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Shibata Zeshin

On March 14, 2025 - 19th Century, Japanese, march 15

Shibata Zeshin, Japanese painter, March 15, 1807 – July 13, 1891

Autumn Grasses in Moonlight, Meiji period (1868–1912) Two-panel folding screen; ink, lacquer, and silver leaf on paper 26 1/8 x 69 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Egrets and Crows, Meiji period (1868–1912) Individual panels remounted as a two-panel folding screen; colored lacquer, white pigment, and gold leaf on paper, each panel: 53 1/2 x 36 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Surimono, 1844 Woodblock print on paper, 6 7/8 x 5 3/8 in Brooklyn Museum, New York

Crows Fly by Red Sky at Sunset, From the Series Hana Kurabe, ca. 1880 Woodblock color print, 9 x 9 5/16 in Brooklyn Museum, New York

Ferdinand Hodler

On March 14, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, march 14, Swiss

Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter, March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918

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The Monk with Clouds, 1911 Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 91.5 cm Private Collection

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The Woodman, 1910 Oil on canvas Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo (MASP), Sao Paulo, Brazil

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The Halberdier, 1895 Oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

The netmender, 1883 Oil on canvas, 9.4 x 7.1 in Kunstsammlung Thomas Schmidheiny, Switzerland

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Girl at the Window, 1890 Oil on canvas Clemens-Sels-Museum, Neuss, Germany

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The Beech Forest, 1885 Oil on canvas, 102 x 131 cm Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland

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The Disillusioned One, 1892 Oil on canvas, 56.2 x 45.08 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

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Self-portrait, 1912 Oil on canvas, 13.1 in x 10.6 in Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

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Josef Müller, c. 1916 Oil on Canvas, 42 x 26,5 cm Private Collection

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The Road to Everdos, circa 1890 Oil on canvas, 24.6 in x 17.5 in Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland

The Reader, ca. 1885 Oil on canvas, 12 x 15 in Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Day, 1900 Oil on canvas, 63 x 134 in Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Study for "Joyful Woman," ca. 1911 Drawing Musée Jenisch Vevey

Mont Blanc Before Sunrise, 1918 Oil on canvas, 26 x 32 in Private Collection

Ferdinand Hodler, Communication with the InfinFerdinand Hodler, 1892 Oil on canvas, 63 x 38 in Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

Communication with the Infinite, 1892 Oil on canvas, 63 x 38 in Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

Thun, Stockhornkette, 1910 Oil on canvas, 26 x 35 in Kunsthalle, Hamburg

The Grand Muveran, 1907–1917 Oil on canvas, 27 3/4 × 37 in // Art Institute of Chicago

The Jungfrau seen from Isenfluh, 1902 Oil on canvas, 29.5 x 22 in // Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

Lake Geneva from Chexbres, c.1905 Oil on canvas, 31.5 x 39.6 in

Landscape with Two Small Trees, c.1893 Oil on canvas, 18 x 12.8 in // Kunstsammlung Thomas Schmidheiny, Switzerland

Portrait of General Ulrich Wille, 1916 Oil on canvas, 43.7 in x 34.6 in // Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland

The Convalescent, 1879 Oil on canvas

Portrait of a Woman, 1887 9.9 x 11.7 inches

Walking at the Forest Edge, 1885 Oil on canvas, 28.3 x 37.7 in

The Kien Valley with the Bluemlisalp Massif, 1902 Oil on canvas, 40.2 x 27.8 in // National Gallery, London

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

On March 12, 2025 - 19th Century, march 30, Spanish

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish artist, 30 March 1746-6 April 1828

A bad night (Mala noche), plate 36 from "Los Caprichos", 1799 Etching, burnished aquatint, 8 7/16 x 5 7/8 in

Vicente López Portaña (1772–1850) Portrait of Francisco de Goya, 1826 Oil on canvas, 39.3 in x 30.7 in Museo del Prado, Madrid

Maja and Celestina on the Balcony, between 1808 and 1812 Oil on canvas, 65.3 in x 42.5 in // Private collection

Trials, Caprichos No. 60, 1799 // Aquatint and etching

The Witches' Flight, 1798 Oil on canvas, 17.1 in x 12 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Arrest of Christ, 1788 Oil on canvas, 16 x 9 in // Toledo Cathedral, Spain

The Worst is to Beg, The Disasters of War, 1812 - 1815 Etching and lavis, 8 x 6

Here Comes the Bogey-Man, LosCaprichos - No 3, 1799 Etching and aquatint, 8.4 in x 5.9 in

Portrait of Andrés del Peral, before 1798 Oil on panel, 37.4 in x 25.8 in // National Gallery, London

Asensio Juliá, 1814 Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 22 3/4 in // The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Dona Amalia Bonells de Costa, 1805 Oil on canvas, 34.6 in x 25.9 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

The Duke of Wellington, between 1812 and 1814 Oil on canvas and on panel, 25.3 in x 20.6 in // National Gallery, London

Portrait of the Torero José Romero, c. 1795 Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in // Philadelphia Museum of Art

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