The goddess Pomona bars men from her garden: she would rather reap fruit than admiration. Her passion for gardening is evident from the pruning knife in her hand. Despite this, the infatuated god of ...

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This is a portrait of King William II in military uniform, but with a decidedly informal air. Accompanied by his hound, he poses casually in the dunes, which in the Romantic era was considered the ...

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In the 19th century European architecture and applied art were dominated by ‘neo-styles’ based on the pictorial languages of the past. Buildings, vases and furniture, for instance, were designed in ...

This doll’s house was so expensive that a painting was made of it. In assembling a doll’s house, wealthy ladies showed the ideal version of a Dutch household. This included a Black servant, seen in ...

Of all Dutch landscape painters, Koekkoek is perhaps the most Romantic. He specialized in splendid panora-mas of the valley of the Rhine and forest scenes with majestic trees, which at the time were ...

Known as Fortunata, this woman was one of the many professional Italian models working in Paris in the late 19th century. Schwartze started this painting while sojourning there in 1884 and exhibited ...

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Frans Hals (Antwerpen 1582/1584–Haarlem 1666) hoort thuis in het rijtje van de beroemdste en meest innovatieve Hollandse schilders uit de 17de eeuw. De portretschilder wist met zijn schilderstijl ...

An amusing contrast can discerned in this lively scene by Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, renowned for her sentimental depictions of cats and dogs in domestic interiors. The kittens with their large eyes are ...

The unsightly, but good-natured sea god Glaucus was in love with Scylla, but this was unrequited. To win her over, he sought the help of the sorceress Circe. This was a mistake, for Circe was herself ...