Orazio Gentileschi was one of the earliest and most gifted painters to be inspired by the genre scenes of Caravaggio in Rome. Here, he must have had in mind Caravaggio’s famous picture on the same theme.
University Park, Pennsylvania, 1981: 38-39, 65, 92, n. 16, 111, 158-159, no. 31,
Nicolas Lancret was one of Antoine Watteau’s most talented followers and helped to disseminate the taste for fête-galante subjects in the eighteenth century. On the far left musicians are hidden amidst the trees, while across the canvas from left to right, arranged on an exaggerated S curve, stylishly dressed spectators have assembled in intimate groups to watch a couple perform a pas de deux.
The dancers and groups are enclosed within a park-like setting with tall trees to
University Park, PA, and London, 1975: 159. 1980 Rewald, John.
rededicated on March 17, one year after custody of the 1952 fountain and its surrounding park
Sensational and scandalous for an American audience unused to seeing classically nude statues of women, this figure by Hiram Powers caused a frenzy when it was first exhibited in the mid-19th century. Curious viewers came in droves to see it after Powers sent several copies from Italy, where he created the work.
I’m a program manager for the National Park Service for the Underground Railroad
Crawford Notch, a deep valley in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, gained notoriety in 1826 when nine lives were lost in a catastrophic avalanche nearby. Cole’s painting depicts the site of an earlier landslide whose destruction prompted the victims—Mr.
University of Maryland, College Park, 1968: 19, as Autumn-Crawford Notch, New Hampshire
: a pair entitled La Fontaine and Le Manoir, a landscape depicting Dancers in a Park
University Park and London, 1970: n.p., note to pl. 16. 1972 Fredericksen, Burton
Niagara , located on the homeland of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), is among the greatest natural wonders of North America. Beginning in the late 17th century, the site became a popular but challenging subject for European artists.
museum curator, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Collection, National Park
Pieter de Hooch worked in the small and relatively quiet city of Delft from 1652 to about 1660. Like other Delft artists, most notably Carel Fabritius and Johannes Vermeer, De Hooch painted everyday scenes that are remarkable for their clarity of perspective and harmony of light.
Mason; purchased by Baron Lionel de Rothschild [1808-1879], Gunnersbury Park, Greater
