#eassel

[portrait-paintings]

Portrait of Andries and Annie Bonger with the Artist

Artist: Emile Bernard (French, 1868 - 1941)

Date: 1908

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

[allegorypaintings]

Allegory of Painting

Artist: Attributed to Charles Lucy (English, 1692 - after 1768)

Date: 1760

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom

Summary

Three figures in an artist studio. A young male figure is standing, wearing a white and red smock draped in green. He is looking towards a seated young female figure and has his right arm around her shoulders. She is wearing a white and gold dress and is draped in blue. Her hair is tied up in a braid with stones. She is looking towards the male. In her left hand she is holding a paint pallet and she has a paint brush in her right hand. A putti or cherub is seated at her feet reclining on stone sculptures (a bust and a stone foot). He is holding a paintbrush and a tablet. The young man has a paintbrush in his left hand as if working on the painting of a young lady that sits on an easel to his left side. In the background is an elaborate stone carving.

[the-lexicographer]

Word of the Day

Eassel, adv. /ēsəl/ - Eastward, easterly.

        Source: The Oxford Universal Dictionary, 1933