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JOHANNES VERMEER "The Milkmaid", c. 1660, oil on canvas, 45.5x41 cm Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam on display in the Gallery of Honour More details: a maidservant pours milk, entirely absorbed in her work. Except for the stream of milk, everything else is still. Vermeer took this simple everyday activity and made it the subject of an impressive painting – the woman stands like a statue in the brightly lit room. Vermeer also had an eye for how light by means of hundreds of colourful dots plays over the surface of objects. THE ART OF THE EX LIBRIS With the expression ex libris (from the Latin “from the books of…”) we refer to a label, usually decorated with figures and mottos, which is applied to a book to indicate its owner. Labeling can be on paper, in precious materials such as leather or parchment, or in the form of a stamp, in this case, in ink, lacquer, fire or other. There are infinite and even complex variants with changing subjects. Remarkable remains the collection

GUSTAVE COURBET ( Ornans, Doubs, 1819 - La Tour-de-Peilz, Suisse, 1877)  "Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine (été)", 1856-1857, huile sur toile, 174 x 206 cm, s igné en bas à gauche "G. Courbet", don Etienne Baudry par l'intermédiaire de Juliette Courbet, 1906, PETIT PALAIS , Collection Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, © Petit Palais / Roger-Viollet, Paris.  Cette oeuvre n'est pas exposée actuellement. Queste giovani donne sono due cittadine venute a rinfrescarsi in riva all'acqua in una giornata estiva. Il realismo della scena, di una sensualità assertiva, si impone per la franchezza delle fisionomie e degli atteggiamenti. La modernità del soggetto preannuncia la grande fortuna pittorica delle rive della Senna, celebrata dagli Impressionisti una generazione dopo. Quest'opera, unica per il suo soggetto moderno e il suo grande formato, insolito per una scena di genere, sfida le regole dell'arte. Courbet, volutamente provocatore, scate