1958.60 Charles Franҫois Daubigny, The Ford (Le Gué)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This print, with its riverside setting and herd of cattle, presents the Barbizon region in a pastoral light.
1940.42 Charles Émile Jacque, A Corner of the Forest of Fontainebleau (Un coin de la Foret de Fontainbleau)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This etching by Charles Émile Jacque has the intimacy of a drawing, featuring loose, gestural lines and a sm
1954.7 Louis Lozowick, Sky Overcast
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1985.R.38 Claude Monet, The Pont Neuf
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Claude Monet returned to Paris in November 1871 after more than a year of wartime exile in England and Holland. He found a city ravaged by the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) and the violent suppression of the Paris Commune in May 1871.
1985.R.25 Edgar Degas, Group of Dancers
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
While Group of Dancers features Edgar Degas's signature subject of ballet dancers, it is also a curious experiment in medium and setting. Rather than drawing with pastels on paper, Degas worked on a wooden panel, a material more commonly used as a support for paint.
1987.36 Jan Lievens, The Sacrifice of Isaac
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Book of Genesis (22: 1-19) tells how God tested Abraham's devotion by ordering him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. In this deeply moving depiction, Antonio de Pereda presents Abraham, still unaware that God will intervene, gesturing heavenward while gazing tenderly at his son.
1995.55 Pieter Nolpe, Hercules Restores Gallia
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
As the daughter of Grand Duke of Florence Francesco I de Medici, widow of King Henri IV of France, and mother of King Louis XIII of
1996.104.FA Johann Heinrich Fuseli, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Satan and the Birth of Sin (Book II, 746-758) Painting no. 6 from The Milton Gallery
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This painting by Johann Heinrich Fuseli is a quintessential example of the themes that preoccupied many artists during the last decades of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century, with the dawning of romanticism.