In December 1872, Sisley traveled to Port-Marly, a village in the western suburbs of Paris. There he produced four paintings showing the flooding of the Seine River.
A grove of cinnamon-brown trees and some open structures could be a submerged park
What do we know about the soldier who inspired the drummer in Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s The Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial?
Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic
Pieter Molijn, born in London of Flemish parents, was baptized on April 6, 1595. It is not known when he left England or where and with whom he studied painting.
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 1987.
Though this painting presents a mythological allegory, Venus wears a costume and jewelry closely related to the fashion of the time it was painted. The two cupids may represent Eros and Anteros, both sons of Venus, but symbols of contrasting aspects of love—the blind and sensuous, and the clear-sighted and virtuous.
Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos [1776-1839], London, Stowe Park
Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century , pages 224-227, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-18th-century.pdf
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 44 (January 1920): 89. 1926 Park
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Orleans Museum of Art) – but the museum was at the center of a then-segregated city park
Once cautiously attributed to Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Flute was more likely painted by a studio associate of Vermeer. Although the general character and appearance of the work relate closely to works by Vermeer, especially Girl with the Red Hat , the quality falls short of Vermeer’s standards.
Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, after purchase by funds of the Estate; gift 1942
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children’s books; and founded the Dusable Museum of African American History in Hyde Park
. 1, repro. 1973 The Apocalypse, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park
