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Carlo Grubacs Documented profileCountry to be documented
A pair of views of Venice by Carlo Grubacs shows the Basilica of Saint Mark and the Doge’s Palace in one, and the Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute in the other. Painted in oil on…
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Carl Ludwig Kaaz Documented profileGermany
Described as a German painter who lived from 1773 to 1810, Carl Ludwig Kaaz also appears in sources under the names Carl Ludwig Katz and Karl Ludwig Kaaz. An auction catalogue lists…
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Charles François Nivard Documented profileFrance
The French painter Charles-François Nivard, born in Nancy in 1739 and deceased in Versailles in 1821, explored several areas of landscape painting: the countryside, village scenes, a…
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Charles-Antoine Coypel Documented profileFrance
A painter, playwright and art critic, Charles Antoine Coypel — also known as Charles Coypel — belonged to a family of Parisian painters: he was the son of Antoine Coypel and the gran…
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Constant-Joseph Desbordes Documented profileFrance
A portraitist and genre painter, Constant Joseph Desbordes is associated with a presumed portrait of Auguste Barre de Saint-Fare, a lieutenant in the lancers of the Royal Guard. Date…
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Caroline Friederike Friedrich Documented profileCountry to be documented
A court painter and member of the Dresden Academy, Caroline Friederike Friedrich is also known for her numerous bouquets executed in watercolour and oil. Among the works catalogued u…
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Chaïm Soutine Documented profileFrance
Chaïm Soutine, also known as Khaïm Solomonovitch Sutin, is a Belarusian painter who emigrated to France. In 1907, in Minsk, he attended drawing classes with Michel Kikoïne under M. K…
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Charles Bouchez Documented profileFrance
French painter who lived from 1811 to 1882, Charles Bouchez is associated, in an auction listing, with a work entitled “Départ en barque”. This oil on canvas, measuring 40 × 56 cm, i…
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Cyprien Gaillard Documented profileFrance
French artist Cyprien Gaillard, born in Paris in 1980, works across photography, sculpture, video and performance. His work engages with the paradoxes of contemporary societies and t…
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Conrad Felixmüller Documented profileGermany
Conrad Felixmüller is a painter whose works often address the social realities of the Weimar Republic. Born in Dresden on 21 May 1897, he died in Berlin-Zehlendorf on 24 March 1977.…
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Carl Hilgers Documented profileCountry to be documented
Carl Hilgers, also written as Karl Hilgers, was a German landscape painter who was born and died in Düsseldorf, in 1818 and 1890. He received his first lessons at the Düsseldorf Acad…
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Carl Gustav Carus Documented profileCountry to be documented
Carl Gustav Carus (1789–1869), a Saxon physician and painter, brings together artistic practice and reflection on landscape in his career. In Nine Letters on Landscape Painting, publ…
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Carlo Mense Documented profileGermany
The German painter Carlo Mense, born in Rheine in 1886 and died in Königswinter in 1965, is also described as a draughtsman and printmaker. After studying at the Düsseldorf Academy o…
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Carl Rottmann Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann (1797–1850) pursued landscape painting, from the mountains of Bavaria to sites in Italy and Greece. The text attributed to Charles Blanc…
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Christian Mali Documented profileCountry to be documented
Christian Mali’s career connects wood engraving with landscape painting and scenes populated by animals. After several years in Stuttgart as a wood engraver, he joined his brother Ja…
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Claude Venard Documented profileFrance
A French painter born in Paris in 1913 and deceased in 1999, Claude Venard is associated with post-Cubism and still life. Sources describe a personal post-Cubist style, built with a…
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Christopher Lehmpfuhl Documented profileGermany
The sales notice states that it is monogrammed and dated at the lower right, and bears the monogram and the number “CL/M 7276” on the reverse. Its published provenance mentions NZZ E…
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Cornelius van Poelenburgh Documented profileCountry to be documented
Cornelis van Poelenburgh’s small-scale Italian landscapes combine biblical, mythological or literary subjects with Arcadian settings, often populated by nude figures and ruins. Paint…
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Carl Rüdell Documented profileCountry to be documented
German architect and painter Carl Rüdell (1855–1939) is presented through a work devoted to the old town of Cologne. Entitled « Ansicht der Kölner Altstadt mit Groß St. Martin und sp…
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Constantin Guys Documented profileFrance
The French draughtsman and painter Constantin Guys uses drawing and lithography as means of creating a visual chronicle of his time. The subjects found in his work range from events…
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Charles Jones Way Documented profileCountry to be documented
Identified as a British painter and watercolourist, Charles Jones Way lived from 1834 to 1919. An auction catalogue lists the watercolour *Das Matterhorn* under his name, signed at t…
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Cesar Klein Documented profileGermany
The German painter, graphic artist and stage designer César Klein (1876–1954) developed a practice spanning the applied arts, interior decoration and film. According to the biographi…
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Charles Kuwasseg Documented profileFrance
Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg is particularly associated with landscapes, seascapes and views of continental and Mediterranean cities, often crossed by waterways. The coastal landscapes…
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Consalvo Carelli Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Consalvo Carelli, born and deceased in Naples, belongs to the Neapolitan tradition of the veduta and is associated with the Scuola di Posillipo. Landscapes, city…
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Charles Hoguet Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born and died in Berlin, Charles Hoguet (1821–1870) received training that first took him to Wilhelm Krause, a marine painter, in 1839, and then to Eugène Isabey in 1841. From 1842,…
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Carl Wuttke Documented profileGermany
In 1874, he set off on foot for Italy, where he stayed until 1876; from 1885, he lived in Munich. His travels took him to Andalusia in 1880, Norway in 1894, several regions of Africa…
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Chu Teh-Chun Documented profileFrance · Taiwan
Chinese and French painter Chu Teh-Chun (朱德群, Zhu Dequn, 1920–2014) trained in Hangzhou under Lin Fengmian at the school of fine arts, which he entered in 1935. During his studies, h…
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Carl Ebert Documented profileGermany
Carl Ebert (1821–1885), a German landscape painter born in Stuttgart and deceased in Munich, devoted himself especially to forest scenes. After the early death of his parents, relati…
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Christian Caillard Documented profileFrance
The French painter Christian Caillard was born in Clichy in 1899 and died in Paris in 1985. He divided his life between his Paris studio and numerous stays far afield. After his firs…
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Carlo Brancaccio Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Carlo Brancaccio, who lived from 1861 to 1920, is represented here by a work titled “Wäscherinnen am Dorfbrunnen”. This oil painting on canvas laid down on cardbo…
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Cornelius Van Leemputten Documented profileBelgium
The landscapes of Corneille Van Leemputten combine the countryside of Brabant and the Campine with scenes of herds and poultry. His compositions often feature a low horizon, vegetati…
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Claude Schürr Documented profileFrance
Claude Alfred Schürr, a French painter born in Paris in 1921 and deceased in Cannes in 2014, developed a body of work in which the subject emerges from relationships between colours…
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Callum Innes Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Born in Edinburgh in 1962, Callum Innes studied drawing and painting at Gray’s School of Art from 1980 to 1984, before completing a postgraduate degree at Edinburgh College of Art in…
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Carl Rabus Documented profileGermany
The German painter and illustrator Carl Johann Rabus published his work in several periodicals, including Eulenspiegel, Der Orchideengarten and Jugend. This publishing activity, carr…
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Charles Parrocel Documented profileFrance
The French painter, draughtsman and engraver Charles Parrocel (1688–1752), the youngest son of the painter Joseph Parrocel, developed a body of work in which cavalry subjects and mil…
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Cornelis van Haarlem Documented profileCountry to be documented
Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem’s career first took shape in his home city: after his parents fled during the Spanish siege, he was entrusted to the painter Pieter Pietersz, who raise…
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Charles Kvapil Documented profileBelgium
Charles Kvapil’s career first took shape between Belgium and Germany. After settling in Belgium, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp; his first works were exhibited at the…
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Curth Georg Becker Documented profileGermany
Assuan (Nubische Figur) is an oil on canvas measuring 115.5 × 55.5 cm. The lot description records a signature and the date “be 64” at lower right; on the reverse, the canvas bears a…
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Carl Morgenstern Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German landscape painter Carl Morgenstern (1811–1893) is associated here with a view of Lake Como and Bellagio. Titled Blick auf den Comer See und Bellagio, this oil on canvas me…
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Charles Despiau Documented profileFrance
The French sculptor Charles Despiau is known primarily as a portraitist; his work also includes nudes and public commissions, among them Apollon, commissioned in 1937 for the Palais…
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Christian Gottlob Hammer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Christian Gottlob Hammer combined drawing in sepia, watercolour and gouache with the practice of etching and engraving. His subjects are primarily landscapes and city views, particul…
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Camille Bryen Documented profileFrance
Camille Bryen, a pseudonym of Camille Briand, was born in Nantes in 1907, moved to Paris in 1926 and died there in 1977. His early career brought together writing and visual art: aft…
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Carel van Falens Documented profileCountry to be documented
A Flemish painter specialising in scenes of hunters and cavalry encampments, Carel van Falens combined training in Antwerp with a career in Paris, where he lived until his death. Als…
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Clément Castelli Documented profileFrance
Clément Castelli makes mountains the central subject of his painting, travelling through the French, Swiss and Italian Alps. His landscapes depict identifiable locations: the Chamoni…
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Camille Hilaire Documented profileFrance
Born in Metz in 1916 and died in Fourges in 2004, Camille Hilaire is described as a French painter and weaver whose work moves between post-Cubism and figuration. The biographical so…
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Carl Grünwald Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1907 and died in Bad Homburg in 1968, Carl Grünwald is described by the sources as an amateur painter and art dealer. The MAGEDA directory documents work…
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Claudio Olivieri Documented profileItaly
Italian painter (1934–2019), Claudio Olivieri is associated with Incunabolo '92, a painting dated 1992 and attributed to the artist. The work is listed in the collection of Museo MAG…
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Camille Pissarro Documented profileFrance
Camille Pissarro, also known as Camille Jacob Pissarro, lived from 1830 to 1903. The recorded titles cover a range of subjects, from winter landscapes — The Banks of the Marne in Win…
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Christian August Lorentzen Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Danish painter Christian August Lorentzen, born in Sønderborg and deceased in Copenhagen, was associated with the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from the time of his training.…
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Charles Olivier de Penne Documented profileFrance
The French painter and illustrator Charles-Olivier de Penne is best known for his hunting scenes and depictions of animals, while also practising history painting. Associated with th…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026