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| Who painted #15 |
Maybe the answer is to reduce the detail........?
So who painted this?
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| Painting by Ustud Mansur |
- Title of the artwork: not applicable this week
- Name of the artist who created this artwork: attributed to Ustad Mansur - the leading nature painter at the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir.
- Date it was created: no later than middle 17th century - probably c.1625
- Media used: I was only expecting a few answers... however guesses ranged between opaque watercolour, gouache and egg tempera
- Where it lives now: Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg (but since the records are confusing I'm also accepting the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
At the very end of 1955 it occurred to me to visit an exhibition of old Indian and Persian miniatures organised in the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad. These miniatures, belonging to the Hermitage and the Institute of Orientalistics of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. were very diverse. There were miniatures on historical, zoological, botanical subjects and so on. It was natural that first of all my attention was attracted by wonderful pictures of birds, exhibited among other miniatures. There were falcon, a guinea-fowl, a bustard, stone chats, finches, tragopans and so on. And amongst others an excellent picture of the dodo
An Indian picture of the Dodo by A. Iwanow - Leningrad 1958
- Which ruler the painter worked for: Jahangir. The point of asking this question is that this particular Moghul emperor was a passionate supporter of making records of the natural world.
- The significance of this painting: It's the earliest known accurate painting of a dodo from life. It's considered to be the most reliable painting of a dodo as it also fits the skeletons best.
This dodo's portrait is a part of an excellent set of Indian and Persian old miniatures very different by their origin and subjects. In the middle of the 18 th century all these pictures were provided with a broad ornamented border and united in one volume. This volume belongs now to the fine collection of Oriental manuscripts of the Institute of Orientalistics in Leningrad....... It was rediscovered in the collection of the Institute of Oriental studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and created a sensation at the XII International Ornithological Congress at Helsinki in 1958.An Indian picture of the Dodo by A. Iwanow - Leningrad 1958
For the wildlife artist, the other birds depicted are:
- The Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot (Loriculus galgulus) (upper left)
- The Western Tragopan or Western Horned Tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus) (upper right),
- The Bar-headed Goose (Anser indicus) (lower left)
- The Painted Sandgrouse (Pterocles indicus) (lower right)
Articles and websites referencing this painting
- Science, Civilisation and Society - Mansur (Ustad Mansur)
- www.natuurinformatie.nl - Appearance of the Dodo by Eline Delivery, Arts student and Journalism and New Media at the University of Leiden
- http://www.dodohaus.de/ - An Indian picture of the Dodo by A. Iwanow - Leningrad 1958
The correct answers
The first person to provide the correct answer was Jane Gardiner (Glasgow Painter)
The first person to provide the correct answer was Jane Gardiner (Glasgow Painter)
Others who got it right were:
- Speedy Sue Smith
- Doone
- Ka Gray
- Sandra Robinson
- Alyson Champ
- Irene
- Ruth Bosveld
- David Hawson
- Reiropaintings
- Stan Pougher
- Alison Frank
- Martin Herbert
- Colours and Textures
- jacqui boyd
Most people got it quickly after they included the word Dodo in their search query!
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I could see a little glimpse of a date at the bottom of the painting so I googled sunset paintings 1824. I recognised the style and when Caspar David Friedrich's name came up I thought it must be one of his but not one I actually recognised. I went to his Wikipedia list of works page and there it was.
ReplyDeleteArtist Caspar David Friedrich
Title Evening with Clouds
Date 1824
Media Oil on cardboard
Gallery Kunsthalle Mannheim
Evening With Clouds
ReplyDeleteCaspar David Friedrich
1824
oil on cardboard
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Found by Googling "sunset, landscape painting 1824"
the date was just barely visible on the right hand corner of the painting
Found on Wikipedia
Gorgeous light and I want to lay under those clouds and look up at them. A beautiful selection, Katherine. I meant to tell you that I really liked your piece you showed a couple of posts ago too.
ReplyDeleteI am not going to enter the competition, but have to say it looks like a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, a fantastic german romantic painter!
ReplyDeleteGood luck to all who try to find out and thank you for giving us these paintings we would never know about otherwise:-)
Well, I ended up cheating :(
ReplyDeletehere are some of my search terms -
tuner 1775-1851
constable 1776- 1837
Discounted both of these as I read the date on the painting as 1724, 1794 or 1924
yellow sunset
yellow sunset over city
yellow sunset wispy sky over london
yellow sunset 1724
yellow sunet october 1724
yellow sunset october 1924
yellow sunset October 1794
English painters 18/19th century
english painters 1924
Sir James Lawton Wingate seem like a a good candiate from the image
painting yellow sunset
painting of yellow sunset 18 century wispy clouds
Looked kind of modern but reminded me of some sketches done by Constable and similar to some images by Turner in his later years which is why I chose to search 18/19th painters.
Graham Sutherland came to mine as well
Kept coming across this painting which had similarities - Dwight William Tryon, Sunset before Storm, 1913.
But never did come across any images that remotely looked like this painting.
So I know who the painter is, what the painting is called, the media, where it is and the history of his type of work but in light of the competition I will not disclose what I know. Loving these weekly challenges.
Katherine, thanks for this one.
ReplyDeleteIt was tricky and a wonderful subject. I made it more difficult by reading 1824 as 1924.
Title of the artwork: Evening with clouds
Name of the artist: Caspar David Friedrich
Date it was created: 1824
Media: Oil on cardboard
Where it lives now: Kunsthalle Mannheim
How do I know this:
I messed around searching for sunsets from 1924. Eventually I searched for sunset 1824 in Google images. Quite a way down there was a painting (Evening) obviously by the same artist on caspardavidfriedrich.org. From there I found Evening with clouds. The rest of the information comes from Wikipedia. I tried to cross-reference with Kunsthalle Mannheim’s website, but couldn’t find anything.
Boy this was the hardest to find so far.
ReplyDeleteThe name of the painting is "Evening With Clouds". It was painted by Casper David Friedrich in 1824. It is oil on cardboard and lives at Kunsthalle Mannheim. After putting every search phrase I could think of for this painting the last one I put in was "landscape painting golden sky and clouds 1824" and that is what brought up the image. Was kind of thrown off by the image posted in reverse on many sites.
'Evening' by Caspar David Friedrich C 1824
ReplyDeleteoil on cardboard
Kunsthalle Mannheim
I searched high and low. I googled golden sky, landscape painting, various artists names including Freidrich, I did n't spot it as I didn't scroll far enough down wiki images. The clue came from Jacqui's comment. I hadn't noticed the date, I read it as 1824 though it looks as if it has been altered. I added that date to the search and came to a paler mirror image of it. I then ended back on the wiki images and found it by scrolling down much further.
This was hard, I discovered it almost by accident -- Turner, Constable, golden sunset 1724/1824/1924 , nothing came up --then I thought, the Sublime... and Friedrich came to mind. Bingo! So, Caspar Friedrich, 1824, Mannheim...thanks, Wikipedia.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason my comment never appeared :(
ReplyDeleteI wondered where you were! I went back to see if I'd missed it but there's nothing awaiting moderation.
DeleteI find sometimes there's a blip on the system and something you think has been posted didn't go through. It's always worth checking to see if the comment actually appears.