Wikimedia Commons, an offshoot of Wikipedia, is an extensive repository of media files: images, audio, video and even 3D models, to which anyone with a free account can contribute. The material must be either freely licensed or in the public domain.
You may have noticed I refer to it often when providing links to works by historic artists.
One of the many delights I find in Wikimedia Commons is the multiple categorizations in which the media are often listed, for instance paintings by artist, paintings by country, paintings by genre, style, subject, technique and, of course, paintings by year.
These categories lead to wonderfully random bedfellows, with juxtapositions of paintings by artists I might not ordinarily group together.
I have previously posted a few paintings from 1879, 1880, and 1888.
I find the end of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th to be particularly rich in the work of artists I admire, and I’ve indulged again in this selection of paintings from 1889.
They have no particular relation other than having been created in that year and I like them.
(Images above: Auguste Toulmouche, Dennis Miller Bunker, Anton Josef Pepino, William Merritt Chase, Theodore Robinson, Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, Théo van Rysselberghe, Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Peder Mork Monsted, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, H. A. Brendekilde, Vincent Van Gogh)
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