With a fixed gaze, Maria van Suchtelen (1642–1730) stands beside a table laden with food and wine. Pictured in a somber black overdress, which she discretely pulls back to reveal a shimmering white satin dress, and wearing an array of jewels, she is the embodiment of stately refinement.
Deventer, located in the province of Overijssel in the eastern portion of the Netherlands
Works by Joan Miró, Ansel Adams, and other artists can inspire a conversation about our impact on the environment.
Burtynsky photographed the construction of the controversial Three Rivers Dam in Hubei Province
In this winter landscape, aristocrats, burghers, countrymen, and orphans take to the ice of the frozen Amstel River. From a young boy propelling himself with sticks on a prikslee (small push-sled) to the group of three stately men with no skates conversing by the riverbank, each of Van Breen’s figures colorfully brings to life the possible actions and interactions of a winter’s day on the ice.
Douy is a small village in the Eure et Loir province of France, southwest of Paris
An environmental historian discusses how artists documented the Little Ice Age.
By 1650 the inhabitants of Holland—the wealthiest province of the Dutch Republic,
In One Year the Milkweed , one of several so-called color veil paintings Gorky made in 1944, films of paint have been washed unevenly across the canvas, and evocative but indistinct forms have been brushed in. Overall green and brown hues suggest a landscape, but there are no identifiable landscape forms and no spatial recession.
Milkweed One Year the Milkweed 1944 Arshile Gorky Artist, American, born Van Province
Soprintendenza archeologia belle arti e paesaggio per le province di Siena Grosseto
The greatest exponent of Sienese painting between the last quarter of the thirteenth and the first two decades of the fourteenth century, Duccio is documented for the first time in the role of painter in 1278, when he was paid by the Comune of Siena for the decoration of twelve coffers ( casse ) for the conservation of documents. Although this cannot have been a work of any particular artistic distinction, we may assume that the civic authorities would have chosen an artist who was already prominent in the city and in charge of a thriving workshop.
Orsini at Bracciano (near Rome) and now in the Salini collection near Asciano in the province
History Provenance Queen Isabel of Castile [d. 1504], castle of Toro, Zamora province
From the Native peoples lobbying to keep their homelands to immigrants facing challenges in their new home, works from our collection help us understand our nation’s beginnings.
to legend, Lenape (or Lunaapeew) Chief Tamanend and William Penn, founder of the Province
Meindert Hobbema studied under the noted landscape artist Jacob van Ruisdael, and quite a few of his compositions evolved from the work of his erstwhile master. The Travelers, one of Hobbema’s largest works, is a close variant of a smaller painting of a watermill by Ruisdael now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Provenance Gosen Geurt Alberda van Dyksterhuys [d. 1830], Château Dyksterhuys, Province
