Gerrit Dou (1613-1675)

As the son of a glass engraver, Gerrit Dou began by learning to engrave and paint glass.

In 1628, he was apprenticed to Rembrandt.

Here Dou learned the art of chiaroscuro, the contrast of light and shade which became his speciality: his candlelit scenes became all the rage.

Dou’s genre paintings also sold for high prices.

Camille Pissarro | Le Marché de Gisors, Grande-Rue, 1885

On Monday mornings, Camille Pissarro often joined his wife Julie and a couple of their children, with some household helpers, for the two-and-a-half-mile excursion from their home in Éragny to attend market day in Gisors, a town of about four thousand inhabitants further down the Epte River.

While Julie stocked up on produce and provisions for the coming week, Pissarro sketched the many people from Gisors and nearby villages who gathered among the stalls set up on the Grand-Rue (today the rue de Vienne) near the town hall, as they engaged in selling, buying, or bartering, exchanging news, and socializing during this all-important, weekly communal event.

Ludwig Dettmann | Couple in Landscape

Ludwig Julius Christian Dettmann (1865-1944) was a German Impressionist painter.

He was one of the founders of the Berlin Secession in 1898, and, together with Max Liebermann, Walter Leistikow, Otto Heinrich Engel, Oskar Frenzel, Curt Herrmann and Fritz Klimsch, was a member of the advisory board.

Camille Pissarro | Jeanne Holding a fan, 1873

Title: Jeanne Pissarro (Minette) holding a Fan;
Artist/maker: Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)🎨;
Associated place: Europe (place of creation);
Date: c. 1873;
Material and technique: oil on canvas;
Dimensions: 56 x 46 cm (height x width) - frame 71 x 61.5 x 9.5 cm (height x width x depth);
Museum location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK.

Vittorio Matteo Corcos | Sogni, 1896

Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Livorno, 4 October 1859 - 8 November 1933) was an Italian painter🎨, known for his portraits.

Many of his genre works depict winsome and finely dressed young men and women, in moments of repose and recreation.

In 1880, the artist established himself in the Parisian art scene, falling into the circles of Léon Bonnat and Giovanni Boldini🎨.

Between 1881-1886, he frequently exhibited at the Salon.

His works are held in the collections of the Uffizi in Florence and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome.

Il mondo Surreale dell'artista Catherine Alexandre

Catherine Alexandre trae ispirazione dalla natura, ma anche dalla città e dall'architettura per dare vita alle sue creazioni.

La Alexandre è un'artista con sede in Francia le cui opere viaggiano oscillano tra il realismo ed il sogno, con un pizzico di simbolismo, un tocco di umorismo ed un tocco di ottimismo.

In ognuno dei suoi pezzi, mette una piccola chiave nascosta.

Alexandre è influenzata dalle opere di Leonardo da Vinci, Preraffaelliti, Klimt e Magritte, tra gli altri.

Crea esclusivamente utilizzando oli su tela.

Renso Castaneda, 1970 | Pittore figurativo

Nato a Lima in Perù Renso Zevallos Castaneda si è laureato alla Scuola superiore di Belle Arti del Perù, nella specialità di Pittura.

- Ottenuto nel 1993 la Prima Menzione d'Onore in Disegno nella promozione denominata Venancio Shinki;

- Conservatorio: Il nudo nella pittura contemporanea nella Scuola Nazionale di Belle Arti Rafael Rodriguez Padilla, Guatemala C.A.;

- 1996- Pittura, Scultura e Incisione, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Quito, Equatore;

- International Auction Reconstruction 2000, Museo di Arte Contemporanea SofТa Imber, Caracas, Venezuela 1999;

- 2002- Pittori Peruviani, Museo Storico Nazionale San Paolo, Brasile;

- 2004 conta su un dipinto nella collezione permanente del MoLAA (Museum of Latin-American Art di los Angeles, California- USA).