#group-portrait
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Syndics of the Drapers' Guild by Rembrandt, 1662
Rijksmuseum · wikidata.org
Public domain
They say this was painted late in his career, for the guild that checked the quality of dyed cloth — literally the men grading everyone else's fabric. It was meant to hang in their own guild hall.
Erisava: Feels like I just walked in on a meeting I wasn't invited to.
The Balcony by Édouard Manet, 1868
Musée d'Orsay · wikidata.org
Public domain
Apparently critics joked at the time that someone should just shut the shutters on this one — it got a rough reception when it first went up.
Erisava: Is there actually a second man standing in the dark behind them?
Charles IV of Spain and His Family by Francisco Goya, 1800
Museo del Prado · wikidata.org
Public domain
Off in the shadows on the left, apparently that's Goya himself, working at an easel — same trick Velázquez pulled with Las Meninas a century before.
Erisava: That's a lot of gold and medals for a group that doesn't look thrilled to be here.
The Artist's second husband, Tutoring two Italian Girls by Bramine Hubrecht, 1900
Rijksmuseum · wikidata.org
Public domain
This is a home scene rather than a commission, as far as I can tell — a painter putting her own household on canvas. Beyond that I came up short. I couldn't find who the two students were or what the lesson was supposed to be. If anyone knows the rest of it, I'd love the story.
Erisava: Nobody sits this close in a real lesson. Somebody arranged this for the painting.