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  2. The Gleaners - Wikipedia

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    The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857.It is held in the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris.. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest.

  3. The Lady of Shalott (painting) - Wikipedia

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    The Lady of Shalott, an 1888 oil-on-canvas painting, is one of John William Waterhouse's most famous works. It depicts a scene from Tennyson's poem in which the poet describes the plight and the predicament of a young woman, loosely based on the figure of Elaine of Astolat from medieval Arthurian legend, who yearned with an unrequited love for the knight Sir Lancelot, isolated under an ...

  4. Two Women on the Hillside - Wikipedia

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    He spent the summer of 1906 in Kochel. He painted the women at outdoors on an alpine pasture. He first made the current small oil sketch, from which he later painted a large-format oil painting. On August 1, 1906, he wrote to Maria Franck: “The picture of you two has already been drawn.” [3] Later he cut up the large painting. [4]

  5. List of painters in the National Gallery of Art - Wikipedia

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    The List of painters in the National Gallery of Art is a list of the named artists in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. whose works there comprise oil paintings, gouaches, tempera paintings, and pastels. The online collection contains roughly 4,000 paintings by 1,000 artists, but only named painters with the previously mentioned ...

  6. Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi, Naples)

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    Art historian Mary Garrard believes that Judith Slaying Holofernes portrays Judith as a "socially liberated woman who punishes masculine wrongdoing". [13] Although the painting depicts a scene from the Bible, art historians have suggested that Gentileschi drew herself as Judith and her mentor Agostino Tassi , who was tried for and convicted of ...

  7. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is an oil painting on canvas, with gold leaf, by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a Viennese and Jewish banker and sugar producer.

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