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century Dance Paddle (Rapa) Rapa Nui people early 19th century Grade Figure Banks
Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, compares the Met’s Jabach portrait with a version that was destroyed in World War II.
the case with the Metropolitan’s new painting by Charles Le Brun of the German banker
Viewed by Academicians and art critics as an artist’s personal reaction to a subject, the sketch was considered to be a sign of genius and originality.
Pierre Charles Jombert ca. 1772 Hagar in the Wilderness Camille Corot 1835 The Banks
New York, 1898–Venice, 1979
The Seligmans were successful New York bankers; the Guggenheims made their fortune
Judith Ogden Thomson , Princeton, N.J. (1986–1996; sale, Christie’s, New York, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, June 5, 1986, lot 3, as „A Neolithic basin,“ to private collection; her gift to her son; on loan to MMA 1986–1996); Private collection , New York (1996–present; on loan to MMA 1996–present)
of the archaeological remains from Neolithic cultures that flourished along the banks
It was part of a service that was purchased that year by a banker on behalf of the
… although Americans had begun to identify themselves as a nation, they were divided by sectional interests that deepened with rapid industrialization and the question of slavery.
Generally factories rose in the countryside next to the banks of rapidly moving streams
Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV gilded Prague’s royal towers “so that they might powerfully shine and gleam at a far distance in fair weather.”
Bohemia and then as Holy Roman Emperor, Charles set out to make his city on the banks
Inscription: Inscribed in ink on mount, recto BL: Nubie.“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BC: „Propylon du Temple de Dandour. (Tropique du Cancer)“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BR: „No
they descended the river at leisure, exploring the archaeological sites along its banks
Ringmaster, publicist, and performer in a highly theatrical life, the legendary Nadar wore many hats—those of journalist, bohemian, left-wing agitator, playwright, caricaturist, and aeronaut.
Early in 1854, a banker friend proposed backing Nadar in a portrait photography business
