Carpaccio reimagined the Madonna and Child theme when he made this painting. Instead of wearing a traditional blue cloak, the Virgin Mary, or Madonna, is clothed in fashionable Venetian dress.
Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los
from the mid-1630s, such as the Portrait of a Man, presumably Pieter Tjarck in the Los
Like Duccio’s The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel , this small panel was part of the Maestà , one of the most important masterpieces in the history of Western painting.
Records, accession number 960015, Special Collections, Getty Research Institute, Los
Right and Left refers to the shooting of two birds, one just after the other, with a double barreled shotgun. Winslow Homer may have seen hunters perform this feat at sea near his studio overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Prouts Neck, Maine.
Maine, 1970, no. 22. 1973 Winslow Homer, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los
The crest bearing three cows’ heads, visible on the wall behind the sitter, indicates that this young man is a member of the prosperous Coymans family of Haarlem. The cows’ heads refer directly to the Dutch family name, which translates as „cow man.“ Archival and genealogical information, combined with the Latin inscription „AETA SVAE.22 / 1645“ below the shield, identifies the sitter as Willem Coymans, who was twenty-two years old in 1645.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Fragonard’s brushwork is as much the subject of this painting as the young woman. A flurry of rapid marks captures her blushing face.
as a possible buyer (Duveen Brothers Records, Getty Research Institute Library, Los
evoke the Southwest, “especially the Texas aspects on the train from El Paso to Los
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.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
The exhibition of Home, Sweet Home in the spring of 1863 auspiciously marked Winslow Homer’s debut as a painter. The painting was enthusiastically admired.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art Institute
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019 – 2020, no. 8, repro.
