La Bretonnerie in the Department of Indre by Gustave Courbet https://www.nga.gov/artworks/53126-la-bretonnerie-department-indre
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1959-1960, no. 25, repro.
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
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.,
Philips Wouwerman, a prolific painter of equestrian scenes, hailed from Haarlem, where he was baptized on May 24, 1619. The eldest of three sons born to the painter Pouwels Joosten and Susanna van den Bogert, Pouwels’ fourth wife, Wouwerman probably first learned to paint from his father.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Aelbert Cuyp, one of the foremost Dutch landÂscape painters of the seventeenth century, was born in Dordrecht in October of 1620. His father, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (1594–1652), was a successful porÂtrait painter in the city, and from him Aelbert received his earliest training, assisting his father by painting landscape backgrounds for porÂtrait commissions.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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