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Hector Brame

est. c. 1865

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This painting displays an outdoor scene with a large tree to the left and a low horizon with a few buildings and what look like boats floating on blue water on the right. Closer to us on the right, several people are walking along a path towards us. One of them appears to be a woman in a brown dress with a yellow sash, carrying a basket on her head. The other two people appear to be adults with children, one adult wearing a blue dress and the other draped in a red cloak. The people have light brown skin. The sky above is light blue with fluffy white clouds The color palette includes greens, browns, and blues.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Souvenir of Terracina, 1864, reworked slightly later, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.26

Souvenir of Terracina

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1864, reworked slightly later · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.26

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Self-Portrait, 1822, graphite on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.51

Self-Portrait

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1822 · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.51

Auguste Rodin, Head of Hanako (Ohta Hisa), model c. 1908, cast 1965, bronze, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.21

Head of Hanako (Ohta Hisa)

Auguste Rodin · model c. 1908, cast 1965 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1995.47.21

This painting shows a woman sitting, her body facing the left and her head turned to look at us, with one arm resting on a wooden surface on the right. She has dark hair partially covered by a bright yellow scarf or cap, light skin, deep-set eyes, pale eyebrows, and thin lips set in a neutral expression. She wears a white blouse with wide sleeves that is partially covered by a black bodice with a wide red neckline. Her skirt is black, although in the front she appears to be covered by a blanket or apron with colorful abstract designs in red, tan, and green, with some horizontal black stripes. She also wears large silver hoop earrings, multiple silver necklaces, and a silver ring on her hand. The background is a blend of muted green and brown tones, with a hint of pale blue in the upper left corner.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Italian Woman (La Morieri), c. 1872, oil on canvas, Gift of the Avalon Foundation, 1954.6.1

Italian Woman (La Morieri)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · c. 1872 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1954.6.1

Alberto Giacometti, Interior - Annette Sewing, 1954, graphite on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.43

Interior - Annette Sewing

Alberto Giacometti · 1954 · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.43

This painting shows a bouquet of colorful flowers in a blue and white vase on a stone ledge in a framed alcove. The flowers are in bright shades or orange, white, peach, blue, and red. Resting on one of the flowers is a small brown moth or butterfly, and in the alcove by the vase are a green grasshopper and two seashells. The wall around the alcove is gray.
Dutch 18th Century, Vase of Flowers in a Niche, mid 18th century, reworked in 20th century, oil on panel, Collection of Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1992.51.3

Vase of Flowers in a Niche

Dutch 18th Century · mid 18th century, reworked in 20th century · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1992.51.3

A loose arrangement of colorful wildflowers bursting out of a red clay jug sits near the back left corner of a tabletop and fills the top two-thirds of this vertical still life painting. Soft light from the lower left illuminates tight clusters of silvery gray and white blooms up along the center, which are surrounded by delicate butter and lemon-yellow flowers on tall stems covered with pine and pea-green leaves. Brilliant poppy-red and cornflower-blue flowers punctuate the upper right and lower left of the arrangement. Small flowers in the lower right are painted with short daubs of navy blue dotted around green stems. One white-petaled daisy unfurls near the jug's short, rounded handle, which faces us. Thin stems covered with small leaves in shades of pine, emerald, and spring green fill out the arrangement. The table is loosely painted with thin patches of apple green layered over oatmeal and dark brown. The background is mottled in sage green and steel gray.
Auguste Renoir, Flowers in a Vase, c. 1866, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.32

Flowers in a Vase

Auguste Renoir · c. 1866 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1983.1.32

Edgar Degas, Study of a Jockey (M. de Broutelles), c. 1884, black crayon on cream paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.13

Study of a Jockey (M. de Broutelles)

Edgar Degas · c. 1884 · black crayon on cream paper ·  Accession ID  1999.79.13

A young, pale-skinned woman sits with her back to us as she looks at a painting on an easel in a studio in this vertical painting. She sits in a ladder-back wood chair so her knees angle away from us, toward the back right corner of the studio. We look onto the side of her right cheek as she leans forward. Her brown hair is combed back and twisted into a bun wrapped with a raspberry-red ribbon that trails down her back. Touches of pearl white, pale pink, and silvery gray suggest flowers by the ear we can see. A cream-white chemise falls off the shoulder closer to us, under a grass-green bodice. She holds a mandolin down by her right side, which is closer to us, to nestle in the folds of her voluminous, olive-green skirt. She reaches forward with her other hand to touch the lower left corner of the painting resting on the easel. That vertically-oriented scene is loosely painted and shows a few people gathered in a landscape. A white and black dog stands with one front leg lifted to the left of the woman's chair, looking at her. The wall opposite us is parchment white over a strip of molding, like a high chair rail, and muted mauve pink below. An L-shaped pipe leads to an iron stove to our left of center. A narrow shelf tucked into the L of the pipe holds three hand-sized sculptures or casts. Small paintings and plaster casts hang around it on the wall above the molding. The artist signed the painting in the lower right: “COROT.”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Corot's Studio: Woman Seated Before an Easel, a Mandolin in her Hand, c. 1868, oil on wood, Widener Collection, 1942.9.11

Corot's Studio: Woman Seated Before an Easel, a Mandolin in her Hand

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · c. 1868 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1942.9.11

This painting depicts a scene by the water. Closest to us, a pile of objects sits on a grassy bank. The objects are indistinct, but there appears to be a white bundle with a gold-and-black object perched on it, surrounded by smaller round brown lumps. The green, grassy slope stretches off along the left, and it has a rectangular yellow section. On the right is a river or body of water painted in light blue with lines of green, red, and tan overlapping across the surface. In the distance, a large pale bridge stretches over the water, with vertical lines that look like smokestacks in the distance. Pale pink and purple smoke drifts up from one of them. On the left, tall, dark green trees surround light shapes that may be buildings. The sky is light blue-green. The brushstrokes in the painting are thick and visible, blending color and the edges between shapes, making details hard to identify.
Georges Seurat, The Seine with Clothing on the Bank (Study for "Bathers at Asnières"), 1883/1884, oil on wood, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2014.18.56

The Seine with Clothing on the Bank (Study for "Bathers at Asnières")

Georges Seurat · 1883/1884 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2014.18.56