1982.29.FA Fernand Léger, The Divers (Red and Black)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Fernand Leger explained his intentions for the series of Divers paintings, which he began
1984.48.FA Henry Moore, Girl
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Henry Moore carved this smooth, gracefully contoured figure with minimal facial features, the hint of a coiffure
1984.63 Jean-Achille Benouville, Colosseum Viewed from the Palatine
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
A successful landscape painter, Jean-Achille Benouville frequently exhibited canvases featuring the environs of Paris, among other French cities, at the Paris Salon from 1834 onward. Nevertheless, he is best known for the paintings he produced during sojourns in Italy, which are notable for their great sensitivity to the depiction of light and atmosphere.
1978.55.FA Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, Information (General Desaix and the Peasant)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In Information
1979.40.FA Antonio Canova, Victory
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The most accomplished and celebrated sculptor of the Neoclassical era, Antonio Canova drew inspir
1982.25.FA Piet Mondrian, The Winkel Mill, Pointillist Version
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Piet Mondrian was inspired to create this painting by a specific windmill in the countryside near Amsterdam.
1981.42.FA Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Ugolino and his Children
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
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1981.124 Hugues Merle, The First Thorns of Knowledge
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Trained in the French Academic tradition, Hugues Merle was an expert draftsman who relied on the close study of human anatomy and a smooth, polished style to achieve a sense of naturalism in his paintings.
1984.194.FA William Hogarth, The Five Orders of the Perriwigs, October 15, 1761
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This etching was intended to make fun of the scholars James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, who had just published
1981.128 Claude Monet, Water Lilies
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Twentieth-century art is inconceivable without Claude Monet's paintings of water lilies. They are, in many ways, as important in the history of artistic invention as the Analytic Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque or the decorative abstraction of Henri Matisse.