Pieter de Hooch worked in the small and relatively quiet city of Delft from 1652 to about 1660. Like other Delft artists, most notably Carel Fabritius and Johannes Vermeer, De Hooch painted everyday scenes that are remarkable for their clarity of perspective and harmony of light.
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Filippino Lippi was the son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi, who was undoubtedly the boy’s first master. After his father died in 1469, he became a pupil of Botticelli, who had a profound influence on his style.
Although the two authors erroneously report its location as the Johnson Collection in Philadelphia
Impressionist, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
The Longshoremen’s Noon represents a casual gathering of longshoremen—men who labor „along shore“—on a busy Hudson River wharf. It is one of John George Brown’s most celebrated scenes of urban life.
American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
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
Crawford Notch, a deep valley in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, gained notoriety in 1826 when nine lives were lost in a catastrophic avalanche nearby. Cole’s painting depicts the site of an earlier landslide whose destruction prompted the victims—Mr.
Sturges, Fairfield, Connecticut; LeRoy Ireland, Philadelphia, probably early 1930s
London and Philadelphia, 1910: 240, no. 198. 1919 Duret, Théodore.
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
