Rendezvous in the Forest by Henri Rousseau https://www.nga.gov/artworks/53138-rendezvous-forest
stylized, dark brown tree trunks, bending branches, and sage and moss-green leaves, a man
stylized, dark brown tree trunks, bending branches, and sage and moss-green leaves, a man
Early American art includes works made by settlers in what we now know as the United States. Before the American Revolution, artists documented life in the colonies of New Spain and New England. And in the early decades of the United States, many artists represented the new nation through portraits of its early leaders.
1980.62.15 More details about Peaceable Kingdom Close Modal Portrait of a Man
The merchant class emerging in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1550 was keen to express its status and prosperity through art. And the rise of oil painting offered them affordable options. Artists made paintings and sculptures to appeal to these new consumers, many intended as intimate works for their homes.
1937.1.44 More details about Portrait of a Lady Close Modal Portrait of a Man
At the center of the composition, the pale-skinned man bound to the column, Jesus
Rebecca went to the well outside her city and encountered a stranger who identified her as the answer to his prayers. The backstory, according to Genesis 24:11–22, is that the aged Abraham wanted a wife for his son Isaac and sent his senior steward to his homeland of Mesopotamia to find a suitable woman.
Along the left edge of the composition and on the far side of the well, a man with
paper Accession ID 1991.190.1.b Not on view Download artwork Artwork Man
Humfrey Scholarly Article Italian Paintings of the Sixteenth Century: Portrait of a Man
Discover works by Herbert List and learn about the artist
Accession ID 2007.111.172 Not on view Download artwork Artwork Head of a Man
Desiderio da Settignano, born in a small village in the hills above Florence, numbers among the most brilliant marble sculptors of the Renaissance. His mastery of relief sculpture is apparent in this pictorially rich image, with its complicated space in which figures move in different planes, all suggested by the subtlest manipulations of the marble surface.
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In the top left drawing, a nude man stands facing us.