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.
Berlin;[1] acquired 1904 on joint account by (Durlacher Brothers, New York) and (P
This unusually large panel painting depicts three facets of Marian iconography: the Virgin’s corporeal assumption, the Immaculate Conception—the crescent moon and the radiance behind her identify Mary as the Woman of the Apocalyse, mentioned in Revelation 12:I—and the Coronation of the Virgin.
X. 1965 Chrisman, Jo, and Charles B. Fowler.
Renaissance artist Raphael was famous in his own time. It is easy to understand why.
Saint Petersburg;[3] purchased April 1931 through (Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin; P.
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Andreessen via the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Raj and Indra Nooyi, Mitchell P.
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Andreessen via the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Raj and Indra Nooyi, Mitchell P.
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on canvas, Purchased with funds provided by The Glenstone Foundation, Mitchell P.
Hofstede de Groot and Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, Pictures in the Collection of P.
The three cargo ships in this large painting are the type of wide-bellied, seagoing vessels used to transport much of the commodities that generated the wealth of the Dutch in the seventeenth century. Flying the red, white, and blue flag of the Dutch Republic, these floating symbols of national prosperity are nevertheless in peril of crashing on the rocky shore.
by his heirs at (sale, Sotheby’s, London, 24 June 1959, no. 22); purchased by (P.
