Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, pp. 229-238, fig. 16.6-.17.
The Painting: Paul Cézanne often has been called a master of still-life painting. In The Met’s picture, we can see why. The white tablecloth and the apples rise and fall in variegated hillocks of a lush new territory, the world of Cézanne’s apples, where the sense of the solidity of the apples is closely allied to their spherical geometry
Philadelphia, 1996, p. 571 [French ed., Paris, 1995].
One of the most visually striking period rooms in the American Wing, the Richmond Room offers a curated suggestion of the grandeur of early-nineteenth-Âcentury domestic life for wealthy Americans.
for wealthy clients numbering among the mercantile and social elite of New York, Philadelphia
Circus Sideshow and Seurat’s Career: Circus Sideshow is one of only six major figure paintings Seurat created during his short but influential career. Born and raised in Paris as the son of a customs official, he pursued classical art training, including at least three years at the École des Beaux-Arts, and spent a year (1879–80) in military service in Brest before establishing himself as a professional artist in France’s capital city
in artificial light, and Models, an indoor, daylight scene (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Dean’s pioneering efforts helped pave the way for this life-saving change in attitudes toward the use of modern body armor.
and armor collector in America and eventually bequeathed his collection to the Philadelphia
Though the earliest references to the term “Hudson River School” in the 1870s were disparagingly aimed, the label has never been supplanted and fairly characterizes the artistic body, its New York headquarters, its landscape subject matter, and often literally its subject.
of itinerant portrait painting in Ohio and western Pennsylvania, and a stint in Philadelphia
This exhibition brings together some thirty objects from across the Museum and from local private collections to highlight the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelites, focusing on the key figures Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Pre-Raphaelites participated in an exhibition of British art that toured New York, Philadelphia
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Mellon Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
