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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 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 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]
Repin began working on the painting in Moscow. [1] A first overall sketch, with the character of the Tsar turned to his right, dates from 1882. The idea of the painting, according to Repin, is linked to his confrontation with the themes of violence, revenge and blood during the political events of 1881; additional sources of inspiration were the music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and the ...
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According to Maestracci, the painting was taken from his grandfather, Jewish Parisian art dealer Oscar Stettiner, by the Nazis during the German occupation of France. [2] In 1939, Oscar Stettiner left the painting behind in France ahead of the German occupation. [3] The Nazis took administration over the painting in 1941 and auctioned it off in ...
A one-man Stoneham show at the gallery, which included the piece, was reviewed by the art critic at the Los Angeles Times. During the show, the painting was purchased by actor John Marley, [1] notable for his role as Jack Woltz in The Godfather. Some time after Marley's death, the painting was found at the site of an old brewery by an elderly ...