Last Known Work

This is a blog for the last known works of artists of all kinds, focusing on visual art to start. Posting once a day, and for the moment avoiding nudes because of tumblr censoring, but taking suggestions!

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Title: The Golden Gate

Artist: Albert Bierstadt

Year: 1900

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 96.5 cm × 152.4 cm (38.0 in × 60.0 in)

Location: Private collection

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Title: Portrait of Rafaello Menicucci

Artist: Valentin de Boulogne

Year: c.1630-1632

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 80 × 65 cm (31.4 × 25.5 in)

Location: Indianapolis Museum of Art

[lastknownwork]

Title: Portrait of prof. Hugo de Vries

Artist: Thérèse Schwartze

Year: 1918

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 109.5 × 130.5 cm (43.1 × 51.4 in)

Location: University of Amsterdam

[lastknownwork]

Title: Éliézer et Rebecca (Eliezer and Rebecca)

Artist: Nicolas Poussin

Year: c. 1660-1665

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 96.5 × 138 cm (38 × 54.3 in)

Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

[lastknownwork]

Title: Salvator Mundi (Bust of the Saviour)

Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Year: 1679

Medium: Marble and jasper

Dimensions: height: 103 cm (40.5 in)

Location: San Sebastiano fuori le mura, Rome

[lastknownwork]

Title: Ung Dame Med Syriner (Young Woman with Lilac)

Artist: Hans Gude

Year: 1897

Medium: oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard

Dimensions: 46.2 × 31 cm (18.2 × 12 in)

Location: Private collection

[lastknownwork]

Title: Landschap met ruïnes (Landscape with ruins)

Artist: Jacob van Ruisdael

Year: c. 1650-1682

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 53 × 66 cm (20.8 × 25.9 in)

Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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[lastknownwork]

Title: Isle of the Dead (6th version)

Artist: Arnold Böcklin and Carlo Böcklin

Year: 1901

Medium: Oil on board

Location: Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

[lastknownwork]

Title: Portrait d'Augustus Gurnee (Portrait of Augustus Gurnee)

Artist: Carolus-Duran

Year: 1910

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 150 × 126 cm (59 × 49.6 in)

Location: Petit Palais, Paris

[lastknownwork]

Title: Portrait of Fra Teodoro of Urbino as Saint Dominic

Artist: Giovanni Bellini

Year: 1515

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 63.9 cm × 49.5 cm (25.2 in × 19.5 in)

Location: Victoria and Albert Museum, London

[lastknownwork]

Title: Tailpiece, or The Bathos

Artist: William Hogarth

Year: 1764

Medium: Etching and engraving in black on cream wove paper

Dimensions: Plate: 31.5 × 33.5 cm (12 7/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Sheet: 42.2 × 47.2 cm (16 5/8 × 18 5/8 in.)

Location: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

[lastknownwork]

Title: Seascape

Artist: Johan Jongkind

Year: 1886

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 26 × 33 cm (10.2 × 12.9 in)

Location: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, Cuba

[lastknownwork]

Title: Dr. Edward Anthony Spitzka

Artist: Thomas Eakins

Year: c. 1913

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 77.47 × 63.5 cm (30.5 × 25 inches)

Location: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

[lastknownwork]

Title: Duke Antony the Good of Lorraine (or Portrait of Antony the Good, Duke of Lorraine)

Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger

Year: 1543

Medium: Oil on oak

Dimensions: 51 × 37 cm (20 × 14.5 in)

Location: Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

[lastknownwork]

Title: The Adoration of the Magi

Artist: Albrecht Altdorfer

Year: c.1530 - 1535

Medium: Oil on lime

Dimensions: 108.5 × 78 cm (42.7 × 30.7 in)

Location: Städel Museum, Frankfurt

[lastknownwork]

Title: Two Comedians

Artist: Edward Hopper

Year: 1966

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 73.7 × 101.6 cm (29 × 40 in)

Location: Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut

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Title: William II, Prince of Orange, and his Bride, Mary Stuart

Artist: Anthony van Dyck

Year: 1641

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 182.5 × 142 cm (71.8 × 55.9 in)

Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam