5 June 2018

François Boucher. Resting Girl (‘Ruhendes Mädchen’), 1752 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).


Oil on canvas: 59 x 73 cm. Model presumed to be Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737-1814), mistress to Louis XV. Earlier version at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne (with a book and two roses): here. 

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15 May 2018

Jan Brueghel the elder (w. Hendrick van Balen). Allegory of Air, 1611 (Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon).


Oil on copper: 46 x 83 cm. Similar versions at the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj Rome (probably Jan Brueghel’s workshop) and private collection (Jan van Kessel the elder, Sotheby’s London, July 2010).

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