Saturday, August 23, 2025

Ohara Koson - Two deer, pine and moon, early 20th century

 

 Ohara Koson - Two deer, pine and moon, early 20th century

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - Cooling off at Shijo, 1885

 

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - Cooling off at Shijo, 1885

Jules Breton - The Weeders, 1868

Jules Breton - The Weeders, 1868
oil on canvas, 71.4 x 127.6 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a smaller variant of a composition Breton painted in 1860 (Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha) and exhibited to wide acclaim at the Salon of 1861 and the World’s Fair of 1867 in Paris. In his autobiography, Breton described this twilight scene of peasants pulling up thistles and weeds—"their faces haloed by the pink transparency of their violet hoods, as if to venerate a fecundating star"—noting that he had discovered the subject as a "finished picture" near his native village, Courrières, in northern France.

Nils Jakob Olsson Blommér - The Water-Sprite and Ägir’s Daughters, 1850

 

Nils Jakob Olsson Blommér - The Water-Sprite and Ägir’s Daughters, 1850
oil on canvas, 114 cm x 147 cm
Nationalmuseum Stockholm

John Atkinson Grimshaw - The Tryst, 1886

 

John Atkinson Grimshaw - The Tryst, 1886 
oil on canvas, 63.8 x 53.4 cm
Private collection

Kobayashi Kiyochika - The Taro Inari Shrine In The Rice Fields At Asakusa, 1877 - 1882

 

Kobayashi Kiyochika - The Taro Inari Shrine In The Rice Fields At Asakusa, 1877 - 1882
woodblock print, 20.16 × 31.75 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer - The Night, 1892

 

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer - The Night, 1892
Pastel hightened with gold on paper; 32,1 x 35,2 cm
Private collection

Komáromi Kacz Endre (1880-1969) - Dunapart

 

Komáromi Kacz Endre (1880-1969) - Dunapart
Private collection

Alexandr Alexandrovich Benois-Konsky - Moonlight landscape by a stream, where the fog lifts near the edge of the forest

 

Alexandr Alexandrovich Benois-Konsky (1852 - 1928) - Moonlight landscape by a stream, where the fog lifts near the edge of the forest.
watercolour on paper. 30×46 cm
Private collection