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15 maart 2023

GARDNER MUSEUM THEFT AN ACTIVE AND ONGOING INVESTIGATION The Museum is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to the recovery of the stolen works. The 1990 theft of 13 works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s collection remains unsolved, although the Museum’s commitment to resolving the crime has never diminished since […]

De Rembrandt-roof 16

15 maart 2023

Pierre-Philippe Thomire, Eagle Finial, 1813-1814

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15 maart 2023

Whistler’s mother, c. 1850–59  Anna Matilda McNeill was born in 1804 in Wilmington, North Carolina. She married railroad engineer George Washington Whistler, a friend of her brother, in 1831. Mr. Whistler’s first wife had passed away, leaving three children. Anna and George had five more children, although only two survived early childhood, one of whom […]

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15 maart 2023

Mary Cassatt, The Boating Party, 1893/1894 This bold composition reveals the influence of the flat, patterned surfaces, simplified color, and unusual angles of Japanese prints, which enjoyed a huge vogue in Paris in the late 1800s. The dark figure of the man compresses the picture onto the flat plane of the canvas, and the horizon is […]

De Rembrandt-roof 13

15 maart 2023

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎, Self-Portrait as a Fisherman, 1835

De Rembrandt-roof 12

15 maart 2023

Diego Rivera, Diego Rivera, 1930 Diego Rivera is remembered for his public art and murals in Mexico and the United States. During the late 1920s and the 1930s, he painted monumental and powerful murals for public buildings, including a twenty-seven-panel fresco called Detroit Industry for the Detroit Institute of Arts. His 1933 mural for Rockefeller […]

De Rembrandt-roof 11

15 maart 2023

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15 maart 2023

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15 maart 2023

Mary Cassatt, On a Balcony, c. 1878–1879 During her early Impressionist period, Mary Cassatt frequently captured the activities of middle- and upper-class women in society—at the theater or taking tea, for example. On a Balcony, which was shown in the 1880 Impressionist exhibition, appears to depict a woman in a public setting. However, the blue rail […]