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Article
‘The abduction of Europa’ by Paulus Potter: a mythological painting rediscovered
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 680–88
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Lydon, Muirne (Lydon, Muirne)
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Macro, Natalia (Macro, Natalia)
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Marx, Lizzie (Marx, Lizzie)
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Schilder, Jolijn (Schilder, Jolijn)
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Vandivere, Abbie (Vandivere, Abbie)
Subjects
artists:
Potter, Paulus
dates:
1600-1649
museums and institutions:
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland / Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
subjects:
Dutch painting / Mythology / Mythical animals / Europa / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Fragments / Conservation
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Head of a white bull, by Paulus Potter. c.1647–50. Oil on canvas, 79.4 by 62 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin).
Attributed works:
10. Infrared reflectogram of Fig.1, revealing the fragmentary Europa figure.
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11. X-radiograph of Fig.1, revealing the fragmentary Europa figure.
Attributed works:
12. Abduction of Europa, attributed to Jan de Visscher, after Nicolaes Berchem. 1643–92. Etching and engraving, 45.7 by 30.5 cm, shown mirrored horizontally. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
2. Portrait of Paulus Potter (1625–1654), by Bartholomeus van der Helst. 1654. Oil on canvas, 99 by 80 cm. (Mauritshuis, The Hague).
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3. The bull (De stier), by Paulus Potter. 1647. Oil on canvas, 236.5 by 341 cm. (Mauritshuis, The Hague).
Attributed works:
4. Proposed location of Fig.1 within the Abduction of Europa, determined from thread angle mapping (Fig.5c).
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5. Computer-assisted thread counting from X-radiographs of Fig.1, showing: a) thread density in the vertical and horizontal directions; b) horizontal thread density of the upper and lower pieces of canvas; c) thread angle deviations in the vertical and horizontal directions. The horizontal join is indicated with an arrow.
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6. Display of Fig.1 in the Grand Gallery, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. Photograph, after 1889. (RSAI, Dublin).
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7. Display of Fig.1 in Room 12, Dargan Wing, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. Photograph, c.1930–39. (National Gallery of Ireland Archive, Dublin).
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8. MA-XRF map of Fig.1, showing the distribution of mercury (Hg) from vermilion.
Attributed works:
9. MA-XRF map overlaid onto Fig.1, showing the distribution of copper (Cu) in white.
Article
Concealing portraits in Renaissance Venice: Jacometto’s painted box
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 126–1139
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Author:
Manges Nogueira, Alison (Manges Nogueira, Alison)
Subjects
artists:
Jacometto / Bellini, Giovanni / Memling, Hans / Giorgione / Cima da Conegliano, Giovan Battista
dates:
1480-1519
museums and institutions:
Lehman Collection / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
patrons:
Contarini, Alvise
sources:
Ovid / Metamorphoses
subjects:
Portrait boxes / Venetian art / Mythology / Iconography / Orpheus / Sitters
subjects:
Querini, Daria
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. and 2. A tethered roebuck (recto) and Alvise Contarini (verso), by Jacometto Veneziano. c.1485–95. Oil and gold on panel (recto), oil on panel (verso), 11.7 by 8.6 cm. (Robert Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
10. Portrait of a woman, possibly a Novice of San Secondo, by Jacometto Veneziano. c.1490. Oil on panel, 24 by 15.5 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
11. Rendering of the figural outlines in the painting in Fig.3.
Attributed works:
12. Auditus, by Cornelis Cort after Frans Floris I. 1561. Engraving, 21.5 by 26.5 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
13. Detail of Orpheus (‘The Widener Orpheus’), showing the figure of Orpheus. Venice, c.1515. Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 39.5 by 81 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
14. Orpheus and Charon, by Nicola da Urbino. Urbino, c.1515. Maiolica, diameter 28.2 cm. (Museo Correr, Venice).
Attributed works:
15. The wedding of Orpheus and Eurydice, Eurydice bitten by a snake, and Orpheus and Charon, after Benedetto Bordon. 1497. Woodcut, 29.8 by 20.6 cm. (page). (From Ovidio Metamorphoseos vulgare, transl. Giovanni de’ Bonsignori, Venice 1497, fol.83v; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
16. Daniel in the cave of the lions, by Cima da Conegliano. c.1495. Tempera and gold on panel, 57.7 by 43.5 cm. (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
17. Orpheus charming the animals, by the workshop of Cima da Conegliano. Early 16th century. Pen and wash on paper, 25 by 20 cm. (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
18. Orpheus redeeming Eurydice, by Moderno. Late 15th or early 16th century. Bronze, diameter 10.6 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
19. Petrarch, Laura and Orpheus, attributed to the Petrarch Master. 1463–64. Coloured pigments, gold and ink on parchment, 23 by 14 cm. (From Sonnets and Triumphs by Petrarch, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, L.101-1947).
Attributed works:
20. Portrait medal of Cristoforo Civran. Venice, late 15th century. Bronze, diameter 4.9 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
21. Stag at rest chained to a tree, by Giulio Campagnola. c.1510–15. Engraving with stipple, 18.2 by 11.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
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22. Deer chained to a laurel tree. Venice, late 15th century. Tempera on vellum. (From Rime, by Niccolò Lelio Cosmico, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, MS Marciano It. IX 152 (=7057), fol. 2v.).
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23. Tiberius. Roman, 14–20, in a mount with a Medici emblem and inscription, Italian or French, 16th century. Sardonyx, gold, pearl and enamel, 8 by 4.8 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago).
Attributed works:
24. Staurotheke with a double-sided sliding lid. Constantinople (?), early 9th century. Gilded silver, gold, enamel worked in cloisonné and niello, 2.7 by 10.3 by 7.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
3. and 4. A scene here identified as Orpheus and Charon (verso) and Portrait of a woman here identified as Daria Querini (recto), by Jacometto Veneziano. c.1485–95. Oil and gold on panel (verso), oil on panel (recto), 10.2 by 7.3 cm. (Robert Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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5. Portrait effigy of Elisabeth Krauss, with a sliding cover. Nuremberg, c.1640. Coloured wax and wood, 13.5 by 12.2 cm. (Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg).
Attributed works:
6. Giovanna de’ Rossi, by Lorenzo Lotto. c.1505. Oil on panel, 42.9 by 33.6 cm. (Musée des Beaux Arts, Dijon).
Attributed works:
7. Allegory of Chastity (cover for Giovanna de’ Rossi), by Lorenzo Lotto. c.1505. Oil on panel, 42.9 by 33.7 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
8. Philipp Melanchthon and cover with grotteschi and an inscription, by Hans Holbein the Younger. 1535. Oil on panel, diameter 9 cm. (Landesgalerie, Niedersachsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover).
Attributed works:
9. Portrait of a boy, by Giovanni Bellini. c.1474. Oil on panel, 38 by 23 cm. (Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham).
Article
Imagery by Raja Ravi Varma on Raj Silver
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 976-985
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Author:
Dehejia, Vidya J. (Dehejia, Vidya J.)
Subjects
artists:
Varma, Raja Ravi / Mawji, Oomersee
dates:
1890-1949
media:
Silverwork / Chromolithographs
places:
India
subjects:
Anglo-Indian / Indian School / Silverwork / Teapots / Vases / Hinduism / Iconography / Mythology / Vessels / Plates / Jugs
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. Tea service, designed and made by P. Orr & Sons. 1907. Silver, heights12 cm (teapot), 7.8 cm (sugar bowl) and 9.5 cm (cream jug). (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto).
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12. Detail of the teapot in Fig.11, showing Lakshmi.
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13. Detail of the sugar bowl in Fig.11, showing Saraswati seated on a rock.
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14. Detail of the cream jug in Fig.11, showing Saraswati seated on a rock.
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15. Detail of the sugar bowl in Fig.11, showing Lakshmi.
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16. Detail of the teapot in Fig.11, showing Saraswati seated on a peacock.
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19. Detail of Fig.17 showing Vishvamitra and Shakuntala.
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2. Ahalya, by Raja Ravi Varma. c.1898. Chromolithograph, 35.6 by 25.4 cm. (Private collection).
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22. Kamsa-Maya, by Raja Ravi Varma. 1896. Oil on canvas, 168.1 by 116.8 cm. (Royal Gaekwad Collection, Lakshmi Vilas Palace).
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24. Birth of Shakuntala (Shakuntala Janm), after Raja Ravi Varma. c.1894. Chromolithograph, 49.8 by 34.8 cm. (Private collection).
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4. Temptress (Mohini), after Raja Ravi Varma. Undated chromolithograph, 49.8 by 34.8 cm. (Private collection).
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5. Design for a teapot in a Cutch Swamy work tea service, by the Oomersee Mawji silver workshop, Kutch. Late 19th or early 20th century. Pencil on paper, approx. 10 by 15 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
6. Arjuna and Subhadra, Visvamitra and Menaka, Shakuntala writing a love-letter and Savitri pleading with Yama for Satyavan’s life, by the Oomersee Mawji silver workshop, Kutch, after Raja Ravi Varma. Late 19th or early 20th century. Pencil on paper, approx. 15 by 25 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
7. Saraswati, by Raja Ravi Varma. c.1896. Chromolithograph, 69.2 by 49.8 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
8. Lakshmi, by Raja Ravi Varma. c.1896. Chromolithograph, 70.8 by 49.8 cm. (Private collection).
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9. Saraswati seated on a peacock and Lakshmi standing in a lotus pond, by the Oomersee Mawji & Sons silver workshop, Kutch. Late 19th or early 20th century. Pencil on paper, approx. 10 by 15 cm. (Private collection).
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Vase depicting a woman with a basket. Indian, twentieth century. Silver, height 61 cm. (Private collection).
Non-western art unattributed:
10. The rear of the vase illustrated in Fig.3.
Non-western art unattributed:
17. Kamandalu. Indian, twentieth century. Silver, height 29 cm. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
18. Detail of Fig.17 showing Vishvamitra and Menaka.
Non-western art unattributed:
20. Detail of Fig.17, showing Arjuna and Subhadra.
Non-western art unattributed:
21. Detail of Fig.17, showing Kamsa-Maya.
Non-western art unattributed:
23. Tea caddy. Indian, twentieth century. Silver, height 15 cm. (Private collection).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Vase with a scene of a woman on a swing. Indian, twentieth century. Silver, height 61 cm. (Private collection).
Exhibition Review
Venice Biennale
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 688-691
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Reviewer:
Lloyd, Kathryn (Lloyd, Kathryn)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
places:
Venice
subjects:
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy / Alemani, Cecilia / Women artists / Gender / Surrealism / Mythology / Politics / Exhibitions
subjects:
Contemporary art
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subjects:
Venice Biennale Various locations, Venice 23rd April–27th November | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Installation view of The Milk of Dreams, Giardini Central Pavilion, Venice, 2022. (Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia; photograph Marco Cappelletti).
Attributed works:
2. Mama #45 from the series Mama, by Aneta Grzeszykowska. 2018. Pigment ink on cotton paper, 50 by 36 cm. (Courtesy Raster Gallery, Warsaw; exh. Giardini Central Pavilion, Venice 2022).
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3. Installation view of The Milk of Dreams, Arsenale, Venice, 2022, showing Brick house, by Simone Leigh. 2019. Bronze, 487.7 by 279.4 by 279.4 cm. (Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia; photograph Roberto Marossi).
Article
Paintings in Beauvais tapestry, 1764–67
05/2022 | 1430 | 164
Pages: 462-472
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Bertrand, Pascal-François (Bertrand, Pascal-François)
Author:
Bremer David, Charissa (Bremer David, Charissa)
Subjects
artists:
Boucher, François
collectors and dealers:
Charron, Laurent / Charron, André Charlemagne
dates:
1760-1769
museums and institutions:
Royal Tapestry Manufactory, Beauvais, France
museums and institutions:
Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury, Great Britain / Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, United States
subjects:
French decorative art / French painting / Tapestries / Upholsterers / Furniture / Weaving / Genre paintings / Mythology / Portraits / Screens (furniture) / Flower pieces
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of Louis XV, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at the Gobelins, studio of Pierre-François Cozette, after Louis-Michel Vanloo. c.1771–73. Silk and wool tapestry, 80 by 70 cm. (Château de Fontainebleau).
Attributed works:
10. Portrait of a young woman, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais. 1767. Silk and wool tapestry, photographed in 1913. (Whereabouts unknown).
Attributed works:
11. A girl with a rose, attributed to the workshop of François Boucher. 1760s. Pastel on paper, 53 by 45 cm. (Whereabouts unknown).
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12. The birth of the granddaughter of the Marquis de Courteille, by the Sevres Porcelain Manufactory, painted by Charles Nicolas Dodin. 1765. Porcelain, with polychrome enamel decoration, 23.5 by 26 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
13. The Chinese repast, from The Chinese series, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. 1763–65. Silk and wool tapestry, 306 by 452 cm. (Whereabouts unknown).
Attributed works:
14. Sleep (Amorino offering flowers to a sleeping nymph), by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. 1773. Silk and wool tapestry, 55.9 by 72.4 cm. (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston).
Attributed works:
15. Sleeping nymph, by Gilles Demarteau after François Boucher. 1756– 76. Crayon-manner print, 28.8 by 42.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. Two nymphs from the Scenes from operas series, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. 1765 or 1767. Silk and wool tapestry, 64.8 by 50.2 cm (Taft Museum, Cincinnati).
Attributed works:
3. The flute player from The noble pastoral series, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. 1765 or 1767. Silk and wool tapestry, 64.8 by 50.2 cm. (Taft Museum, Cincinnati).
Attributed works:
4. Detail of The flute player, from The noble pastoral series, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. 1758–78. Silk and wool tapestry, 338 by 333 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
Attributed works:
5. Two nymphs and The flute player, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. 1765 or 1767. Silk and wool tapestry, panels mounted in a double screen, each 69 by 54 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; photograph the authors).
Attributed works:
6. Rinaldo asleep, from the Scenes from operas series, by the Beauvais Royal Tapestry Manufactory, after François Boucher. 1755–56. Silk and wool tapestry, 281 by 472 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
7. The dog and the pheasant, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais. 1765–77. Silk and wool tapestry panel for a fire-screen in a nineteenth-century frame, 133.4 by 81.9 by 44.5 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
Attributed works:
8. The flute player, from The noble pastoral series, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at Beauvais, after François Boucher. Silk and wool tapestry in a gilt-wood frame. Photographed before 1934. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
Attributed works:
9. François Boucher’s daughter, by the Royal Tapestry Manufactory at the Gobelins, studio of Pierre-François Cozette, after François Boucher. 1769. Silk and wool tapestry, 48.9 by 38.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Exhibition Review
Le Théâtre de Troie: Antoine Coypel, d’Homère à Virgile
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 394-396
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Reviewer:
Duperron, Noémi (Duperron, Noémi)
Subjects
artists:
Coypel, Antoine
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
subjects:
Mythology / French painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Le Théâtre de Troie: Antoine Coypel, d’Homère à Virgile Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours 22nd January–18th April | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida, by the workshop of Antoine Coypel. c.1700–20. Oil on canvas, 177.6 by 153.4 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes; exh. Musée des Beaux- Arts de Tours).
Attributed works:
12. Assembly of the gods, engraved by Nicolas-Henri Tardieu after Antoine Coypel. 1717. Engraving and etching, 86.4 by 104 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; exh. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours).
Attributed works:
13. Wrath of Achilles, by Antoine Coypel. c.1711. Oil on canvas, 117.5 by 210 cm. (Musée des Beaux-arts de Tours).
Exhibition Review
A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 59-61
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Reviewer:
Barker, Sheila (Barker, Sheila)
Subjects
artists:
Anguissola, Sofonisba / Fontana, Lavinia
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
patrons:
House of Habsburg
places:
Italy / Spain
subjects:
Italian art / Renaissance art / Portraits / Self-portraits / Religious art / Mythology / Women artists
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid 22nd October 2019–2nd February | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Bernardino Campi painting Sofonisba Anguissola, by Sofonisba Anguissola. c.1559. Oil on canvas, 111 by 109.5 cm. (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena; exh. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; Photo Scala, Florence).
Attributed works:
11. Mars and Venus, by Lavinia Fontana. c.1595. Oil on canvas, 140 by 116 cm. (Fundación Casa de Alba, Madrid; exh. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Exhibition Review
Tarsila do Amaral
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 422-423
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Reviewer:
Temkin, Susanna (Temkin, Susanna)
Subjects
artists:
Amaral, Tarsila do / Gleizes, Albert / Lhote, André / Léger, Fernand / Legrain, Pierre
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York
subjects:
Cubist / Social realism / Academie Julian, Paris, France / Nudes / Politics / Dreams / Mythology / Visual sources / Technical analysis / Radiographs
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Anthropophagy, by Tarsila do Amaral. 1929. Canvas, 126 by 142 cm. (Acervo da Fundação José e Paulina Nemirovsky, em comodato com a Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
23. The black woman, by Tarsila do Amaral. 1923. Canvas, 100 by 80 cm. (Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
24. Workers, by Tarsila do Amaral. 1933. Canvas, 150 by 205 cm. (Acervo Artístico-Cultural dos Palácios do Governo do Estado de São Paulo; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
25. A Cuca, by Tarsila do Amaral. 1924. Canvas, 60.5 by 72.5 cm. (Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Exhibition Review
Jan Steen
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 412-414
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Reviewer:
White, Christopher (White, Christopher; White, Christopher John; White; W., C. J.; White, Christoper)
Subjects
artists:
Steen, Jan
collectors and dealers:
Houbraken, Arnold
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands / Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, Great Britain
places:
Netherlands / Hague / Great Britain / Birmingham
subjects:
Dutch painting / Genre paintings / History paintings / Christian iconography / Mythology / Iconography / Attribution / Style / Patronage
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. The toilet of Bathsheba, by Jan Steen. c.1670–75. Panel, 57.5 by 44.5 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; exh. Mauritshuis, The Hague).
Attributed works:
8. Amnon and Tamar, by Jan Steen. c.1668–70. Panel, 67 by 83 cm. (Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Fondation Corbaud, Cologne; exh. Mauritshuis, The Hague).
Attributed works:
9. Lucelle and Ascagnes, by Jan Steen. c.1668–70. Panel, 38.2 by 32.4 cm. (Bute Collection, Mount Stuart; exh. Mauritshuis, The Hague).
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