Meindert Hobbema studied under the noted landscape artist Jacob van Ruisdael, and quite a few of his compositions evolved from the work of his erstwhile master. Hobbema approached nature in a straightforward manner, depicting picturesque, rural scenery enlivened by the presence of peasants or hunters.
to have been one of a pair, its companion piece being The Mill, now in the Musée
A favorite Florentine Renaissance sculptural type, this bust of a young boy reveals Desiderio as one of the finest marble carvers of all time. Even Leonardo da Vinci learned from his subtle transitions and sensitive expressions.
Carlier’s e–mail of 12 October 2007 to Nicholas Penny in NGA curatorial files.
One of Domenico Veneziano’s major works is an altarpiece that he painted about 1445 for the Church of Santa Lucia dei Magnoli, in Florence. The incident illustrated in this small panel from the base of the altarpiece is John’s act of exchanging his rich, worldly clothes for a rough, camel–hair coat.
, 1754-1762: 10:294) and Vincenzo Follini and Modesto Rastrelli, Firenze antica e
This small panel once decorated the predella of an altarpiece along with nine other small portraits of apostles, three of which are in the collection of the National Gallery of Art: Matthew , Simon , and Thaddeus .
See Laurence Kanter’s e–mail of 6 May 2011, about ownership of the Lehman collection
of the Painter’s Mother (best known as “Whistler’s Mother,� 1871, Musée
Early Vermeers of Han van Meegeren,â€� Apollo (July-August 2008): 22-29), and his e–mail
Paul Sérusier was born in Paris, and signed on as a student at the Académie Julian—the largest private art academy in Paris—in 1884. In the summer and autumn of 1888 he traveled in Britanny, where he visited for several weeks the village of Pont-Aven.
See her e-mails of 11 and 18 December 2017, in NGA curatorial files.
Peter Paul Rubens lived and studied in Italy between 1600 and 1609, absorbing the country’s cultural riches and artistic heritage. During a stay in Genoa in 1606, he painted the portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria.
[1] Piero Boccardo, "Ritratti di Genovesi di Rubens e di van Dyck: contesto e identificazioni
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After Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger was the dominant French painter of the 20th century. For many years the National Gallery of Art had only two relatively minor paintings by the artist (both Chester Dale Collection, given in 1963).
[2] This information was kindly provided by The Mayor Gallery; e–mail of 7 September
