"match the style of Rembrandt's known works, and that the painting was probably painted in 1650 by one of Rembrandt's students. ""It is not a fake,"" Kelch averred. ""It remains a great masterful work."" ""The Man with the Golden Helmet"" is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1915, who wrote: The Man with the Golden Helmet The Man with the Golden Helmet (c. 1650) is an oil on canvas painting formerly attributed to the Dutch painter Rembrandt and today considered"
"Girl with a Flute Girl with a Flute is a small painting attributed to the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, executed 1665–1670. The work is in possession of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., just as ""Woman Holding a Balance"", ""A Lady Writing a Letter"" and ""Girl with a Red Hat"" (also attributed to Vermeer). It is contested whether the painting can be attributed to Johannes Vermeer. Possibly another painter finished the painting after an initial start by Vermeer. The composition is comparable to ""Girl with a Red Hat"", the only other work Vermeer painted on panel."
"Woman with a Lute Woman with a Lute, also known as Woman with a Lute Near a Window, is a painting created about 1662–1663 by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The painting depicts a young woman wearing an ermine-trimmed jacket and enormous pearl earrings as she eagerly looks out a window, presumably expecting a male visitor. ""A musical courtship is suggested by the viola da gamba on the floor in the foreground and by the flow of songbooks across the tabletop and onto the floor,"" according to a web page"
"Woman with a Hat Woman with a Hat (""La femme au chapeau"") is a painting by Henri Matisse. An oil on canvas, it depicts Matisse's wife, Amelie. It was painted in 1905 and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne during the fall of the same year, along with works by André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck and several other artists known as ""Fauves"". Critic Louis Vauxcelles, in comparing the paintings of Matisse and his associates with a Renaissance-type sculpture that shared the room with them, used with the phrase ""Donatello chez les fauves..."" (Donatello among the wild beasts). His comment was printed"
"Woman in Hat and Fur Collar The Woman in Hat and Fur Collar (Marie-Thérèse Walter) is a painting by Pablo Picasso exhibited at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya) in Barcelona, Spain. It was painted in Paris in 1937, and is one of the numerous portraits Picasso did of Marie-Thérèse Walter, his lover between 1927 and 1935, approximately, and the mother of his daughter Maya. In these portraits, Picasso carries out an exhaustive analytic exercise in which the youth and personality of Marie-Thérèse are subjected to a thousand metamorphic transfigurations. The artist merges the frontal"
"The Girl in a Picture Frame The Girl in a Picture Frame is a 1641 oil on panel painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. It is also known as ""The Jewish Bride"" and ""The Girl in a Hat"". With ""The Scholar at the Lectern"" and ""Landscape with the Good Samaritan"", it is one of only three Rembrandt paintings in Polish collections. Its provenance has sometimes been questioned, but was confirmed in 2006. Stanisław August Poniatowski bought it and ""The Scholar at the Lectern"" in 1777 from Countess Maria Golovkina (widow of Count Friedrich Paul von Kameke) via the art dealer"
"anniversary of the painter's birth. The Girl in a Picture Frame The Girl in a Picture Frame is a 1641 oil on panel painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. It is also known as ""The Jewish Bride"" and ""The Girl in a Hat"". With ""The Scholar at the Lectern"" and ""Landscape with the Good Samaritan"", it is one of only three Rembrandt paintings in Polish collections. Its provenance has sometimes been questioned, but was confirmed in 2006. Stanisław August Poniatowski bought it and ""The Scholar at the Lectern"" in 1777 from Countess Maria Golovkina (widow of Count Friedrich Paul von"
"Woman with a Pearl Necklace Woman with a Pearl Necklace by Johannes Vermeer is a seventeenth-century Northern European painting. Painted in oils on canvas, Johannes Vermeer portrayed a young Dutch woman, most likely of upper-class-descent, dressing herself with two yellow ribbons, pearl earrings, and a pearl necklace. As a very popular artist of the 17th century, the Dutch Golden Age, Vermeer depicted many women in similar circumstances within interior, domestic scenes. The same woman also appears in ""The Love Letter"" and ""A Lady Writing a Letter"". Johannes Vermeer (1632- 1675) of Delft was one of Netherlands' most prominent Dutch painters."
"Young Woman in a Pearl Necklace (New York City) Young Woman in a Pearl Necklace (after 1655) is an oil on canvas painting by an unknown painter, after a painting by the Dutch painter Willem Drost. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The woman is looking at the viewer and is wearing a red bodice that is slightly open to reveal a pearl necklace. This painting was documented in 1914 by Hofstede de Groot as a Rembrandt. It had just been acquired the year before"
"Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring () is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is a ""tronie"" of a girl wearing a headscarf and a pearl earring. The painting has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902. In 2006, the Dutch public selected it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands. The painting is a tronie, the Dutch 17th-century description of a 'head' that was not meant to be a portrait. It depicts a European girl wearing an exotic dress, an oriental turban, and an"
"Lady in a Fur Wrap Lady in a Fur Wrap is an oil painting attributed to El Greco, dated to 1577-1579 and now held at the Pollok House in Glasgow. Against a dark background a young woman gazes at the viewer, dressed in a fur robe covering the rest of her dress. A fine transparent veil covers her head, and vaguely a necklace can be seen that she is wearing underneath it. The robe falls into darkness behind its fur lining, that may be ermine or lynx. The painting is unsigned but has traditionally been attributed to El Greco since"
"of which had been recently imported to the US, probably also based on the popularity at the time of this painting. The Musician (Bartholomeus van der Helst painting) The Musician (1662) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Bartholomeus van der Helst. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The woman is looking at the viewer and according to art historian Walter Liedtke, ""spills out of her dress"". Liedtke goes on to make this a case for considering it a genre work rather"
"Woman at a Window Woman at a Window is an oil painting of 1822 by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. This painting is currently located in Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Like many of his paintings, there’s only the back view of a figure. The painting depicts his wife at his studio in Dresden. Although the painting only shows her back, it allows the viewers to imagine what she sees. The view that starts to form is that she lives in a constricted environment and the only access of the outside world is through the window. A port with some"
"viewer may bear witness to wanton violence. The traditional role of light in art as a conduit for the spiritual has been subverted. ""The Starry Night"", made by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, depicts his memory of the view outside his sanitorium room window at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (located in southern France) at night. Although Van Gogh was not very happy with the painting, art historian Joachim Pissarro cites ""The Starry Night"" as an exemplar of the artist's fascination with the nocturnal. One of Van Gogh's most popular pieces, the painting is widely hailed as his ""magnum opus"". Edward Hopper had a"
"Lilacs in a Window Lilacs in a Window is a painting by the American painter, printmaker, pastelist, and connoisseur Mary Cassatt which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is one of the few still-lifes she executed and was originally owned by the Parisian art collector Moyse Dreyfus. Cassatt had been introduced to him by her Impressionist friends, and he became a friend and early patron. Cassatt included a portrait of him, ""Mr. Moyse Dreyfus"", in her show at the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition of 1879. It is on view in the Metropolitan Museum's"
"of three other works from the Bliss collection, the acquisition of Vincent van Gogh's ""The Starry Night"" was achieved in 1941. In 1951, three more works from the Bliss collection were sold to the Metropolitan Museum: Odilon Redon's ""Etruscan Vase with Flowers"", Paul Cézanne's ""Portrait of Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert"" and Pablo Picasso's ""Woman in White"". Henri Rousseau's ""Lion in the Jungle"" and Camille Pissarro's ""Riverside"" (both now in private collections) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's ""May Belfort"" (now Cleveland Museum of Art) and Pierre-Auguste Renoir's ""Brouillard à Guernsey"" (now Cincinnati Art Museum) were sold as well. In turn, the Museum"
"painting could be related to ""Young Man with a Skull"" in which a boy is also wearing a beret and draped cloak, and is also similar to a painting with the same alternate name, ""Boy with a Glass and a Lute"". The Fingernail Test The Fingernail Test is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals or Judith Leyster, painted in 1626 and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The painting is also known as ""Boy with a glass and a lute"" and shows a young lute-player wearing a beret and a draped cloak"
"The Musician (Bartholomeus van der Helst painting) The Musician (1662) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Bartholomeus van der Helst. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The woman is looking at the viewer and according to art historian Walter Liedtke, ""spills out of her dress"". Liedtke goes on to make this a case for considering it a genre work rather than a portrait, comparing it with other scantily clad lute players that may have influenced the painter, such as the earlier"
"A Girl Asleep A Girl Asleep, also known as A Woman Asleep, A Woman Asleep at Table, and A Maid Asleep, is a painting by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, 1657. It is housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and may not be lent elsewhere under the terms of the donor's bequest. According to Liedtke, the presence of the dog would have alluded to ""the sort of impromptu relationships canine suitors strike up on the street."" The man and the dog were replaced with a mirror on a far wall, suggesting how the experience of"
"Woman with Flowered Hat Woman with Flowered Hat is a 1963 pop art painting with Magna on canvas by Roy Lichtenstein. The work is based on a Pablo Picasso portrait of Dora Maar. In May 2013, it sold for a record price for a Lichtenstein work. Picasso painted several portraits of his lover Dora Maar in which her face is distorted in a manner similar to Lichtenstein's painting. Such portraits were an expressionist development of the fragmented forms of his earlier Cubist works. A 1941 Picasso of Maar entitled ""Dora Maar au Chat"" sold at auction for $95,216,000 in 2006."
"Woman with Flowered Hat Woman with Flowered Hat is a 1963 pop art painting with Magna on canvas by Roy Lichtenstein. The work is based on a Pablo Picasso portrait of Dora Maar. In May 2013, it sold for a record price for a Lichtenstein work. Picasso painted several portraits of his lover Dora Maar in which her face is distorted in a manner similar to Lichtenstein's painting. Such portraits were an expressionist development of the fragmented forms of his earlier Cubist works. A 1941 Picasso of Maar entitled ""Dora Maar au Chat"" sold at auction for $95,216,000 in 2006."
"Woman with Black Glove Woman with Black Glove (French: Femme au gant noir, or Femme Assise) is a painting by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes. Painted in 1920, after returning to Paris in the wake of World War I, the paintings highly abstract structure is consistent with style of experimentation that transpired during the second synthetic phase of Cubism, called Crystal Cubism. As other post-wartime works by Gleizes, ""Woman with Black Glove"" represents a break from the first phase of Cubism, with emphasis placed on flat surface activity and large overlapping geometric planes. There are several smaller"
"Art as a bequest. A Girl Asleep A Girl Asleep, also known as A Woman Asleep, A Woman Asleep at Table, and A Maid Asleep, is a painting by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, 1657. It is housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and may not be lent elsewhere under the terms of the donor's bequest. According to Liedtke, the presence of the dog would have alluded to ""the sort of impromptu relationships canine suitors strike up on the street."" The man and the dog were replaced with a mirror on a far wall, suggesting"
"Head of a Woman (Leonardo) The Head of a Womanalso known as La Scapigliata is a painting in oil on wood by the Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci, dating from perhaps around 1500 and housed in the Galleria Nazionale di Parma, Italy. The work is a finished painting, mentioned for the first time in the House of Gonzaga collection in 1627. It was created in the art period high renaissance. It is perhaps the same work that Ippolito Calandra, in 1531, suggested to hang in the bedroom of Margaret Paleologa, wife of Federico II Gonzaga. In 1501, the marquesses"
"Nocturne (painting) Nocturne painting is a term coined by James Abbott McNeill Whistler to describe a painting style that depicts scenes evocative of the night or subjects as they appear in a veil of light, in twilight, or in the absence of direct light. In a broader usage, the term has come to refer to any painting of a night scene, or night-piece, such as Rembrandt's ""The Night Watch"". Whistler used the term within the title of his works to represent paintings with a ""dreamy, pensive mood"" by applying a musical name. He also titled (and retitled) works using other"
"simply showing the figure's facial expression. Andromeda (Rodin) Andromeda is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, named after Andromeda. It is one of the sculptures produced as part of his ""The Gates of Hell"" project and appears on the left door next to the personification of Day and on the right door as part of the group showing a falling winged genius. It was exhibited for the first time in 1889 at the Galerie Georges Petit in a joint exhibition with Claude Monet. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke praised the work's expressive quality, which he held to be"
"The Fingernail Test The Fingernail Test is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals or Judith Leyster, painted in 1626 and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The painting is also known as ""Boy with a glass and a lute"" and shows a young lute-player wearing a beret and a draped cloak over his chest, tilting his glass to show it is empty while facing the viewer in order to say ""time is up"". It was attributed to Hals for centuries until Claus Grimm called it a product of his circle. According to"
"shows what she has experienced throughout her life. Woman at a Window Woman at a Window is an oil painting of 1822 by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. This painting is currently located in Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Like many of his paintings, there’s only the back view of a figure. The painting depicts his wife at his studio in Dresden. Although the painting only shows her back, it allows the viewers to imagine what she sees. The view that starts to form is that she lives in a constricted environment and the only access of the outside world"
"Gallery 774. Lilacs in a Window Lilacs in a Window is a painting by the American painter, printmaker, pastelist, and connoisseur Mary Cassatt which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is one of the few still-lifes she executed and was originally owned by the Parisian art collector Moyse Dreyfus. Cassatt had been introduced to him by her Impressionist friends, and he became a friend and early patron. Cassatt included a portrait of him, ""Mr. Moyse Dreyfus"", in her show at the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition of 1879. It is on view in the"
"was attributed to ""Bernaert Fabritius"", the attribution for this one should be ""after Bernaert Fabritius"". Valentiner had it his way, but not before Hofstede de Groot had died. The attribution was changed in December 1937 to Bernaert Fabritius and stayed that way for over half a century until Walter Liedtke officially changed it to ""Copy after Willem Drost"" in 1991. Young Woman in a Pearl Necklace (New York City) Young Woman in a Pearl Necklace (after 1655) is an oil on canvas painting by an unknown painter, after a painting by the Dutch painter Willem Drost. It is an example"
"relationship between the man and the woman. On the left side of the painting is a multi-paned window, from which the light source is provided for the scene. Vermeer used the same window design in nine of his other works (""The Music Lesson"", ""The Girl with the Wine Glass"", ""The Glass of Wine"", ""Officer and Laughing Girl"", ""Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid"", ""Woman with a Water Jug"", ""Woman with a Lute"", ""Woman Holding a Balance"", and ""Woman with a Pearl Necklace""). Some experts questioned whether this painting was by Vermeer. The precision of the lighting from the window"
"costume, holding a skull with a draped cloak over the chest, is similar to at least four other known paintings: Young Man with a Skull Young Man with a Skull is a c.1626 painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, now in the National Gallery, London. The painting was previously thought to be a depiction of Shakespeare's Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick, but is now considered to be a vanitas, a reminder of the precarious nature of life and the inevitability of death. The painting shows a young man wearing a feathered red bonnet and swathed with"
"The Night Watch Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, also known as The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, but commonly referred to as The Night Watch (), is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn. It is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum but is prominently displayed in the Rijksmuseum as the best known painting in its collection. ""The Night Watch"" is one of the most famous Dutch Golden Age paintings. The painting is famous for three things: its colossal size (), the dramatic use of light"