Jacques-Louis David's "Comtesse Daru"

Seven works of art I would like to see at the Frick

I recently visited New York and seeing the Frick was part of my plans, but due to time constraints I couldn't do it.  Anyway, in an effort to turn lemons into lemonade, I'm going to post seven works of art from the Frick that I wish I could have seen.  

Nationality: French

Born-Died: 1748-1825

Size: 32.1 × 25.6 in. (81.6 × 65.1 cm)

Creation Date: 1810

Media: Oil on canvas 

Location: The Frick Collection, New York City, New York, USA

I have been a David fan for many years and whenever I get the chance to see one of his works I take it.  They generally reproduce well so I wouldn't expect it to be too different from the reproductions, but still I always enjoy seeing his work.

James Abbot McNeill Whistler's "Harmony in Pink and Grey (Portrait of Lady Meux)"

Seven works of art I would like to see at the Frick

I recently visited New York and seeing the Frick was part of my plans, but due to time constraints I couldn't do it.  Anyway, in an effort to turn lemons into lemonade, I'm going to post seven works of art from the Frick that I wish I could have seen.  

Nationality: American

Born-Died: 1834-1903

Creation Date: 1881

Size: 76.3 × 36.6  in (193.7 × 93 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas 

Location: The Frick Collection, New York City, New York, USA

I love it!

John Hoppner "The Honourable Lucy Byng"*

Seven works of art I would like to see at the Frick

I recently visited New York and seeing the Frick was part of my plans, but due to time constraints I couldn't do it.  Anyway, in an effort to turn lemons into lemonade, I'm going to post seven works of art from the Frick that I wish I could have seen.  

Nationality: English

Born-Died: 1758-1810

Creation Date: Late 1700's

Size: 30.1 × 25  in (76.5 × 63.5 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas 

Location: The Frick Collection, New York City, New York, USA

This painting is gorgeous and appeals to my personal interest in Jane Austen.  I've never seen this image before and I love it!  I only wish I could have seen it at the Frick.

* I believe this is correct.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' "Louise de Broglie, Countesse d'Haussonville"

Seven works of art I would like to see at the Frick

I recently visited New York and seeing the Frick was part of my plans, but due to time constraints I couldn't do it.  Anyway, in an effort to turn lemons into lemonade, I'm going to post seven works of art from the Frick that I wish I could have seen.  

Nationality: French

Born-Died: 1780-1867

Creation Date: 1845

Size: 51.875 x 36.25  in (131.8 x 92.1 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas 

Location: The Frick Collection, New York City, New York, USA

Ingres is one of my favorite painters and I always jump at the opportunity to see any of his works in real life.  On my next visit I'll take so many detail photographs of this painting it will be dizzying.

Nine Nudes by Warren B. Davis

Nationality: American
Born-Died: 1865-1928
Media: Oils on canvas 


I just discovered this artist's work and I think it's really nice.  I'm re-posting yesterday's painting by Davis here as well.  I suspect these works depict the same model.

Warren B. Davis' "Beside the Forest Pool"

Nationality: American
Born-Died: 1865-1928
Size: 20 x 13 in (50.8 x 33.02 cm)
Media: Oil on canvas 
Location: Private Collection

Philip de László's "Winifred Dallas-Yorke, Duchess of Portland, 1863-1954"

Nationality: Hungarian
Born-Died: 1869-1937
Creation Date: 1912
Media: Oil on canvas 


I only just discovered this painter (how could that be?) and I love his work.  I also learned that this woman was painted by Sargent and many, many other artists that I admire.  This woman's raised hand knocks me out!

Unknown Digital Image by Unknown Artist

Media: Digital 

I know nothing about this design but I think it's great.  If you know who made this, please tell me and I'll give them the credit they deserve.  The color choices here are great, it's well composed and the arrangements of the shapes in relation to each other are interesting as well.  It would be easy to dismiss this as a "mere cartoon" but this image shows more artistic skill than a lot of works in galleries and museums.  

Thomas Dewing "A Reading"

Nationality: American

Born-Died: 1851-1938

Creation Date: 1897

Size: 20.25 x 30.25 in (51.3 x 76.8 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas

Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA

Herbert James Draper's "Gates of Dawn"

Nationality: English

Born-Died: 1617-1694
Creation Date: 1900

Size: 78 x 40 in (198 x 100 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas

Location: The Drapers' Company Collection, London, UK

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This Print + Your Wall = Awesome

John Michael Wright's "Portrait of a Lady"

Nationality: English/Scottish

Born-Died: 1617-1694
Creation Date: 17th Century

Size: 27.75 x 34 in (70.5 x 86.5 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas

Location: Private Collection


They really knew how to do it back then.

Thutmose's "Nefertiti Bust"

Nationality: Egyptian

Born-Died: 14th Century, BCE
Creation Date: 1345 BCE

Size: 19 in (47 cm)

Media: Painted limestone

Location: Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany

Antonio de La Gandara's "Madame Pierre Gautreau"

Nationality: French

Born-Died: 1861-1917
Creation Date: 1898

Size: 29 x 24.5 in (74.9 x 62.2 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas

Fans of John Singer Sargent's "Madame X" might enjoy this portrait of the same woman.

Gerrit van Honthorst's "Samson and Delilah"

Nationality: Dutch

Born-Died: 1590-1656

Creation Date: c. 1621
Size: 50.75 x 37 inch (129 x 94 cm)
Media: Oil on canvas

Location: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

This scene appears to be quite tender despite the maliciousness of the act.

Seven Paintings by Suzanne Eisendieck

Nationality: German

Born-Died: 1908-1998

Eisendieck is an artist that most people have never heard of and a great many people will not like.  I like some of them.  I just discovered her name and work very recently despite the fact that I had the first painting here in my “Unknown Artist” file for many years.   I kept it until I could properly identify it because I thought it had something interesting to it.  I was shocked to discover that she died in the 1990's, and not in the 1920's.

For the most part I appreciate her unique approach to impressionism—it seems to me like she used the impressionist method for expressive ends, not merely for the sake of “capturing the transient nature of light” or something like that, which is artistically pointless.  However, her approach seems like merely a good start.  I think a superior artist could have taken her style and developed it into something that was much more compelling.

Despite all this, her work seems to have elements that many young artists would want to adapt and I am surprised that more contemporary art students don’t admire her work.

The first two paintings here are the ones I like best.

Jewel Kilcher's "The Walmart Song"

Nationality: American

Born-Died: 1974-

Creation Date: 2012

Size: 00:03:05

Media: Music

Is this a good song?  Well, it's cute, but it's not for me.  However, I'm posting it today because I find it absolutely incredible that 1.) Jewel sang a song about Walmart and 2.) a celebrity dared to depict Walmart in a positive light.  What a bizarre occurrence!  I'm sure this is going to open up a huge can of worms for whatever remains of Jewel's career, but I applaud her performance because I don't have any problem with Walmart.  And I'm not ignorant of many of the criticisms.  I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if the celebrities that criticize capitalism and corporations like Walmart have their products sold there.  However, I wouldn't be surprised if Jewel herself had anti-capitalist leanings in that I saw the nigh-socialist Green Party of America once used a quote by her on their home page. 

Sadly, I can already see that an unusually large number of people "disliked" this peppy little song.  

Henry Ryland's "Rachel at the Well"

Nationality: English

Born-Died: 1856-1924

Creation Date: c. 1890

Media: Watercolor on paper

Location: Private collection (?)

I just discovered this artist.  Although I think his work is sometimes hit-or-miss, this is a beautiful painting.

Hermann Klotz's "Empress Elizabeth of Austria"

Nationality: Austrian

Born-Died: 1978-

Creation Date: 1906

Media: Plaster (?)

Location: The  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA

Anton Raphael Mengs' "Maria Luisa of Parma"

Nationality: German

Born-Died: 1728 - 1779

Creation Date: 1756

Size: 59.8 x 43.3 inch (152 x 110 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas

Location: The Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

Totally bizarre portrait, but sort of beautiful too.

John White Alexander's "Isabella and the Pot of Basil"

Nationality: American

Born-Died: 1780 - 1867

Creation Date: 1897

Size: 75.625 x 36.125 inch (192.09 x 91.76 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas

Location: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA