#belgian painter

[solcattus]

The proposal, c. 1850

By Adolf Alexander Dillens

[theaskew]

Sanam Khatibi (Belgian b. 1979 in Iran), Garden Scene (it is said they are each other), 2022. Oil and pencil on canvas, 210 x 300 cm. | 82 5/8 x 118 1/8 in.

[galleryofart]

The Porcelain Collector

Artist: Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823-1906)

Date: 1868

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States

[sardosycserokyric]

Alfred Stevens, In the Studio, 1888.

[artandthebible]

Esther

Artist: Jean-François Portaels (Belgian, 1818-1895)

Date: c. 1869

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Description

Here Portaels paints one of the heroines of the Hebrew Bible, Esther. She was the beautiful Jewish wife of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Xerxes I). On learning of her husband's plans to annihilate the Jews throughout his empire - a massacre plotted by the king’s chief minister, Haman - Esther and her cousin Mordecai persuade Ahasuerus to retract the order. On the day planned for the annihilation, instead the Jews destroyed their enemies. The date of the massacre was to have been decided by casting lots ('purim'), which is said to have given the name to the annual celebration of Purim. The story is set out in the Book of Esther, in the third section of the Judaic canon known as the Ketuvim or “Writings” in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Christian Old Testament.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Alfred Stevens, The Parisian Sphynx (1870) (detail)

This painting depicts French artist and model Victorine-Louise Meurent. She is mostly known as the model for many of Edouard Manet's paintings, including Olympia and Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe; however, she was a successful artist in her own right, and was accepted to the Salon of 1876 when Manet was not.

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[royalty-nobility]

Portrait of Empress Josephine

Artist: Joseph Paelinck (Belgian, 1781-1839)

Date: c. 1807-1808

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Joséphine de Beauharnais

Joséphine Bonaparte (23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I and as such Empress of the French from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 January 1810. As Napoleon's consort, she was also Queen of Italy from 26 May 1805 until the 1810 annulment. She is widely known as Joséphine de Beauharnais

[artemlegere]

The King of Thule

Artist: Pieter Van der Ouderaa (Belgian, 1841–1915)

Date: 1896

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik, Belgium

The King of Thule

" Der König in Thule " (" The King in Thule ") is a German poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written in 1774.

Goethe wrote the poem " Geistesgruß " as a precursor of " Der König in Thule ", while he was traveling to Lahneck Castle on the river Lahn in July 1774. Under Herder 's influence, the setting was changed to the mythical island kingdom Thule , which was thought to be the northernmost place Greek seafarers ventured into antiquity.

In Thule lived a monarch,

Still faithful to the grave, To whom his dying mistress

A golden goblet gave.

Beyond all price he deem'd it,

He quaff'd it at each feast; And, when he drain'd that goblet,

His tears to flow ne'er ceas'd.

And when he felt death near him,

His cities o'er he told, And to his heir left all things,

But not that cup of gold.

A regal banquet held he

In his ancestral ball, In yonder sea-wash'd castle,

'Mongst his great nobles all.

There stood the aged reveller,

And drank his last life's-glow,— Then hurl'd the holy goblet

Into the flood below.

He saw it falling, filling,

And sinking 'neath the main, His eyes then closed for ever,

He never drank again.

[resplendentoutfit]

Playing Dress Match-up: a painted dress and the actual dress or a close match.

Firmin Baes (Belgian, 1874-1943) • Lady with a Pekinese • 1915

1930s silk dressing gown

[the-cricket-chirps]

René Magritte (Belgian)

Flirtatiousness (La coquetterie), René Magritte at the Jardin des Plantes, photo-booth photo

1929

[solcattus]

Acrasia dans les bois, 1892

By Fernand Khnopff

[theaskew]

Floris Jespers (Belgian 1889-1965), Still Live with Flowers, 1930. Oil on paper, monotype.

[galleryofart]

The Fallen Star

Artist: Jan van Beers (Belgian, 1852–1927)

Date: 1874

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium

[sardosycserokyric]

Memories (Lawn Tennis), Fernand Khnopff, 1889

[royalty-nobility]

Emperor Charles and His Mistress Johanna Van der Gheynst at the Cradle of their Daughter Margaret

Artist: Théodore-Joseph Canneel (Belgium 1817-1892)

Date: 1844

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Belgium

Description

In this genre scene, Théodore Jozef Canneel gives us a romanticized picture of the emperor’s private life. In 1522, Johanna van der Gheynst, the daughter of a tapestry-weaver in the region of Oudenaarde, gave birth to a daughter who later became Margaret of Parma. Canneel’s work is sober, with an eye for detail, but unlike Henry Leys, his historic realism is always secondary to the story. In addition to portraits, historical work and genre scenes, Canneel also focused on monumental painting.

[thepaintedroom]

Léon de Smet (Belgian, 1881 - 1966) • Claire dans un intérieur • c. 1940