A ragtag group of people gathers around an elderly man holding a violin. He pauses, as if interrupted mid performance, and gazes directly at us.
London and Philadelphia, 1910: 37, 216, no. 40. 1912 Meier-Graefe, Julius.
Widener, Ashborne–near Philadelphia, privately printed, 1908: 17, repro., as Paupers
Philadelphia, 1935: 49, as Italian (Florence), fifteenth century, probably designed
The creation of works of art during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance was often a collaborative process. This panel is part of a triptych painted by two artists:
Educational and Charitable Trust Exhibition History 1926 Sesquicentennial Exhibition, Philadelphia
The creation of works of art during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance was often a collaborative process. This panel is part of a triptych painted by two artists:
Educational and Charitable Trust Exhibition History 1926 Sesquicentennial Exhibition, Philadelphia
Nicolaes Berchem was one of the most popular and successful Italianate landscape painters of his day. Aside from views of Italy, his extensive oeuvre of paintings, drawings, and etchings consists of depictions of the hunt and biblical and mythological scenes.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Philadelphia, 1935: 49, as Italian (Florence), fifteenth century, probably designed
Lick and Lather comprises fourteen self-portrait busts that Janine Antoni cast in two materials, with seven in chocolate, and seven in soap. Each cast was identical until the artist undertook the task of licking the chocolate busts and bathing with the soap busts, hence the playful title, Lick and Lather .
Portrait in Recent Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
The text at the top of this print states in German: “On 1 May 1513 was brought from India to the great and powerful king Emanuel of Portugal to Lisbon such a live animal called a rhinoceros.� As we can now tell from this intricately carved woodcut, the artist Albrecht Dürer never actually saw the animal.
Düsseldorf, 1963, sale 36, lot 102); purchased by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia
Winslow Homer and "The Life Line", Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012, no. 30, fig.
