family, such as the two portraits of his wife (Emma in the Purple Dress, 1919, Los
Irene di Spilimbergo was about 20 years old when this painting was begun. Along with a pendant portrait of her older sister, Emilia, the two paintings were probably initially commissioned in anticipation of the prospective marriages of the two sitters.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
We glimpse the harrowing drama unfolding in this painting, as if we are crouching by the roots of the tropical foliage and peering through a space between the leaves. Our focus is on the anonymous silhouettes of men and women, their shackles more prominent than their features.
. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Los
Jacob van Ruisdael represents the pinnacle of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting. This great artist, the son of a painter and the nephew of Salomon van Ruysdael (see NGA 2007.116.1), began his career in Haarlem but moved to Amsterdam in about 1656.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Royal Academy of Arts
from the mid-1630s, such as the Portrait of a Man, presumably Pieter Tjarck in the Los
In 1775, Gilbert Stuart set sail for London where Benjamin West welcomed the destitute young man into his home. The Skater marks the end of his five-year apprenticeship to West.
London, 1976, no. 44 1981 American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920, Los
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
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. The Travelers, one of Hobbema’s largest works, is a close variant of a smaller painting of a watermill by Ruisdael now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Los Angeles, 2011: 87, 89 fig. 63, 101 n. 71.
This could be a scene from a children’s book, but the story is a strange one. At first glance, everything looks ordinary.
Portland Art Museum, 1948. 1959 Joan Miró, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los
Roses was painted shortly before Van Gogh’s release from the asylum at Saint–Rémy. He felt he was coming to terms with his illness—and himself.
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
