BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings (Page 3 of 3)

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings (Page 3 of 3):

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NGAP_090703_0002.JPG: The White Horse 1818-1819 John Constable
2. NGAP_090703_0013.JPG: The White Horse (detail)
3. NGAP_090703_0016.JPG: The White Horse (detail)
4. NGAP_090703_0021.JPG: The White Horse (detail)
5. NGAP_090703_0031.JPG: Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore 1834 Joseph Mallord William Turner
6. NGAP_090703_0038.JPG: Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (detail)
7. NGAP_090703_0041.JPG: Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (detail)
8. NGAP_090703_0045.JPG: Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (detail)
9. NGAP_090703_0053.JPG: The Junction of the Thames and the Medway 1807 Joseph Mallord William Turner
10. NGAP_090703_0063.JPG: The Junction of the Thames and the Medway (detail)
11. NGAP_090703_0071.JPG: Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight 1835 Joseph Mallord William Turner
12. NGAP_090703_0077.JPG: Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (detail)
13. NGAP_090703_0083.JPG: Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (detail)
14. NGAP_090703_0088.JPG: Wivenhoe Park, Essex 1816 John Constable
15. NGAP_090703_0097.JPG: Wivenhoe Park, Essex (detail)
16. NGAP_090703_0100.JPG: Wivenhoe Park, Essex (detail)
17. NGAP_090703_0105.JPG: Seashore with Fishermen c. 1781/1782 Thomas Gainsborough
18. NGAP_090703_0113.JPG: Seashore with Fishermen (detail)
19. NGAP_090703_0121.JPG: Rotterdam Ferry-Boat 1833 Joseph Mallord William Turner
20. NGAP_090703_0129.JPG: Rotterdam Ferry-Boat (detail)
21. NGAP_090703_0134.JPG: Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close 1820 John Constable
22. NGAP_090703_0143.JPG: Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close (detail)
23. NGAP_090703_0150.JPG: Mortlake Terrace 1827 Joseph Mallord William Turner
24. NGAP_090703_0158.JPG: Mortlake Terrace (detail)
25. NGAP_090703_0164.JPG: Master John Heathcote c. 1771/1772 Thomas Gainsborough
26. NGAP_090703_0173.JPG: The Hon. Mrs. Thomas Graham c. 1775/1776 Thomas Gainsborough
27. NGAP_090703_0184.JPG: Lady Caroline Howard 1778 Sir Joshua Reynolds
28. NGAP_090703_0194.JPG: Miss Juliana Willoughby 1781-1783 George Romney
29. NGAP_090703_0205.JPG: Mountain Landscape with Bridge c. 1783/1784 Thomas Gainsborough
30. NGAP_090703_0210.JPG: Mountain Landscape with Bridge (detail)
31. NGAP_090703_0215.JPG: Lake Albano 1762 Richard Wilson
32. NGAP_090703_0223.JPG: Lake Albano (detail)
33. NGAP_090703_0228.JPG: Moonlight on the Yare c. 1816/1817 John Crome
34. NGAP_090703_0235.JPG: Moonlight on the Yare (detail)
35. NGAP_090703_0242.JPG: John Tait and His Grandson c. 1793 Sir Henry Raeburn
36. NGAP_090703_0250.JPG: John Tait and His Grandson (detail)
37. NGAP_090703_0255.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon 1816 John Martin
38. NGAP_090703_0268.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (detail)
39. NGAP_090703_0274.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (detail)
40. NGAP_090703_0278.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (detail)
41. NGAP_090703_0282.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (detail)
42. NGAP_090703_0286.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (detail)
43. NGAP_090703_0291.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (detail)
44. NGAP_090703_0296.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (detail)
45. NGAP_090703_0303.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (detail)
46. NGAP_090703_0306.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (detail)
47. NGAP_090703_0309.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (detail)
48. NGAP_090703_0315.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (detail)
49. NGAP_090703_0317.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (detail)
50. NGAP_090703_0333.JPG: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (detail)
51. NGAP_090703_0341.JPG: Sir Joshua Reynolds 1784 Gilbert Stuart
52. NGAP_090703_0349.JPG: The Skater (Portrait of William Grant) 1782 Gilbert Stuart
53. NGAP_090703_0361.JPG: Miss Beatrix Lister 1765 Sir Joshua Reynolds
54. NGAP_090703_0387.JPG: David Anderson 1790 Sir Henry Raeburn
55. NGAP_090703_0394.JPG: John Musters 1777-c. 1780 Sir Joshua Reynolds
56. NGAP_090703_0403.JPG: The Copley Family 1776/1777 John Singleton Copley
57. NGAP_090703_0409.JPG: The Copley Family (detail)
58. NGAP_090703_0414.JPG: The Copley Family (detail)
59. NGAP_090703_0419.JPG: Lady Elizabeth Delme and Her Children 1777-1779 Sir Joshua Reynolds
60. NGAP_090703_0432.JPG: Lady Elizabeth Delme and Her Children (detail)
61. NGAP_090703_0434.JPG: The Frankland Sisters 1795 John Hoppner
62. NGAP_090703_0441.JPG: The Binning Children c. 1811 (?) Sir Henry Raeburn
63. NGAP_090703_0449.JPG: Lady Mary Templetown and Her Eldest Son 1802 Sir Thomas Lawrence
64. NGAP_090703_0458.JPG: Lady Mary Templetown and Her Eldest Son (detail)
65. NGAP_090703_0461.JPG: Mrs. Thomas Scott Jackson c. 1770/1773 George Romney
66. NGAP_090703_0471.JPG: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 1783 Thomas Gainsborough
67. NGAP_090703_0481.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Childhood 1842 Thomas Cole A stream is seen issuing from a deep cavern, in the side of a craggy and precipitous mountain, whose summit is hidden in clouds. From out the cave glides a boat, whose golden prow and sides are sculptured into figures of the Hours: steered by an Angelic Form, and laden with buds and flowers, it bears a laughing Infant, the Voyager, whose varied course the artist has attempted to delineate. On either hand, the banks of the stream are clothed in luxuriant herbage and flowers. The rising sun bathes the mountains and flowery banks in rosy light. The dark cavern in emblematic of our earthly origin, and the mysterious Past. The Boat, composed of Figures of the Hours, images the thought that we are borne on the hours down the Stream of Life. The Boat identifies the subject in each picture. The rosy light of the morning, the luxuriant flowers and plants, are emblems of the joyousness of early life. The close banks and the limited scope of the scene indicate the narrow experience of Childhood, and the nature of its pleasures and desires. The Egyptian Lotus in the foreground of the picture is symbolical of Human Life. Joyousness and wonder are the characteristic emotions of childhood.
68. NGAP_090703_0493.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Childhood (detail)
69. NGAP_090703_0498.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Childhood (detail)
70. NGAP_090703_0507.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Youth 1840 Thomas Cole The stream now pursues its course through a landscape of wider scope and more diversified beauty. Trees of rich growth overshadow its banks, and verdant hills form the base of lofty mountains. The Infant of the former scene is become a Youth on the verge of Manhood. He is now alone in the Boat, and takes the helm himself; and in [an] attitude of confidence and eager expectation, gazes on a cloudy pile of Architecture, an air-built Castle, that rises dome above dome in the far-off blue sky. The Guardian Spirit stands upon the bank of the stream, and with serious yet benignant countenance seems to be bidding the impetuous voyager "God speed." The beautiful stream flows directly toward the aerial palace, for a distance; but at length makes a sudden turn, and is seen in glimpses beneath the trees, until it at last descends with rapid current into a rocky ravine, where the voyager will be found in the next picture. Over the remote hills, which seem to intercept the stream, and turn it from its hitherto direct course, a path is dimly seen, tending directly toward that cloudy Fabric, which is the object and desire of the voyager. The scenery of this picture -- its clear stream, its lofty trees, its towering mountains, its unbounded distance, and transparent atmosphere -- figure[s] forth the romantic beauty of youthful imaginings, when the mind magnifies the Mean and Common into the Magnificent, before experience teaches what is the real. The gorgeous cloud-built palace, whose most glorious domes seem yet but half revealed to the eye, growing more and more lofty as we gaze, is emblematic of the day-dreams of youth, its aspirations after glory and fame; and the dimly seen path would intimate that Youth, in his impetuous career, is forgetful that he is embarked on the Stream of Life, and that its current sweeps along with resistless force, and increases in swiftness as it descends toward the great Ocean of Eternity.
71. NGAP_090703_0512.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Youth (detail)
72. NGAP_090703_0515.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Youth (detail)
73. NGAP_090703_0520.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Youth (detail)
74. NGAP_090703_0522.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Youth (detail)
75. NGAP_090703_0528.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Manhood 1840 Thomas Cole Storm and cloud enshroud a rugged and dreary landscape. Bare impending precipices rise in the lurid light. The swollen stream rushes furiously down a dark ravine, whirling and foaming in its wild career, and speeding toward the Ocean, which is dimly seen through the mist and falling rain. The boat is there, plunging amid the turbulent waters. The voyager is now a man of middle age: the helm of the boat is gone, and he looks imploringly toward heaven, as if heaven's aid alone could save him from the perils that surround him. The Guardian Spirit calmly sits in the clouds, watching with an air of solicitude the affrighted voyager. Demon forms are hovering in the air. Trouble is characteristic of the period of Manhood. In Childhood there is no cankering care; in Youth no despairing through. It is only when experience has taught us the realities of the world, that we life from our eyes the golden veil of early life: that we feel deep and abiding sorrow; and in the picture, the gloomy, eclipse-like tone, the conflicting elements, the trees riven by tempest, are the allegory; and the Ocean, dimly seen, figures the end of life, to which the voyager is now approaching. The demon forms are Suicide, Intemperance, and Murder, which are the temptations that beset men in their direst trouble. The upward and imploring look of the voyager shows his dependence on a Superior Power and that faith saves him from the destruction that seems inevitable.
76. NGAP_090703_0536.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Manhood (detail)
77. NGAP_090703_0543.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Manhood (detail)
78. NGAP_090703_0546.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Manhood (detail)
79. NGAP_090703_0550.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Old Age 1840 Thomas Cole Portentous clouds are brooding over a vast and midnight Ocean. A few barren rocks are seen through the gloom--the last shores of the world. These form the mouth of the river, and the boat, shattered by storms, its figures of the hours broken and drooping, is seen gliding over the deep waters. Directed by the Guardian Spirit, who thus far has accompanied him unseen, the voyager, now an old man, looks upward to an opening in the clouds, from whence a glorious light bursts forth, and angels are seen descending the cloudy steps, as if to welcome him to the Haven of Immortal Life. The stream of life has now reached the Ocean, to which all life is tending. The world, to Old Age, is destitute of interest. There is no longer any green thing upon it. The broken and drooping figures of the boat show that Time is nearly ended. The chains of corporeal existence are falling away; and already the mind has glimpses of immortal life. The angelic Being, of whose presence until now the voyager has been unconscious, is revealed to him, and with a countenance beaming with joy, shows to his wondering gaze scenes such as mortal man has never yet seen..
80. NGAP_090703_0562.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Old Age (detail)
81. NGAP_090703_0565.JPG: The Voyage of Life: Old Age (detail)
82. NGAP_090703_0569.JPG: George Washington c. 1821 Gilbert Stuart
83. NGAP_090703_0581.JPG: John Adams c. 1821 Gilbert Stuart
84. NGAP_090703_0587.JPG: Thomas Jefferson c. 1821 Gilbert Stuart
85. NGAP_090703_0595.JPG: James Madison c. 1821 Gilbert Stuart
86. NGAP_090703_0606.JPG: James Monroe c. 1817 Gilbert Stuart
87. NGAP_090703_0613.JPG: Richard Yates 1793/1794 Gilbert Stuart
88. NGAP_090703_0621.JPG: Catherine Bras(s) Yates (Mrs. Richard Yates) 1793/1794 Gilbert Stuart
89. NGAP_090703_0629.JPG: Sarah Homes Tappan (Mrs. Benjamin Tappan) 1814 Gilbert Stuart
90. NGAP_090703_0638.JPG: John Randolph 1804/1805 Gilbert Stuart
91. NGAP_090703_0647.JPG: Ann Calvert Stuart Robinson (Mrs. William Robinson) c. 1804 Gilbert Stuart
92. NGAP_090703_0655.JPG: Samuel Alleyne Otis 1811/1813 Gilbert Stuart
93. NGAP_090703_0664.JPG: Henrietta Marchant Liston (Mrs. Robert Liston) 1800 Gilbert Stuart
94. NGAP_090703_0676.JPG: Peaceable Kingdom c. 1834 Edward Hicks
95. NGAP_090703_0685.JPG: Peaceable Kingdom (detail)
96. NGAP_090703_0688.JPG: Peaceable Kingdom (detail)
97. NGAP_090703_0697.JPG: Peaceable Kingdom (detail)
98. NGAP_090703_0703.JPG: Portrait of a Man probably 1829 Unknown
99. NGAP_090703_0709.JPG: The Westwood Children c. 1807 Joshua Johnson
100. NGAP_090703_0718.JPG: The Hobby Horse c. 1840 Unknown
101. NGAP_090703_0726.JPG: Still Life: Fruit, Bird, and Dwarf Pear Tree 1856 Charles V. Bond
102. NGAP_090703_0734.JPG: Little Miss Fairfield 1850 William Matthew Prior
103. NGAP_090703_0743.JPG: The Strawberry Girl c. 1830 Ammi Phillips
104. NGAP_090703_0753.JPG: Fruit and Baltimore Oriole 1858 Wagguno
105. NGAP_090703_0761.JPG: Mrs. Samuel Chandler c. 1780 Winthrop Chandler
106. NGAP_090703_0767.JPG: The Cornell Farm 1848 Edward Hicks
107. NGAP_090703_0775.JPG: Captain Samuel Chandler c. 1780 Winthrop Chandler
108. NGAP_090703_0783.JPG: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise 1791 Benjamin West
109. NGAP_090703_0792.JPG: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (detail)
110. NGAP_090703_0794.JPG: John Johnstone, Betty Johnstone, and Miss Wedderburn c. 1790/1795 Sir Henry Raeburn
111. NGAP_090703_0802.JPG: Italian Landscape 1790 Joseph Wright
112. NGAP_090703_0812.JPG: Italian Landscape (detail)
113. NGAP_090703_0814.JPG: Portrait of a Gentleman c. 1770-1773 Joseph Wright
114. NGAP_090703_0823.JPG: Portrait of a Gentleman (detail)
115. NGAP_090703_0827.JPG: White Poodle in a Punt c. 1780 George Stubbs
116. NGAP_090703_0835.JPG: Captain Samuel Sharpe Pocklington with His Wife, Pleasance, and His Sister (?), Frances 1769 George Stubbs
117. NGAP_090703_0845.JPG: Captain Samuel Sharpe Pocklington with His Wife, Pleasance, and His Sister (?), Frances (detail)
118. NGAP_090703_0849.JPG: Arthur Holdsworth Conversing with Thomas Taylor and Captain Stancombe by the River Dart 1757 Arthur Davis
119. NGAP_090703_0859.JPG: Arthur Holdsworth Conversing with Thomas Taylor and Captain Stancombe by the River Dart (detail)
120. NGAP_090703_0863.JPG: The Lavie Children c. 1770 Johann Zoffany
121. NGAP_090703_0868.JPG: The Lavie Children (detail)
122. NGAP_090703_0880.JPG: Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming 1788 Charles Willson Peale
123. NGAP_090703_0887.JPG: Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming (detail)
124. NGAP_090703_0892.JPG: Alexander Hamilton c. 1792 John Trumbull
125. NGAP_090703_0902.JPG: John Beale Bordley 1770 Charles Willson Peale
126. NGAP_090703_0907.JPG: Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill) 1776 Benjamin West
127. NGAP_090703_0916.JPG: Captain Charles Stewart 1811-1812 Thomas Sully
128. NGAP_090703_0925.JPG: The Washington Family c. 1790-1796 Edward Savage
129. NGAP_090703_0935.JPG: The Washington Family (detail)
130. NGAP_090703_0941.JPG: The Washington Family (detail)
131. NGAP_090703_0945.JPG: Patrick Tracy 1784/1786 John Trumbull
132. NGAP_090703_0951.JPG: Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely 1818 Thomas Sully
133. NGAP_090703_0959.JPG: Mrs. Samuel Alleyne Otis (Elizabeth Gray) c. 1764 John Singleton Copley
134. NGAP_090703_0968.JPG: The Ragan Sisters c. 1820 Jacob Eichholtz
135. NGAP_090703_0978.JPG: Daniel Boardman 1789 Ralph Earl
136. NGAP_090703_0987.JPG: The Coleman Sisters 1844 Thomas Sully
137. NGAP_090703_0996.JPG: Eleazer Tyng 1772 John Singleton Copley
138. NGAP_090703_1005.JPG: John Jay 1794 Gilbert Stuart
139. NGAP_090703_1013.JPG: Abigail Smith Babcock (Mrs. Adam Babcock) c. 1774 John Singleton Copley
140. NGAP_090703_1022.JPG: Epes Sargent c. 1760 John Singleton Copley
141. NGAP_090703_1026.JPG: Watson and the Shark 1778 John Singleton Copley This picture representing a remarkable occurrence in the life of Brook Watson, was bequeathed to the Royal Hospital of Christ in London by his will. He was of a very good family in the north of England but having lost both his parents early in life was brought up by an aunt, and before the age of fourteen years manifested a strong predilection for the sea, which led to the misfortune represented in this picture. He served in the Commissariat Department of the army under the immortal Wolfe at Louisberg in 1758. In 1759, he was established as a merchant in London, and was subsequently called upon to act as commissary general to the army in America, commanded by Sir Guy Carleton, late Lord Dorchester. On his return from that service, he was elected an alderman of the city of London and one of its representatives in Parliament and continued member of the House of Commons till he was appointed to the situation of commissary general to the army under His Royal Highness the Duke of York, acting on the continent of Europe. In 1796, he was chosen Lord Mayor, and in 1808 created a baronet of the United Kingdom. He died in 1807 an alderman of the city of London, deputy governor of the Bank of England, &c &c thus shewing [sic] that a high sense of integrity and rectitude with a firm reliance on an over ruling providence united to activity and exertion are the sources of public and private virtue and the road to honours and respect. The picture was painted by John Singleton Copley Esc., Royal Academician in the year 1778. --- This painting tells the story of 14-year-old Brook Watson, who had been attacked by a shark while swimming in Havana Harbor. Nine guys try to save him while he's already lost his right foot. When the picture was displayed, people were shocked at its subject matter. The kid himself survived and became a British merchant and politician.
142. NGAP_090703_1053.JPG: Watson and the Shark (detail)
143. NGAP_090703_1057.JPG: Watson and the Shark (detail)
144. NGAP_090703_1059.JPG: Watson and the Shark (detail)
145. NGAP_090703_1062.JPG: Watson and the Shark (detail)
146. NGAP_090703_1070.JPG: Watson and the Shark (detail)
147. NGAP_090703_1072.JPG: Watson and the Shark (detail)
148. NGAP_090703_1077.JPG: Watson and the Shark (detail)
149. NGAP_090703_1083.JPG: Watson and the Shark (detail)
150. NGAP_090703_1087.JPG: Watson and the Shark (detail)
151. NGAP_090703_1093.JPG: Watson and the Shark (detail)
152. NGAP_090703_1102.JPG: Wapping on Thames 1860/1864 James McNeill Whistler
153. NGAP_090703_1106.JPG: The Biglin Brothers Racing, c. 1873 Thomas Eakins
154. NGAP_090703_1117.JPG: The Dinner Horn 1870 Winslow Homer
155. NGAP_090703_1126.JPG: Autumn 1877 Winslow Homer
156. NGAP_090703_1139.JPG: Home, Sweet Home c. 1863 Winslow Homer
157. NGAP_090703_1148.JPG: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) 1876 Winslow Homer
158. NGAP_090703_1156.JPG: Hound and Hunter 1892 Winslow Homer
159. NGAP_090703_1164.JPG: Hound and Hunter (detail)
160. NGAP_090703_1175.JPG: Right and Left 1909 Winslow Homer
161. NGAP_090703_1179.JPG: On Their Way to Camp 1873 Eastman Johnson
162. NGAP_090703_1186.JPG: Gathering Lilies 1865 Eastman Johnson
163. NGAP_090703_1196.JPG: The Jolly Flatboatmen 1846 George Caleb Bingham
164. NGAP_090703_1206.JPG: The Jolly Flatboatmen (detail)
165. NGAP_090703_1216.JPG: Mississippi Boatman 1850 George Caleb Bingham
166. NGAP_090703_1220.JPG: The Brown Family 1869 Eastman Johnson
167. NGAP_090703_1229.JPG: The Brown Family (detail)
168. NGAP_090703_1232.JPG: War News from Mexico 1848 Richard Caton Woodville
169. NGAP_090703_1247.JPG: War News from Mexico (detail)
170. NGAP_090703_1249.JPG: Grapes c. 1890/1895 Joseph Decker
171. NGAP_090703_1255.JPG: Green Plums c. 1885 Joseph Decker
172. NGAP_090703_1264.JPG: Still Life with Roses, Lilies, and Forget-Me-Nots in a Glass Vase 1869 Martin Johnson Heade
173. NGAP_090703_1273.JPG: Ripening Pears c. 1884-1885 Joseph Decker
174. NGAP_090703_1282.JPG: The Old Violin c. 1890 John Frederick Peto
175. NGAP_090703_1291.JPG: A Deception c. 1780 Samuel Lewis
176. NGAP_090703_1298.JPG: Imitation 1887 John Haberle
177. NGAP_090703_1306.JPG: For the Track 1895 John Frederick Peto
178. NGAP_090703_1314.JPG: The Old Violin 1886 William Michael Harnett
179. NGAP_090703_1322.JPG: Fruit Still Life with Chinese Export Basket 1824 James Peale
180. NGAP_090703_1331.JPG: An English Breakfast c. 1890s John Frederick Peto
181. NGAP_090703_1338.JPG: Still Life with Oranges and Goblet of Wine 1880-1890s John Frederick Peto
182. NGAP_090703_1345.JPG: The Blue Envelope c. 1890s John Frederick Peto
183. NGAP_090703_1352.JPG: Breakfast c. 1890s John Frederick Peto
184. NGAP_090703_1360.JPG: The Old Kettle c. 1890s John Frederick Peto
185. NGAP_090703_1367.JPG: A Dessert 1814 Raphaelle Peale
186. NGAP_090703_1375.JPG: Still Life of Flowers 1868 Adelheid Dietrich
187. NGAP_090703_1389.JPG: Erminia and the Shepherds 1750/1755 Gian Antonio Guardi and Francesco Guardi
188. NGAP_090703_1395.JPG: Carlo and Ubaldo Resisting the Enchantments or Armida's Nymphs 1750/1755 Gian Antonio Guardi and Francesco Guardi
189. NGAP_090704_004.JPG: Landscape at Le Pouldu, 1890 Paul Gauguin
190. NGAP_090704_013.JPG: Haystacks in Brittany 1890 Paul Gauguin
191. NGAP_090704_021.JPG: Self-Portrait, 1889 Paul Gauguin
192. NGAP_090704_030.JPG: Roulin's Baby 1888 Vincent Van Gogh
193. NGAP_090704_037.JPG: La Mousme, 1888 Vincent Van Gogh
194. NGAP_090704_044.JPG: Self-Portrait, 1889 Vincent Van Gogh
195. NGAP_090704_053.JPG: Self-Portrait (detail)
196. NGAP_090704_059.JPG: Girl In White 1890 Vincent Van Gogh
197. NGAP_090704_069.JPG: The Olive Orchard, 1889 Vincent Van Gogh
198. NGAP_090704_076.JPG: The Olive Orchard (detail)
199. NGAP_090704_082.JPG: Fatata te Miti (By the Sea), 1892 Paul Gauguin
200. NGAP_090704_089.JPG: Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) (detail)
201. NGAP_090704_093.JPG: Roses, 1890 Vincent Van Gogh
202. NGAP_090704_103.JPG: Parau na te Varua ino (Words of the Devil) 1892 Paul Gauguin
203. NGAP_090704_112.JPG: The Bathers, 1897 Paul Gauguin
204. NGAP_090704_124.JPG: The Invocation 1903 Paul Gauguin
205. NGAP_090704_136.JPG: Still Life with Peonies, 1884 Paul Gauguin
206. NGAP_090704_143.JPG: House of Pere Lacroix 1873 Paul Cezanne
207. NGAP_090704_152.JPG: Washerwomen on the Banks of the Durance 1866 Paul Guigou
208. NGAP_090704_159.JPG: Washerwomen on the Banks of the Durance (detail)
209. NGAP_090704_164.JPG: Hamlet at Payannet, near Gardanne 1885-1886 Paul Cezanne
210. NGAP_090704_173.JPG: The Ramparts at Aigues-Mortes 1867 Frederic Bazille
211. NGAP_090704_181.JPG: The Peppermint Bottle, 1893/1895 Paul Cezanne
212. NGAP_090704_190.JPG: Boy in a Red Waistcoat 1888-1890 Paul Cezanne
213. NGAP_090704_198.JPG: Still Life with Apples and Peaches c. 1905 Paul Cezanne
214. NGAP_090704_206.JPG: Riverbank c. 1895 Paul Cezanne
215. NGAP_090704_215.JPG: The Gardener Vallier c. 1905 Paul Cezanne
216. NGAP_090704_224.JPG: The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Evenement" 1866 Paul Cezanne
217. NGAP_090704_228.JPG: The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Evenement" (detail)
218. NGAP_090704_237.JPG: Vase of Flowers 1900/1903 Paul Cezanne
219. NGAP_090704_246.JPG: House on a Hill 1904/1906 Paul Cezanne
220. NGAP_090704_251.JPG: The Bend in the Road 1900/1906 Paul Cezanne
221. NGAP_090704_259.JPG: Montagne Sainte-Victoire, from near Gardanne c. 1887 Paul Cezanne
222. NGAP_090704_265.JPG: At the Water's Edge c. 1890 Paul Cezanne
223. NGAP_090704_275.JPG: A Quiet Day near Manchester 1873 Alfred Thompson Bricher
224. NGAP_090704_282.JPG: A Quiet Day near Manchester (detail)
225. NGAP_090704_287.JPG: A Quiet Day near Manchester (detail)
226. NGAP_090704_291.JPG: Stage Rocks and Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor 1857 Fitz Henry Lane
227. NGAP_090704_300.JPG: Stage Rocks and Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor (detail)
228. NGAP_090704_306.JPG: Stage Rocks and Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor (detail)
229. NGAP_090704_312.JPG: Natural Arch at Capri 1871 William Stanley Haseltine
230. NGAP_090704_322.JPG: Natural Arch at Capri (detail)
231. NGAP_090704_326.JPG: El Rio de Luz (The River of Light) 1877 Frederic Edwin Church
232. NGAP_090704_334.JPG: El Rio de Luz (The River of Light) (detail)
233. NGAP_090704_339.JPG: El Rio de Luz (The River of Light) (detail)
234. NGAP_090704_342.JPG: El Rio de Luz (The River of Light) (detail)
235. NGAP_090704_345.JPG: View of the Tiber Near Perugia 1874 George Inness
236. NGAP_090704_356.JPG: View of the Tiber Near Perugia (detail)
237. NGAP_090704_358.JPG: View of the Tiber Near Perugia (detail)
238. NGAP_090704_361.JPG: Beach at Beverly c. 1869/1872 John Frederick Kensett
239. NGAP_090704_371.JPG: Beach at Beverly (detail)
240. NGAP_090704_376.JPG: Beach at Beverly (detail)
241. NGAP_090704_379.JPG: Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor 1857 John Frederick Kensett
242. NGAP_090704_387.JPG: Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor (detail)
243. NGAP_090704_390.JPG: Siout, Egypt 1874 Sanford Robinson Gifford
244. NGAP_090704_400.JPG: Siout, Egypt (detail)
245. NGAP_090704_402.JPG: Siout, Egypt (detail)
246. NGAP_090704_405.JPG: Siout, Egypt (detail)
247. NGAP_090704_409.JPG: Second Beach, Newport c. 1878-1880 Worthington Whittredge
248. NGAP_090704_417.JPG: Second Beach, Newport (detail)
249. NGAP_090704_422.JPG: Second Beach, Newport (detail)
250. NGAP_090704_428.JPG: Second Beach, Newport (detail)
251. NGAP_090704_431.JPG: The Last Valley -- Paradise Rocks 1867-1868 John La Farge
252. NGAP_090704_439.JPG: Rio de Janeiro Bay 1864 Martin Johnson Heade
253. NGAP_090704_447.JPG: Rio de Janeiro Bay (detail)
254. NGAP_090704_451.JPG: Crow Warriors Bathing 1861/1869 George Catlin
255. NGAP_090704_459.JPG: Bear Dance -- K'nisteneux 1861 George Catlin
256. NGAP_090704_466.JPG: The Cheyenne Brothers Starting on Their Fall Hunt 1861/1869 George Catlin
257. NGAP_090704_476.JPG: The Cheyenne Brothers Starting on Their Fall Hunt (detail)
258. NGAP_090704_480.JPG: The Cheyenne Brothers Returning from Their Fall Hunt 1861/1869 George Catlin
259. NGAP_090704_489.JPG: The Cheyenne Brothers Returning from Their Fall Hunt (detail)
260. NGAP_090704_498.JPG: Pawnee Indians 1861/1869 George Catlin
261. NGAP_090704_507.JPG: The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas 1844/1845 George Catlin
262. NGAP_090704_516.JPG: Falls of the Snake River 1855/1869 George Catlin
263. NGAP_090704_527.JPG: The Running Fox on a Fine Horse -- Saukie 1861/1869 George Catlin
264. NGAP_090704_534.JPG: See-non-ty-a, Iowa Medicine Man 1844/1845 George Catlin
265. NGAP_090704_544.JPG: Assinneboine Chief before and after Civilization 1861/1869 George Catlin
266. NGAP_090704_552.JPG: Omaha Chief, His Wife, and a Warrior 1861 George Catlin
267. NGAP_090704_560.JPG: A Sioux Chief, His Daughter, and a Warrior 1861/1869 George Catlin
268. NGAP_090704_568.JPG: Buffalo Lancing in the Snow Drifts -- Sioux 1861/1869 George Catlin
269. NGAP_090704_584.JPG: Three Celebrated Ball Players -- Choctaw, Sioux, and Ojibbeway 1861 George Catlin
270. NGAP_090704_591.JPG: Buffalo Chase -- Bulls Protecting the Calves 1861/1869 George Catlin
271. NGAP_090704_599.JPG: The Female Eagle -- Shawano 1830 George Catlin
272. NGAP_090704_608.JPG: A Buffalo Wallow 1861/1869 George Catlin
273. NGAP_090704_619.JPG: Camanchee Horsemanship 1861/1869 George Catlin
274. NGAP_090704_631.JPG: Boy Chief -- Ojibbeway 1843 George Catlin
275. NGAP_090704_640.JPG: Catching Wild Horses -- Pawnee 1861/1869 George Catlin
276. NGAP_090704_655.JPG: Fanciful Landscape 1834 Thomas Doughty
277. NGAP_090704_659.JPG: Fanciful Landscape (detail)
278. NGAP_090704_663.JPG: Fanciful Landscape (detail)
279. NGAP_090704_668.JPG: Sunrise in the Catskills 1826 Thomas Cole
280. NGAP_090704_674.JPG: Autumn -- On the Hudson River 1860 Jasper Francis Cropsey
281. NGAP_090704_682.JPG: Autumn -- On the Hudson River (detail)
282. NGAP_090704_686.JPG: Autumn -- On the Hudson River (detail)
283. NGAP_090704_690.JPG: Autumn -- On the Hudson River (detail)
284. NGAP_090704_695.JPG: Autumn -- On the Hudson River (detail)
285. NGAP_090704_700.JPG: Autumn -- On the Hudson River (detail)
286. NGAP_090704_704.JPG: Autumn -- On the Hudson River (detail)
287. NGAP_090704_709.JPG: Lake Lucerne 1858 Albert Bierstadt
288. NGAP_090704_718.JPG: Lake Lucerne (detail)
289. NGAP_090704_724.JPG: Lake Lucerne (detail)
290. NGAP_090704_727.JPG: Lake Lucerne (detail)
291. NGAP_090704_731.JPG: Lake Lucerne (detail)
292. NGAP_090704_735.JPG: Newport Mountain, Mount Desert 1851 Frederic Edwin Church
293. NGAP_090704_744.JPG: Newport Mountain, Mount Desert (detail)
294. NGAP_090704_749.JPG: Forest in the Morning Light c. 1855 Asher Brown Durand
295. NGAP_090704_762.JPG: October 1863 William Trost Richards
296. NGAP_090704_767.JPG: Pastoral Landscape 1861 Asher Brown Durand
297. NGAP_090704_778.JPG: Pastoral Landscape (detail)
298. NGAP_090704_782.JPG: Pastoral Landscape (detail)
299. NGAP_090704_788.JPG: Pastoral Landscape (detail)
300. NGAP_090704_792.JPG: The Lackawanna Valley 1855 George Inness
301. NGAP_090704_801.JPG: The Lackawanna Valley (detail)
302. NGAP_090704_804.JPG: The Lackawanna Valley (detail)
303. NGAP_090704_808.JPG: The Lackawanna Valley (detail)
304. NGAP_090704_812.JPG: The Spirit of War 1851 Jasper Frances Cropsey
305. NGAP_090704_821.JPG: The Spirit of War (detail)
306. NGAP_090704_826.JPG: The Spirit of War (detail)
307. NGAP_090704_831.JPG: The Spirit of War (detail)
308. NGAP_090704_836.JPG: The Spirit of War (detail)
309. NGAP_090704_838.JPG: The Stranded Ship 1844 Asher Brown Durand
310. NGAP_090704_846.JPG: The Stranded Ship (detail)
311. NGAP_090704_850.JPG: The Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch) 1839 Thomas Cole
312. NGAP_090704_858.JPG: The Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch) (detail)
313. NGAP_090704_863.JPG: The Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch) (detail)
314. NGAP_090704_868.JPG: The Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch) (detail)
315. NGAP_090704_871.JPG: Italian Coast Scene with Ruined Tower 1838 Thomas Cole
316. NGAP_090704_879.JPG: Italian Coast Scene with Ruined Tower (detail)
317. NGAP_090704_883.JPG: Italian Coast Scene with Ruined Tower (detail)
318. NGAP_090704_890.JPG: The Sacrament of the Last Supper 1955 Salvador Dali
319. NGAP_090704_896.JPG: The Sacrament of the Last Supper (detail)
320. NGAP_090704_902.JPG: The Sacrament of the Last Supper (detail)
321. NGAP_090704_908.JPG: The Sacrament of the Last Supper (detail)
322. NGAP_090704_915.JPG: The Sacrament of the Last Supper (detail)
323. NGAP_090704_927.JPG: The Sacrament of the Last Supper (detail)
324. NGAP_090704_932.JPG: The Sacrament of the Last Supper (detail)
325. NGAP_090704_940.JPG: The Sacrament of the Last Supper (detail)
326. NGAP_090704_945.JPG: The Sacrament of the Last Supper (detail)
327. NGAP_090704_951.JPG: The Sacrament of the Last Supper (detail)
328. NGAP_090704_956.JPG: The Sacrament of the Last Supper (detail)
329. NGAP_090706_002.JPG: Ailsa Mellon Bruce oil on canvas, 1926 Philip Alexius de Laszlo
330. NGAP_090706_015.JPG: Lessing J. Rosenwald oil on canvas, 1955 Gardner Cox
331. NGAP_090706_024.JPG: Paul Mellon oil on canvas, 1974 William Franklin Draper
332. NGAP_090706_032.JPG: Andrew W. Mellon oil on canvas, 1933 Sir Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley
333. NGAP_090706_043.JPG: Peter A. B. Widener oil on canvas, 1902 John Singer Sargent
334. NGAP_090706_053.JPG: Joseph E. Widener oil on canvas, 1921 Augustus John
335. NGAP_090706_065.JPG: Samuel Henry Kress oil on canvas, 1953 Leopold Seyffert
336. NGAP_090706_084.JPG: Chester Dale oil on canvas, 1922 George Bellows
337. NGAP_090920_02.JPG: The Beffi Triptych: On April 6, 2009, a violent earthquake (5.8 on the Richter scale) struck the Abruzzo region of central Italy. The National Museum of Abruzzo in the city of L'Aquila suffered such damage that the building was condemned. A highlight of the museum's collection is the Beffi Triptych, named for the nearby town of Beffi, where it once adorned the high altar of the Church of Santa Maria del Ponte. Painted in the early fifteenth century by an anonymous follower of the Sienese artist Taddeo di Bartolo, the Beffi Triptych, unlike many other works of art in the museum, suffered only minimal damage that has been repaired. The Italian government has offered the altarpiece for display at the National Gallery of Art until Labor Day in gratitude to the United States for its assistance following the earthquake and as testimony to the Italian commitment to restore fully the cultural heritage of the region. The wings of the triptych depict scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary, who appears in the central panel. This wing features Christ's Nativity, which takes place in a cave under the watchful gaze of an ox and an ass, following Byzantine tradition. Mary holds the swaddled infant while Joseph, at right, ponders the miraculous event. At the top, angels announce the birth to shepherds tending their flocks; below them, two shepherds adore the newborn child, and at the lower left, maidservants prepare his first bath. Represented at a smaller scale, the kneeling figure to the right wearing red and black stockings is the unidentified donor of the altarpiece. This panel portrays the Dormition, or Death of the Virgin, who lies on her funeral bier, surrounded by the twelve apostles. Angels sent the air with incense from censers incised in the gold ground that gives the scene a heavenly aura. The figure in the foreground represents the disbelieving priest who, according to legend, attempted to overturn Mary's bier, but whose hands were frozen when he tried to commit that sacrilege. The Assumption of the Virgin is depicted above the apostles with Christ holding Mary's soul, which traditionally takes the form of an innocent, swaddled infant. At the top, Christ crowns Mary as Queen of Heaven.
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