Fragonard’s brushwork is as much the subject of this painting as the young woman. A flurry of rapid marks captures her blushing face.
Boston & Toronto, 1969:45-46, repro. 1971 Cott, Perry B."
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.
Newark, London, and Toronto, 1988: 219, 133, 144, repro. 220, as A View of the Mountain
Resurrection across Convents, Parishes, and Courts Elizabeth Harney, University of Toronto
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
Toronto, 1982: 118, 120, fig. 73. 1984 Schwartz, Gary.
Van Gogh found inspiration for this portrait in the bold complementary colors and contrasting patterns of the Japanese woodblock prints he collected. He fantasized about Japan as a utopia of bright light and color different from the dark, crowded western capitals he lived in.
Toronto, 2001: 185, repro. Childs, Elizabeth.
Toronto, 2022: 301-331, fig. 11.6. 2025 Daly, Christopher.
Lorenzo de‘ Medici, the brilliant, learned, and ruthless head of a wealthy banking family, ruled the Italian city-state of Florence in the Renaissance. This bust may copy a wax statue made to commemorate Lorenzo’s survival in 1478, when an assassination plot took the life of his younger brother.
Lexington, MA and Toronto, 1992: 257, repro. 1993 Toscani, Bernard, ed.
In 1632 Anthony van Dyck was invited to England to work at the court of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. In Van Dyck, the royal couple and the English aristocracy found an artist whose gifts perfectly matched their artistic sensitivities as well as their political needs and aspirations.
Walker, Self-Portrait with Donors: Confessions of an Art Collector, Boston and Toronto
The Dancer was one of seven works that Renoir included in the first exhibition of the Société anonyme coopérative des artistes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, etc., which opened in April 1874. In contrast to works by most of the other artists in the group—soon to be dubbed the impressionists—Renoir’s paintings were relatively well received.
Boston and Toronto, 1962:168. Gaunt, William. Renoir.
Edouard Manet offers an intriguing study in contrasts and ambiguity in The Railway , starting with the relationship between the two figures. Are they mother and daughter?
of Small Pictures by Members of the Ontario Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Toronto
