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Caravaggio

On May 22, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Italian, september 29

Caravaggio, Italian painter, September 29, 1571 – July 18, 1610

Chalk portrait of Caravaggio, c. 1621

Martha and Mary Magdalene, circa September 1598 Oil on canvas, 39.3 in x 52.9 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, 1601 Oil on canvas, 45.6 x 61.6 in // Private collection, Florence

Saint Jerome, between 1605 and 1606 Oil on canvas, 44 x 61.8 in // Galleria Borghese, Rome

Amor Vincit Omni, between 1601 and 1602 Oil on canvas, 61.6 x 44.6 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Frans Pourbus the Younger

On May 22, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Flemish

Frans Pourbus the Younger, Flemish painter, 1569 – 1622

Self-Portrait

Portrait of the Italian Poet, Giambattista Marino, circa 1621 Oil on canvas, 31.8 in x 25.8 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

Frans Pourbus the Younger, Portrait of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, between 1601 and 1620 Oil on panel, 23.6 x 16.5 in Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium

Portrait of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, between 1601 and 1620 Oil on panel, 23.6 x 16.5 in // Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium

Frans Pourbus the Younger, Portrait of Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, between 1601 and 1620 Oil on panel, 23.6 x 16.5 in Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium

Portrait of Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, between 1601 and 1620 Oil on panel, 23.6 x 16.5 in // Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium

Artemisia Gentileschi

On May 21, 2025 - 17th Century, Italian, july 8

Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter, July 8, 1593 – c. 1656

Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, between 1638 and 1639 Oil on canvas, 38.8 in x 29.6 in // Royal Collection, UK

Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, ca.1623-1625 Oil on canvas, 73 11/16 × 55 7/8 in // Detroit Institute of Art

Susanna and the Elders, circa 1610 Oil on canvas, 66.9 x 46.8 in // Schloss Weißenstein, Pommersfelden, Germany

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, between 1610 and 1615 Oil on canvas, 33 x 36.2 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Judith and Her Maidservant, 1618 until 1619 Oil on canvas, 44.8 x 36.8 in // Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Judith Beheading Holofernes, from 1614 until 1620 Oil on canvas, 78.3 x 63.9 in // Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as a Lute Player, between 1615 and 1618 Oil on canvas, 30.5 x 28.2 in Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

Self-Portrait as a Lute Player, between 1615 and 1618 Oil on canvas, 30.5 x 28.2 in // Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

Venus and Cupid, between 1625 and 1630 Oil on canvas, 38 x 56.6 in // Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

Diego Velásquez

On May 21, 2025 - 17th Century, june 6, Spanish

Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter, June 6, 1599–August 6, 1660

Diego Velázquez, Self-Portrait, 18 x 15 in, Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia

A Man, circa 1624 to 1626 Oil on canvas, 20 1/4 × 15 3/4 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

Kitchen Scene Oil on canvas, 21 7/8 × 41 1/8 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Head of a Man, c. 1616 Oil on canvas, 15.7 x 14.2 in // The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Old Woman Frying Eggs, 1618 Oil on canvas, 39.8 x 47.2 in // National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Head of a Girl, c. 1618 Chalk drawing, 5.9 x 4.6 in // Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid

The Waterseller of Seville, 1623 Oil on canvas, 42 x 31.9 in // Wellington Museum, Apsley House, London

Los Borrachos, The Topers (The Triumph of Bacchus), c. 1629 Oil on canvas, 65 x 88.6 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Infanta Doña María, Queen of Hungary, 1630 Oil on canvas, 23.6 x 18.1 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck

On May 18, 2025 - 17th Century, Dutch

Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, Dutch painter, between 1600 and 1603 – buried 30 June 1662

Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, Regentesses of the Grote Hospital, Haarlem, 1641 Oil on canvas, 59.8 in x 82.6 in Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands

Regentesses of the Grote Hospital, Haarlem, 1641 Oil on canvas, 59.8 in x 82.6 in // Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands

Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer, 1640 Oil on canvas, 40.9 x 30.9 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Pieter Jacobsz Schout, Burgomaster of Haarlem, 1641 Oil on canvas, 30.7 x 25.5 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Portrait of a Young Man, 1634 Oil on panel, 27.5 x 19.6 in // Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France

Portrait of Maria Strijp, 1652 Oil on panel, 38.1 x 29.5 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Portrait of a Bride, 1640 Oil on canvas, 31.1 x 30.1 in // Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

Portrait of Cornelis Montigny de Glarges, 1643 Oil on canvas, 31.9 x 25.6 in // Private collection

Portrait of Anna van Schoonhoven, 1641 Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 26.7 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Salomon de Bray

On May 18, 2025 - 17th Century, American, Dutch

Salomon de Bray, Dutch painter and architect, 1597 – May 11, 1664

Salomon de Bray and his wife, by their son Jan de Bray, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

Young Woman in an Imaginary Costume, 1652 Oil on panel, 39.1 in x 32.8 in // Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands

Judith with the Head of Holophernes, 1636 Oil on panel, 35 x 28 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Barebreasted Woman Combing Her Hair, 1635 Oil on panel, 21.2 x 18.1 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Jael, Deborah and Barak, 1635 Oil on panel, 34.25 x 28.3 in // Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht

The Twins Clara and Aelbert de Bray, c. 1646 Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 25.5 in // National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Joseph Receives His Father and Brothers in Egypt, 1655 Oil on canvas, 44.1 x 34.6 in // Private collection

Salomon de Bray, Eliezer and Rebecca, 1660 Oil on canvas, 35.4 x 61.4 in Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai

Eliezer and Rebecca, 1660 Oil on canvas, 35.4 x 61.4 in // Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai, France

Book and Picture Shop, 1628 Pen and ink and wash on paper, 3 x 3 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Odysseus and Circe, 1650-55 Oil on canvas, 43 x 36.2 in // Private collection

Study of a Young Woman in Profile, 1636 Oil on panel, 10.5 x 8 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Samson with the Jawbone, 1636 Oil on canvas, 24.48 x 20 in // Getty Center, Los Angeles

Salomon de Bray, Shepherd, 1635, 29.7 x 23.2 in Oil on panel Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Shepherd, 1635 Oil on panel, 29.7 x 23.2 in // Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Cornelis van Haarlem

On May 18, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Dutch

Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter, 1562 – November 11, 1638

Self-Portrait, 1588-1590

The Massacre of the Innocents Part of Draper's altar, 1591 Oil on canvas, 105.5 x 101.1 in // Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands

The Baptism of Christ, second half of 16th century Oil on copper, 17.7 x 12.9 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Baptism of Christ, 1588 Oil on canvas, 66.9 x 81.1 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Abraham Janssens

On May 10, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Flemish

Abraham Janssens, Flemish painter, 1575–1632

Allegory of the Burdens of Time, 1609 Oil on panel, 61.8 in x 91.4 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Lascivia, c. 1618 Oil on canvas Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Scaldis and Antwerpia, 1609 Oil on panel, 68.5 x 10.1 ft // Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

The Moon: an Allegory of Fickleness, circa 1617 Oil on canvas, 50.1 x 41.4 in // Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

The Sense of Sight, 1630s Oil on canvas, 56 x 36 in // Indianapolis Museum of Art

Venus and Adonis, circa 1620 Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 94.4 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Four Elements, c 1615 Oil on canvas, 64 7/8 × 78 3/8 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Apotheosis of Aeneas, between c 1620 and c 1630 Oil on panel, 78.8 x 89.9 in // Staatsgalerie Neuburg, Germany

Diana and her Companions, circa 1613 Oil on canvas, 48.2 x 36.8 in // Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Allegory of the Four Elements, 1608 Oil on panel, 65.4 x 78.7 in // Private collection

Allegory of Joy and Melancholy, 1628 Oil on canvas, 47.4 x 38.4 in // Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, between 1600 and 1604 Oil on panel, 37.2 x 47.7 in // Dayton Art Institute

Heraclitus, between c 1601 and c 1602 Oil on panel, 25.2 x 20 in // Private collection

Abraham Janssens, Allegory of the Burdens of Time("The man overwhelmed by time is helped by hope and patience"), 1609 Oil on panel, 61.8 x 91.4 in Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Allegory of the Burdens of Time("The man overwhelmed by time is helped by hope and patience"), 1609 Oil on panel, 61.8 x 91.4 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Cornelis Schut

On May 10, 2025 - 17th Century, Flemish, may 13

Cornelis Schut, Flemish painter, May 13, 1597 – April 29, 1655)

Cornelis Schut by Anthony van Dyck

Susanna and the Elders, 1650 Oil on canvas, 46.7 in x 42.3 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Abduction of Europa, 1620 Oil on canvas, 25 x 41 1/2 ins

The Adoration of the Magi Oil on canvas Church of the Trinity, Caen, France

Philippe de Champaigne

On May 10, 2025 - 17th Century, Belgian, French, may 26

Philippe de Champaigne, Belgian-French painter, May 26, 1602 – August 12, 1674

Self-portrait (copy), between 1625 and 1650 Oil on canvas The Museum of Grenoble, France

The Repentant Magdalen, 1648 Oil on canvas, 45.63 x 35 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Moses with the Ten Commandments, 1648 Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 29.5 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Portrait of Arnauld d'Andilly, 1650 Oil on canvas, 35.8 x 28.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Philippe de Champaigne, Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, 1648 Oil on canvas, 101.1 x 77.6 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, 1648 Oil on canvas, 101.1 x 77.6 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Portrait of Ferdinand de Boisschot Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 39.4 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu, c. 1639 Oil on canvas, 87.4 x 61 in // Louvre, Paris

Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin, 17th century Oil on canvas, 80.7 x 56.6 in // Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

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