Aleksandra Todorovic, Director, Impressionist and Modern Art, Sotheby’s, London, in an e–mail
Mail 1988. Nordlingen, 1990: 106-110, fig. 68. 1992 Hall, Nicholas H.
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
In 1632 Anthony van Dyck was invited to England to work at the court of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. In Van Dyck, the royal couple and the English aristocracy found an artist whose gifts perfectly matched their artistic sensitivities as well as their political needs and aspirations.
by inheritance to his third wife and widow, Anne, Lady Torrington [d. 1735, née
Why am I sending mail to Landover, MD?
sales were kindly brought to the Gallery’s attention by Patricia Wengraf; see her e-mails
Groups of soldiers dressed in mail and Pharisees with long beards crowd around these
When Approach to Venice was first exhibited in 1844, Joseph Mallord William Turner quoted Lord Byron in the catalog description: “The moon is up, and yet it is not night / The sun as yet disputes the day with her.� In Turner’s colorful view of Venice, a full moon shares the sky with the setting sun as a flotilla of barges and gondolas makes its way across the lagoon.
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With this monumental painting, Samuel F. B.
Museum Director Emeritus of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica (see e–mail
with NGA the details of her great-grandfather’s purchase of the painting (see her e–mail
