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Edgar Degas, Racehorses (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey"), c. 1881, charcoal on light brown paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.9

Racehorses (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")

Edgar Degas · c. 1881 · charcoal on light brown paper ·  Accession ID  1999.79.9

Allart van Everdingen, Reynard Departs with the Badger, probably c. 1645/1656, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.15.177

Reynard Departs with the Badger

Allart van Everdingen · probably c. 1645/1656 · etching ·  Accession ID  1973.15.177

Auguste Lepère, Dedication Page, published 1900, wood engraving, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1974.62.6

Dedication Page

Auguste Lepère · published 1900 · wood engraving ·  Accession ID  1974.62.6

Antoine Masson, Antoine Turgot, etching and engraving, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1974.116.2

Antoine Turgot

Antoine Masson · · etching and engraving ·  Accession ID  1974.116.2

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Midday Meal

Carlo Labruzzi · 1788 · etching and aquatint in brown on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1997.11.1.j

Allart van Everdingen, Large Rock at the River, probably c. 1645/1656, etching with engraving, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.15.61

Large Rock at the River

Allart van Everdingen · probably c. 1645/1656 · etching with engraving ·  Accession ID  1973.15.61

Pieter Nolpe, Entry of Marie de Medici into Amsterdam [plate 6 of 6], 1638, etching, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1977.80.11

Entry of Marie de Medici into Amsterdam [plate 6 of 6]

Pieter Nolpe · 1638 · etching ·  Accession ID  1977.80.11

A bearded man, a young man, and five monks stand in a cream-white hall hung with a map and paintings in this horizontal painting. The people all have pale, peachy skin. The scene is lit from windows lining the wall to our left, where three monks stand, presumably talking. They and the other two monks wear long white robes with marine-blue hoods and cloth panels that hang down the fronts of the cassocks. Two monks have their hoods up and the other two have their hair cut into rings around their heads. The bearded man, Christopher Columbus, stands to the right on the other side of the hall, looking at a map hanging there. He has chin-length, dark hair and wears a bronze-brown, knee-length jacket, dark blue, knee-length pantaloons, and golden yellow stockings. His right hand, closer to us, is planted palm out against his hip, and he holds a red hat in that hand. The other foot is perched on a long bench that stretches along that wall. The young man sits and leans back on the bench with one forearm along the bench’s armrest. His other hand rests on Columbus’s knee, and Columbus rests his hand on that. The boy has long brown hair and wears a red cap, a parchment-white robe over yellow sleeves, sage-green stockings, and laced, toeless boots. Two bundles and a long stick are against the wall on our side of the bench. An object on the floor next to Columbus’s standing leg is covered by a brown cloth. A gold chain and a pink hoof protrude from the blanket. One of the monks standing behind Columbus wears a tight-fitting blue cap. A rosary hangs over his cassock from his waist, and extra panels of blue fabric drape down over his shoulders. Four paintings in our view hang near the high ceiling of the hall, which has arched openings and a pink floor. Doors or oversized shutters swing into view at the far end of the hall. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “Eug. Delacroix. 1838.”
Eugène Delacroix, Christopher Columbus and His Son at La Rábida, 1838, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.127

Christopher Columbus and His Son at La Rábida

Eugène Delacroix · 1838 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.127

Gilbert Stuart, Henrietta Marchant Liston (Mrs. Robert Liston), 1800, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1960.12.1

Henrietta Marchant Liston (Mrs. Robert Liston)

Gilbert Stuart · 1800 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1960.12.1

Herman van Swanevelt, Mercury Silencing Battus, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.32.81

Mercury Silencing Battus

Herman van Swanevelt · · etching ·  Accession ID  1973.32.81