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EXHIBITIONS
Five Centuries of Art:
Selections from the Permanent Collection
Through April 26, 2009
This installation of outstanding art spans the breadth of the Museum’s Permanent
Collection of paintings. Old Master works will include Lucas Cranach’s Virgin, Child,
St. John the Baptist and Angels, 1534, the oldest work in the collection; 17th century paintings
from Holland’s Golden Age, such as Melchior d’Hondecoeter’s magnificent Stripped
of Borrowed Feathers: The Raven-Jackdaw; Francois Girardon’s baroque sculpture The Rape of
Proserpine, 1693; and 18th century Italian paintings, including a Venice scene depicting
the Grand Canal by a follower of Giovanni Antonio Canaletto. Landscapes by European
and American artists, a strength of The Heckscher collection, will include works by
William Merritt Chase, Jean-Desire-Gustave Courbet, Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Pena,
Thomas Moran, and William Trost Richards, presenting a variety of 19th century artistic
approaches to the recording of place. A small selection of portraits dating from the
17th through the 20th century, including the French painter Nicholas de Largillièrre,
the English portraitist George Romney, and the American Florine Stettheimer will also
be on display, as will a rare tile painting by Winslow Homer, Resting Shepherdess, 1872,
and George Grosz’s Eclipse of the Sun, 1926.
Felix-Francois-Georges-Philibert Ziem, The Venice of the Poets, undated, oil on canvas,
28-1/2 x 41-1/2 in. Heckscher Museum of Art; August Heckscher Collection.1959.049.