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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
Woman with a Hat (French: La femme au chapeau) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Matisse. It depicts Matisse's wife, Amélie Matisse. [ 1 ] It was painted in 1905 and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne during the autumn of the same year, along with works by André Derain , Maurice de Vlaminck and several other artists later known as " Fauves ".
In Woman in Hat and Fur Collar, the artist shows her facial profile and frontal view in the same painting. She is looking to viewers both left and right. In his work, woman is the vehicle for the expression of intense emotion, but the feelings expressed are those of humanity at large: far from being the other, she is the self. [3]
Girl with a Red Hat is a rather small painting, signed by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.It is seen as one of a number of Vermeer's tronies – depictions of models fancifully dressed that were not (as far as is known) intended to be portraits of specific, identifiable subjects.
The background is a tapestry similar to that in Girl with a Red Hat. The fur-trimmed jacket is known as a jak or manteltje , a garment very prevalent in at-home attire for Dutch women of all socioeconomic classes in the 17th century, [ 4 ] and commonly found worn by women in domestic genre paintings by mid to late 17th-century Dutch painters ...
Manet had earlier painted a similar portrait of his own mother in mourning, made in 1863, which shows his mother clad in black, on a dark background. The painting was followed by a similar etching – probably the first copy, with the pose reversed – and two lithographs, all made in 1872 to 1874.
Head of an Old Farmer's Wife in a White Hat was painted by Vincent van Gogh around 1884 while he was living with his parents in the town of Nuenen, about a year before he finished The Potato Eaters. [1] The painting is 63 × 48 centimeters. [2] [3] According to the Kröller-Müller Museum, the painting depicts Gordina de Groot, a local farmer ...