Monday, May 1, 2017

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2

Continuing our visit to Madrid's impressive Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza; the pix I've posted only suggest its vast range and mostly omit the modern stuff...
Pedro Pablo, The Toilet of Venus

Rembrandt, Self-Portrait #4,627

Jan Steen, Tavern Scene; notice the guy in
back; we'll see him again 

Eugene Boudin, Etretat, Cliff of Aval

Albert Bierstadt, Sunrise at Yosemite, 1863; Thyssen has many
Bierstadts

A Russell! Charlie Russell, Piegans Preparing to Steal Horses
from the Crows
, 1888

One of many of Frederick Edwin Church's paintings at the
Thyssen, South American Landscape, 1856

Toulouse-Lautrec, The Jockeys, 1882

Gauguin, Fire st the River Bank, 1886

Franz Hals, Fisherman Playing the Violin,
1630

Another, somewhat atypical Franz Hals, Family Group in a
Landscape
, 1640s

Remember the guy from the Tavern Scene?
Here he is, Jan Steen, Selfie, 1650s

Watteau, The Rest, 1709

And a Fragonard, The See-Saw

Stuart Gilbert, Portrait of George Washington's
Cook, 1797

One of many John Singer Sargents, Portrait
of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland
, 1904

One of many Catlins, Falls of St. Anthony, 1871

Delacroix, The Duke of Orleans Revealing to
the Duke of Burgundy His Lover
, 1826;
possessive pronouns are really tough

A magnificent Courbet, The Water Stream,
La Breme
, 1866


Van Gogh, The Stevedores of Arles, 1888

Another Van Gogh, Evening Landscape, 1885

Edward Hopper, Hotel Room, 1931; as I was looking, up came
two young American women, both pushing strollers with
face-painted 3 year-olds aboard:"Mommy loves Edward Hopper
paintings" "I love Edward Hopper, Mommy"

Georgia O'Keefe, New York with Moon, 1925


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