Provenance

Estate of Rachel Lambert Mellon

American, 1910 - 2014

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Berthe Morisot, Young Girl with an Apron, 1891, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2004.110.5

Young Girl with an Apron

Berthe Morisot · 1891 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2004.110.5

Raoul Dufy, The Landing, 1928, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2013.164.1

The Landing

Raoul Dufy · 1928 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2013.164.1

Eastman Johnson, Lambs, Nantucket, 1874, oil on board, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2012.89.3

Lambs, Nantucket

Eastman Johnson · 1874 · oil on board ·  Accession ID  2012.89.3

Raoul Dufy, Harbor Scene, c. 1923, watercolor and gouache on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2014.41.1

Harbor Scene

Raoul Dufy · c. 1923 · watercolor and gouache on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2014.41.1

Eugène Boudin, Woman in a Crinoline on the Beach of Trouville, c. 1865, watercolor with gouache over graphite on laid paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2012.89.5

Woman in a Crinoline on the Beach of Trouville

Eugène Boudin · c. 1865 · watercolor with gouache over graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2012.89.5

A woman holding a baby stands near a young boy who perches in the tipped-up end of a rowboat that has been pulled onto a sandy beach in this horizontal painting. All the people have light skin. The turquoise and aquamarine-blue ocean beyond meets the pale blue sky at the horizon line, about halfway up the composition. To our left of center, one end of the wooden rowboat has been propped on what might be a fallen piling on the sandy, rocky beach. The boy sitting in the bow faces our left almost in profile, and wears a round, brimmed straw hat over brown hair, a brown, long-sleeved shirt, and charcoal-gray pants. His face turns away from us so we only see his cheek and the curve of his ear. To our right, the woman’s dark hair is pulled up and she wears a white apron over a long brown skirt. She stands angled to our right and looks over the shoulder of the blond baby she holds up against her chest. The child is dressed in a white skirt, blue sash, a red jacket, and black shoes. The beach around the people is strewn with another rowboat, large boulders, a wooden barrel, and fishing nets hung over a tall frame to dry. A few tufts of scrubby grass grow in the sand around the woman’s feet. The white sails of several ships line the horizon in the deep distance. Thin, pale peach clouds float across an ice-blue sky. The artist signed and dated the work in dark paint in the lower left corner: “WINSLOW HOMER 1873.”
Winslow Homer, Dad's Coming!, 1873, oil on wood, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2001.97.1

Dad's Coming!

Winslow Homer · 1873 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2001.97.1

Eugène Boudin, Crinolines on the Beach, c. 1865, watercolor and gouache over graphite on buff paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2004.110.2

Crinolines on the Beach

Eugène Boudin · c. 1865 · watercolor and gouache over graphite on buff paper ·  Accession ID  2004.110.2

Winslow Homer, Three Fisher Girls, Tynemouth, 1881, watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2012.89.4

Three Fisher Girls, Tynemouth

Winslow Homer · 1881 · watercolor over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2012.89.4

We face a wall lined with furniture to either side of a tall window that looks out onto buildings in this almost square painting. The scene is painted with blended and broad strokes, which makes our view a little blurry so many details are indistinct. The walls are tan with a thin, dark blue line above a wide band of lighter blue along the bottom of the wall. The window is in the center of the wall opposite us. A teal-blue curtain hangs along its right, and sheer, artic-blue drapes are parted and fastened to the wall on each side. The view out the window shows a few brightly lit, pale blue and yellow buildings with gray roofs. Under the window, a light wood table is scattered with objects, difficult to identify, and one pale turquoise square that could be a painting. More objects are cluttered on the dark wood bureau to our left and a round table closer to us, which is cut off by the bottom edge of the canvas. A delicate straw-colored easel holding a small canvas stands just beyond the round table. A girl sits in the lower right corner of the composition, and she is cropped by the right and bottom edges. Her skin is pale and tinged with smoky blue. She wears a wreath in her hair, presumably of flowers, and her long dress and the bed or chair on which she sits blend together in tones of navy, spruce blue, and forest green. The artist signed and dated the lower left, “1900 Bonnard.”
Pierre Bonnard, The Artist's Studio, 1900, oil on wood, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2004.110.1

The Artist's Studio

Pierre Bonnard · 1900 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2004.110.1

Odilon Redon, Village by the Sea in Brittany, c. 1880, oil on cardboard on hardboard, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2012.89.7

Village by the Sea in Brittany

Odilon Redon · c. 1880 · oil on cardboard on hardboard ·  Accession ID  2012.89.7