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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Derain, André (1880-1954) The Palace of Westminster 1906–1907 Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 99.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1905 and 1906, Derain traveled to London at the suggestion of the art dealer Ambroise Vollard to paint the…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La princesse Pauline de Metternich sur la plage (Princess Pauline Metternich on the Beach) c.1865–1867 Oil on cardboard, laid down on wood, 29.5 x 23.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Pauline Metternich, wife of the…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Village par une rivière (Village by a River) probably 1867 Oil on wood. 35.6 x 58.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boudin frequently painted landscapes along the coast of Brittany. This view of the village…