Summer is represented here as Ceres, goddess of agriculture, reclining in front of her attribute, a row of wheat stalks. The work is one of three known paintings from a cycle by Jacopo Tintoretto depicting the personifications of the four Seasons.
Paolo Veronese with a group of sixteenth-century Venetian drawings, Art Gallery of Toronto
Between 1812 and 1814, while Napoleon’s armies waged war across Europe, Théodore Gericault began a series of small canvases depicting Napoleonic cavalry officers. These paintings provided Gericault with the opportunity to explore two of the subjects that he loved best:
of Small Pictures by Members of the Ontario Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Toronto
Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous painting, based on the Old Testament story of Daniel, puts us right in the lions’ den. The Jewish youth was condemned to spend the night with the brutal beasts for worshipping his God rather than the Persian king Darius.
San Francisco, de Young, Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Lewisburg, London and Toronto, 1993: repro. 18 1994 Rubin, James H.
Anthony van Dyck painted this portrait of an upper-class Antwerp woman around 1618, shortly after he registered as a master painter with the Antwerp Saint Luke’s Guild. At that time, Antwerp’s long-established portrait tradition emphasized a sitter’s virtuous character through restrained gestures and a direct gaze.
Boston and Toronto, 1974: 116. 1975 European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary
Gauguin purposefully displayed his Père Paillard and its female companion piece, Thérèse, in front of his Polynesian home (which he named the House of Pleasure), so that islanders passing by could appreciate the two carved works. Their meaning was evident to everyone.
1981 Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2001-2002, no. 60, repro. 2004 Turner, Whistler, Monet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
portraits of single figures: Isaac Abrahamsz Massa, 1626 (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Boston and Toronto, 1974: 42-44. 1975 European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary
Cole’s renowned four-part series traces the journey of an archetypal hero along the „River of Life.“ Confidently assuming control of his destiny and oblivious to the dangers that await him, the voyager boldly strives to reach an aerial castle, emblematic of the daydreams of „Youth“ and its aspirations for glory and fame. As the traveler approaches his goal, the ever-more-turbulent stream deviates from its course and relentlessly carries him toward the next picture in the series, where nature’s fury, evil demons, and self-doubt will threaten his very existence.
Newark, London, and Toronto, 1988: 218, 228, 265-268, 270-272, 275, 277, 280, 284
