In 1909, Hamilton Easter Field, a Brooklyn painter and critic, asked Picasso to create a group of eleven paintings as a decoration for his library. Picasso accepted but, although he worked on the commission intermittently over the next several years, he never completed all eleven of the panels.
94, repro., as Standing Figure. 1945 The Callery Collection: Picasso-Léger, Philadelphia
Caspar Netscher trained in Deventer with Gerard ter Borch, from about 1654 to 1659. Like his teacher, Netscher became an outstanding portraitist as well as a master of portraying the social interactions of the Dutch elite.
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz
The creation of works of art during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance was often a collaborative process. The partnership of the two artists here— Puccio painted the center and right-hand panel of this tryptych and Allegretto the left—is a bit unusual, since they were not based in the same city.
Educational and Charitable Trust Exhibition History 1926 Sesquicentennial Exhibition, Philadelphia
London and Philadelphia, 1910: 240, no. 198. 1919 Duret, Théodore.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1959-1960, no. 25, repro.
Landscapes 1865-1883, The National Gallery, London; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Philadelphia
Fresno Art Museum, 2006, no. 1, repro. 2009 Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Philadelphia
unnumbered catalogue, repro. 2002 Degas and the Dance, Detroit Institute of Arts; Philadelphia
The Detroit Institute of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of
As the oldest son of Charles Willson Peale, Raphaelle Peale was the first in a dynasty of painters and botanists burdened by the names of famous artists and scientists that their father admired. In the first history of American art, published nine years after Raphaelle Peale’s death and one of the very few notices taken of him, William Dunlap wrote that Peale, like his father, was „a painter of portraits in oil and miniature, but excelled more in compositions of still life.
.; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1988-1989, no. 2, repro.,
