Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva was a Russian and Soviet artist most notable for her watercolor painting. She was also one of the pioneers of the woodcut technique in Russia. Today, during Women's History Month, we present her watercolor thanks to the State Russian Museum. Enjoy!

Rome—"royal, all-encompassing, all-fulfilling"—became a surrogate hometown for Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva; St. Peter's was an inexhaustible source of inspiration. This city appeared in her works sometimes in unexpected, paradoxical angles. This watercolor looks like a dense forest of columns, the titanic scale of which is emphasized by the figures of a few passers-by. 

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And on this occasion, we have a perfect painting for you :)

Anna Ancher often painted small pictures with one or two figures, but in around 1900 she tried her hand at larger compositions with many figures, like in this picture. She created a lot of sketches for this picture, where she experimented with colours and tested various compositional elements. The painting was shown at the Spring Exhibition at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen in 1899. It was in private ownership until 2013, and has probably not been exhibited since 1899. In the image you can see mothers with their children, who are either waiting to be, or having been vaccinated against smallpox. Children had to be vaccinated before their seventh birthday. The vaccination of Danish children became mandatory in 1810 and was phased out in 1977. The disease was declared eradicated in 1980.

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In late February 1886, Van Gogh arrives in Paris. There he aims to further develop as an artist and also hopes to sell his work in the city. He moves in with his brother Theo. Their small apartment lies at the foot of the ‘butte’ Montmartre on the northern edge of the city. At that time, this hill is still almost without buildings and has a rural character.

In the spring, Van Gogh explores his surroundings. He paints this panoramic La butte Montmartre, viewed from the north, in the open air. His sober, autumnal palette of predominantly red-brown and brown-yellow is still reminiscent of his Dutch period. But in the picturesque use of different shades of green, blue and white, he is already cautiously experimenting with colour and light.

The almost square brushstroke slightly right of centre in the sky is a retouch, which Van Gogh himself applied. This was because a hole had formed in the paint layer, making the ground layer visible. The brushstrokes around it may have served to somewhat camouflage this all-too-visible correction.

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Sunday Afternoon in the Country, 1917. Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871-1944). Oil on canvas; 128 x 92.5 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ettie Stettheimer,

Today it is our last day of the special month with Leopold Museum collection. We hope you liked it! We want to end it with a beautiful and calm landscape by Gustav Klimt. Enjoy!

The close-up view of the restaurant “Litzlberger Keller” suggests that the work was painted from a boat. However, this painting commissioned by Otto Primavesi (1868–1926) is strongly reminiscent of the “correspondence cards” Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) sent to his friends back home in Vienna, which is why the assumption that he used such cards – or photographs – as templates for this cropped view is probably true. As he so often did in his landscapes, Klimt banished all evidence of people from the depiction, focusing only on the structure of nature and thus creating a sensitive atmospheric painting.

Otto Primavesi (1868-1926) was as financier to the Vienna Workshop in 1914 and a keen patron and supporter of art. During the First World War he regularly invited artists, including Klimt, to stay at his country house. Otto commissioned Klimt to paint his young daughter, Mada, and his wife, Eugenia, between 1913 and 1914. We have featured both of these paintings before, please check our Archive to check them out.

An interesting fact: The Litzlberger Keller, a former beer warehouse from the late 18th century is still open and available for guests. 

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Giuseppe Canella, also referred to as Giuseppe Canella the Elder, was an Italian painter.

Initially trained by his father Giovanni, an architect, fresco painter and set designer, Giuseppe Canella started out producing stage sets and decorating stately homes in Verona and Mantua. The set of 13 landscapes shown during his debut, at Expositions at the Brera in 1831 proved a great success with the public and critics alike, not least due to the fame achieved in Paris with works exhibited in the Salons, commissions from Louis Philippe of Orleans and the award of a gold medal in 1830. He returned to Milan in 1832 and devoted his energies to urban views characterised by an interest in the events of contemporary life and an atmospheric form of portrayal in evident competition with Giovanni Migliara. Landscape came to predominate as from 1835 with subjects drawn from the Lombard countryside and lakes. The focus on poor and humble aspects of life formed part of the artist’s fundamental naturalism and coincided with a moralistic approach derived from the novelist Alessandro Manzoni. Crucial importance attaches in the artist’s mature period to his trip to Rome and Naples in 1838–39. Towards the end of his life, he became a teacher at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. He quickly gained a reputation as a painter of vedute, factually accurate views, painting townscapes with great precision, in the style of Guardi or Carlevaris. Today's work is a good example of his Venice period - Chioggia is the town is situated on a small island at the southern entrance to the Lagoon of Venice about 25 kilometres (16 miles) south of Venice.

P.S. Venice is with no doubt one of the most beautiful cities in the world <3 Countless artists visited La Serenissima and portrayed her – among them Claude Monet!

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On this day in 1882 Edward Hopper’s, the American painter whose realistic depictions of everyday urban scenes shock the viewer into recognition of the strangeness of familiar surroundings was born. Although he is mostly known of his city and rural scenes, he had a lifelong enthusiasm for the sea which was developed when he was a boy in Nyack, New York, then a prosperous Hudson River port with an active shipyard. Years later, in 1934, he and his wife built a house and studio in South Truro, Massachusetts, he produced a number of oil paintings and watercolors manifesting his avid interest in nautical subjects.

Despite its bright palette and seemingly serene subject, Ground Swell echoes the themes of loneliness and escape typical of Hopper's oeuvre. The blue sky, sun-kissed figures, and vast rolling water strike a calm note in the picture; however, the visible disengagement of the figures from each other and their noticeable preoccupation with the bell buoy placed at the center of the canvas call into question this initial sense of serenity. The lone dark element in a sea of blues and whites, the buoy confronts the small catboat in the middle of an otherwise empty seascape. Its purpose, to emit a warning sound in advance of unseen or imminent danger, renders its presence in the picture ominous. The cirrus clouds in the blue sky—often harbingers of approaching storms—reinforce this sense of disturbance in the otherwise peaceful setting. Although Hopper resisted offering explanations of his paintings, the signs of impending danger here may also reference a more severe disturbance: during the time that Hopper worked on Ground Swell, from August to September 15, 1939, World War II broke out in Europe.

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Lise Tréhot, Renoir’s mistress for several years, sat for him in various roles. On the one hand this portrait follows in the traditions of Romanticism with the sitter’s blouse slipping from her shoulder — although without erotic coquettishness — with her dark, tangled hair and the open, frontal pose which still avoids eye contact with the viewer. On the other hand the powerful plasticity of the form shows the influence of Courbet. The sunlight flickering through the background foliage, rendered with its broad brushstrokes, does not reach the sitter, who is lit only by the light in the studio.

We present today's painting thanks to Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

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Have you heard of Sarah Miriam Paele? She was an artist active in Baltimore and Philadelphia during the 1820s, and she gained fame for her portraits and still lifes. This painting, one of Peale’s greatest works, portrays fruit in an ideal, unblemished state. No bruises or dents mar the melons, peaches, or grapes assembled on the table; rather, each is rendered as an exquisite, glistening jewel.

The Peale family occupies a unique position in the history of American art. Under the supervision and tutelage of painter, naturalist, and museum proprietor Charles Willson Peale, 10 members of the family became prolific, well-regarded painters. Sarah Miriam trained with her father, James Peale, a miniaturist and still-life painter. At moments, she shared studio space with several of her well-regarded cousins, including artist and mechanic Raphaelle Peale, botanist-painter Reubens Peale, portraitist Rembrandt Peale, and acclaimed miniaturist Angelica Kauffmann Peale Robinson. If you're interested in this story, please check our article about the female artistic branch of the Peale family!

We present today's work thanks to Harvard Art Museum. 

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This composition was a product of the Rajput School from 18th-Century Rajasthan in Northern India. Depictions of the supreme Hindu God, Krishna featured with great frequency in the works of Rajasthani royal ateliers. Krishna is identified by his iconic blue skin, yellow roles and
ostentatious jewelry. He is depicted with his eternal consort, Radha who is also dressed in traditional garb. The halo around Krishna symbolizes his divinity. Their eyes are interlocked in a private moment, signifying their intense and eternal love affair.
 
The setting is a paved garden path scattered with wildflowers. The couple stole along the banks of a rich pond full of pink lotuses in full bloom. Lotuses are of great significance in Hindu culture equated with fertility, prosperity, spirituality, and beauty.
 
The cow prancing behind the couple hint at Krishna's upbringing in a community of cowherds. While the falling rain is not apparent here, the dark clouds and figures seeking shelter under an umbrella hint at rain.
- Maya Tola

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