Dancers Backstage depicts an informal, behind-the-scenes moment at the ballet—the type of scene that most intrigued Degas. Four figures occupy the painting:
Art Museum, 2008, unnumbered catalogue, pls. 47, 55, and 152. 2009 De la Scène
The Last of the Buffalo is Albert Bierstadt’s final, great, western painting. Measuring six by ten feet, it mirrors in size his first massive oil, Lake Lucerne (1858), also in the National Gallery of Art collection.
Washington, 2011: 36, 170-173, 273, repro. 2015 Valance, Hélène.
Courbet painted events and scenery primarily from his native Ornans, a village in the remote Franche-Comté region. A proponent of realism, he challenged traditional ideas about art by depicting simple peasants and rustic scenery with dignity and on the grandscale usually reserved for history paintings.
(Not in 1995 rev. ed.). 1997 Laurillard-Cuinet, Hélène.
„L’abbé de Saint-Non artiste et mécène.“
„L’abbé de Saint-Non artiste et mécène.“
Painted in August 1907, Forty-two Kids depicts a band of nude and partially clothed boys engaged in a variety of antics—swimming, diving, sunbathing, smoking, and possibly urinating—on and near a dilapidated wharf jutting out over New York City’s East River. A sharp observer of urban life, George Bellows has sketched his streetwise subjects with characteristic vigor and economy of means, and he has carefully rendered their varied ethnic backgrounds.
International Studio 56, no. 224 (October 1915): 244, 246, repro. 1918 Pène du
[9] Other artists represented were Hyman Bloom, Guy Pène du Bois, John Steuart
Gold and silver threads add life to this tapestry, often described as the finest surviving from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Everything indicates that this was an important commission:
Villars, prince de Martigues [1702-1770], Château des Aygalades, Bouches-du-Rhône
Cette composition simple ne doit à Rembrandt d’autre richesse que celle de lâ€
This Coronation of the Virgin may be the first time the subject, which originated in the West, appears in Venetian art. Some of the earliest representations were carved above cathedral doorways in France—and certain elements in the Gallery’s painting—its elaborate halos, for example—share in the decorative elegance of Gothic art.
Papastavrou, Hélène.
