The Elder Sister
1869
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston · Founded 1900
One of the largest museums in the United States, strong in Impressionism, with a Renzo Piano building for the modern collection. Nearly 80,000 works from six continents, and the oldest art museum in Texas.
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The Elder Sister
1869
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1869. The Elder Sister is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1869 by the French academic artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It was acquired in 1992 by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as a gift. According to the museum website, the painting was the gift of an anonymous lady in memory of her father. Since then, The Elder Sister has been a part of the permanent collection of the museum and is placed in its "Arts of Europe" section. It has become one of the most notable highlights among the museum's collection of paintings.
Les orangers
Gustave Caillebotte · 1878
The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice
Canaletto · 1730
The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice, is a c. 1730 oil painting by Italian painter Canaletto. It is a Rococo landscape painting measuring 49.6 by 73.6 centimeters currently held as part of the Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Collection in the Audrey Jones Beck Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in Houston, Texas, and was a gift to the museum from Sarah Campbell Blaffer. The large church at the left of the painting is the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute. A variant of the painting with a larger church tower and an additional building is used as the Venetian screen in the 2001 video game Merchant Prince II.
Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus
Angelica Kauffmann · 1774
Leda and the Swan
Peter Paul Rubens · 1601
Leda and the Swan is an oil painting by Peter Paul Rubens, who painted two versions of this subject. The first was completed in 1601 and the second in 1602.
Portrait of an Elderly Woman
Hans Memling · 1485
Artists
German · 1471–1528 · German Renaissance
Albrecht Dürer, sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.
Switzerland · 1741–1807
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.
Republic of Venice · 1697–1758
Giovanni Antonio Canal, commonly known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
France · 1848–1894
Gustave Caillebotte was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group.
French · 1819–1877 · French Realism
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the prev
German-Flemish · 1435–1494 · Early Netherlandish painting
Hans Memling was a German-Flemish painter who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. Born in the Middle Rhine region, he probably spent his childhood in Mainz.
Artworks
The Gust of Wind
Gustave Courbet · 1865
Virgin and Child
Rogier van der Weyden · 1454
Saint Eustace
Albrecht Dürer · 1501
The Ricks Barn, Woodstock
George Ault · 1940
Siyer-i Nebi
1590
Iranian Rug (MFAH B.60.94)
1700
Portrait of a Woman
1805
Truth
Anton Raphael Mengs · 1756
The Guide
Winslow Homer · 1895
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