Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Favorite Artwork at the Met (Continued)

A few of our favorite and notable paintings and works of Art...
Washington Crossing the Delaware ( 20 ft. by 45 feet) by Emanuel Leutze, 1851

Info re: Painter

Unique sculpture

Sculpture of Early Puritan (our ancestors) by Augustus Saint-Guadens


Marble bust of George Washington

Sculpture of Abe Lincoln

Interesting death mask of Abe Lincoln and symbolic depiction of hand wrapped around scroll of Emancipation Proclamation

Benjamin Franklin portrait painted by Joseph Sifted Duplessis, French painter, in 1778, when he arrived in France to negotiate for aid and an alliance in the Revolutionary War;  how the French loved this man who was already a celebrity and who refused to wear a wig.


Less known painter capturing Peter's Agony from denying Christ three times...called "The Tears of Saint Peter," painted in 1612

Self Portrait of Rembrandt

Rembrandt self-portrait again...see below

1 comment:

  1. Loving all the pictures. Thanks for sharing so much.
    Love you and praying you continue to enjoy this mission like no other

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