Etching offered Whistler the opportunity to sketch ideas quickly, then slowly refine and develop them through multiple states, creating variations with expressive inking.
Commercial activity along the Thames, whose banks were densely lined with warehouses
The Museum’s collection of medieval and Byzantine art is among the most comprehensive in the world.
More than 250 medieval objects came to the Museum from the banker and prodigious
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
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
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
In addition to the wealthy merchants and bankers in the German cities of Nuremberg
His meticulous technique is related to that of manuscript illumination; he was most assured working on a diminutive scale, but became increasingly adept at volumetric description in larger works.
presence of the ducal court, wealthy local businessmen and foreign merchants and bankers
Pater, born in Valenciennes, was apprenticed to a local painter in 1706. A contemporary would later report that his father sent him to Paris to study with Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721): probably the two painters left Valenciennes together in late 1709 or 1710
Bezons," by Watteau’s painting of this subject, and by the fair itself, on the banks
This exhibition tells the story of how the Museum built its comprehensive collection of Japanese art beginning in the early 1880s, when it owned just a small, eclectic array of Japanese decorative arts.
the Fletcher Fund, which was created in 1918 from the generous gift of New York banker
The Damascus Room is a residential reception chamber (qaʿa) typical of the late Ottoman period in Damascus, Syria.
Waters of the Barada River A coffeehouse in Damascus on the banks of the Barada
