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The boy in this painting died at age 5 and there's some indication that he died before his parents...

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An oil study for a much larger painting. Greuze liked to do these studies with multiple expressions...

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Taken around 5:30 when I left the museum.

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Cool perspective shot from a landing above the gallery displaying the column. Of course, it turns...

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The Met's online entry doesn't include the description, but the museum card notes that unlike the...

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The estafado technique - where the artist used materials to make the wooden surface look like rich...

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The painting isn't really about the game of drawing the eel, although that makes for a nice part of...

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I like the implication that this piece is a compositional throwback. The skull at the bottom of the...

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The description gives a slightly macabre twist to this scene, suggesting a group of indolent people...

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These guys look like they were a lot of fun to hang out with. Met Museum entry: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/se arch-the-collections/1100...

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The soldier in the center foreground makes an excellent focal point: he's clearly animated - possibly...

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Also: an epic beard. Met Museum entry: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/se arch-the-collections/1100...

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I like the idea of Rembrandt coming to Amsterdam and completely rewriting the rules for how portraits...

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What did you do if you lived in the 1640s, had a portrait of your late father that your mother wanted...

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The pictures are tiny, but the detail is tremendous. I also like that Hals extended Petrus's hands...

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This painting may be of the guy who owned it. If so, I bet he woke up every day, saw this picture,...

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I like that the painter has set himself up with symbols - the books, the pallette - that make him out...

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The way the artist uses the light sources to subdivide the room into geometric patterns made me think...

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