Quarry by Edward L. Loper https://www.nga.gov/artworks/176358-quarry
Visual Description A stream winds through steep, rocky banks that lead back to a
Visual Description A stream winds through steep, rocky banks that lead back to a
Francis Basset (1757–1835) likely commissioned Thomas Gainsborough to paint a pair of portraits depicting himself and his wife, Frances Susanna Coxe (c. 1760–1823), soon after he purchased their new home in 1785.
The paintings adorned the stately Radnor House, built in 1673 on the banks of the
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To make it, Cropsey carefully observed the trees on the banks of the Hudson River
In the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Virtues were often personified by human figures carrying identifying attributes. Charity typically holds one or more children.
Faith and Charity stand on bases treated as little banks of clouds, as if they were
In 1883 Monet moved his household, his two sons along with Alice Hoschedé and her children, to the rural community of Giverny, where he leased a house that he was able to purchase seven years later. In early 1893, he acquired a swampy area across the railroad tracks abutting his property and petitioned the village council for permission to divert a small stream into it.
The spring and emerald-green grasses growing along the banks fill the space around
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1810, oil on canvas, Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp, 2004.166.4 Alfred Sisley, The Banks
Francis Basset (1757–1835) likely commissioned Thomas Gainsborough to paint a pair of portraits depicting himself and his wife, Frances Susanna Coxe (c. 1760–1823), soon after he purchased their new home in 1785.
The paintings adorned the stately Radnor House, built in 1673 on the banks of the
such as the one he recorded in The Jolly Flatboatmen as a child sitting on the banks
In the spring of 1871 Thomas Moran traveled to the American West for the first time. Immediately upon his return, he began producing the paintings that would change the course of his career.
was purchased—perhaps commissioned—by George Frederick Tyler, a Philadelphia banker
This 19th-century dinner dress captured in the Index of American Design gives us a glimpse of how the wealthy dressed for dinner.
Morgan, a famous banker of the late 19th-century Gilded Age.