In addition to portraits, status symbols included sets of silver or porcelain for the service of tea, hot chocolate, and coffee.
Charles Willson Peale, who studied in London between 1767 and 1769, returned to Philadelphia
Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, pp. 221-261.
This parlor comes from a house built in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1811, but prominently features furniture made in New York City from the same period. Like the nearby Baltimore and Haverhill Rooms, the Benkard Room exemplifies the popularity of Robert and James Adam’s Neoclassical taste in the young United States.
market, this verre églomisé image is based on a 1796 engraving by Edward Savage of Philadelphia
The increasingly erotic character of Rodin’s sculpture in the 1880s can be explained by his preoccupation with two highly charged literary sources. These were Dante’s Inferno and Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil.
The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia.
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for wealthy clients numbering among the mercantile and social elite of New York, Philadelphia
[until 1957, with Hesperia Art]; acquired in 1957, purchased from Hesperia Art, Philadelphia
Brookline, Mass., 1900–Hartford, Conn., 1957
Notable works in the show included Self-Portrait with Palette (1906; Philadelphia
Budapest, 1869–Budapest, 1934
Angeles), Pierre-August Renoir’s Henriot Family (ca. 1875; The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Marking: Annotated in pen and brown ink in a fifteenth-century hand at the lower right: Avanti; at the upper right: Fato (?); inscribed at the upper left, “Questo desegno fo de felixo,� (probably referring to an early fifteenth-century Veronese collector, Felice Feliciano, who owned the drawing)
Philadelphia, 2002, pp. 35, 140-141, no. R21.
In the late 1950s and early ’60s American photographers reinvented the documentary tradition once again. This time the subjective tradition that had emerged in the 1940s and early ’50s became a kaleidoscope through which photographers looked at the world.
Charlton Henry on a couch in her Chestnut Hill home, Philadelphia, Pa.
