Inscription: Inscribed in metalpoint, at upper right: „Ung Roumain/ legat de n [?]/ . . . St pere/ en France“; in pen and brown ink on verso, „37/ BAC no.31“; in graphite: „P.HL./ Prosper Henry Lankrinck/ Page to King Charles I
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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
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
Washington. National Gallery of Art.
Turner made three trips to Venice, in the late summers of 1819, 1833, and 1840, and the present painting, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1835, must have been painted upon his return from his second visit, presumably using his own drawings and watercolors as source materials
Washington. National Gallery of Art. "J. M. W.
Washington, 1978, p. 176. Ronald Christ.
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on mount, recto TRC: „93“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BL: Nubie.“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BC: „Vue du pronaos du Temple de Dandour. (Tropique du Cancer)“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BR: „No
.]; André Jammes, Paris; [Graphics International, Ltd., Washington, D.C.]; Gilman
Braunschweig, Germany, 1889−Los Angeles, 1945
Papers are held in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Extolling the ideal pleasures of arcadian life is the point of the pastoral, which is above all an escape from reality.
Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1996. Blunt, Anthony.
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Before joining The Met in 2016, Casey worked as an assistant curator at a Washington
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
