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Born in 1844 to a working-class family in Laval, France, Henri Rousseau worked briefly for a lawyer and served a stint in the military before taking a position at a French customs post in 1868; the nickname “ Le Douanier “ (the customs inspector) remained with him even after his retirement in 1893.
Louis, 1997: 146-147, 212, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Completed in 1914, The Aero may have been the painting that Marsden Hartley described in a letter to his dealer, Alfred Stieglitz, the previous year: “I have one canvas ‘Extase d’Aéroplane’ if it must have a title—it is my notion of the possible ecstasy or soul state of an aéroplane if it could have one.� The artist was thrilled when he saw zeppelins, or huge airships, flying overhead.
New Haven, 2000: 250-251, color fig. 261. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Oudry was the leading painter of still-life and hunting scenes in France during the first half of the eighteenth century. Much admired by Louis XV, he portrayed favorite royal hounds and painted scenes of the king riding to the hunt, which was the monarch’s sporting passion.
Bibliography 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Valentin de Boulogne was born near Boulogne (from whence he takes his last name) in Picardy. He came from a family of artists, but little else is known of his early life and training.
Milan, 1989: 58. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 32, repro. 1986 Hand, John Oliver and
Ginevra de‘ Benci’s portrait is two-sided. This is the back, an emblematic portrait of Ginevra.
New Haven, 2000: 8-9, fig. 3. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
New Haven and London, 2002: 31-39, fig. 11. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Washington, D.C., 1992: 344-350, repro. 347. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Like many American artists of his generation, George Bellows was interested in the various urban construction projects that transformed New York City into an ultramodern metropolis. By the time he commenced work on The Lone Tenement in December 1909, he had completed four paintings devoted to the excavation site of the new Pennsylvania Station, culminating in the Gallery’s Blue Morning (painted in March 1909).
Hopewell, New Jersey, 1995: repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Unlike some of his contemporaries, John Frederick Kensett felt no need to travel to the tropics or the American West to find compelling subjects to paint. Instead, he continually revisited several familiar locales in New York and New England where he could explore the ways in which the same motif was altered by subtle differences in light and atmosphere.
Washington, D.C., 1996: 394-397, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
