Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 2

Continuing our visit to the Museum of Fine Arts...

Gerrit von Honthorst, Triumph of the Winter Queen, 1636

Turner, Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen, 1805; landscape Turner

Moralist Turner, Slave Ship (Slaver Throwing Overboard the Dead
and Dying), 1840, exhibited in conjunction with the first World Anti-
Slavery Convention, London

Manet's unfinished Execution of Emperor Maximilian, 1867

Courbet, The Quarry, 1856 (himself the hunter)

Delacroix, Lamentation, 1848

Monet, Grainstack, 1891

Monet, Morning on the Seine, near Giverny, 1896

Monet, The Manneporte (Etretat), 1883

Monet, La Japonnais, 1876 (his wife Camille)

OK, it was a whole Monet room...Poplars at Giverny, 1887

Rouen Cathedral, #1,537

Renoir, Grand Canal, 1881

14th century German aquamanile; gotta' get us a aquamanile!

Memling, Christ Blessing, 1481

Duccio, Crucifixion, early 14th; impressive!

Cranach, Lamentation, 1538

Manet, Music Lesson, 1879; saw a version of this at the Orsay a year
or so ago

Caillebotte, Les Dahlias, 1893

Van Gogh's Postman (Joseph Roulin); there were six or eight versions,
don't know how many are in the US...one in Philadelphia

Madame Roulin

Van Gogh, Ravine, 1889

Van Gogh, Houses at Auvers, 1890

Sam Maloof, Settee, 1975

Part of the museum's "Please be seated" campaign, which commissions
artists to design furniture that will become part of the permanent 
collection; I am complying

Pix by Vicki

Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1

Another day, anther great museum...we spent our last full day in Boston, September 24th, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Rope drop to closing, pretty much. Another great museum.

Entrance, with Cyrus Dallin's Appeal to the Great Spirit, 1909

Grand staircase

Some of the great John Singer Sargent murals

On the way to a special exhibit, Berthe Morisot, White Flowers in a Bowl, 1885

The exhibit, three interesting Egyptian kings in a row (one a female)...

From the museum's own collection

Tres interessant...a real ancient Egyptian loincloth...
"wash when dirty"..."line dry"

Conehead XXIII

Nice pix lending atmosphere to the exhibit

The three, each of significant interest, which I leave as a homework
assignment

Obligatory Chihuly, near the resto

In the impressive gift shoppe, which one can visit without exiting

Love (some) contemporary sculpture

Third or fourth Sarah Bernhardt inkpot we've seen...I continue
to look for one in every Goodwill we visit...

Penelope, note

18th century oboe...I continue looking for these too

Unusual Last Supper ceramic...where's Judas?

Botticelli, Virgin and Child and John B 

Two mid-15th century tempuras...Jacopo del Sellaio, The Story of Psyche

Apollonio di Giovanni, The Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Never miss a Luini, Salome with the Head of John the B, 1515

Hals, Portrait of a Man, 1665

Rembrandt, Reverend Johannes Elison; and Maria Bockenolle; both 1634;
not sure what was going on with the Rev. Elison and Ms. Bockenolle...

Steen, Twelfth Night Feast, 1662

17th century Netherlands doll house

Rogier van der Weyden, St. Luke Drawing the Virgin and Baby J, mid-15th,
oil and tempura; patron saint of artists; reminiscent of van Eyck's Chancellor
Rollin?

Fragonard, Aurora Triumphing over Night, 1755

Elisabeth Louise Vigee-le-Brun, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1797;
from her travels outside France during the Revolution...

Obligatory Canaletto

Pannini, Picture Gallery with Views of Rome, 1757

Benjamin West, King Lear, 1788, 1808; West has become a revelation
to us from this trip