the high altar of the church of San Domenico, Modena (until about 1708–10); John Edward Taylor, London (until d. 1905); his widow, Mrs. John E. Taylor, London (1905–12; her sale, Christie’s, London, July 5 and 8, 1912, no
; attributes the Preaching of Saint Thomas (now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Folios from an Album of CalligraphyMounted within colorful ebru (marbled) papers and surrounded by parti-colored inner borders, these two pages of graceful calligraphy form part of a leather-bound album composed of six folios
Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Detroit Institute of
Watteau did not participate in public exhibitions, nor title his pictures, whose meaning is often difficult to fathom. This late work is clearly a theatrical subject, and as he is known to have made drawings of comic actors and quacks from an early age, he must have been interested in the theater throughout his short life
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Studying first with François Élie Vincent (1708–1790), a miniaturist whose Paris studio was in the same street as her father’s shop, Adélaïde Labille embarked upon her career before she was twenty
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The Washington Post Grand yet thematically intent… The New Yorker Packed with
Fleischman, Washington, D.C. and Miami (2003–20; promised and partial gift to MMA
Vincent van Gogh brought his work in Provence to a close with exuberant bouquets of spring flowers—two of irises and two of roses. This exhibition will reunite this group of paintings for the first time since the artist’s death and is timed to coincide with the blooming of the flowers that captured his attention.
Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and the horizontal Roses from the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Gérôme specialized in a brand of photographic realism which, from the 1840s onward, distinguished him from the increasingly stale Neoclassical style promulgated by the followers of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
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