Catherine Hess
Verso
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Young Knitter Asleep, ca. 1759, oil on canvas, 27 x 22 in. Adele S. Browning Memorial Collection, gift of Mildred Browning Green and Honorable Lucius Peyton Green. The…
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, The Last Gleanings, 1895, oil on canvas, 36 1/2 x 55 in. (92.7 x 139.7 cm.). The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
The orange glow of the…
Detail of the lower portion of The Nativity, by Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–1898), in which Mary, Joseph, and a small group of angels gaze at the infant Jesus in wonderment. The Huntington…
Alex Israel’s Self-Portrait (Wetsuit) stands directly across from The Fountain of Love, one of the 18th-century French tapestries in the Large Library of the Huntington Art Gallery. Photo by Kate…
The Blue Boy in its current frame, which will be replaced in the coming month.
In 1921, Henry and Arabella Huntington purchased what would become the most famous work of art in their collection:…
Sarah (Kemble) Siddons as the Tragic Muse, 1783-1784. Joshua Reynolds, British, 1723-1792. Oil on canvas, 94 1/4 x 58 1/8 in.
I feel as if I met Gore Vidal years before I actually did. In 2006 I…
Frontiers
Two 15th-century panels from an Italian wedding chest tell a tale of passionate loveNewly married couples in 15th- and 16th-century Italy—like newlyweds today—could expect to receive a pile of wedding gifts. One of the most common gifts was a cassone, or big box...
Finding the sublime in a newly acquired pair of paintingsEighteenth-century travelers on the Grand Tour of Europe sought out Naples, Italy, not only for its museums and ancient ruins, but also for that marvel of nature