Provenance

The Honorable Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr.

American, 1884 - 1961

Explore Selected Works

Rembrandt van Rijn, Abraham Francen, c. 1657, etching, drypoint and burin, Gift of Herbert and Claiborne Pell, 1956.8.4

Abraham Francen

Rembrandt van Rijn · c. 1657 · etching, drypoint and burin ·  Accession ID  1956.8.4

Guido Reni, Holy Family, etching, Gift of Herbert and Claiborne Pell, 1956.8.5

Holy Family

Guido Reni · · etching ·  Accession ID  1956.8.5

Hendrick Goltzius, Josina Hamels, 1580, engraving, Gift of Herbert and Claiborne Pell, 1956.8.2

Josina Hamels

Hendrick Goltzius · 1580 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1956.8.2

Anthonie Waterloo, Two Men at a Gate, etching, Gift of Herbert and Claiborne Pell, 1956.8.6

Two Men at a Gate

Anthonie Waterloo · · etching ·  Accession ID  1956.8.6

James McNeill Whistler, Annie Seated, 1858, etching and drypoint in dark brown on laid paper, Gift of Herbert and Claiborne Pell, 1956.8.7

Annie Seated

James McNeill Whistler · 1858 · etching and drypoint in dark brown on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1956.8.7

Simone Cantarini, The Holy Family, etching on laid paper, Gift of Herbert and Claiborne Pell, 1956.8.3

The Holy Family

Simone Cantarini · · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1956.8.3

Hendrick Goltzius, Harmen Adolfsz., Jacques de la Faille, 1580, engraving, Gift of Herbert and Claiborne Pell, 1956.8.1

Jacques de la Faille

Hendrick Goltzius, Harmen Adolfsz. · 1580 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1956.8.1

James McNeill Whistler, Little Evelyn, 1896, lithograph in black on laid paper, Gift of Herbert and Claiborne Pell, 1956.8.8

Little Evelyn

James McNeill Whistler · 1896 · lithograph in black on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1956.8.8

A flatboat with eight light-skinned men floats toward us down a wide river in this horizontal painting. The boat nearly spans the width of the composition and has low sides and a shallowly arched, low cabin upon which the men gather. At the center, a man with dark hair and wearing light blue trousers and a pink shirt dances with one foot and both arms raised. To our right a seated musician plays a fiddle, and to our left a smiling man holds up a metal pot and strikes the flat bottom with the back of his fingers. The remaining men sit or recline around the musicians and dancing man, some looking toward the dancer and two looking out at us. Bedrolls and animal skins are stored in the cabin below. The olive-green surface of the river is streaked with pale blue. The horizon line comes about a third of the way up the composition. The trees and riverbanks in the distance are hazy beneath a watery blue sky.
George Caleb Bingham, The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1846, oil on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2015.18.1

The Jolly Flatboatmen

George Caleb Bingham · 1846 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.18.1