Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) El ciego de la guitarra (The Blind Guitarist) 1778 Oil on canvas, 260 x 311 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The central motif of this work is the blind singer who travels to cities and towns, spreading…
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Events: • The Wellington Museum opens in Apsley House, London. Deaths: • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) • Voltaire (1694-1778) Art: • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Dedalo e Icaro (1777-79) • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Le bluff de l’aveugle (c.1775-80)…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Mariana Waldstein, novena Marquesa de Santa Cruz 1797–1799 Oil on canvas, 142 x 97 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Waldstein, Mariana (1763-1808)
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) María Teresa de Borbón y Vallabriga, later Condesa de Chinchón 1783 Oil on canvas, 134.5 x 117.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young girl with pale skin, rosy cheeks, and blond hair stands facing us…
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Births: • Stendhal (1783-1842) Art: • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Mountain Landscape with Bridge (c.1783-84) • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir (c.1782-83) • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Tristram…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga 1787–1788 Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Outfitted in a splendid red costume, the son of the count and countess of Altamira is shown between…
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Events: • Musée des Beaux-Arts established in Dijon, France. Deaths: • Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787) Music: • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Don Giovanni (1787) • Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825): Tarare (1787) Art: • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Amore e Psiche…
Births: • Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Art: • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780): Campo di SS Giovanni e Paolo, Venezia (1743-47) • Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757): Apollo (1740-46) • Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757): Diana (1740-46) • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Conversation in a Park (1746-48) • Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770):…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La Gare de Lordship Lane, Dulwich (Lordship Lane Station) 1871 Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 72.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Pissarro spent over a year in London, fleeing the Franco-Prussian war. He painted sights around his…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Les côteaux de l’Hermitage, Pontoise (The Hermitage at Pontoise) c.1867 Oil on canvas, 150.3 x 200 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York The view represented here is a winding village path at the base of a cluster of houses…