Landscape with a Boy Fishing by Domenico Campagnola https://www.nga.gov/artworks/39731-landscape-boy-fishing
Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Gold and silver threads add life to this tapestry, often described as the finest surviving from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Everything indicates that this was an important commission:
Tapestries at Lynnewood hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1932: 47,
acquired 1984); National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (46 prints, received 1954); Philadelphia
Commissioned for the Chapel of San José in Toledo by MartÃn RamÃrez, a namesake of the saint and donor of the chapel, Saint Martin and the Beggar was part of one of the artist’s most successful ensembles. The saint, who lived during the reign of Constantine the Great, was a member of the imperial cavalry stationed near Amiens, in Gaul.
Widener of Philadelphia," Fortune (September 1932): 66, 69.
Jan van Goyen composed this grand, visually compelling panorama of Rhenen, a medieval walled city on the Rhine River, in 1646. Situating the viewer near the winding road that leads to the city, he masterfully captured the overarching sky, undulating terrain, and vast sweeps of Dutch countryside for which that region was known.
Dutch Landscape Painting, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia
American Impressionist, Cincinnati Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2017: 142, no. 108. 2023 "Reflection."
Meindert Hobbema, viewed today as one of the most characteristic and highly valued Dutch landscape painters of the seventeenth century, is not mentioned in a single seventeenth-century literary source. The earliest reference to his work occurs in Johan van Gool’s 1751 lexicon of Dutch artists, where Hobbema is mentioned in passing as having painted “modern landscapes.�
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Philadelphia, 1935: 122. 1984 Walker, John.
Exposition Henri Matisse, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 1931, no. 7 1948 Philadelphia