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A 17th-century portrait of Chen Yuanyuan. The Eight Beauties of Qinhuai (Chinese: 秦淮八艳; pinyin: Qínhuái Bāyàn), also called the Eight Beauties of Jinling (Chinese: 金陵八艳), were eight famous Yiji or Geji during the Ming-Qing transition period who resided along the Qinhuai River in Nankin (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China).
Self portrait, 1848. Lilly Martin Spencer was born in Exeter, England, to French-born parents Gilles Marie Martin and Angelique Perrine lePetit Martin.In 1830, when Lilly was eight, her family immigrated to New York where they remained for three years before ultimately moving to Marietta, Ohio.
Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in the Netherlands, 1500–1700 (Dutch: Kinderen op hun mooist: het kinderportret in de Nederlanden 1500-1700), was an exhibition held jointly by the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, over several months in 2000–2001. [1]
Labeled as Portrait of a Girl, the piece sold for $1.4 million in an auction. "On house calls, we often go in blind, ... the artwork depicts a young girl in traditional Dutch attire. A label on ...
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (originally titled Portraits d'enfants) [1] is a painting by the American artist John Singer Sargent.The painting depicts four young girls, the daughters of Edward Darley Boit, in their family's Paris apartment.
A singularity of the female self-portrait is to find artists from princely, royal and imperial families, mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries; while the sons of noble families are destined for war or the clergy, the girls receive a thorough artistic education, in music, literature and fine arts; equipped with this background, some have become ...
Portrait of the Zen Buddhist Wuzhun Shifan, 1238 AD. During the Song dynasty, Emperor Gaozong commissioned Portraits of Confucius and Seventy-two Disciples (sheng xian tu) on blank ground with his handwritten inscription. The figures were portrayed in vivid lines, animated gestures, and the facial expressions were rendered a narrative quality.
Self-Portrait: Private collection. [82] 52× 78 cm Oil on canvas [82] One of two self-portraits completed in Simla, Sher-Gil described this as "sugary". [3] 1937: Self-Portrait in Blue Sari: Private collection [82] 45× 79 cm Oil on canvas [82] One of two self-portraits completed in Simla. [3] 1937: Head of Girl: Private collection [87] 29 × ...