From Botticelli..to Braque . " National Gallery of Scotland at De Young Museum SF


Picasso, Mother and Child 1902 at Womens Prison Hospital, Saint Lazare.  
These paintings from the National Gallery in Edinburgh Scotland were a wonder to see! I also came away with a lovely Scot plaid shawl, which I will wear in the winter back East, in 2016.  My thought when I viewed the panorma at the entrance to the gallery, depicting the historic museum, was "Why have I never gone to Edinburgh? "  What a pity I did not go, when a student at Oxford..I guess all my trips were pilgrimages to writer's homes...the strength of this exhibition is in its portraits, and historical subjects. 
Wm Dyce (Scottish)Dante, Divine Comedy.  Francesca da Rimini, 1837  Note hand at left of the jealous brother who killed the lover depicted in this painting of the indiscretion. 

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)  The Painting Session. 1919.  Hotel Mediterrane room. Cote d"Azur. 



Corot, Vill-d'Avray Entrance to the Wood ca. 1825
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Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) Iconic painting of Rev Robert Walker Edinburgh's Canongate church.
, Skating on Duddington Loch. 1795.  


Sir Anthony Van Dyke.  Flemish. Princess Elizabeth (1635-50) and Princess Anne (1637-40) Daughters of Charles I, 1637 

Sir Henry Raeburn. Col. Alastair Ranaldson Mac Donnell, 15th Chief of Glengarry (1771-1828)  ca. 1812.  Commissioned for the family home, Invergarry Castle, Inverness-shire. 

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)  Lady Agnew of Lochnow nee Gertrude Vernon  Age 27 (1865-1932) c. 1892. , 

Commissioned by Horace Walpole, Great Uncle, playing on "The Three Graces", executed by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723-92.  "The Ladies Waldegrave.  1780-81.   "Lady Charlotte Maria, Lady Elizabeth Lane and Lady Anne. 


Piet Mondrian..  1872-1944.  Composition of Double Line and Yellow. 1932. 

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