Art Detectives

Top of the Day: The Green Domino - Albert Bloch , 1913 Today's Artwork: Mariana - Sir John Everett Millais , 1851 -- link -- The Pond - Paul Cézanne , about 1877 - 1879 -- link -- Portrait of a Woman - Italian , c. 1575 - 1580 -- link -- Patterdale landscape with cattle - John GLOVER , c.1833 -- link -- The Green Domino - Albert Bloch , 1913 -- link -- Glass and Water Bottle - Juan Gris , 1917 -- link -- The Rebuke of Adam and Eve - Charles Joseph Natoire , 1740 -- link -- A Sani Festival - Yao Zhonghua , 1963 -- link -- The Dice Players - Simó Gómez , 1874 -- link -- Lady with a book of Petrarch's rhyme - Andrea del Sarto , 1528 -- link -- Building Site with Willows - Adolph Menzel , 1846 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux - Maurice-Quentin de La Tour , 1739–1741 Today's Artwork: New York Pavements - Edward Hopper , 1924/1925 -- link -- James II as Duke of York - Greenhill, John , Early 1660s -- link -- Sand Miners - Miloš Jiránek , 1910 -- link -- The Foolish Old Man Moves a Mountain - Xu Beihong , 1940 -- link -- Battle Between Carnival and Lent - Molenaer, Jan Miense , about 1633-1634 -- link -- Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux - Maurice-Quentin de La Tour , 1739–1741 -- link -- Meghdoot - Gulammohammed Sheikh , 1988/1989 -- link -- ​We had a fascinating day looking at the Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux,.  Go to the picture and then down below, there is information on how the artist used multiple sheets of paper to make this pastel painting.

Top of the Day: Portrait of Charles-Marie de la Condamine - Maurice-Quentin de La Tour , 1753/1753 Today's Artwork: The Bedroom - Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) , 1889 -- link -- David with the Head of Goliath - Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, b.1581, d.1644) , Circa 1636 -- link -- At Lilydale - Louis Buvelot , 1870 -- link -- Rest - Isidre Nonell , 1903-1904 -- link -- The Spring - Jacob Grimmer , ca. 1577 -- link -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - Aaron Shikler , 1970 -- link -- Spanish Blacksmiths - Ernst Josephson , 1882 -- link -- Houses at Vaugirard - Paul Gauguin , 1880 -- link -- The Ill-matched Couple - Lucas Cranach the Elder , ca. 1520–1522 -- link -- Portrait of Charles-Marie de la Condamine - Maurice-Quentin de La Tour , 1753/1753 -- link -- The bath of Diana, Van Diemen's Land - John GLOVER , 1837 -- link -- 'The Kitchen Maid' - Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn , 1651 -- link -- Granada landscape from la Vega - Marín Garés, I. , 1900 -...

Top of the Day: The Everlasting Bridegroom - Carl Spitzweg , ca. 1858-1860 Today's Artwork: Portrait of Silvio Palazzi - Ugo Celada da Virgilio , 1932 -- link -- The Everlasting Bridegroom - Carl Spitzweg , ca. 1858-1860 -- link -- Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni - Francesco Trevisani , 1700/1700 -- link -- Old Woman on a White Stool - Neganov Andrey , 2001 -- link -- Mistress of the fireplace. Left part (from triptych 'In the ancestor`s Land') - Osipov Afanasii Nikolaevich , 1971/1971 -- link -- Charles I (1600–1649), King of England - Daniël Mijtens , 1629 -- link -- Kelly - Sidney Nolan , 1946 -- link -- Self-Portrait - Christen Købke , About 1833 -- link -- Alleluia - Thomas Cooper Gotch , 1896 -- link -- Daisies, Arles - Vincent van Gogh , 1888 -- link -- The Outlier - Frederic Sackrider Remington , 1909 -- link -- Ricordo di Tivoli - Anselm Feuerbach , 1866/1867 -- link -- The triumph of Apolo - Urbanus Leyniers, Jan Van Orley, and Augustin Copp...

Top of the Day: Morning, Looking East Over the Hudson Valley from the Catskill Mountains - Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) , 1848 Today's Artwork: Fanatics of Tangier - Eugène Delacroix , 1837/1838 -- link -- Black Cross, New Mexico - Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) , 1929 -- link -- The Coffee Sorters - Isaac Israëls , 1886 -- link -- Morning, Looking East Over the Hudson Valley from the Catskill Mountains - Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) , 1848 -- link -- The hill of Montmartre with stone quarry - Vincent van Gogh , June 1886 - July 1886 -- link -- La Tirana - Francisco de Goya , 1792 -- link -- Portrait of an Old Man - Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn , 1645 -- link -- Jesús descendido de la Cruz (Jesus down from the Cross - Pedro de Campaña , 1560/1560 -- link -- Charles IV - Francisco de Goya y Lucientes , 1789 -- link -- The Punishment of the Forger - Paolo Caliari detto Veronese , c. 1555 -- link -- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo “Kiyomizu H...

Top of the Day: Three Smiths at Hornbæk, Denmark - Peder Severin Krøyer , 1877 Today's Artwork: Three Smiths at Hornbæk, Denmark - Peder Severin Krøyer , 1877 -- link -- Prayer in the Mosque - Jean-Léon Gérôme , 1871 -- link -- Portrait of Modesto Sánchez Ortiz - Santiago Rusiñol i Prats , 1897 -- link -- The Swing - Auguste Renoir , 1876 -- link -- Fiord Landscape - Jens Søndergaard , 1945 -- link -- Hillary Rodham Clinton - Ginny Stanford , 2006 -- link -- Peasant girl - Eugenio Hermoso Martínez , 1904/1904 -- link -- Schloss Kammer on Lake Attersee III - Gustav Klimt , 1909/1910 -- link -- The Victorian Chair - Childe Hassam , 1906 -- link -- Points - Wassily Kandinsky , 1920 -- link -- Resting - Amrita Sher-Gil , 1940 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Hunter by the lake - Vytautas Kasiulis (1918–1995) , 1960s Today's Artwork: Swamp landscape - Ladislav Mednyánszky , 1880 - 1900 -- link -- Apollo - Artus Quellinus , 1651 -- link -- Portrait of Mrs. V, Mrs. Herman Duryea - John White Alexander , 1898 -- link -- King João V - Carlos Antonio Leoni , 18th century -- link -- Krumau - Crescent of Houses (The Small City V) (Krumau Hauserbogen (die Kleine Stadt V)) - Egon Schiele , 1915 -- link -- Low Tide, Riverside Yacht Club - Theodore Robinson , 1894 -- link -- Art For Sale - Ostretzov Georgiy , 2011 -- link -- Hunter by the lake - Vytautas Kasiulis (1918–1995) , 1960s -- link -- Lucy Ebberton - Knapton, George , c.1745-50 -- link -- Boyarina Morozova - Vasily Surikov , 1887 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: A Sailing Party (Going for a Sail) - Edward H. Potthast (American, b.1857, d.1927) , Circa 1924 Today's Artwork: Still Life with Oysters, a Rummer, a Lemon and a Silver Bowl - Willem Claesz. Heda , 1634 -- link -- The Neophyte (First Experience of the Monastery) - Gustave Dore , ca.1866-68 -- link -- Portrait of Peter III - Aleksey Antropov , 1762 -- link -- Shepherd Tending His Flock - Jean-François Millet , early 1860s -- link -- Dance of love (rasa lila) - Unknown , 19th century -- link -- Woman reading by a window - Jacob Sømme , 1890 -- link -- Vase with Flowers - Ruysch, Rachel , 1700 -- link -- Study - Arcadi Mas i Fondevila , Rome, 1878 -- link -- Winter at the Sognefjord - Johan Christian Dahl , Februar 1827 -- link -- Concord - Antonio Vassillacchi detto Aliense , 1585 -- link -- Christ as the Suffering Redeemer - Andrea Mantegna , 1495-1500 -- link -- Diane and Endymion - Pier Francesco Mola , 1660 circa -- link -- At the Mi...

Top of the Day: Dolls - Witold Wojtkiewicz , 1906 Today's Artwork: Dolls - Witold Wojtkiewicz , 1906 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Nature morte aux asphodèles (Still Life with Asphodels) - Henri Matisse , 1907 Today's Artwork: King Afonso VI - Unknown author , 17th century -- link -- Nature morte aux asphodèles (Still Life with Asphodels) - Henri Matisse , 1907 -- link -- Benacre Birch I, III - Julian Perry , 2015 -- link -- Portrait of Manuel Mª Gutiérrez - Antonio María Esquivel , 1834 -- link -- Gelmeroda IX - Lyonel Feininger , 1926 -- link -- Portrait of Queen Charlotte of England - Thomas Gainsborough, studio , 1781/1781 -- link -- Self-Portrait with Striped Shirt - Egon Schiele , 1910 -- link -- Untitled (Night Snow Scene) - George W. Sotter , 1949 -- link -- Letitia Wilson Jordan - Thomas Eakins , 1888 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Alice Nordin - Viggo Johansen , 1903 Today's Artwork: PH-651 - Clyfford Still , 1934 -- link -- Functionally Fixed and Functionally Unfixed Panels - Andrea Zittel , 1998 -- link -- Tritons - Rupert Bunny , circa 1890 -- link -- Landscape with Figure Blessing the Landscape - Sazhin Nikolay , 1988 -- link -- Wooded Landscape - Thorvald Erichsen , (1900) -- link -- Josef and his brothers - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout , 1657 -- link -- Young Woman with a Water Pitcher - Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, Delft 1632–1675 Delft) , ca. 1662 -- link -- Alice Nordin - Viggo Johansen , 1903 -- link -- Abbey among Oak Trees - Caspar David Friedrich , 1809/1810 -- link -- ​Today we went and looked at many of these artists in more detail.  They are great artists!!!

Top of the Day: The Purple Dress - William Glackens, born Philadelphia, PA 1870-died Westport, CT 1938 , 1908-1910 Today's Artwork: The Canoe on Epte - Claude Monet , circa 1890 -- link -- The Purple Dress - William Glackens, born Philadelphia, PA 1870-died Westport, CT 1938 , 1908-1910 -- link -- Detail of Ventania panel - Athos Bulcão , 1971 -- link -- Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide' - Arthur Streeton , 1890 -- link -- Landscape with Rocks - Gustave Courbet , 1872 -- link -- Piccolo nero col rosa - Afro , 1963/1963 -- link -- Figure mitologiche - Tullio Garbari , 1930 -- link -- Romeo and Juliet - Ford Madox Brown , 1869/1870 -- link -- Dwight D. Eisenhower - Thomas Edgar Stephens , 1947 -- link -- Farmhouse in Nuenen - Vincent van Gogh , 1885 -- link -- Man sitting in the café - Vytautas Kasiulis (1918–1995) , 1950 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: The Baptism of Christ - Joachim Patinir , 1510/1520 Today's Artwork: The hill of Montmartre with stone quarry - Vincent van Gogh , June 1886 - July 1886 -- link -- Beatrice meeting Dante at a marriage feast, denies him her salutation - Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 1852 -- link -- Cottages under the Tatra Mountains - Alexander ECKERDT , 1963 -- link -- Four Captive Demons -- link -- Five Recruits: Ummee Chund, Indur, Goolzaree, Bukhtawur and Juhaz - Artist: Attributed to the family of Ghulam Ali Khan , ca. 1815-1816 -- link -- Young Woman Seated in the Shade of a Tree - Antoine Cécile Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot , ca. 1830 -- link -- The Death of Priam - Antonio Canova , 1810/1820 -- link -- The Baptism of Christ - Joachim Patinir , 1510/1520 -- link -- Mother's Darling - Guy PÄ�ne du Bois , 1913/1913 -- link -- Perseus Freeing Andromeda - Peter Paul Rubens , 1638 -- link -- Henry Cabot Lodge - John Singer Sargent , 1890 -- link -- The Rue...

Top of the Day: The Sheepshearer (after Millet) - Vincent van Gogh , September 1889 - 1889 Today's Artwork: Island - Sidney Nolan , (1947) -- link -- Attention, Company! - William Michael Harnett , 1878 -- link -- Angel - Anita Malfatti , déc. 1920 -- link -- A View from Dosseringen near the Sortedam Lake Looking towards the Suburb Nørrebro outside Copenhagen - Christen Købke , 1838 -- link -- The Sheepshearer (after Millet) - Vincent van Gogh , September 1889 - 1889 -- link -- Haymaking - Leon-Augustin Lhermitte , 1844/1925 -- link -- Solitary Tree - Caspar David Friedrich , 1822 -- link -- Napoleon on the field of Wagram - Joseph Chabord  , 1810 -- link -- Self-Portrait - Carel Fabritius , circa 1645 -- link -- Portrait of Joseph Roulin - Vincent van Gogh , 1889 -- link -- ​