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) New York Street 1902 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 49.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago After studying painting in Paris, Childe Hassam applied the techniques of French Impressionism to his views of American cities and landscapes. While…
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) Fifth Avenue Nocturne c.1895 Oil on canvas, 61.2 x 51 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Boston native Childe Hassam began painting in an Impressionist style during a three-year stay in Paris, from 1886 to 1889. On settling…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Fifth Avenue 1919 Oil on canvas, 61.3 x 51.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland During World War I, the fiercely nationalistic Hassam was mistakenly arrested for being a German spy. Childe Hassam was fascinated by bustling Fifth…
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…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Avenue of the Allies: Brazil, Belgium 1918 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 61.75 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles See also: • Fifth Avenue | Manhattan | New York, NY (USA)