Museum of Fine Arts, Bostonさんのイラストまとめ

Side-by-side or miles apart, sisters are always connected by the heart 👯 #NationalSistersDay

🎨: "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit," (1882), John Singer Sargent, oil on canvas

The four-headed goddess at the center of this painting is Maha Pratisara. She is one of the Pancha Raksha, a group of five Tibetan Buddhist female deities that are known as the “Five Protectors.”

🎨: "Pancha Raksha" (Tibet, mid-15th century), distemper on cotton

Who says the fireworks have to end on July 4?

🎨: "Woman lighting fireworks" (late 18th century), Indian, Rajasthani; opaque watercolor, silver and gold on paper

Explore #Cezanne's connections across time in a new exhibition of 21 portraits, landscapes & still lifes from the 18th–20th centuries. Now open, "Paul Cézanne: Influence” is included in general admission: https://t.co/4a02MCLjWM

🎨 "Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair" (about 1877)

On #FourthofJuly, we're taking a closer look at Thomas Sully's "Passage of the Delaware" with curator Ethan Lasser. Hidden in the shadows is a Black man on horseback—William Lee, who served as Washington's valet and joined him on the battlefield throughout the Revolutionary War.

This rare woodblock print, "Horikiri Iris Garden" by 19th-century artist #UtagawaHiroshige, centers on different varieties of elegant Japanese irises in vibrant colors. Visit our website to learn more from curator Anne Nishimura Morse: https://t.co/vBaTRAvYOv

“Draw lines, young man, and still more lines, both from life and from memory, and you will become a good artist.” In 1855, Edgar #Degas met Jean-Auguste-Dominique #Ingres, whom he deeply admired, and never let go of this advice from the older artist. #NationalDrawingDay

"#EdwardHopper is the unexpected poet of our moment. We know what it's like to be that seated figure. There's loneliness & isolation in 'Room in Brooklyn,' but there's also hope. Hopper hints at the promise of spring." —Ethan Lasser, Chair, Art of the Americas #MuseumFromHome

Coming soon: Boston's first #LucianFreud exhibition! #FreudSelfPortraits, currently on view @royalacademy, brings together a lifetime of compelling self-portraits by the British master, born #onthisday in 1922. The exhibition opens at the MFA in March: https://t.co/0iG8ruJQJc

Paul #Signac referred to the vaporous form at upper left in "Antibes, The Pink Cloud" (1916) as Loïe Fuller—an American dancer who had taken Paris by storm in the 1890s. See this work alongside colorful prints of Loïe Fuller on view in "Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris."