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Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.

est. 1937

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Chinese Qing Dynasty, Bowl, Guangxu period, 1875/1908, porcelain with famille jaune enamels on the biscuit, Harry G. Steele Collection, Gift of Grace C. Steele, 1972.43.51

Bowl

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Guangxu period, 1875/1908 · porcelain with famille jaune enamels on the biscuit ·  Accession ID  1972.43.51

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Saint Roch Carried to Heaven by Angels, c. 1735/1745, oil on canvas, Gift of Howard Sturges, 1956.9.16

Saint Roch Carried to Heaven by Angels

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1735/1745 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1956.9.16

Honoré Daumier, Fugitives (Emigrants), model c. 1850/1852, cast 1893, bronze, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.25

Fugitives (Emigrants)

Honoré Daumier · model c. 1850/1852, cast 1893 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1943.3.25

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, Lucas van Doetechum, Claes Jansz Visscher, "Verdorde Nel" and "Jan Afterlam", c. 1564/1565, etching, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1975.112.10

"Verdorde Nel" and "Jan Afterlam"

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, Lucas van Doetechum, Claes Jansz Visscher · c. 1564/1565 · etching ·  Accession ID  1975.112.10

A white marble sculpture shows the head and upper chest of an elderly, gaunt, bald, smiling man. In this photograph, the man’s face is angled to our right, and he looks off in that direction with hooded eyes under bushy brows. His forehead, eyes, and mouth are lined with wrinkles. He has a bulbous, slightly hooked nose and high cheekbones. He smiles with his thin lips together. There is a fringe of hair over the ear we can see, and his head is otherwise smooth. The tendons on his neck stand out. The narrow base of the sculpture curves in a U down past his collarbones, and is supported on a charcoal-gray, polished marble base. The sculpture casts a light shadow against a pale gray background to our left in this photograph.
Jean-Antoine Houdon, Voltaire, 1778, marble, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.240

Voltaire

Jean-Antoine Houdon · 1778 · marble ·  Accession ID  1963.10.240

At least one rowboat occupied by two people floats on a lake, which is surrounded by lush green vegetation in this vertical landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted with short and long parallel brushstrokes, so some details are difficult to make out. The white of the four geese lining the bank near us break up a color palette almost entirely dominated by spring, mint, and sage green and royal and baby blue. Three of the geese stand in a line and the fourth bends down to peck at the grass. A bed of deep pink flowers is indicated with touches of vibrant color to our right of the geese. One person wearing a golden yellow garment and a butter-yellow hat rows the boat near the center of the lake. A smudge of cobalt blue could be another person in that boat. Other curved lines in the water could be additional boats or may be reflections in the lake’s surface. Barely discernable, a person, possibly holding a stick, stands among the tall trees lining the opposite bank. The horizon line comes about three-quarters of the way up the composition, and the sky above is painted with watery blue, pale yellow, and ivory-white brushstrokes. The artist signed the work with dark letters near the lower left corner: “B. Morisot.”
Berthe Morisot, Girl in a Boat with Geese, c. 1889, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.50

Girl in a Boat with Geese

Berthe Morisot · c. 1889 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1970.17.50

George Luks, The Fire Boss, 1925, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1954.2.1

The Fire Boss

George Luks · 1925 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1954.2.1

Odilon Redon, Pansies, c. 1905, pastel on brown paper, Rosenwald Collection, Gift of the Adele R. Levy Fund, Inc., 1961.14.1

Pansies

Odilon Redon · c. 1905 · pastel on brown paper ·  Accession ID  1961.14.1

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, Lucas van Doetechum, Claes Jansz Visscher, "Voorsichtighe Krijn" and "Broentje Spaer-pots", c. 1564/1565, etching, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1975.112.33

"Voorsichtighe Krijn" and "Broentje Spaer-pots"

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, Lucas van Doetechum, Claes Jansz Visscher · c. 1564/1565 · etching ·  Accession ID  1975.112.33

Shown from the waist up, an older, pale-skinned man wearing clerical robes gestures to our right with one hand and turns his head to look off to our left in this vertical portrait painting. His shoulders angle to our right, and that arm hangs by his side. His other arm is bent at the elbow, and the hand is held palm up so the fingers loosely point to our right. His gaunt face turns to our left, and he looks off with dark, deep-set eyes under heavy, curved brows. He has a high forehead, a long, thin, hooked nose, and hollow cheeks. His full, smoke-gray beard is painted with blended strokes so appears soft. His crimson-red hat comes to four rounded points over ear-length, dark gray hair. An elbow-length red cape has buttons down the front, and he wears a white garment with a red cuff around the hand we can see. The man is lit from our left in front of a brown background.
Titian, Cardinal Pietro Bembo, 1539/1540, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.28

Cardinal Pietro Bembo

Titian · 1539/1540 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1952.5.28