Question...is #5 Charon rowing over the River Styx? (Reply #19)

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Sat Feb 16, 2013, 03:06 AM

countryjake (8,554 posts)

19. Question...is #5 Charon rowing over the River Styx?

I've no idea what any of these are, but you should probably carry this challenge over into tomorrow. Lots of people may have gone out for Valentine's and haven't even seen this thread, yet.

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Hello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud [View all]	CTyankee	Feb 2013	OP
I'm pretty sure #6 is from the Newark Airport TSA.	WinkyDink	Feb 2013	#1
Not Mouseketeers?	immoderate	Feb 2013	#3
The third one MIGHT be Annette.	WinkyDink	Feb 2013	#6
OMG that's funny! Never thought of that...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#8
#3: William Merritt Chase - Back of a Nude. nt	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#2
there ya go! How'd you get it so fast, buddy?	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#5
Searched through oriental works by Impressionists and got lucky	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#11
He had a fine hand. This one is nice because of its draped fabric...love it!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#12
I thought it was Sargent because of the Orientalism.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Feb 2013	#16
Sargent did nude studies, nice ones. Chase had the misfortune to paint at the same time	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#17
#3 looks Japanese, at least in subject.	longship	Feb 2013	#4
it's the influence of orientalism...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#7
Number six reminds me of something...	auburngrad82	Feb 2013	#9
well, I advise not in the dining room...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#10
HINT: #1. This artist painted beautiful ladies. Just not nude ones...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#13
The way he does the rouge reminds me	DevonRex	Feb 2013	#14
These are all wonderful, and I don't recognize any of them!	CaliforniaPeggy	Feb 2013	#15
HINT: of the five remaining, one is British, one is French, one is Italian and 2 are American	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#18
Question...is #5 Charon rowing over the River Styx?	countryjake	Feb 2013	#19
Five is not. It is a studio work by a decidedly nonfigural painter...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#20
Is it a Grant Wood? (known for his landscapes & "American Gothic")	countryjake	Feb 2013	#37
An interesting guess! However, it is not. It is John Constable!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#39
HINT for #6!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#21
#6: Yves Klein - Untitled Anthropometry	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#22
Yves Klein Blue!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#23
No luck so far	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#24
You are on the right track with #2...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#25
I found the sketch of "Annabel Lee" last night, after...	countryjake	Feb 2013	#38
Ah, so nice! Thanks for that!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#40
The Nud?	jberryhill	Feb 2013	#26
Since there's no Dutch guy, I figured you wouldn't be interested!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#27
I was trying to crack #6	jberryhill	Feb 2013	#29
A fruitless search when it comes to anything I'd post here...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#32
Really?	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#34
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#36
#1: James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Sketch for Annabel Lee	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#28
Isn't it purdy?	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#30
Damn... She looked like a Whistler to me too	jberryhill	Feb 2013	#31
you shudda whistled...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#33
You know how to whistle, don't you? ...	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#35
ANSWERS to Friday's Afternoon Challege!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#41
Reading more about that Thomas Eakins painting...	countryjake	Feb 2013	#42
I love the fact that critics found this work to be indecent because the nude wasn't	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#43
Ha, I thought that chair the focal point...	countryjake	Feb 2013	#44
Oh, how wonderful! Bringing her up on great art from the very beginning!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#45
We had Putti all over our house when my daughter was little...	countryjake	Feb 2013	#47
Rosso da Fiorentino's two angels "discussing" a book is lovely, but take a look at the rest of	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#48
Picking out the details is required for some of those guys...	countryjake	Feb 2013	#49
It's a variation (!) of the "sacra conversazione" theme of the Madonna, Child and Saints that	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#50
Oh, yes, the light on her corset! Maybe it was Eakins secret fetish...who knows?	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#46

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