Dogs appear in art as everything from faithful companions and symbols of loyalty and protection to working animals and sporting partners. No painter of canines was more famous than Edwin Landseer. His works were so celebrated that a mastiff breed was named after him.
about Husky Dog Sled Race, Spruce Run, Pennsylvania Close Modal Portrait of a Man
Russian-born artist Marc Chagall produced colorful paintings, mosaics, murals, and stained glass windows over the course of a long career. Chagall spent his childhood in a Hasidic Jewish community in Vitebsk, a small city in what is now Belarus.
wove paper · Accession ID 1997.95.11 Artwork Marc Chagall, Greeting Card (Man
Frans van Mieris (1635–1681) was one of the most celebrated Leiden fijnschilders („fine painters“), whose elegant works are marked by smooth execution, invisible brushwork, and extraordinary attention to detail. Gerrit Dou (1613–1675) , with whom Van Mieris studied, described him as “the prince of all my pupils.â€� His small paintings of convivial genres, portraits, and allegories with their lively, often ambiguous narratives delighted both local and international collectors.
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Between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, Jesus is said to have descended into the realm of the dead where he liberated the Old Testament patriarchs and prophets. This event, known as the Decent into Limbo, is represented here on the right wing of a triptych by Andrea di Vanni .
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Castle Garden in New York City was the country’s first immigration station and processed a large refugee population in the late 19th century. Here, people from different countries talk, rest, and pass the time waiting for inspection and registration.
A man with a red beard wears glasses, a brown suit, and a flat-topped straw hat sits
Dancers Backstage depicts an informal, behind-the-scenes moment at the ballet—the type of scene that most intrigued Degas. Four figures occupy the painting:
onto a loosely painted scene with three ballerinas in rose-pink costumes and one man
Jesus faces and looks at a kneeling, pale-skinned man to our right who holds out
In this intimate full-length portrait, the Deventer burgomaster (chief magistrate) Gerhard van Suchtelen (1640–1722) stands gracefully in a domestic interior gazing out at the viewer with an air of restrained elegance. Deventer, located in the province of Overijssel in the eastern portion of the Netherlands, held tightly to tradition and conservative values, qualities that Gerhard conveys with his somber black attire:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 7 January-15 March 1884, no. 60, as Portrait of a Man
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ink on tan paper, fields stretch away from us toward three farm buildings and a man
