Interior of Saint Peter’s, Rome by Giovanni Paolo Panini https://www.nga.gov/artworks/50884-interior-saint-peters-rome
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Cleveland Museum of
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Cleveland Museum of
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Chicago venue). 1947 Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt, Los
Adriaen de Vries won international fame for active bronze figures that reflect both his study of nature and his training in Florence with Giovanni Bologna, the greatest 16th-century sculptor after Michelangelo. De Vries’s complicated poses continued the style known as mannerism, but he also saw ancient bronze sculpture as a model to surpass.
Paul Getty Mus., Los Angeles, 1998-2000, no. 24, repro., as Allegory of Imperium
John Marin painted The Written Sea in 1952, when he was 82 years old, and it is considered one of the masterpieces of his late career, during which oil painting played a central role in his practice. His tendency toward abstraction by using a calligraphic line to capture a sense of the sea’s movement reflects his awareness of the younger painters of the New York school, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, whose growing reputations would soon come to supplant his own.
1954, no. 44. 1955 John Marin, Art Galleries of the University of California, Los
incorrect repro. 1984 A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, Los
When Thomas Sully painted fifteen-year-old Eliza Ridgely in the spring of 1818, he was widely regarded as America’s leading artist. Particularly noted for his graceful images of women, he was a natural choice to paint this Baltimore merchant’s daughter.
1955, no. 32, repro. 1981 American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920, Los
In contrast to the man with whom she shares this outdoor scene, the female figure is incongruously naked. Her features seem generalized.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
A6501, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (copy in NGA curatorial files).