François Boucher. The Bird Catchers, 1748 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Oil on canvas: 294.6 x 337.8 cm(!). ‘The Bird Catchers’ and its pendant ‘The Fountain of Love’, were finished cartoons for a series of tapestries known as the ‘Noble Pastorales’.

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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. Girl on the Beach - Valencia, 1910 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 69 x 100 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, July 2010.

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Giovanni Boldini. Mademoiselle Vera de Nemidoff, 1908 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 232 x 122 cm.

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Amedeo Modigliani. Portrait of a young Woman, 1918 (New Orleans Museum of Art).

Oil on canvas: 61 x 45.7 cm.

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Gustav Klimt. The Virgin (‘The Bride’/ ‘Panna’), ca. 1913 (Národní galerie Praha – Veletržní palác/ National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace).

Oil on canvas: 200 x 190 cm.

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Théo van Rysselberghe. Mrs. Henry van de Velde-Sethe (‘Maria Sèthe, de latere mevrouw Henry Van de Velde’), 1921 (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).

Oil on canvas: 120 x 86 cm.

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Willem Claesz Heda. Still Life on a Table, 1638 (Royal Collection Trust, London).

Oil on oak: 50.2 x 68.6 cm.

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Edna Andrade. Mariposa, 1983 (Philadelphia Museum of Art).

Acrylic on canvas: 167.6 x 167.6 cm.

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Lars Elling. Mother’s Day, 2010 (artist’s portfolio).

Egg-oil tempera on canvas: 170 x 170 cm.

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Peder Mørk Mønsted. Spring Landscape with Water, 1909 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 78 x 120 cm. Mønsted = guilty pleasure. Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, spring 2013.

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Jan Havicksz Steen. The Dissolute Household (‘Bedurfve Huishow’), ca. 1664 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 108 x 90.2 cm.

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Joshua Reynolds. Mrs. Abington as Miss Prue, 1771 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven/ USA).

Oil on canvas: 76.8 x 63.8 cm. The actress Frances Barton (married to James Abington) was one of the popular stars of the London stage. Reynolds (obviously an admirer) portrays Mrs. Abington in one of her most successful roles, that of the young ingénue Miss Prue in William Congreve’s comedy 'Love for Love'. Showing her in character, and adopting what was then taken to be a suggestive pose.

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Ferdinand Hodler. Lake Geneva with the Mountains of Savoy (‘Genfersee mit Savoyerbergen’), ca. 1907 (Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur).

Oil on canvas: 36 x 49 cm.

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René-Xavier Prinet. Reclining Nude, ca. 1900 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 64.3 x 96 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, December 2012.

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Sandro Botticelli (attributed). Idealised Portrait of a Lady (Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph), ca. 1484 (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).

Tempera on poplar: 81.8 x 54 cm. The Piero di Cosimo portrait: here.

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Albert Anker. Still life - Tea service (‘Stilleben - Teeservice’), ca. 1910 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 58 x 47 cm. Auctioned at Koller Zürich, December 2012.  Oddly satisfying.

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Melchior d’Hondecoeter. The Concert of Birds, 1670 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 84 x 99 cm. Auctioned at Dorotheum Vienna, October 2012.

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Hermanus Koekkoek. Fishing Boats in stormy Seas, 1855 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 55 x 75 cm. Auctioned at Dorotheum Vienna, October 2016.

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Titian. Bacchus and Ariadne, ca. 1523 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on canvas: 176.5 x 191 cm.

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Akseli Gallen Kallela. Snow on the Cliffs (‘Lumpipälviä Kallioilla’), 1901 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 81 x 55 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Helsinki, autumn 2012.

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Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) - attributed. Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione, ca. 1515 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Oil on canvas on panel: 82 x 67 cm.

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Balthasar van der Ast. Still Life with Shells (‘Stilleven met schelpen’), ca. 1640 (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam).

Oil on wood: 47 x 30 cm.

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Jacob/ Jacques Jordaens. Meleager and Atalanta (‘Meleagro y Atalanta’), ca. 1645 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

Oil on wood: 152.3 x 240.5 cm.

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English School. Portrait of Sir Thomas Monson, 1610 (private collection).

Oil on wood: 113 x 86.4 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, July 2013.

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