Alice Pike Barney Dreamland, ca. 1906 Pastel on paper 22 x 18 1⁄2 in. (55.9 x 47.0 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum
Alice Pike Barney (born Alice Pike; 1857–1931) was an American painter. Defying social and family expectations, the wealthy, often eccentric Alice Pike Barney zestfully committed herself to the arts and became known for her lively art salons, bohemian lifestyle, and unusual family. Her two daughters were the writer and salon hostess Natalie Clifford Barney and the Baháʼí writer Laura Clifford Barney…
Circle Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem The Last Supper Oil on Panel 76 x 108 cm. Private collection
The Last Supper is based on a late 15th-century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. It is one of the world’s most famous paintings.
The painting represents the scene of The Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, as it is told in the Gospel of John, 13:21. Leonardo has depicted the consternation that occurred among the Twelve Disciples when Jesus announced that one of them would betray him. More on the The Last Supper
Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (1562 — Haarlem — 1638) who himself added ‘van Haarlem’ to his name, was one of the leading figures of Dutch Mannerism, together with his townsman Hendrick Goltzius and Abraham Bloemaert from Utrecht. He was born in 1562 in a well-to-do Catholic family in Haarlem, where he first studied with Pieter Pietersz. At the age of seventeen he went to France, but at Rouen he had to turn back to avoid an outbreak of the plague and went instead to Antwerp, where he remained for a year with Gilles Coignet…
Alice Pike Barney Detail; Dreamland, ca. 1906 Pastel on paper 22 x 18 1⁄2 in. (55.9 x 47.0 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum
Alice Pike Barney (born Alice Pike; 1857–1931) was an American painter. Defying social and family expectations, the wealthy, often eccentric Alice Pike Barney zestfully committed herself to the arts and became known for her lively art salons, bohemian lifestyle, and unusual family. Her two daughters were the writer and salon hostess Natalie Clifford Barney and the Baháʼí writer Laura Clifford Barney.
Zaidan Gallery 