Jean-Baptiste Greuze | Broken Eggs, 1756

Broken Eggs attracted favorable comment when exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1757.

One critic noted that the young serving girl had a noble pose worthy of a history painter.

The canvas was painted in Rome, but the principal source may have been a seventeenth-century Dutch work by Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635-1681) - State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, which Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French painter, 1725-1805) would have known from an engraving.

The broken eggs symbolize the loss of the girl's virginity. | © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lusia Popenko, 1955

Russian painter Людмила Попенко was born in Volgograd, and now lives in Moscow.

She had numerous personal and group exhibits in Russia and other countries, her paintings were presented at Christie's Charity Auctions of Russian Art.

Lusia Popenko populates her works with characters brought from memory and imagination. Her paintings are pastoral: everything here is the way you want it to be: you have many lives and all of them are happy.

These lives' stories resemble the novels you've read and movies you've seen. Everything here is an incarnation of your dreams of beauty and perfection.

Henri Lebasque | Painter of light

Painter of light, colorist and designer, French painter🎨 Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque🎨 (1865-1937) expresses in his art his zestful vision of life.

Henri Lebasque was born on September 25, 1865, in Champigné - Maine-et-Loire.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- by Henri see:

• Henri Lebasque | Post-Impressionist painter🎨

For other works see:

• Henri Lebasque | Paysages🎨
• Henri Lebasque | Figures🎨

Henri Lebasque | Figures

Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque (1865-1937) was an French painter, known for working in the post-impressionist style.

Henri Lebasque was born on September 25, 1865, in Champigné, France.

Lebasque was a founding member of the Salon d'Automne in 1903 with his friend Henri Matisse and exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants.

Arthur Sarnoff | Vintage Pinup painter

Arthur Saron Sarnoff (1912-2000) was an American artist.

Prior to working as an illustrator, Sarnoff studied at the Industrial School and the Grand Central School of Art in New York City.

He was a member of the Society of Illustrators and exhibited widely including the National Academy of Design.