Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I, pages 318-322, which is available as a free PDF at https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-19th-century-part-1.pdf
Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1973, no. 38. 1986 Gifts to the Nation
[1942]: 1-4. 1944 "Kress Makes Important Donation of French Painting to the Nation
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
The Nation (8 March 1911): 1000–1001. Holmes, Charles John.
Gerrit van Honthorst (1592–1656) has long been considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. After training in Utrecht, he traveled to Italy around 1615, where he embraced the radical stylistic and thematic ideas of Caravaggio.
Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 50 (Spring 2014): 2-19, repro. 2015 "Art for the Nation
Paris, 1925: 189. 1944 "Kress Makes Important Donation of French Painting to the Nation
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Renoir had his girlfriend Lise Tréhot pose as the ancient Roman goddess Diana. He chose a mythological subject and painted it at grand scale in hopes of getting this picture into the largest art show of the time, the Salon.
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Adriaen Brouwer was one of the most expressive artists of the 17th century. His great contribution to genre painting was to give a face to the peasant, to infuse his images of these lower-class individuals with recognizable and vividly expressed human emotions—anger, joy, pain, and pleasure.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, no. 8, fig. 16. 2000 Art for the Nation
