Portrait of Lorenzo di Credi by Pietro Perugino https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1177-portrait-lorenzo-di-credi
Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[3] inheritance from Estate of
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The Satyr and the Peasant by Johann Liss https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1178-satyr-and-peasant
The unusual subject of this painting comes from one of Aesop’s fables. In his Man and the Satyr , he related how a demigod helped a peasant who was lost on a wintry day.
Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of
Forest Scene by Jacob van Ruisdael https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1219-forest-scene
Jacob van Ruisdael represents the pinnacle of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting. This great artist, the son of a painter and the nephew of Salomon van Ruysdael (see NGA 2007.116.1), began his career in Haarlem but moved to Amsterdam in about 1656.
Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter
The Travelers by Meindert Hobbema https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1170-travelers
Meindert Hobbema studied under the noted landscape artist Jacob van Ruisdael, and quite a few of his compositions evolved from the work of his erstwhile master. The Travelers, one of Hobbema’s largest works, is a close variant of a smaller painting of a watermill by Ruisdael now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter
Head of an Aged Woman by Dutch 17th Century https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1203-head-aged-woman
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.
Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[6] inheritance from Estate of
William Glackens | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/artists/1347-william-glackens
William James Glackens was born in Philadelphia on March 13, 1870, to Elizabeth Finn Glackens and Samuel Glackens, a clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Both William and his older brother, Louis (American, 1866–1933), who would later become an illustrator, showed an early talent for drawing.
Accession ID 2015.143.76 Artwork William Glackens, Studies of Women by the Park
The Virgin Annunciate by Giovanni di Domenico https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1471-virgin-annunciate
Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, as Florentine, fifteenth century;[4] inheritance
Marchesa Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo by Sir Anthony van Dyck https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1231-marchesa-elena-grimaldi-cattaneo
Here he had numerous opportunities to paint portraits in which he was marvelously successful and had few equals. He painted Cavaliers and Ladies of our city and all of them so lifelike and invested with a certain air, that .
Widener, Elkins Park; gift 1942 to NGA.
Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight by Joseph Mallord William Turner https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1225-keelmen-heaving-coals-moonlight
Joseph Mallord William Turner excelled at capturing the beauty and mysteries of light. Cool, white moonlight contrasts with warm, yellow and orange firelight.
Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from estate of Peter A. B.
Irene di Spilimbergo by Titian, Gian Paolo Pace https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1222-irene-di-spilimbergo
Irene di Spilimbergo was about 20 years old when this painting was begun. Along with a pendant portrait of her older sister, Emilia, the two paintings were probably initially commissioned in anticipation of the prospective marriages of the two sitters.
Widener [1834-1915], Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[3] Inheritance from the Estate of