Following renovation, 500 sub-Saharan African works highlight major movements—one-fourth on view for the first time—spanning the Middle Ages to today.
Foundation and Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowships, Saar currently lives and works in Los
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)
Los Angeles. J. Paul Getty Museum.
Greuze was of modest birth, the son of a roofer. He received his early training in Lyons and in Paris studied drawing with Charles Joseph Natoire. In 1755, after he was accepted as a candidate member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in the category of genre painter, Greuze presented five works for exhibition at the Salon
Los Angeles, 2000, pp. 5, 27, fig. 2 (color), notes that the genre pictures painted
This painting, one of the key works of Ter Borch’s maturity, probably dates from about 1660–62. Though it was painted when the artist lived in Deventer, the luxurious interior and elegantly attired figures evoke the cosmopolitan milieu of Amsterdam
Los Angeles, 2024, p. 77, fig. 49 (color), notes that in this painting, with the
This exhibition celebrates the foresight underlying the establishment of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing through some fifty works of art augmented by archival documents.
African, American Indian, Oceanic, and Precolumbian art from dealers in New York and Los
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
He also worked at the Hammer Museum,� Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, MOCA,
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena).
For over a century scholars have considered whether or not this sympathetic portrait of an old man is a self-portrait by El Greco. Lafond (1906) described the seemingly Romantic notion as at best a plausible hypothesis, and a number of more recent scholars (for example, Wethey 1962) have rejected the idea, mainly on the basis of comparisons with presumed self-portraits inserted by El Greco into several of his major religious pictures (see also Christiansen 2003)
University of California at Los Angeles.
This magnificent painting by the leading painter of King Louis XIV (1638–1715)—the artist who supervised the decoration of the Louvre and Versailles and headed the Gobelins manufactory for tapestries and furniture—is a landmark in the history of French portraiture
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; 94.SB.11.1) This image cannot be enlarged, viewed
