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A recent trip to The National Gallery here in London.
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September 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Anne Robbins, Associate Curator of Post-1800 Paintings and curator of Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet To Cézanne, introduces the exhibition. Streamed live on Sep 25, 2018. (1:13:51) #TheNationalGallery www.youtube.com/live/G3AXEnd...
Curator's Introduction | Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne
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August 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
katepearceauthor.bsky.social
I got Monet’d at @thenationalgallery
Monet water Lillie’s in the national gallery and me
July 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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There's a few more, and just the flag for good measure.

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Stolitz photo card at the National Gallery. Stolitz photo card at trafalgar Square, you can see the London Eye in the back Pride flag! Stolitz photcard in Chinatown.
June 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Eva Gonzalès by Édouard Manet (French) - Oil on canvas / 1870 - The National Gallery (London, UK) #WomenInArt #Art #ArtText #PortraitofaWoman #OilPainting #ÉdouardManet #EdouardManet #Manet #EvaGonzalès #EvaGonzales #TheNationalGallery #NationalGalleryofArt #artwork #womensart #FrenchArtist #painter
Eva Gonzalès was French artist Édouard Manet’s only formal pupil as well as a successful artist and a regular exhibitor at the Salon herself. This portrait was started in the summer of 1869, finished in March 1870, and shown at the Salon the same year. Manet had painted other artists, but this portrait is unusual in that it shows Gonzalès painting at her easel. That work on the easel, already finished and framed, is a copy after an etching by the Franco-Flemish flower painter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer. A half-rolled print carrying Manet’s signature lies on the floor, a reminder of his role as her teacher. Near it, on the floor, lies a white peony at the hem of the dress. Her pose, along with the white dress and the fluidity of the brushstrokes, recall 18th-century self portraits by women: showing themselves at their easels, dressed in beautiful, often white gowns. Here, her flowing white dress fills the composition, its brightness heightened by the dark background so that it becomes a source of illumination in its own right. Of white cotton, it is actually a bodice and skirt, the former composed of a white corsage that finishes low on the back, overlaid with a transparent muslin formed into a square, low‐cut neck, trimmed with a ruffle of pleated fabric, and short puffed sleeves. The skirt is bordered with a fashionable flounce. At her waist is tied a black, possibly velvet, sash with fringed ends. White muslin dresses, with contrasting belts and transparent sleeves, were very fashionable in the 1860s. Her hairstyle is similarly fashionable, with some hair piled up on top of her head, some tresses left flowing, and a couple of curls framing her forehead: a “coiffure à l’imperatrice,” popularized by Empress Eugénie. Gonzalès sits on a faux bamboo chair with a rattan seat atop a floral‐patterned pale blue carpet. Resting against her chair is a portfolio on its side, its handles in cream paint. In her left hand, she holds her palette, three brushes and a mahlstick.
May 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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The Magdalen Reading by Rogier van der Weyden (Netherlandish) - Oil on mahogany / c. 1435-1438 - The National Gallery (London, England) #WomenInArt #art #ArtText #oilpainting #reading #TheNationalGallery #artwork #RogiervanderWeyden #religiousart #womensart #earlynetherlandish #christianart
A young light-skinned lady in an extravagant green dress sits on the floor with her head and legs curving around her bent knees, emphasizing her absorption in the book she is reading. Although she wears 15th-century clothing in a medieval room, she is a biblical figure: Saint Mary Magdalene. This is a fragment of a large altarpiece of the Virgin and Child with saints painted for a church in Brussels after Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden settled there in 1435. She sits on a red cushion and leans against a carved wooden cabinet. Her overdress is lined with grey fur and cinched in tight around her waist. It falls in bulky folds around her legs, and is turned back so that we can see her cloth of gold underdress. Her loose hair is covered with a white veil, fluted at the edges and tucked behind her ears. She is reading a Bible, written in two columns with large red and blue initials marking different chapters. It is a luxurious volume: the edges and clasps are gilded and it is covered with a white chemise plus fine stitching along the upper edge of the binding and the minuscule cord bookmarks wrapped around the pipe. Through a window, a river winds lazily past with people walking its banks. On the near bank, an archer in a short purple robe and a red hat aims a crossbow. On the far side, a man in red and black is followed by a woman with her reflection in the water. The details and technical sophistication are typical of van der Weyden. Mary’s lips are painted with vermilion, white, and red, striped wet into one another. For the fur edging of her dress, tones of grey, from pure black to nearly pure white, were painted in parallel stripes and then dragged while still wet to produce the furry texture. Many of the details – the ruling of Mary’s book and its fine, colored bookmarks, and a fleur-de-lis, just over 1 millimeter high, painted on the shoe of the archer by the river – must have been almost invisible when the painting was on its altar.
May 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
stanza227.bsky.social
a pleasant way to spend 10 minutes on a Sunday afternoon

“Travel back in time to 1981 and experience a digital recreation of David Hockney's National Gallery exhibition ‘The Artist’s Eye’.”

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[Re]curated: David Hockney - The Artist's Eye (1981) | National Gallery
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May 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Model of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, 2024. Photograph: The National Gallery.
April 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Vijftien jaar geleden werd ik, ronddwalend in #TheNationalGallery, opslag verliefd op deze #schoonheid 500 jaar eerder geportretteerd. En de foto’s doen eigenlijk geen recht aan het echt zien van haar portret.

La Dama in Rosso - Giovanni Battista Moroni
Portret schilderij van een dame in vijftiende eeuw kleding zittend in een stoel. Ze heeft opgestoken rossig haar en draagt een roze/rode jurk van glanzende stof. In haar linkerhand, die op haar schoot rust houdt ze een waaier vast. Ze heeft een lichte huid en een ietwat blozend gezicht. Portret schilderij van een dame in vijftiende eeuw kleding zittend in een stoel. Ze heeft opgestoken rossig haar en draagt een roze/rode jurk van glanzende stof. In haar linkerhand, die op haar schoot rust houdt ze een waaier vast. Ze heeft een lichte huid en een ietwat blozend gezicht.
March 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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How three artists (some of my oldest friends) took on The National Gallery to get them to admit their 'Samson & Delilah' is not by Rubens after all. AI agrees with them and the story goes on.
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Fresh doubt cast on authenticity of Rubens painting in National Gallery
Exclusive: Art historian points to ‘bad craftsmanship’ in supposedly 17th-century work entitled Samson and Delilah
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February 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
mdstamper.bsky.social
Doña Isabel de Porcel by Francisco de Goya (Spanish) - Oil on canvas / c. 1800-1805 - The National Gallery (London, England) #womeninart #fineart #portrait #Goya #art #OilPainting #SpanishArtist #NationalGallery #PortraitofaWoman #TheNationalGallery #WomensArt #FranciscoGoya #artwork #beauty #style
Portrait of Doña Isabel de Porcel is an oil-on-canvas painting made by the Spanish painter Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes before 1805. The portrait depicts Isabel Lobo Velasco de Porcel, who was born in Ronda, Spain around 1780 and was the second wife of Antonio Porcel. Isabel's husband was 25 years older than she, and they met when she was 20 years old. The dazzling half-length portrait depicts the young beauty dressed in classical Spanish attire. She turns right towards someone or something outside of the picture. With flair, she wears an elaborate lace shawl and headdress, known in Spain as a mantilla, the transparency of which is brilliantly conveyed. Antonio Porcel was a liberal and associate of Manuel Godoy, Prince of the Peace, who was a friend of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, who in turn brought him in contact with Goya, who lived nearby; the painting is said to have been a gift from the artist in return for hospitality. The inscription on the back of the original canvas identifies this as Doña Isabel de Porcel and was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1805. When an X-ray image was made of this painting during conservation treatment in 1980, another portrait was unexpectedly found underneath – you can just make out the dark curve of an eyebrow on Doña Isabel’s chin and the stripes of a jacket through her right sleeve.
February 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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On view at the National Gallery of Canada:

Henrietta Mabel May, Melting Snow, ~1925.

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February 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
olekingcoley.bsky.social
Olive Trees, 1889 & Long Grass with Butterflies, 1890. 🦋
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Van Gogh portrait of an olive grove. The colours are brown and orange near the bottom of the picture. Lush green foliage on the trees and a bright yellow sun filling almost the entirety of the sky. Van Gogh painting of long grass. Differing shades of greens and yellows, depict spiky, grassy foliage.
January 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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The Olive Trees, 1889 & Olive Trees, 1889.
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Van Gogh painting of an olive grove. Another painting of olive trees in a grove.
January 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Still Life with Coffee Pot, 1888 & A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, 1889.
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Van Gogh portrait on a table stand a black tall coffee pot, three lemons, a blue and white checkered milk jug, two coffee cups and saucers. On a blue tablecloth Van Gogh portrait A wheat field, golden vibrant, swirling clouds.. and differing shades of green foliage
January 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Portrait of Madam Roulin, 1889 & The Arlesienne, 1890.
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January 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
olekingcoley.bsky.social
Sunflowers Paris, 1887 & Sunflowers Arles, 1888.
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Sunflower portrait by Van Gogh with a yellow background Sunflowers portrait by Van Gogh with a light blue background.
January 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
olekingcoley.bsky.social
Self-Portrait, 1889 & Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888.
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A self portrait of Vincent Van Gogh. Star filled sky at the top of the portrait, the mid section depicts a bright stretching the length of the horizon, over the river Rhone. Two figures walk in the foreground, slightly to the right of the portrait.
January 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
olekingcoley.bsky.social
The Garden of the Asylum at Saint-Remy, 1889 & Bedroom in Arles, 1889. 😍
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January 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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The Poet (Portrait of Eugene Boch), 1888. & Undergrowth, 1889.
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Van Gogh painting of Van Gogh portrait of trees and thick foliage depicting undergrowth.
January 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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A view from the fountain at Trafalgar Square London, in the background the National Gallery’s entrance.
January 19, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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The Lover (Portrait of Lieutenant Milliet), 1888
& The Poet’s Garden (Public Garden in Arles), 1888 #VanGogh
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Van Gogh portrait Lieutenants head and shoulders wearing uniform. He has a ginger beard with a handlebar prominent moustache. Van Gogh portrait two figures a man and a woman walk through a park, passing a huge fir tree.
January 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
olekingcoley.bsky.social
Today was mainly about visiting the Van Gogh exhibition.. but couldn’t help nip and gaze at my all time favourite painting at The National.. ‘The Tailor’ by Giovanni Battista Moroni (1565-1570) what a handsome devil 😈 😍
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January 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
olekingcoley.bsky.social
You should hear all the posh people complaining about having to queue..
“But we’re members!!”
Yeah so am I sweetheart.. suck it up lol 😂
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January 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM