The artist’s brother-in-law, Léon Appert, Paris (in 1892); Félix Fénéon, Paris (by 1904–at least 1909); [Stephan Bourgeois, New York, by 1916–at least 1918]; Adolph Lewisohn, New York (1919–d
The Arts 9 (June 1926), p. 304, ill. p. 309. Stephan Bourgeois.
The first convincing argument for the attribution of this work to Van Borssom was made by Niemeijer in 1962, and the attribution was adopted by the Museum in 1990. In his approximately two dozen known paintings and in his numerous drawings, Van Borssom proves to have been an eclectic artist whose ideas came from a considerable variety of Dutch painters and draftsmen
Arts and Decoration 7 (June 1917), p. 402, ill. p. 401 (hanging on wall), as by Potter
Lantern Recent studies point to the production of glazed ceramics in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Syria at multiple locations and indicate that several types were produced at each of the various centers
See, for example, Watson 2004, p. 289. 2.
valley and nearby deserts is often best documented by the tools left behind when sites
Circus Sideshow and Seurat’s Career: Circus Sideshow is one of only six major figure paintings Seurat created during his short but influential career. Born and raised in Paris as the son of a customs official, he pursued classical art training, including at least three years at the École des Beaux-Arts, and spent a year (1879–80) in military service in Brest before establishing himself as a professional artist in France’s capital city
B[ernheim].-J[eune]; dates it 1887–88.). Paris. Bernheim-Jeune.
The Artist: A successor of Jan van Eyck and Petrus Christus, and a contemporary of Gerard David, Hans Memling was among the most important artists of fifteenth-century Bruges. Although he spent the majority of his career in that thriving city, he was born around 1435–40 in the German town of Klein-Krotzenburg near Seligenstadt, south-east of Frankfurt, Germany
Christ’s resurrection and of the promise of immortality for Christians.� See Hope B.
The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 31 (11), p. 221.
from finds in tombs throughout the island, and has recently appeared at settlement sites
Boilly was born and educated around Lille. He moved to Paris in 1785 and exhibited at the Salon between 1791 and 1824. A painter in the tradition of Dutch seventeenth-century naturalism, for which he prepared by studying trompe l’œil as well as caricature, Boilly was well-known for genre scenes and for small-scale portraits, of which he claimed to have painted 4,500, most in single two-hour sittings
B. [Jean-Baptiste Boutard], "Beaux-Arts. Tableau du Couronnement; par M.
This ivory panel is the right leaf of a folding diptych, a type of religious object composed of two panels that fold like a book. The three holes and drilled circles on the left edge remain from the hinges that once joined it to the matching leaf
Examples from this group (acc. no. 1970.324.7a, b; Walters Art Museum inv. no. 71.124
