Harry Willson Watrous was an American artist who received an academic education in France. His paintings included genre scenes, stylized figural works, landscapes, nocturnes, portraits, religious subjects, and still lifes. His 1913 painting The Drop Sinister has been called the first known portrait of an American interracial family. He is perhaps best known for his enigmatic paintings of sophisticated women, often darkly dressed and seen in profile.
Harry Watrous c. 1895 by Eduardo Gordigiani Collection of the National Academy of Design
The Passing of Summer, 1912, Metropolitan Museum.
Twilight (c. 1918–1923, private collection) one of Watrous's nocturnes that pays homage to Ralph Blakelock. Right: Blakelock's Moonlight (c. 1888, Yale University Art Gallery).
The Celebration of the Mass, begun in 1930 and finished in 1935, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, art collector and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Self-portrait (c. 1855)
The Resurrection of Lazarus by Bonnat in 1857
Bonnat painting a portrait of Alfred Roll, 1918
Giotto gardant les chèvres (1850) Musée Bonnat