rosenberg, Dresden (by 1840–d. 1850; acquired from the artist in exchange for medical attention); his daughter, Theophila Minna Rosenberg, Dresden (by 1850–presumably until d. 1882); by descent through the Rosenberg family, Wuppertal-Barmen, later Hamburg, to Gottfried Spiegler, Glinde (until 1999; sale, Christie’s, London, October 7, 1999, no
(color), as "Zwei Manner in Betrachtung des Mondes" in a private collection at Wuppertal-Barmen
Responsive to the cutting of fine detail, it enables carvers to achieve great artistic and emotional expressiveness in a highly compressed format.
Others display the more conservative, idiosyncratic manner of dynastic regional workshops
Thirteen albums rediscovered in The Met collection contain rare images of arms and armor, but first they had to be restored.
� Study of these negative and positive images prompts all manner of questions.
Bidri Water Pipe BaseOf the small number of known bidri objects that predate the eighteenth century, a majority are huqqa (water pipe) bases. Tobacco arrived in India sometime in the late sixteenth century, brought by the Portuguese from the New World to the port of Goa
the metalworkers of Bidar adjusted their styles over the centuries to satisfy all manner
The comte d’Angiviller belonged to an ancient military family of the minor nobility. He had bravely served Louis XV (1710–1774) and the dauphin from 1745, as a page at the battle of Fontenoy, and in recognition of his early, brilliant military career was awarded the red ribbon and cross of the Order of St
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris) ca. 1760–80 Girl’s Head Manner
button below it; the body of the bird (which contains part of the wheels that in a manner
The Location of Perneb’s Tomb For millennia, the vast cemetery of Saqqara (about twenty-five miles south of Cairo) was the burial ground for Memphis, ancient Egypt’s capital. In an especially crowded section, just north of the enclosure around King Djoser’s Step Pyramid at Saqqara (built during Dynasty 3, ca
In order to present the architecture of Perneb’s tomb in a manner as close as possible
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proved to be a born illustrator, with the knack of communicating his subject in a manner
The Artist: A successor of Jan van Eyck and Petrus Christus, and a contemporary of Gerard David, Hans Memling was among the most important artists of fifteenth-century Bruges. Although he spent the majority of his career in that thriving city, he was born around 1435–40 in the German town of Klein-Krotzenburg near Seligenstadt, south-east of Frankfurt, Germany
The manner in which the gold threads catch and reflect the light across the folded
