Tobias and the Angel by Filippino Lippi https://www.nga.gov/artworks/370-tobias-and-angel
Washington, D.C., 2003: 383-387, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
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Washington, D.C., 2003: 383-387, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Cole’s renowned four-part series traces the journey of an archetypal hero along the „River of Life.“ Confidently assuming control of his destiny and oblivious to the dangers that await him, the voyager boldly strives to reach an aerial castle, emblematic of the daydreams of „Youth“ and its aspirations for glory and fame. As the traveler approaches his goal, the ever-more-turbulent stream deviates from its course and relentlessly carries him toward the next picture in the series, where nature’s fury, evil demons, and self-doubt will threaten his very existence.
Chicago, 1998: 2:692. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Nicolas Lancret was one of Antoine Watteau’s most talented followers and helped to disseminate the taste for fête-galante subjects in the eighteenth century. On the far left musicians are hidden amidst the trees, while across the canvas from left to right, arranged on an exaggerated S curve, stylishly dressed spectators have assembled in intimate groups to watch a couple perform a pas de deux.
Berlin, 2001: 13, fig. 5, 15, 36. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Revue du Louvre 51, no. 2 (2001): 56-65, 58, repro. fig. 2. 2004 Hand, John Oliver
Dutch seventeenth-century artists drew their subject matter from all elements of society. The refinement of the wealthy burghers in the second half of the century was best captured by Gerard ter Borch the Younger.
New Haven, 2003: 296, fig. 138. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Like Jacques Onésime de Bergeret, Lalive de Jully (1725-79) was an influential collector, amateur, and painter in the Parisian art world of the 1750s and 1760s. One of Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s first patrons, Lalive is depicted seated on a chair he had commissioned as part of a suite of furniture à la grecque.
New Haven, 2002: 37, fig. 28. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
The crest bearing three cows’ heads, visible on the wall behind the sitter, indicates that this young man is a member of the prosperous Coymans family of Haarlem. The cows’ heads refer directly to the Dutch family name, which translates as „cow man.“ Archival and genealogical information, combined with the Latin inscription „AETA SVAE.22 / 1645“ below the shield, identifies the sitter as Willem Coymans, who was twenty-two years old in 1645.
Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (2003): 296, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver
Cole’s renowned four-part series traces the journey of an archetypal hero along the „River of Life.“ Confidently assuming control of his destiny and oblivious to the dangers that await him, the voyager boldly strives to reach an aerial castle, emblematic of the daydreams of „Youth“ and its aspirations for glory and fame. As the traveler approaches his goal, the ever-more-turbulent stream deviates from its course and relentlessly carries him toward the next picture in the series, where nature’s fury, evil demons, and self-doubt will threaten his very existence.
Chicago, 1998: 2:692. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Right and Left refers to the shooting of two birds, one just after the other, with a double barreled shotgun. Winslow Homer may have seen hunters perform this feat at sea near his studio overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Prouts Neck, Maine.
Light, His Landscapes, California, 1997, p. 172-173, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver
Raphael was born in Urbino, a central Italian duchy noted for its elegant gentility and Renaissance scholarship. He moved to Florence toward the end of 1504.
Cambridge, 2002: 269-270, fig. 87. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.