Gretchen at Heidelberg by James McNeill Whistler https://www.nga.gov/artworks/36977-gretchen-heidelberg
, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1949, no. 93); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia
, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1949, no. 93); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia
history & notes Artwork History Provenance Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia
.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of
Florida, Tampa; Duke University, Durham, NC; University of Florida, Gainesville; and Philadelphia
Herbert Vogel Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
London and Philadelphia: Harvey Miller-Heyden & Son, 1978.
Author and art historian Katy Hessel on the American artist’s portraits of her family.
Neel was born in 1900 in the small town of Colwyn, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia
Judith Leyster was born in Haarlem and baptized there on July 28, 1609. Her father, Jan Willemsz, owned a brewery called the “Leyster� (lodestar), from which the family took its surname.
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz
(Robert Carlen, Philadelphia); sold 1960 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Rosenwald, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1930. 1932 Etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn