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Painting
Colonel Nathaniel Rochester
American artist, (active )
American artist
United States
Primary
Audubon, John James
United States
1785 - 1851
Male
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30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
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Oil
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before 1831
1821
1830
1800-1900, 19th century, from Rochester collections, men, New York State & Local History, paintings, portraits
Painting
Long celebrated as our city’s founder, Nathaniel Rochester (1752–1831) was recently discovered to have bought and sold enslaved people while he lived in Maryland. Not only did Rochester buy and sell enslaved people in the South as a business venture, he continued to own and profit from the labor of enslaved individuals after moving north. In fact, he did so until New York State law made it impossible for him to continue in 1827. This information makes evident how insidious and enmeshed slavery was in the business life of the early nineteenth century, even in the northern states.
Many decades before Kodak gave us the snapshot, a portrait such as this one was a way for a privileged, white person of this period to capture their likeness for posterity. In comparison, the enslaved Black men, women, and children of Rochester’s household did not have their portraits painted. Their names, likenesses, and personal stories went largely unrecorded and most have not survived history—another example of the dehumanization of enslaved individuals during this period of American history.
[Gallery label text, 2021]
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Painting
The Bay of Estaque Seen from the East (La Baie de l'Estaque vue de l'est)
View of Mt. Marseilleveyre and the Isle of Maire (L'Estaque); La Montagne Marseilleveyre et l'Ile Maire; Le Golfe bleu (L'Estaque); Sea at L'Estaque
Paul Cézanne, (Aix-en-Provence, France, 1839 – 1906, Aix-en-Provence, France)
Cézanne, Paul
France
1839 - 1906
Male
21 1/4 x 25 5/8 in. (54 x 65.1 cm)
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ca. 1878-1882
1878
1882
1800-1900, 19th century, Impressionism, landscapes, paintings, seascapes
Painting
Paul Cézanne exhibited in the Impressionist exhibition of 1874, and was encouraged by Camille Pissarro to begin painting out of doors. He soon moved beyond the style of Impressionism and began building form with color to paintings that were more analytical than sensory. He frequently painted scenes of the small town of L’Estaque in southern France, where he lived and worked periodically from 1870 to 1885. In an 1876 letter to his friend the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, he wrote of his work in L’Estaque:
"I have started two little motifs with a view of the sea…red roofs over the blue sea…The sun is so terrific here that it seems to me as if the objects are silhouetted not only in black and white, but in blue, red, brown and violet. I may be mistaken, but this seems to me to be the opposite of modeling."
In this painting, he uses interlocking shapes of bright color and diagonal brushstrokes to create the sensation of volumes in the foliage, mountains, and water.
[Label copy from Monet: Vision and Process exhibition, 2018]
Cézanne's artistic goals developed through his contact with the Impressionists. Although he was not interested in rendering particular momentary impressions, he wished to record his "sensations" of nature. This painting typifies his technique-- suggesting form and volume through interlocking shapes that are rendered with bold, diagonal brushstrokes. The bright colors deftly evoke the strong light and crystalline atmosphere of southern France.
[Gallery label text, 1999]
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1969.45
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Painting
The Sculpture Gallery
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (Dronerijp, the Netherlands, 1836 - 1912, Wiesbaden, Germany)
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence
Netherlands
1836 - 1912
Male
30 1/4 x 23 1/4 in. (76.8 x 59.1 cm)
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1875
1875
1875
1800-1900, 19th century, children, men, Orientalism, paintings, women
Painting
Alma-Tadema is known for his historical and anecdotal scenes set in classical antiquity or medieval Europe. The Sculpture Gallery is one of a number of scenes showing patrons at an ancient art gallery or sculptor’s studio. Here a slave—recognizable by the tablet hanging around his neck—displays a basin ornamented with Scylla, the mythological sea-serpent. The 19th-century collecting audience could likely identify the "Infant Hercules Struggling with a Snake," from the Capodimonti Museum in Naples at the left, and on the right, the statue of Helen, mother of Emperor Constantine, from the Capitoline museum in Rome. The Roman visitors are modelled on members of Alma-Tadema's family, including the artist’s wife and children, at the center.
The artist travelled widely and visited historic sites, gaining a reputation for his accuracy in depicting ancient settings and artifacts. However, it was modern technology that helped him achieve this renown: the artist collected professional photographs of artworks and artifacts found on archaeological digs, using these images as the basis for his scenes.
[Gallery label text, 2011]
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1989.45
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Painting
The Sierras Near Lake Tahoe, California
Albert Bierstadt, 1830 - 1902
Bierstadt, Albert
United States
1830 - 1902
Male
14 15/16 x 21 1/16 in. (38 x 53.5 cm)
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1800-1900, 19th century, deer, landscapes, mountains, paintings
Painting
Bierstadt was one of the most gifted artists to depict the stunning mountain views of the expanding frontier, far west of the Hudson River region that had inspired earlier American landscape painters. He was a member of the generation of artist-explorers who traveled with expeditions or in their footsteps and recorded the visual experience. MAG's painting quietly but masterfully convinces us of the grandeur of mountains and sky by including the tiny deer to give a sense of scale, and by suffusing the surface of the painting with a warm, glowing palette.
lower leftverso, centerverso, upper left, 'No.' is painted over an illegible word.verso
1992.78
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Painting
The Printseller's Window
Walter Goodman, (London, 1838 - 1912, London)
Goodman, Walter
England
1838 - 1912
Male
52 1/4 x 44 3/4 in. (132.7 x 113.7 cm)
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1883
1883
1883
1800-1900, 19th century, jobs & work, men, paintings, trompe l'oeil
Painting
Painted in the illusionistic technique of trompe l’oeil (French for “fool the eye),” The Printseller depicts a heavily-bearded shopkeeper cradling a small statuette of Cupid. The display case before him contains a variety of objects, including prints, books, coins in a porcelain dish, a magnifying glass, a wineglass, a strand of pearls and a metal tankard. Many of the prints are reproductions of famous paintings that would have been familiar to Walter Goodman’s audience of the early 1880s.
A string of small photographs called cartes-de-visites stretches across the display case. These small photographic portraits, sized to mount on a visiting card, became extremely popular; a craze developed for collecting the cartes of celebrities as well as family and friends. Here, each represents a famous Victorian painter of Goodman’s time, including John Everett Millais, Rosa Bonheur, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema (fourth, sixth, and ninth from the left, respectively). A larger photographic portrait of the famous art critic John Ruskin is located in the center directly below the string of cartes.
Although relatively unknown, Walter Goodman was an interesting and practiced artist with a varied career as a portraitist, illustrator and writer. Of Jewish heritage, he was the son of portraitist Julia Salaman Goodman. He was widely traveled and an intimate member of London’s theatrical society. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution.
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1998.75
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Memorial Art Gallery
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Painting
Pittsford on the Erie Canal
George Harvey, 1800 - 1878
Harvey, George
United States
1800 - 1878
Male
17 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (44.5 x 59.7 cm)
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1837
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1837
Painting
This scene is thought to be in the vicinity of King’s Bend Park just outside of Pittsford Village.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
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2005.33
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