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