Roulin’s Baby by Vincent van Gogh https://www.nga.gov/artworks/46506-roulins-baby
The Detroit Institute of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of
The Detroit Institute of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of
London and Philadelphia, 1910: 240, no. 198. 1919 Duret, Théodore.
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.
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
Woman Holding a Balance is a superb example of Johannes Vermeer’s exquisite sense of stability and rhythm. A woman dressed in a blue jacket with fur trim stands serenely at a table in a corner of a room.
Chicago, 1933, no. 80. 1984 Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, Philadelphia
A play and a painting appear to have merged in Jan van Eyck’s dramatic Annunciation , which is rich with Christian symbolism. The rainbow-winged archangel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary that God has chosen her to bear his son.
and fig. 2 (detail). 1998 Recognizing Van Eyck, The National Gallery, London; Philadelphia
Known for playfully sensuous terracotta nymphs and satyrs, Clodion also portrayed more serious subjects from Classical myth and history. An ancient draped figure at the Uffizi in Florence, then known as a vestal, inspired him during a stay in Italy to make several statuettes of a priestess of the Roman hearth goddess Vesta, pouring out oil to feed the sacred fire.
Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000: 250-251, under no. 127. 2005 Baillio
In One Year the Milkweed , one of several so-called color veil paintings Gorky made in 1944, films of paint have been washed unevenly across the canvas, and evocative but indistinct forms have been brushed in. Overall green and brown hues suggest a landscape, but there are no identifiable landscape forms and no spatial recession.
York; Phoenix Art Museum, 2005, pl. 85. 2009 Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Philadelphia