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Joseph E. Widener

Widener, Joseph Early

American, 1871 - 1943

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Pseudo Antonio da Brescia, Sleeping Cupid, early 16th century, bronze, Widener Collection, 1942.9.186

Sleeping Cupid

Pseudo Antonio da Brescia · early 16th century · bronze ·  Accession ID  1942.9.186

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Orlando Furioso (volume II)

Various Artists, Lodovico Ariosto, Francesco Bartolozzi, Nicolas Delaunay, Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt, Jean-Baptiste Blaise Simonet · published 1773 · 1 vol: ill: etchings and engravings ·  Accession ID  1942.9.1215

Chinese Qing Dynasty, Amphora Vase, Kangxi period, 1662/1722, porcelain with peachbloom glaze, Widener Collection, 1942.9.520

Amphora Vase

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Kangxi period, 1662/1722 · porcelain with peachbloom glaze ·  Accession ID  1942.9.520

Deruta 16th Century, Large dish with segmental border of plant sprays and scale pattern; in the center, an emblematic female figure holding a crowned toad and cornucopia, c. 1510/1540, tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), Widener Collection, 1942.9.317

Large dish with segmental border of plant sprays and scale pattern; in the center, an emblematic female figure holding a crowned toad and cornucopia

Deruta 16th Century · c. 1510/1540 · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  1942.9.317

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Il Decamerone ... (volume V)

Various Artists, Giovanni Boccaccio · published 1757 · 1 vol: ill: etchings & engravings by Aliamet, Choffard, Lempereur, Pasquier, St.Aubin, Le Mire, Tardieu, Flipart, Legrand, Moitte, and Ouvrier after Gravelot, Boucher, and Eisen ·  Accession ID  1942.9.1433

Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned man wearing armor stands with his body facing our left in profile but he turns his head to look up and over our right shoulder in front of a distant, gray landscape in this vertical portrait painting. He looks into the distance with brown eyes under dark, arched eyebrows. Chestnut-brown hair flows around his ears and to the back of his neck. His straight nose is slightly hooked at the end, and his pink lips are closed under a wispy mustache. He has plump, lightly flushed cheeks, and sagging jowls lead to a double chin. Light from our left glints off the suit of armor that covers his arms and round belly. He stands with his left hand, closer to us, resting on the hilt of a sword hanging at his side so his elbow points toward us. His other hand rests on the top of a cane. A leather strap crosses his chest, and a thin layer of lace encircles his neck. A ruby-red sash is tied around his upper left arm in a bow and billows around and behind him. The landscape beyond has a dark blue sky with charcoal-gray clouds above a low, sunlit horizon. The painting is inscribed with dark capital letters in the upper right corner: “MDV RAPHAEL RACIVS. H REIP. TRIREMIVM PRAEFE.”
Sir Anthony van Dyck, The Prefect Raffaele Raggi, c. 1625, oil on canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.90

The Prefect Raffaele Raggi

Sir Anthony van Dyck · c. 1625 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.9.90

Bernard Vanrisamburgh II, Work and Writing Table (table en chiffonnière), c. 1750/1760, veneered partly on oak and partly on pine with tulipwood, purplewood, crosscut kingwood, and casuarina; gilded bronze mounts, Widener Collection, 1942.9.420

Work and Writing Table (table en chiffonnière)

Bernard Vanrisamburgh II · c. 1750/1760 · veneered partly on oak and partly on pine with tulipwood, purplewood, crosscut kingwood, and casuarina; gilded bronze mounts ·  Accession ID  1942.9.420

Alfred André, Pendant with Europa and the Bull, 1870/1890, baroque pearl; gold enameled in white, black, dark green, pale blue, translucent red, green, yellow, and blue; 22 colorless stones (sapphires, diamonds), 1 blue sapphire, 19 red stones (rubies, glass), 6 pearls, Widener Collection, 1942.9.304

Pendant with Europa and the Bull

Alfred André · 1870/1890 · baroque pearl; gold enameled in white, black, dark green, pale blue, translucent red, green, yellow, and blue; 22 colorless stones (sapphires, diamonds), 1 blue sapphire, 19 red stones (rubies, glass), 6 pearls ·  Accession ID  1942.9.304

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, Annette et Lubin, 1789, etching and wash manner, printed in blue, dark pink, bright pink, yellow, orange, brown, and black inks, Widener Collection, 1942.9.2252

Annette et Lubin

Philibert-Louis Debucourt · 1789 · etching and wash manner, printed in blue, dark pink, bright pink, yellow, orange, brown, and black inks ·  Accession ID  1942.9.2252

Chinese Qing Dynasty, Reticulated Perfume Ball, Kangxi period, 1662/1722, porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit, Widener Collection, 1942.9.566

Reticulated Perfume Ball

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Kangxi period, 1662/1722 · porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit ·  Accession ID  1942.9.566

Bibliography

1940

  • Widener, P.A.B. Without Drums. New York, 1940.

1943

  • The New York Times (27 October 1943): 23:1 [obituary].

1973

  • Finley, David. A Standard of Excellence. Washington, 1973.

1974

  • Walker, John. Self-Portrait with Donors. Boston, 1974.

2002

  • Quodbach, Esmé. "'The last of the American Versailles': the Widener Collection at Lynnewood Hall." Simiolus 29, no. 1/2 (2002): 42-96.

2003

  • Minty, Nancy T. Dutch and Flemish Seventeeth-Century Art in America, 1800-1940: Collections, Connoisseurship and Perceptions. Ph.D. diss, New York University, 2003:172-194, 444-494