Category: Art

10 Best Boy with a Hat Paintings

The Torn Hat Thomas Sully
~ Vincent Mars ~ 5 Comments

The word “best” in this title is, of course, subjective. What this gallery of a post features are some of my favorite boy with a hat paintings from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

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Summer in 19th Century Painting

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If you have a moment, let us take a stroll through the world of painting and experience summer as the artists of the 19th century saw it, from Edouard Manet to Edward Charles Williams.

The following paintings all evoke summer in one way or other, even if summer was not necessarily their chief subject.

Some of them remind us that summer was not a season of ease for everyone. Others will make us wonder whether those hatted and parasoled women were not a little warm under their very proper dresses.

Step by step, picture by picture, let us begin.

(Click on an image to enlarge it.)

Do you have a favorite? Why?

  • Painting of a girl in a garden by MANET, Edouard
    MANET, Edouard Girl in the Garden at Bellevue 1880 Oil on canvas, 92 x 70 cm
  • Painting of a woman in summer John Sargent A Morning Walk
    SARGENT, John Singer A Morning Walk 1888 Oil on canvas, 67 x 50 cm Private collection
  • Painting of bridge over water lilies by Claude Monet
    MONET, Claude Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies 1899 Oil on canvas, 93 x 74 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Painting of Venice in summer by RICO Y ORTEGA, Martín
    RICO Y ORTEGA, Martín Rio Maria, Venice Oil on panel, 35 x 23 cm Private collection
  • Painting of a Wheat Field with a Lark by Vincent van Gogh
    Vincent van Gogh Wheat Field with a Lark Summer 1887, Paris Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam
  • Painting of summer by FRIEDRICH, Caspar David
    FRIEDRICH, Caspar David The Summer 1807 Oil on canvas, 71 x 104 cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich
  • Painting of buckwheat harvest in summer by MILLET, Jean-François
    MILLET, Jean-François Buckwheat Harvest: Summer 1868-74 Oil on canvas, 85 x 111 cm
  • Painting of summer by BOUDIN, Eugène
    BOUDIN, Eugène Summer at Trouville 1890-94 Oil on canvas, 49 x 73 cm Musée Malraux, Le Havre
  • Painting of fishermen by FEARNLEY, Thomas
    FEARNLEY, Thomas Fishermen at Sorrento 1834 Oil on paper, laid on canvas, 27 x 39 cm Private collection
  • Painting of bathing children by KRØYER, Peter Severin
    KRØYER, Peter Severin Bathing Children 1892 Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm Den Hirschsprungske Samling, Copenhagen
  • Painting of summer in a room by ANCHER, Anna Kirstine
    ANCHER, Anna Kirstine Sunlight in the Blue Room. Helga Ancher Knitting in her Grandmother’s Room 1891 Oil on canvas, 65 x 59 cm Skagens Museum, Skagen
  • Painting of summer evening SOHLBERG, Harald
    WILLIAMS, Edward Charles A Summer Evening at Sonning 1859 Oil on canvas, 102 x 155 cm Private collection

Time, Our Mutual Foe

Woman walking in autumn original watercolor painting
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Have you seen
a beautiful woman
rushing past you,
her hair waving goodbye,
her skirt flapping about her
like wings?
Was not time
doing her
a great injustice?
Was not time 
mocking you?
Time undressed her of you.
Time did to her
everything he wanted to.

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Image: Original watercolor painting (c) AntigoniArtGallery