Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Inheritance

Gerrit von Honthorst
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, with his family
c.1628

These are some of the old master paintings inherited by Queen Victoria. These are some of the paintings I would have had hanging in my parlor (if I had been Queen Victoria) instead of Johann Michael Wittmer and Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

Artemisia Gentileschi
La Pittura (self portrait)
1638-39

Orazio Gentileschi
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
1630-32

Lorenzo Lotto
Andrea Odoni
1527

Claude Lorrain
Coast scene with the rape of Europa
1667

Daniel Mytens
Self portrait
c.1630

Polidoro da Caravaggio
Psyche Abandoned
c.1527-28

Gerard ter Borch
The Letter
c.1660-65

Johannes Vermeer
The Music Lesson
c.1662-65

Palma Giovani
Expulsion of the vices of the Church
c.1580-84

Lucas Achtschellinck
Classical Ruins
c.1688-93

Jacopo Tintoretto
The Muses
1578