J. M. W. Turner Dort, the Dort Packet Boat from Rotterdam Bacalmed 1818

J. M. W. Turner - Dort, the Dort Packet Boat from Rotterdam Bacalmed 1818

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From Yale University Art Gallery:
In 1818, after his first visit to the Netherlands, Joseph Mallord William Turner exhibited “Dort of Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed” (1818) at the Royal Academy in London. Described by one critic in 1818 as “one of the most magnificent pictures ever exhibited,” “Dort” generated both critical acclaim and controversy. Gillian Forrester, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale Center for British Art, focuses on this multifaceted painting and explores its critical reception, Turner’s complex relationship with Dutch Old Master painters, and his engagement with contemporary artistic politics.

Circus Sideshow 1888 - this is Seurat’s first nocturnal painting and his first
depiction of popular entertainment. It represents the parade, or sideshow,
of the Circus Corvi, which had set up near the place de la Nation in Paris in
the spring of 1887. Sideshows were held on the street, for free, to entice
passersby to purchase tickets. The onlookers at the far right are queued
on stairs leading to the box office. - ArtsViewer.com

Paul Cézanne 'The card players 1892' Each painting depicts Provençal peasants
immersed in smoking their pipes and playing cards. The subjects, all male, are
displayed as studious within their card playing, eyes cast downward, intent on
the game at hand. Cézanne adapted a motif from 17th-century Dutch and French
genre painting which often depicted card games with rowdy, drunken gamblers in
taverns, replacing them instead with stone-faced tradesmen in a more simplified
setting. - art-Cezanne.com

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851