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Portrait of Count Antoine de La Rochefoucauld

Artist: Emile Schuffenecker (French, 1851-1934)

Date: c. 1896

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Sitter:

Count (Comte) Antoine de La Rochefoucauld (1862 – 1959). Artist, patron and art collector.

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Woman in Tub, 1949

1st image

Title: Chaotic Collage

Creator Lifespan: 1914 - 2002

Creator Nationality: Czech

Creator Gender: male

Creator Death Place: Prague

Creator Birth Place: Protivín

Date: 1970 - 1971

author: Jiří Kolář

Physical Dimensions: w46 x h27 cm

Type: collage

2nd image

Title: Fringed Collages

Creator Lifespan: 1914 - 2002

Creator Nationality: Czech

Creator Gender: male

Creator Death Place: Prague

Creator Birth Place: Protivín

Date: 1960 - 1970

author: Jiří Kolář

Physical Dimensions: w30 x h40 cm

Type: collage

3rd image

Title: Dreaming Venus

Creator Lifespan: 1914 - 2002

Creator Nationality: Czech

Creator Gender: male

Creator Death Place: Prague

Creator Birth Place: Protivín

Date: 1960 - 1970

author: Jiří Kolář

Physical Dimensions: w34 x h66 cm

Type: collage

From artsandculture.google.com:

Jiří Kolář was a Czech painter, poet, and writer. His work included both visual art and literature. In his collages he predominantly sought to plant an element of chaos. The starting point of his collages is often a reality that is already irrational, distorted, and deconstructed. Everything seems mixed up together like a concoction gone awry.

In general, the Dada Movement created chaotic and illogical collages, depicting the world that after the Great War that seemed to cling onto the appearance of rationalism but was already destroyed.

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Title: A Question of Consideration

Creator Lifespan: 1955

Creator Nationality: Austrian

Creator Gender: male

Creator Birth Place: Schärding

Date: 1992

author: Alois Mitter

Physical Dimensions: w88 x h63 cm

Type: mixed media

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Egon Schiele 1917

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Joanna Karpowicz — "Umibōzu” Anubis Series (acrylic, canvas, 2025)

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Helen Jacobs (1888-1970), 'Grossmith's Phul-Nana Perfume', ''Illustrated London News'', Vol. 162, #4368, 1923

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Tianzhou Chen.

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Salomé (1890) by Ella Ferris Pell

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Chen Gaojie.

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Hercules at the Crossroads between Virtue and Vice

Artist: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, (1708-1787)

Date: 1765

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Description

The allegory was composed in the 5th century BC by the philosopher Prodicus (Xenophon, Memoirs of Socrates, Book II, Chapters 1, 21 ff.). While young Hercules was tending the flocks of his earthly father, King Amphitryon, on the pastures of Cithaeron, two women came to him, personifying Effeminacy and Virtue. In Batoni's painting, they are represented as Venus, the goddess of love, and Minerva, the goddess of wisdom. One tempted him with the joys of life, the other called him to labor and heroic deeds. Hercules, after much contemplation, heeded the voice of reason and dedicated his life to serving humanity. The putti at Minerva's feet commemorate Hercules' future exploits. They hold a hero's club and a lion's skin. Also depicted are Cerberus, Hades' three-headed guardian, and the seven-headed Hydra. A stern Minerva points to a temple on a clifftop—an allegory for the arduous path to glory. A glamorous Venus offers Hercules a rose. At her feet lie the trappings of vanity and sensual pleasure: musical instruments, sheet music, and a basket of fruit.