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R. Horace Gallatin

American, 1871 - 1948

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Claude Lorrain, Harbor Scene with Rising Sun (Le soleil levant), 1634, etching, Gift of R. Horace Gallatin, 1949.1.22

Harbor Scene with Rising Sun (Le soleil levant)

Claude Lorrain · 1634 · etching ·  Accession ID  1949.1.22

Charles Meryon, L'arche du Pont Notre-Dame, Paris (An Arch of the Notre-Dame Bridge, Paris), 1853, etching and drypoint on green laid paper, Gift of R. Horace Gallatin, 1949.1.34

L'arche du Pont Notre-Dame, Paris (An Arch of the Notre-Dame Bridge, Paris)

Charles Meryon · 1853 · etching and drypoint on green laid paper ·  Accession ID  1949.1.34

Claude Lorrain, The Herd Returning in Stormy Weather (Le troupeau en marche par un temps orageux), c. 1650/1651, etching, Gift of R. Horace Gallatin, 1949.1.23

The Herd Returning in Stormy Weather (Le troupeau en marche par un temps orageux)

Claude Lorrain · c. 1650/1651 · etching ·  Accession ID  1949.1.23

Justus Danckerts, Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae nec non Pennsylvaniae et partis Virginiae tabula multis in locis emendata, c. 1684, engraving with hand coloring on laid paper, Gift of R. Horace Gallatin, 1949.1.60

Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae nec non Pennsylvaniae et partis Virginiae tabula multis in locis emendata

Justus Danckerts · c. 1684 · engraving with hand coloring on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1949.1.60

Albrecht Dürer, Saint Eustace, c. 1500/1501, engraving on laid paper, Gift of R. Horace Gallatin, 1949.1.16

Saint Eustace

Albrecht Dürer · c. 1500/1501 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1949.1.16

Albrecht Dürer, Nemesis (The Great Fortune), c. 1501/1502, engraving on laid paper, Gift of R. Horace Gallatin, 1949.1.21

Nemesis (The Great Fortune)

Albrecht Dürer · c. 1501/1502 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1949.1.21

Charles Meryon, Auguste Delâtre, Le Pont-Neuf, Paris, 1853, etching and drypoint on green laid paper, Gift of R. Horace Gallatin, 1949.1.30

Le Pont-Neuf, Paris

Charles Meryon, Auguste Delâtre · 1853 · etching and drypoint on green laid paper ·  Accession ID  1949.1.30

Rembrandt van Rijn, Faust, c. 1652, etching, drypoint, and engraving on rough beige paper, Gift of R. Horace Gallatin, 1949.1.40

Faust

Rembrandt van Rijn · c. 1652 · etching, drypoint, and engraving on rough beige paper ·  Accession ID  1949.1.40

James McNeill Whistler, Notes, published 1887, portfolio with five lithographs on chine collé mounted to wove paper, with original cover, Gift of the Fuller Foundation, Inc. and Print Purchase Fund (R. Horace Gallatin), 1992.46.1-5

Notes

James McNeill Whistler · published 1887 · portfolio with five lithographs on chine collé mounted to wove paper, with original cover ·  Accession ID  1992.46.1-5

Created with fine black lines printed on an ivory-white paper, a winged woman sits with her head in one hand, surrounded by tools, a dog, and a baby-like, winged putto perched on a millstone, all in front of a distant landscape with a still body of water under an arched rainbow in this vertical engraving. Filling the lower right quadrant of the composition, the winged woman, Melencolia, sits with her body angled to our left, and she looks in that direction from under furrowed brows. Lit from our right, her face is cast in shadow, but she has a straight nose and her lips are closed. She wears a ring of leaves over hair that falls in waves over her shoulders. Wings curve up from her back, and she wears a long-sleeved dress with a tight bodice and a voluminous, pleated skirt. She rests her chin on one tightly closed fist. The other arm rests on a book in her lap, and she holds one of the two legs of a tall compass in that hand. Several keys hang on a ribbon looped onto her belt, and they nestle into the deep folds of her skirt. Around her feet are a purse cinched closed, several nails, the metal tip of a bellows, a saw, a plane, the end of a pair of pincers, an ink pot, a molder’s form for baseboards, and a round sphere about the size of a basketball. The dog lies in a tight circle to our left of Melencolia’s feet, its chin resting across its paws. The dog’s ribs show through the short fur of its hide. Next to the dog, the millstone leans against the building that fills the right half of the composition. The millstone is round and flat, is about the height of the woman's torso, and a hole is cut from its center. A chubby child sits atop the stone. It has short, curly hair, stubby wings, a loose robe, and it draws on a tablet propped on its lap. Beyond the child, a wooden ladder leans against the building, and a pair of scales hangs above his head. On the face of the building, hanging over Melencolia’s head, is an hourglass with the sand about halfway spent and a magic square, which is a grid of four rows and four columns. The numbers in the grid read, from left to right, 16, 3, 2, 13 in the top row; an upside down 5, a 10, 11, and 8 in the second row; a backward 9, a 6, 7, and 12 in the third row; and a 4, 15, 14, and 1 in the bottom row. A bell hangs from a ring above this grid. On the step beyond the sleeping dog and millstone, another large stone is carved into flat planes to create an irregular, geometric, rhomboid form about as tall as the millstone. A hammer lies in front of the rhomboid, and beyond it is a melting pot sitting among tongues of flame in a mug-like cup. In the upper left quadrant of the composition, a placid body of water leads back to a distant town and small boats, beneath a starburst that fills the sky. An arched rainbow crosses the sky over a rat-like bat with its sharp teeth and tongue showing. It holds a banner reading “MELENCOLIA I.” The artist signed and dated the engraving as if he had carved into the front face of the step on which Melencolia sits, near the lower right corner: “1514 AD,” with the uppercase D nestled between the long legs of the wide, uppercase A.
Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I, 1514, engraving on laid paper, Gift of R. Horace Gallatin, 1949.1.17

Melencolia I

Albrecht Dürer · 1514 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1949.1.17

Bibliography

1948

  • The New York Times, 2 November 1948 [obituary]