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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.
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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.
Paris, 1995: 38, color repro. 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.
Washington, D.C., 1992: 344-350, repro. 347. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
New Haven and London, 2002: 31-39, fig. 11. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
The artist’s wife Camille stands on a hill with their son Jean behind her. Monet worked quickly to record this moment.
Chicago, 2001: 24-25, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
The three cargo ships in this large painting are the type of wide-bellied, seagoing vessels used to transport much of the commodities that generated the wealth of the Dutch in the seventeenth century. Flying the red, white, and blue flag of the Dutch Republic, these floating symbols of national prosperity are nevertheless in peril of crashing on the rocky shore.
Philadelphia, 2003: 9, fig. 8. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
