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...
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Pedro Pablo, The Toilet of Venus |
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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait #4,627 |
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Jan Steen, Tavern Scene; notice the guy in
back; we'll see him again |
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Eugene Boudin, Etretat, Cliff of Aval |
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Albert Bierstadt, Sunrise at Yosemite, 1863; Thyssen has many
Bierstadts |
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A Russell! Charlie Russell, Piegans Preparing to Steal Horses from the Crows, 1888 |
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One of many of Frederick Edwin Church's paintings at the
Thyssen, South American Landscape, 1856 |
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Toulouse-Lautrec, The Jockeys, 1882 |
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Gauguin, Fire st the River Bank, 1886 |
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Franz Hals, Fisherman Playing the Violin,
1630 |
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Another, somewhat atypical Franz Hals, Family Group in a Landscape, 1640s |
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Remember the guy from the Tavern Scene?
Here he is, Jan Steen, Selfie, 1650s |
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Watteau, The Rest, 1709 |
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And a Fragonard, The See-Saw |
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Stuart Gilbert, Portrait of George Washington's
Cook, 1797 |
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One of many John Singer Sargents, Portrait of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland, 1904 |
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One of many Catlins, Falls of St. Anthony, 1871
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Delacroix, The Duke of Orleans Revealing to the Duke of Burgundy His Lover, 1826;
possessive pronouns are really tough |
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A magnificent Courbet, The Water Stream, La Breme, 1866 |
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Van Gogh, The Stevedores of Arles, 1888 |
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Another Van Gogh, Evening Landscape, 1885 |
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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" |
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Georgia O'Keefe, New York with Moon, 1925 |
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