Painted by Rembrandt in 1664-65. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1609-1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher of Baroque era. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. In 1629 Rembrandt was discovered by the statesman and poet Constantijn Huygens who procured for him important commissions from the Court of The Hague.Rembrandt died soon after the death of his beloved son Titus on October 4, 1669 in Amsterdam and was buried in an unmarked grave in Westerkerk.Juno was bought in 1960 for then the relatively moderate sum of 50,000 Pounds but in 1976 the Hammer museum in Los Angeles acquired it for the more formidable amount of $ 3 million. The picture is still hanging on the walls of the Hammer Museum where it is probably worth now over 20 million.
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in June 1848, the son of Clovis Gauguin, a Republican editor, and his wife Aline Marie Chazal. In 1849, after Louis Napoléon came to power, the family emigrated to Peru. Clovis Gauguin died on the way. His widow and 2 children, Paul and his elder sister Mari, stayed in Lima with their rich relatives and did not return to France until 1855.
In 1868, Paul joined the navy, which he left after the Franco-Prussian War. Instead, he started to work as a broker’s agent in Paris. The first known drawings by Gauguin dated 1871, when he was in his late twenties. In 1874, Gauguin met Pissaro and other Impressionists. He traded at the stock exchange, which provided a comfortable income and he bought many of the Impressionists' paintings and had a handsome collection.
His début in the Salon took place in 1876. In 1883, Gauguin quit the stock exchange; financial troubles weren't long in waiting. In 1885, he left his family in Copenhagen with his parents-in-law. In 1891, he managed to organize a trip to Tahiti at the expense of the French government. In 1900, after a contract with Vollard, a Parisian dealer, his financial position improved, but his health was irreparably ruined.
In 1901 he moved from Tahiti to Atuana on the Island of Dominique in the Marquesas, where his colors grew even more abundant and lush, and where he executed such pink and mauve paintings as Horsemen on the Beach. (1902) and The Call. (1902). In 1903, Gauguin was sentences to three-months in prison and fined 1,000 francs because of problems with the church and the colonial administration. Before he could begin his sentence he died, on the 8th of May at his home in Atuana. The man was not nice but his pictures are beautifulBonjour Monsieur Gauguin is an homage and an emulation to Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) who painted a Bonjour Monsieur Courbet 
(below).
In 1969, it went in a sale in Geneva (Switzerland) for SF 1,3 million ($ 329,000). It was bought by Dr Armand Hammer, president of Occidental Petroleum, who had flown to Geneva in his private jet and landed in a snow storm, the last plane allowed to land. Later he was offered a huge profit by Onassis whose plane had been forbidden to land in Geneva. Hammer told the Greek the painting was not for sale. It is now on the walls of the Narodny Gallery in Prague (Czech Rep.).
Painted by Rembrandt in 1664-65. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1609-1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher of Baroque era. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. 
