Brita Nordencreutz (1899-1982) At the Piano, 1950

Augusto Giacometti | Il pioniere della pittura Astratta

Augusto Giacometti (1877-1947) fu un importante pittore Svizzero legato al liberty ed al simbolismo.

E' considerato un pioniere dell’arte astratta.

A lui si devono, inoltre, alcune particolari realizzazioni artistiche nell’ambito della pittura su vetro e della pittura murale monumentale.

Jean Metzinger | Seated Woman, 1919

Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (24 June 1883 - 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter**, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote a theoretical work on Cubism.

Odilon Redon | Mysterious Boat

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Idylle: famille antique, 1860

At the time that Bouguereau painted Idylle: famille antique he was a rising star on the Paris art scene. After studying with the esteemed French Academic master François Picot, Bouguereau gained admittance to the hallowed halls of Paris' École des Beaux-Arts.
In 1849, he exhibited for the first time in the Paris Salon and the following year won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome.

During his time in Italy, Bouguereau traveled extensively, studying the Renaissance masters** who inspired his early fascination with classical antiquity, as demonstrated by the present painting.

Alfred Henry Maurer | The Rendezvous, 1904-05

Diego Velázquez | An Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618

Old Woman Frying Eggs is a genre painting by Diego Velázquez, produced during his Seville period.

The date is not precisely known but is thought to be around the turn of 1618 before his definitive move to Madrid in 1623.

The painting is in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.

Velázquez frequently used working-class characters in early paintings like this one, in many cases using his family as models; the old woman here also appears in his Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1618).