Monday, November 2, 2026

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


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