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The Anguished Man. The Anguished Man is a painting created by an unknown artist. [1] [2] Owner Sean Robinson, from Cumbria, England, claims to have inherited the painting from his grandmother, who told him that the artist who created the painting had mixed his own blood into the paint and died by suicide soon after finishing the work.
The painting depicts Napoleon in a room of the Palace of Fontainebleau. He appears with a thoughtful expression, while he sits informally in a chair. He has the appearance of someone who has just returned from combat, while he also wears his uniform of colonel of the horse grenadiers of the Imperial Guard, with his grey frock coat.
The painting depicts a grey-haired old man sitting on a chair in his sparsely furnished home, with a boy standing close before him between his spread legs holding the musical instrument. [21] Both are observing as the child carefully plucks the strings with one hand, while holding a chord with the other hand; the weight of the instrument is ...
The painting shows an old man sitting in a chair (or on his throne) with his feet on a cushion. He sits beside an open window. [9] Above the man's head there hangs a painting and a statue of Saint Arnolfus. Daylight enters the room through the open window. De Braekeleer worked out the small details very carefully in this oeuvre. [10]
The painting must have been substantially reduced on the left, now showing only part of the original composition; the chair on the left is probably a later addition, apparently intended to balance the composition on this side when the canvas was reduced Portrait of a Man: 1632: Oil on panel: 90.8 x 68.57: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna: 62a
The painting can be seen in the third (smaller) version of Bedroom in Arles at the Musée d'Orsay. The self-portrait is one of the most expensive paintings of all time, selling for $71.5 million in 1998 in New York. At the time, it was the third (or an inflation-adjusted fourth) most expensive painting ever sold.
The Bar (painting) Bashi-Bazouk (Jean-Léon Gérôme) Berlin Street Scene; Between Rounds; The Bezique Game; Blessed Jacopone da Todi (painting) The Bookworm (Spitzweg) The Breakdown; Breaking Home Ties; The Brierwood Pipe; Britomart Delivering Amoretta from the Enchantment of Busirane; Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret; The Bullfight
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