Clark Institute (2)

Here is some other art I am particularly fond of at the Clark.  I've probably blogged some of this art before, but forgive me for that, I just tend to gravitate to certain things.
I hope you enjoy the art.

Jan Gossaert

Flemish  1472-1532

Anna van Bergen

1526-30

detail

Susan and

Mary Cassatt  

American  1844-1926

Child with Red Hat

1904

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

Spanish, 1841-1920

Reverie-The Letter

1870's

Giovanni Boldini

Italian 1842-1931

Return of the Fishing Boats, Etretat

1879

This painting is extraordinary.  It is only slightly larger than this image (6x9 perhaps?)

I can't imagine the size of the brush and the patience!!

When you google "Boldini" you find huge amounts of portraits and figures, but its his landscapes I love.

Plate, paste porcelain, Lippert & Haas, Manufactory

painted by Zacharias Quast

(Look at the insects trying to crawl out of the plate!)

Jacob van Ruisdael

Dutch 1628/9-1682

Landscape with Bridge, Cattle and Figures

c. 1660

Gotta show a Ruisdael, somehow. 

Sevres Procelain Manufactory  

Plate, hard-paste porcelain, c. 1845

Johan Barthold Jongkind

Dutch  1819-1891

Frigates

c. 1850-55

Another favorite

Phillippe-Joseph Brocard

French, died 1896

Mosque Lamp

c. 1880

The famous very decorated piano in the main salon. 

I couldn't find the write-up, sorry.

I remember that the Clark had an enormous Asian rug under this piano, a spectacular piece with

enormous calligraphy figures going around the entire edge.  I enquired about it, but evidently it was 

becoming so worn, that it had to be removed.  

Jean-leon Gerome

French, 1824-1904

Snake Charmer

c. 1879

Gerome's attention to the detail of every square inch of this large painting, his phenomenal technique, 

and his disturbing subject matter, all combine for both amazement, and questioning. 

Soft porn disguised as art in the 19th. century?

detail of above. 

Claude Monet

French, 1840-1925

The Cliffs at Etretat

1885

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

French, 1841-1919

Sleeping Girl

1880

This could be my favorite Renoir.

And that bare shoulder!
She is far more erotic than any of his nudes!

And this great detail:

Detail

Maker unknown

English, 18th. century

"Japanned" Bureau Cabinet

Joseph Mallord William Turner

English, 1775-1851

Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand)

to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water

1840

It's hard to believe the date of this painting!  Can you imagine how un-acceptable this must have been

to the contemporary arbitrators of art?  Truly a glimpse of the future of art.