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Harry Waldron Havemeyer

American, born 1929

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Friedrich von Martens, Galerie Goupil & Cie, Pêche de la Baleine, Whale-Fishery, c. 1834-1835, etching, aquatint, and engraving on wove paper, Gift of Harry W. Havemeyer in memory of his father, Horace Havemeyer, 2019.51.1

Pêche de la Baleine, Whale-Fishery

Friedrich von Martens, Galerie Goupil & Cie · c. 1834-1835 · etching, aquatint, and engraving on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2019.51.1

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The Atlantic Neptune

Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres · 1780-1781 · 2 of 2 bound folios containing 5 volumes with 152 engraved naval charts or sets of views on 263 folio sheets, many hand-colored ·  Accession ID  2015.25.1.2

Friedrich von Martens, Galerie Goupil & Cie, Pêche du Cachalot, Cachalot Fishery, c. 1834-1835, etching, aquatint, and engraving on wove paper, Gift of Harry W. Havemeyer in memory of his father, Horace Havemeyer, 2019.51.2

Pêche du Cachalot, Cachalot Fishery

Friedrich von Martens, Galerie Goupil & Cie · c. 1834-1835 · etching, aquatint, and engraving on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2019.51.2

Shown from about the knees up, a pale, smooth-skinned woman in a fur-lined yellow jacket looks out at us as she sits writing at a table in this vertical painting. The woman’s body faces the table to our left. She turns her head to gaze at us from the corners of her dark gray eyes under faint brows. She has a wide nose, and her pale lips are closed. Her light brown hair is pulled back and held in place with white bows, and gleaming teardrop-shaped pearl earrings dangle from her ears. Her lemon-yellow jacket is trimmed with ermine fur, which is white with black speckles, at the cuffs and down the front opening. A full, elephant-gray skirt falls to the floor beneath the jacket. Both hands rest on the table, and she holds a quill in her right hand, farther from us, on a piece of paper. She leans forward in her wooden chair. The back panel of the chair is covered in black fabric and lined with brass studs. Two gilded finials, carved into lions’ heads, face the woman’s back with mouths open. The table is covered with a celestial-blue cloth crumpled near the left edge of the canvas. On the table are a strand of pearls, a pale yellow ribbon, and a black box with three brown panels studded with pearls around silver keyholes. Two pewter gray vessels are visible just beyond it, in front of a second chair, which faces us. On the putty-gray wall behind the woman, a framed painting hangs in the upper left quadrant of the composition. The painting-within-the painting is done in muted tones of brown and shows a cello and other unidentifiable objects.
Johannes Vermeer, A Lady Writing, c. 1665, oil on canvas, Gift of Harry Waldron Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer, Jr., in memory of their father, Horace Havemeyer, 1962.10.1

A Lady Writing

Johannes Vermeer · c. 1665 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1962.10.1

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Autumn--Gigantic Sycamores. An Ox Team Crossing the Ford. Owl Creek, Ohio

William James Bennett · 1841 · hand-colored aquatint on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.25.2.3

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Vue af Hoboken midt emot Newyork (View of Hoboken opposite New York)

Axel Leonhard Klinckowström, Various Artists · 1816-1824 · etching and aquatint mounted on album sheet ·  Accession ID  2015.25.4.17

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Sid-ritning till Angbaten Chancellour Livingston (Schematic for the steam boat "Chancellour Livingston")

Axel Leonhard Klinckowström, Various Artists · 1816-1824 · etching and aquatint mounted on album ·  Accession ID  2015.25.4.14

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The Capitol in Washington in 1819

Axel Leonhard Klinckowström, Various Artists · 1819 · etching and aquatint, mounted on album sheet ·  Accession ID  2015.25.4.8

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Map of New York Bay Area

Axel Leonhard Klinckowström, Various Artists · 1816-1824 · engraved map mounted in album ·  Accession ID  2015.25.4.11

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Esquisse af Wards tafla i Mr. Earles Galleri i Philadelphia (Depiction of War in Mr. Earles Gallery in Philadelphia)

Axel Leonhard Klinckowström, Various Artists · 1816-1824 · etching ·  Accession ID  2015.25.4.9

Bibliography

1986

  • Weitzenhoffer, Frances. The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America. New York, 1986.