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Winthrop (1864–1943) was a lawyer and banker by profession, but his true passion
Though the earliest references to the term “Hudson River School” in the 1870s were disparagingly aimed, the label has never been supplanted and fairly characterizes the artistic body, its New York headquarters, its landscape subject matter, and often literally its subject.
1825, Cole sailed for the Catskills, making sketches there and elsewhere along the banks
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
received the most important commission of his career from San Francisco’s leading banker
Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, introduces Charles Le Brun’s monumental portrait of Everhard Jabach and his family.
That’s what the German banker Everhard Jabach did.
Comissioned by Count Jan and Countess Valeria Tarnowski (1804/6–49) ; by descent, the heirs of Count Jan and Countess Valeria Tarnowski (1849–before 1871; sold to Wawra) ; [ C.J. Wawra , Vienna (until 1871) ] ; Freiherr Carl von Schwarz , Vienna (after 1871) ; descended in the family of Freiherr Carl von Schwarz , Vienna (until 1967; sold through Piero Tozzi, New York to MMA)
A letter from a Viennese banker named Franck to Canova in early summer 1806 indicates
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century Dance Paddle (Rapa) Rapa Nui people early 19th century Grade Figure Banks
Iquitos, Peru, 1897—Paris, 1980
sale for the Lévys, which Kahnweiler then resold as an intermediary in 1925 to banker
In one remarkable decade, Sargent gained acclaim with bold portraits and figure paintings that challenged artistic conventions.
parents of French descent, she immigrated to Paris as a child and married a French banker
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
cloth and jewels became more ambiguous markers of social difference as merchants, bankers
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
