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Jacques Seligmann & Cie.

French, est. 1880

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Pisan 14th Century, Angel with Tambourine, c. 1360, marble, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1960.5.15

Angel with Tambourine

Pisan 14th Century · c. 1360 · marble ·  Accession ID  1960.5.15

A woman sits on a narrow plinth representing the ground and holds a baby, who is wrapped in her robe, in this freestanding white marble sculpture. In this photograph, the woman’s body faces us, and her head tilts slightly to our left. Her voluminous mantle drapes over her head and falls in deep folds and creases around her shoulders, arms, the child’s lower body, and her own lap and legs. The front of the mantle lies open exposing the curved neckline of her robe and the upper body of the child. The woman’s hands curve loosely encircle the child’s hip and lower legs. He rests his head and one hand against her chest with his face also turned to us. His legs stretch across her lap and his little feet stick out from the edge of her mantle. The pair sit on a narrow rectangular plinth.
Jacopo della Quercia, Madonna of Humility, c. 1400, marble with traces of gilding, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1960.5.2

Madonna of Humility

Jacopo della Quercia · c. 1400 · marble with traces of gilding ·  Accession ID  1960.5.2

Jean Honoré Fragonard, Visit to the Nurse, c. 1780/1790, gray wash and watercolor over black chalk on laid paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.19

Visit to the Nurse

Jean Honoré Fragonard · c. 1780/1790 · gray wash and watercolor over black chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.217.19

Venetian 17th Century, Tiziano Aspetti, Andiron with Figure of Venus, c. 1600/1675, bronze, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.101

Andiron with Figure of Venus

Venetian 17th Century, Tiziano Aspetti · c. 1600/1675 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1961.9.101

Neroccio de' Landi, Madonna and Child with Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Sigismund, c. 1490/1495, tempera on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.17

Madonna and Child with Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Sigismund

Neroccio de' Landi · c. 1490/1495 · tempera on panel ·  Accession ID  1952.5.17

Florentine 15th Century, An Old Man, second half 15th century, painted terracotta, Given by the children of Mr. and Mrs. Otto B. Kahn in memory of their parents, 1952.13.1

An Old Man

Florentine 15th Century · second half 15th century · painted terracotta ·  Accession ID  1952.13.1

Painted almost entirely in tones of beige and golden brown, we look across a smooth body of water at a row of buildings around a large church and several windmills scattered across the skyline in this horizontal landscape painting. The horizon comes about a quarter of the way up the painting, and the ice-blue sky above is nearly filled with pink-tinged clouds. Closest to us, a man bends over a container or bundle on a narrow spit of land in the lower left corner. Three boats float close by in the water beyond him. A rowboat at the lower center of the painting is filled with at least ten people, wearing bonnets or hats, dressed in tones of muted teal blue, golden yellow, and smoke gray. An empty, smaller boat is tied to and floats off one end of the rowboat. To our left, beyond the spit of land, a second rowboat is pulled up alongside a shallow boat with sails unfurled. Five people sit or stand in the rowboat as a sixth person is helped from the smaller rowboat up onto the sailboat. At least seven people and perhaps some bundles fill the deck of the sailboat. A bird flies low to the surface of the water nearby. A church with a tall, square tower and the lower buildings around it reflect in the placid water on the distant shore. More boats float along the winding shoreline in the deep distance, and a few more spires, windmills, and stately buildings are silhouetted against the sky.
Jan van Goyen, View of Dordrecht from the Dordtse Kil, 1644, oil on panel, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1978.11.1

View of Dordrecht from the Dordtse Kil

Jan van Goyen · 1644 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1978.11.1

French 18th Century, Portrait of a Young Man, possibly c. 1770, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.18

Portrait of a Young Man

French 18th Century · possibly c. 1770 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1961.9.18

Paul Gauguin, Study for Aita tamari vahine Judith te parari [verso], c. 1894, charcoal, black chalk, and pastel on paper worked over with brush and water, Gift of Robert and Mercedes Eichholz, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.77.1.b

Study for Aita tamari vahine Judith te parari [verso]

Paul Gauguin · c. 1894 · charcoal, black chalk, and pastel on paper worked over with brush and water ·  Accession ID  1990.77.1.b

Anonymous Artist, Bust of a Warrior, 1850/1870, terracotta, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.74

Bust of a Warrior

Anonymous Artist · 1850/1870 · terracotta ·  Accession ID  1943.4.74