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Six Men [verso]

Jan van Goyen · probably c. 1650/1652 · black chalk with gray wash on buff paper ·  Accession ID  1985.1.34.b

Antwerp 16th Century, A Member of the de Hondecoeter Family [obverse], 1543, oil on panel, Gift of Adolph Caspar Miller, 1953.3.3.a

A Member of the de Hondecoeter Family [obverse]

Antwerp 16th Century · 1543 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1953.3.3.a

Jan van Goyen, View of Scheveningen [recto], probably c. 1650/1652, gray wash over black chalk on buff paper//border in pen and black ink added by later hand, Julius S. Held Collection, 1985.1.34.a

View of Scheveningen [recto]

Jan van Goyen · probably c. 1650/1652 · gray wash over black chalk on buff paper//border in pen and black ink added by later hand ·  Accession ID  1985.1.34.a

Frédéric de Moucheron, Classical Landscape with a Tempietto, pen and black ink on vellum, Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation, 1996.128.28

Classical Landscape with a Tempietto

Frédéric de Moucheron · · pen and black ink on vellum ·  Accession ID  1996.128.28

Luca Cambiaso, A Standing Sibyl with a Scroll, mid 1550s, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Purchased as the Gift of Joan and David Maxwell, 2016.75.1

A Standing Sibyl with a Scroll

Luca Cambiaso · mid 1550s · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2016.75.1

Shown from the chest up, a young woman faces us holding a nude baby in her arms in this vertical painting. They both have pale, peachy skin with pink cheeks. The woman has an oval face with a thin nose, and her coral-pink, bow mouth is closed. She looks down and to our left with dark eyes under arched brows. Her hair is covered by a bone-white veil, and an azure-blue mantle is draped over her rose-pink robe, which is a darker pink at the shoulders. She cradles the plump child in her crossed arms. The baby has short, wavy, copper-red hair framing a round, flushed face with a button nose, peach lips, and hazel eyes that look at us. He holds a bird in his left hand, on our right. The bird has an off-white body with charcoal-gray wings and neck, and a strawberry-red face. The baby grasps one end of the woman’s veil with his other hand. The background is concrete gray to our left, and the right half is covered by a ginger-brown curtain.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Madonna of the Goldfinch, c. 1767/1770, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.40

Madonna of the Goldfinch

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1767/1770 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1943.4.40

Seven pale-skinned people crowd around a wooden table to our right in this horizontal painting, as several more gather around a fire in a deeply shadowed room beyond, to our left. The room we are in has high ceilings and peanut-brown walls and floor. At the center of the composition, a man dressed in mustard yellow with a yellow and burnt-orange jester’s cap stands facing us. His smiling mouth is agape, and he lifts his left arm, to our right, to gesture toward the group at the table there. His feet are widely planted, and a ceramic jug dangles from his other hand. At the table to our right, one man sits at the front, left corner of the table, leaning back in his chair as he raises his black hat high in his right hand, closer to us. His face is tipped up and his mouth is wide open. Across from him is another young man in a blue-gray jacket who wears a paper crown. With the back of the wrist closer to us planted on his hip, he tilts back his head to drink from a tall tankard held in his other hand. One young and one older woman women sit smiling among the men. The younger woman wears a navy-blue dress with a white cap covering the back of her blond hair, and the older woman is in ocean blue with a white head covering. Two more men at the table also have their mouths open and wear earth-toned clothes. A man has poked his head through a small, squared opening high on the wall above the table to our right, to look down at the group. Over the the man in the jester's hat, a gray owl sits chained to a perch driven into the wood stud that frames the wall behind the group. Bits of paper are scattered on the floor and two terracotta jugs sit gleaming in the lower right corner. A tawny cat peers out from behind the drinker’s seat. A dog with sable-brown fur lies near a low table in the lower left corner of the painting. A shallow, terracotta dish with short feet sits on the table and a brown ceramic jug, oyster shells, and a few stalks of straw sit near the dog and table. In the dimly lit room beyond this one, a man, woman, and four children gather around a fireplace. The woman holds a long-handled griddle over the flame, and she turns to look back over her shoulder. The artist signed and dated the work as if he had written on the front edge of the low table to our left: “D. TENIERS F 1635.”
David Teniers the Younger, Peasants Celebrating Twelfth Night, 1635, oil on panel, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.10.1

Peasants Celebrating Twelfth Night

David Teniers the Younger · 1635 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1972.10.1

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God the Father (sheet from a model book) [verso]

German 15th Century · c. 1450/1460 · pen and black and brown ink with gray wash heightened with white on brown-gray prepared paper ·  Accession ID  1974.20.2.b

Shown from the chest up, a pale-skinned woman wears a black tricorn hat and a black cloak that covers her shoulders, chest, and much of her face in this vertical portrait painting. Her body is angled to our left, and she looks at us from the corners of her dark, almond-shaped eyes. The jet-black hat is set back slightly on her head but covers most of her forehead. A loop goes around a black button on the side to our right, and the corner of a parchment-white decoration, presumably a bow, peeks up from the far side of the hat. Her pale face is like a moon, partially visible within the opening of the cloak that goes from her temples, down her cheeks, and covers her chin to just under her lower lip. The garment is gathered over her chin, and drapes down her chest. The fabric is painted black with green undertones. A glimpse of brown hair peeks out over her left temple, to our right. Her right, gloved hand, on our left, emerges from beneath the fabric to hold a closed fan by her chin. The glove is gossamer white. The sides of the fan's sticks are coral orange, and the fan is streaked with forest green and more orange against cream white across the top, where the fabric is accordioned. The space behind her is dark, pine green, a shade lighter than the woman’s dress.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Young Lady in a Tricorn Hat, c. 1755/1760, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.77

Young Lady in a Tricorn Hat

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1755/1760 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1952.5.77

Francesco Guardi, Capriccio of a Harbor, c. 1760/1770, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.50

Capriccio of a Harbor

Francesco Guardi · c. 1760/1770 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1943.4.50