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Susanna Anderson Rose
This keenly perceptive portrait of Susanna Anderson Rose (1795–1870) was painted when the sitter was 67 years old. The fine network of lines on her face are meticulously…
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Pictura — colectie demonstrativa · DEMO-CMA-142559
St. Catherine of Siena and the Beggar
Saint Catherine (1347-1380) was the daughter of a prosperous Sienese cloth dyer. At the age of six, she saw a vision of Christ and thereafter dedicated herself to chasti…
Pictura — colectie demonstrativa · DEMO-CMA-140152
Esther, Ahasuerus, and Haman
Esther, the wife of the Persian king Ahasuerus, effectively concealed her Jewish identity until the prime minister Haman hatched a plot to annihilate the kingdom’s Jews.…
Pictura — colectie demonstrativa · DEMO-CMA-150851
Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James
This portrait depicts Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James, the 12-year-old daughter of Édouard de Fitz-James. Fantin-Latour painted a series of portraits of her family members i…
Pictura — colectie demonstrativa · DEMO-CMA-151529
Welcoming Descent of Jizō
The bodhisattva Jizō—an enlightened being who refuses to become a Buddha in order to aid other beings in their quest for enlightenment—appears as a Buddhist monk carryin…
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St. Matthew
The energy and awe with which the evangelist Saint Matthew responds to the angel presenting the divinely inspired text echoes William Blake’s attitude toward artistic in…
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Portrait of a Man
This portrait of an unknown man includes a detailed representation of a rapier, a sword worn with civilian dress and used in duels. On the basis of style, the rapier in …
Pictura — colectie demonstrativa · DEMO-CMA-149417
Landscape with Gentle Peaks
A figure sits in a retreat tucked into the mountains near a waterfall. Kan Tenju was best known as a calligrapher and seal carver. Of Korean heritage, he was a patron of…
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Catherine Greene
The Boston painter Copley's virtuosity at rendering luxurious textiles was precisely the kind of talent that appealed to his patrons. In 1769 the prosperous merchant Joh…
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Lucy
Painted during expatriate Max Bohm’s visit to his hometown in Cleveland, Lucy depicts a former love interest, who years earlier turned down the artist’s marriage proposa…
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Portrait of Charlotte and Sarah Carteret-Hardy
Charlotte (left) and Sarah were 19 and 21, respectively, when this portrait was painted on the occasion of Sarah’s marriage to the topographer Daniel Lysons. The sisters…
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Madonna of Humility
The Madonna is shown seated on the ground as she nurses the infant Christ in a style of depiction called the "Madonna (or Virgin) of Humility." This type of image shows …
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The Mass of Saint Gregory
Saint Gregory was a late 6th-century pope and one of the fathers of the early Roman Church. This painting depicts the popular legend in which Gregory once overheard an o…
Pictura — colectie demonstrativa · DEMO-CMA-141929
Laban Searching for His Stolen Household Gods
This story comes from the Old Testament book of Genesis and stresses the value of reconciliation. Jacob lived with his uncle Laban for years, marrying Laban’s daughters …
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A Bearded Man Wearing a Hat
Amsterdam of the early 1600s was a religiously tolerant city, attracting many Jewish settlers of both Sephardic (Spanish and Portuguese) origin and Ashkenazic (Eastern E…
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Portrait of Mary Wise
Mary’s modest and contemplative demeanor is a counterpoint to a rather elaborate ensemble consisting of a gown embroidered with gold flower sprigs, trimmed with lace and…
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Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger
This signed portrait reinterprets a well-known pastel by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour of the important French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the younger (1704–1778). The s…
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Trees on a Rocky Hillside
Durand was one of the first American artists to paint outdoors, rather than in the confines of a studio, which was the longstanding tradition. This outdoor oil sketch of…
Pictura — colectie demonstrativa · DEMO-CMA-150115
Kitchen Utensils with Leeks, Fish, and Eggs
Chardin was already famous by 1730, when he began to paint small, sparse still lifes of kitchen utensils. He often used the same elements in his compositions, varying sl…
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The Kill
The inside of this shell preserves the earliest, extant figure paintings in Chinese history. Fisa demonstrativa, nu obiect aflat in patrimoniul acestui muzeu. Sursa: htt…
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Pond at Ville-d'Avray
Corot painted this view of a pond near his home at Ville-d'Avray, just west of Paris, in his late style distinguished by soft, hazy forms and gentle, silvery light. Such…
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The heroine who waits anxiously for her absent lover (Utka Nayika)
Night has fallen. Love, moonlight, stars, and jasmine give the heroine the courage to face its dangers, but with a heightened sense of worry. Rain clouds approach, and t…
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Virgin and Child with Saints
This small altarpiece, intended for a domestic interior or private chapel, consists of three panels, allowing it to be folded and easily transported. Surrounding the Vir…
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Dancers in a Pavilion
Jean-Baptiste Pater was the sole student of the early 18th-century artist Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). Upon Watteau's death, Pater finished some of his teacher's composi…