Apples in a Basket, William Joseph McCloskey; oil on canvas; roughly 8 x 18 inches (20 x 46 cm). Link is to Wikimedia Commons. The original is in a private collection.
This still life by American painter William Joseph McCloskey — who was active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries — is much more painterly than it appears at first glance. You should be able to see some of his brushmarks in the enlarged crops above.
Sydney Long was an Australian painter and printmaker whose style was influenced by the Australian Heidelberg school, French Barbizon school plein air, Symbolism and Art Nouveau.
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard; oil on canvas, roughly 83 x 59 inches (210 x 151 cm). Link is to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has the original in its collection and offers zoomable and downloadable images.
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was one of only four female students allowed into France’s Académie Royale when she was there in the 1780s. (Another was Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun.)
While it’s of course unlikely that she painted while dressed this way, it was common at the time for artists whose self-portraits showed them working to appear in their finest.
[I’ve taken the liberty of brightening the Met’s image. While I haven’t seen the original of this painting, it’s been my experience — based on images of work that I have seen in person — that museums often display images of works in their collections that are much darker than the original paintings. This appears deliberate, though I don’t know the reasoning behind it.]
Jarosław Jaśnikowski is a Polish artist working in the vein of magic realism/neo-surrealism whose work carries the influence of the original Surrealists as well as their artistic descendants.
In particular, you can see his admiration for the work of Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí and contemporary steampunk fantasy art. The latter infuence often takes the form of trains and airships.
I can’t find a dedicated website for Jaśnikowski, but I’ve collected a few images sources for you to see his work.
Nude Studies, Raphael, red chalk and metalpoint, roughy 16 x 11 in. (40 x 28 cm); link is to zoomable images on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. original is in the Albertina, Vienna.
Raphael is considered to be one of the greatest draftsmen in history, and this relatively well known drawing of figure studies certainly a case in point.
Note the variation in value of the hatching and the beautifully defined musculature of the back, all with sure handed and seemingly casual lines.
Pierre Commarmond was a French landscape painter and poster artist, most recognized for his delightful railroad travel posters created in the 1920s and 30s.
I particulary enjoy posters of this kind; their flat colors and strong design elements remind me of color woodcuts.
I believe many of the original paintings for these were done in gouache.
