Gouache

Scope note

Opaque water-based paint, usually composed of pigment in gum arabic plus a white material that increases opacity; may be used for heightening works in aquarelle or for whole paintings.

This term has 343 records attributed within our system.

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Getty AAT term number

300070114

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13yrs ago

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Snakes and Ladders

Maker(s)

Calligrapher: Brown, Denis

Cordelia at the bedside of Lear

Maker(s)

Brown, Ford Madox

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Red & white roses, poppies, convolvulus & other flowers, some in a sculptured oblong stone urn, with landscape background

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Binet, Sophie

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A brown vase of roses, hyacinth, poppy, auricula & convolvulus on a stone slab

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Spaendonck, Gerard van

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Mixed flowers in a terracotta vase, a spray of lilac & two birds (one sitting on a nest) on a marble slab

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Polteau, Antoine

Ranunculus with butterfly and insect

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lang, Ernst Friedrich Carl

Primula and butterflies

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lang, Ernst Friedrich Carl

A stone vase containing flowers that include tulips, auricula, convolvulus, fuchsia, narcissus, roses and larkspur

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Prevost, Eugène (Attributed to)

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Red currant with small white butterfly

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Dietzsch, Johann Siegmund

Sonning Weir on the River Thames

Maker(s)

Fripp, George Arthur

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Alpha and Omega

Maker(s)

Calligrapher: Black, Gemma

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Still life on table. A blue jug of mixed flowers, a basket containing a fan & gloves, an ornamental globe, a jewel box with string of pearls, a small easle with landscape picture & a blue edged dish of grapes, apple & pear. A pink drape over right hand corner of the table.

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Jaquotot, Marie Victoire

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Glass vase of pink and white roses, auricula & other flowers on a stone slab, with a butterfly

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Chazal, Antoine

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Still life, on a table a brown high necked ornamental vase of mixed flowers, a small jug. wicker 'box', shuttle-cock, lemon and a half peeled orange, a role of sheet music, cup & saucer, & playing cards lying on a pink drape over right hand edge of table

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Jaquotot, Marie Victoire

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An earthenware vase of flowers with fruit, a bird & birdsnest on a marble slab

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Spaendonck, Gerard van

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A vase of roses, tulip, peony delphinium, hollyhock, asters, auricula, convolvulus and lily (crown imperial) on a stone slab with peaches, grapes, a birdsnest with eggs, nasturtium, and a corncob

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Spaendonck, Gerard van

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A blue vase of roses, marigolds and other flowers on a stone ledge

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Berjon, Antoine

Sketchbook, 1992, Venezuela

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Grant, Keith

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Carnations, roses & other flowers on a stone slab, with a watering can, in a landscape background

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Binet, Sophie

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Fruit and flowers with a bird on a stone slab in a meadow with landscape background

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Petter, Franz Xaver

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Still life. A vase of carnations and other flowers, with vine leaves and tendrils and blue & green grapes, other fruit & trailing nastursium on a stone ledge

Maker(s)

Painter: Jaquotot, Marie Victoire

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A basket of roses, narcissi, tulip, lily, auricula, cyclamen, hebe, camlias, hollyhock & other flowers in a landscape, two butterflies

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Brunner, Leopold

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A basket of roses, anemone, auricula, hyacinth, viburnum, poppy & tulips - with peach & plum and green grapes on a grassy bank with landscape background

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: L' Espine, S. Maria

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Still life, game bird, peaches, black grapes, figs with spray of ivy, & blue flowered climber, on marble slab

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Os, Georg Jakob Johann

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