Head of Ptolemy II or III – Ptolemaic Period – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547773
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Turner made three trips to Venice, in the late summers of 1819, 1833, and 1840, and the present painting, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1835, must have been painted upon his return from his second visit, presumably using his own drawings and watercolors as source materials
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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
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The daughter of an army sergeant, Hendrickje Stoffels advanced in Rembrandt’s household from servant (by 1649) to mistress, presumed model, and common-law wife, as well as stepmother to the artist’s son Titus (1641–1668) and mother of his daughter Cornelia (1654–1685)
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Although a virtual contemporary of Jacopo Bellini, Giambono represents the final flowering of Late Gothic painting in Venice. It was the combined presence in Venice of Michelino da Besozzo, Gentile da Fabriano, and Pisanello that provided the reference points for his refined style, with its combination of decorative richness and acute description of flora and fauna
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New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015, p. 108, fig. 65.
This panel of about 1650–51 introduces the most admired qualities of Ter Borch’s mature style (as found, for example, in Curiosity of about 1660–62, The Met 49
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C.M.A. Groenvelt, Causuarinen Coast, Hollandia, New Guinea, until 1958; Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam, 1958–1961; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1961, on permanent loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1961–1978
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