Christ Appearing to the Virgin by Anonymous Artist https://www.nga.gov/artworks/52-christ-appearing-virgin
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 436, repro. 1986 Hand, John Oliver
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 436, repro. 1986 Hand, John Oliver
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, 1998: 65, no. 8. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Baby at Play is the final work in a series of intimate portraits of family and friends created by Eakins between 1870 and 1876. The painting depicts the artist’s two–and–a–half–year–old niece, Ella Crowell.
Washington, D.C., 1996: 162-167, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Marisa Bass, Yale University (chair) September 2022–August 2025 Valerie Cassel Oliver
Washington, D.C., 2000: 208-213, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
According to legend, Martin of Tour was a soldier in the army of Constantine the Great serving in Gaul, near the French city of Amiens, in the fourth century. On a winter’s day Martin encountered a poor beggar at the city gates and cut his military cloak in half to help shield the shivering man from the cold.
Apollo 34 (December 1941): 152, repro., as by Van Dyck. 1963 Millar, Oliver.
[11] Oliver Millar, Van Dyck in England (London, 1982), 103, no. 63.
Like his compatriot Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain forged his career in Rome. Claude’s vision of the Roman countryside is grounded in a careful observation of nature, but he transformed the landscape into a timeless, idealized world through his masterful rendering of sunlight and strict structuring of space.
London, 1994: 40, fig. 18. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Hostilities between North American colonists and Britain were boiling over in the 1770s when Benjamin West painted this double portrait. The British wanted to ensure the loyalty of the Mohawk people, the easternmost tribe of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), in case of war.
Paris, 1999: 387, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Vincent van Gogh painted 36 self-portraits. This was one of his last.
New York, 2000: 54, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.