Madame David by Jacques-Louis David https://www.nga.gov/artworks/46113-madame-david
In a chronological list of his works which David drew up in about 1815 ("Liste B"
In a chronological list of his works which David drew up in about 1815 ("Liste B"
For this depiction of Joseph spurning the advances of his Egyptian employer’s wife, as recounted in the Book of Genesis, Guercino chose a three-quarter length format that presses the life-sized figures close to the spectator. He has filled the scene with the bed — all rumpled sheets and opulent curtains.
to Alexander Charles Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th marquess of Londonderry [b.
This six-foot-wide canvas was something new for a 19th-century artist: it’s a sketch the same size as the final painting (now in the Frick Collection in New York).
studio by the artist until his death in 1837.[1] John (later Sir John) Pender [b.
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Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark West Building Main Floor, Gallery 60-B
A favorite Florentine Renaissance sculptural type, this bust of a young boy reveals Desiderio as one of the finest marble carvers of all time. Even Leonardo da Vinci learned from his subtle transitions and sensitive expressions.
New York, 1944: figs. 60-62, as Bust of a Boy. 1948 Louchheim, Aline B.
privées en Suisse: La collection Emile Staub," L’Amour de l’Art, January 1926, p.
When The White Girl debuted in London in 1862, it puzzled viewers. At the time, portraits of this scale usually featured well-known people.
Connecticut, with life interest to John Howard Whittemore’s daughter, Miss Gertrude B.
This is no “family� in the usual sense. A harlequin, a jester, a young man in a leotard, a boy in a blue costume, a girl in a tutu with a basket, and a woman in a flowered hat are arranged in this rose-hued landscape.
Art Institute of Chicago, 1943-1952 (extended loan), unnumbered catalogue, repro. p.
Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974, p.
Collection of Old Master Drawings, The Museums and Art Gallery, Leicester, 1954, no. 40 (P.