Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Bird Catchers

François Boucher
Bird Catchers
1748

Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Fountain of Love
c. 1785

Joseph Wright of Derby
Penelope Unraveling her Web
1783-84

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Houses near Orléans
c 1830

William John Godward
Mischief & Repose
1895

Camille Pissarro
Houses at Bougival
1870

Alfred Stieglitz
The Hand of Man
1902

Vincenzo Gemito
Medusa
1911

Adolf de Meyer
Glass & Shadows
1912

Three artifacts at the Getty Museum from each of three recent centuries (and chosen with the special freedom accorded to any random know-nothing member of the general public).