Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of an Old Woman 1654 Oil on canvas, 109 x 84 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Portrait of an Old Woman (1654)
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Portrait of a Woman of the Van Beresteyn Family (1632)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family 1632 Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This portrait is a pendant to the Portrait of a Man (29.100.3). If…
Woman with a Pink (early 1660s)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Woman with a Pink early 1660s Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 74.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Her forehead crisscrossed with jewels, the sitter of this portrait displays a pink, or carnation, a symbol of love and…
Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan (1633)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan 1633 Oil on canvas, 125.7 x 101 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This animated portrait has a pendant showing the sitter’s husband rising from a chair (Taft Museum, Cincinnati).…
Portrait of a Woman (1633)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Woman 1633 Oil on wood, 67.9 x 50.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The sitter’s identity is unknown, as in many Rembrandt portraits of the 1630s. During that decade in Amsterdam the painter was…
Achilles Discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes (1680)
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Achilles Discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes 1680 Oil on canvas, 138 x 190 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague This painting by De Lairesse is a typical example of the style that came into fashion in Holland…
Judith at the banquet of Holofernes (1634)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Judith at the banquet of Holofernes 1634 Oil on canvas, 143 x 154.7 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid In the past various authors have expressed their scepticism about the attribution of the painting to Rembrandt. However, the Rembrandt Research…
Gathering Flowers in a French Garden (1888)
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Gathering Flowers in a French Garden 1888 Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 55.1 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Buoyed by his artistic success in Boston, Hassam sought instruction in Paris at the prestigious Académie Julian in 1886. Although…
The Fireplace (1912)
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) The Fireplace 1912 Oil on canvas, 14 x 21 cm Private Collection
Rainy Day, Boston (1885)
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Rainy Day, Boston 1885 Oil on canvas, 66.3 x 122 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “I am never tired of observing [people] in every-day life…. Humanity in motion is a constant study to me.” —Childe Hassam…