Rembrandt (1606-1669) Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol s.d. Oil on wood, 36.5 x 28.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Coppenol, Lieven Willemsz van (1598-1667)
Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol (s.d.)
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Apollo and Aurora (1671)
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Apollo and Aurora 1671 Oil on canvas, 204.5 x 193.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Largely forgotten today, De Lairesse was celebrated in his lifetime as a painter and advocate for an idealizing manner based…
Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse (mid-1660s)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse mid-1660s Oil on canvas, 112.7 x 87.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gerard de Lairesse (1641–1711) was, in his day, a well-known painter, etcher, and art theorist. He suffered from congenital syphilis,…
Herman Doomer (1640)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Herman Doomer 1640 Oil on wood, 75.2 x 55.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Herman Doomer was a successful cabinetmaker who worked with the imported ebony fashionable in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The exceptional care Rembrandt took with this…
Hendrickje Stoffels (mid–1650s)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Hendrickje Stoffels mid-1650s Oil on canvas, 78.4 x 68.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hendrickje Stoffels, the daughter of a soldier, worked as Rembrandt’s housekeeper, eventually becoming his common-law wife and mother of his daughter, Cornelia. While…
Bellona (1633)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Bellona 1633 Oil on canvas, 127 x 97.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Typical of Rembrandt’s domestication of ancient myth, this depiction of the Roman goddess of war may have reflected the Dutch readiness for conflict during…
Aristotle and Bust of Homer (1653)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Aristotle and Bust of Homer 1653 Oil on canvas, 143.5 x 136.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Among The Met’s most celebrated works of art, this painting conveys Rembrandt’s meditation on the meaning of fame. The richly…
Flora (c.1654)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Flora c.1654 Oil on canvas, 100 x 91.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Unlike many of his ambitious contemporaries, Rembrandt never traveled to Italy. Nonetheless, Italian art had a profound effect on him; in this depiction of…
Celia Thaxter’s Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine (1890)
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Celia Thaxter’s Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine 1890 Oil on canvas, 45.1 x 54.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting is one of the finest of a series of works that Hassam made during summers…
Avenue of the Allies, Great Britain (1918)
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Avenue of the Allies, Great Britain 1918 Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 72.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The only major American Impressionist to depict the home front during World War I, Hassam produced his Flag…