Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Mother Combing Her Child’s Hair c.1901 Pastel on gray paper, 64.1 x 80.3 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York
Mother Combing Her Child’s Hair (c.1901)
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La Berceuse (1889)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse (Lullaby or Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 73.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (F 505, JH 1669) Of the five versions of Van Gogh’s portrait of Augustine Roulin,…
Vue de Bazincourt (1889)
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Vue de Bazincourt (View of Bazincourt) 1889 Watercolor on cotton mounted to pulpboard, 20.5 x 25.6 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York SIGNATURE: Signed and dated lower center: “C. Pissarro. 1889.” INSCRIPTIONS: Inscribed lower left: “A mon cher Fred. Souvenir…
Portrait of a Man (early 1650s)
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Man early 1650s Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 86.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this canvas of the early 1650s, the figure’s pose follows a pattern Hals employed twenty years earlier, but here…
Merrymakers at Shrovetide (c.1616-1617)
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Merrymakers at Shrovetide c.1616–1617 Oil on canvas, 131.4 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Shrovetide, now better known as Mardi Gras, is the traditional period of indulgence before the fasting and self-discipline of Lent. In the…
Young Man and Woman in an Inn (1623)
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Young Man and Woman in an Inn 1623 Oil on canvas, 105.4 x 79.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted with the characteristically bold brushwork that Hals had learned from Flemish painting, this picture provides a…
The Huis ten Bosch from the East (c.1668-1670)
Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden (View from the East) c.1668–1670 Oil on wood, 39.1 x 54.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Both an artist and an inventor (among other…
The Huis ten Bosch from the South (c.1668-1670)
Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden (View from the South) c.1668–1670 Oil on wood, 39.1 x 55.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Both an artist and an inventor (among…
Amazone (1820)
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Amazone (Horsewoman) 1820 or later Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Géricault studied horses extensively throughout his life, and his stay in England in 1820–21 inspired a group of works representing elegant…
Le Soir, Paysage avec aqueduc (1818)
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Le Soir, Paysage avec aqueduc (Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct) 1818 Oil on canvas, 250.2 x 219.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work is one of a projected set of four monumental landscapes representing the times…