EditorialTHE BETROTHAL by OTTO ERDMANN. Otto Wilhelm Eduard Erdmann (born 1834 ? died 1905) was a German Realism-Impressionism painter, famous for his fine interior scenes with figures from the 18th century.
EditorialPortrait of an Roman, Helgoland, marble, chiseled, Marble, chiseled, Total: Height: 29,4 cm; Width: 20,5 cm; Depth: 22 cm, sculptures, historical person, portrait, head, face, late Republican, The portrait shows an older bald man with an energetic faci...
EditorialArtist: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Italian, 1285ca. 1348, Saint Martin of Tours Dividing His Cloak with a?Beggar, ca.?1340, Tempera on panel, picture surface: 29.8 ? 20.3 cm (11 3/4 ? 8 in.), This small masterpiece of early Renaissance realism was originally...
EditorialLandscape With a Foreground of Meadowland, 1830-1865 By: Constant Troyon, Landscape, Oil Painting, Art Movement, Barbizon school, Art Movement, Realism.
EditorialThe Allies: France: Foot Soldier (1914, 1921) Individual: Desvignes, a Burgundian Eugene Burnand (d. 1931), 20th Century, France, World War I, Portrait, Frame, Soldier, Art Movement, Realism, Armed Forces, Armed Forces, Army, Social history, Armed Forc...
EditorialRobert Henri, untitled (Portrait of a Young Woman), ca. 1910-1928, graphite on paper, 10 3/8 in. x 8 1/16 in. (26.35 cm x 20.46 cm), The American painter and highly influential teacher Robert Henri is best known as founder of 'The Eight,' a group of ar...
EditorialThomas Eakins, Portrait of A. Bryan Wall, 1904, oil on canvas, 24 1/4 in. x 20 3/16 in. (61.6 cm x 51.28 cm), At the outset of his career Thomas Eakins epitomized critical hopes for an art that would be both technically accomplished and distinctively n...
EditorialPortrait of a Man, Oil on paper, laid down on wood, Overall 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. (22.2 x 16.5 cm), Paintings, Circle of Hugo van der Goes (Netherlandish, ca. 1470?75), In this closely observed portrayal of an old man, the artist pays special attention to ...
EditorialStatue of Nofret wearing a wig and bead necklace (detail). Painted limestone statue from Meidum, Egypt; 2620 BCE, Old Kingdom (4th dynasty); height: 1,18m She was part of the royal entourage of Pharaoh Snofru, King of the 4th dynasty, and held the titl...
EditorialA touch of realism is added with a tape across what would have been, if not for its cancellation, the finish line of the New York City Marathon, in New York’s Central Park, Nov. 1, 2020. (Sarah Blesener/The New York Times)
EditorialThree vases, part of a garniture Covered vase, painted with pagodas, Chinese landscapes and bouquets, Covered vase, multicolored with pagodas, Chinese landscapes and bouquets ? la chinoise. The base and the top and bottom of the vase are made entirely ...
EditorialTerracotta statuette of an old nurse holding a child, Hellenistic, last quarter of 4th century B.C., Greek, Attic or Boeotian, Terracotta, H. 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm), Terracottas, Figurines of seated and standing nurses with babies became popular in the fo...