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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Henri Labrouste, 1852, graphite on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.52

Henri Labrouste

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1852 · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.52

Eugène Boudin, Landscape with Trees, Cottage, and Farm Wagon, c. 1858, graphite, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1980.25.5

Landscape with Trees, Cottage, and Farm Wagon

Eugène Boudin · c. 1858 · graphite ·  Accession ID  1980.25.5

Eugène Boudin, L'Ile aux Moines with Workers in a Field, c. 1858, graphite, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1980.25.4

L'Ile aux Moines with Workers in a Field

Eugène Boudin · c. 1858 · graphite ·  Accession ID  1980.25.4

Aristide Maillol, Torso of a Young Woman, c. 1930, bronze, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.60

Torso of a Young Woman

Aristide Maillol · c. 1930 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1983.1.60

Edgar Degas, Study of a Jockey, c. 1884, charcoal on brown paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.12

Study of a Jockey

Edgar Degas · c. 1884 · charcoal on brown paper ·  Accession ID  1999.79.12

Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman stands close to us with a red schoolhouse in the distance under a sunset sky in this vertical painting. The woman’s body faces us, but she turns her head to look off to the left with light brown eyes. She has a short, straight nose, full pink lips, and a round face. Her blond hair is pulled up under a round white hat layered with ruffles, which lies like a pancake over the top of her head. Her white dress is vertically striped with thin rust-red lines and has a long-sleeved, tight-fitting bodice and a long skirt. A dark gray belt is cinched around her narrow waist, and she wears a black, lacy ruffle around her neck. The woman’s arms hang by her sides, and she holds two paperback-sized books in her left hand, to our right. An earth-brown lawn stretches back to the schoolhouse, which has crimson-red walls, a chimney, and a dark gray roof. Three forms painted with a few streaks of dark or light gray or topaz blue suggest people standing near the door of the schoolhouse. Trees and a grassy lawn beyond the building are loosely painted with blended strokes. The sky is shaded pale lemon yellow and light peach with touches of rose pink. The artist signed and dated the lower right corner, “HOMER 1873.”
Winslow Homer, The Red School House, 1873, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.21

The Red School House

Winslow Homer · 1873 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1985.64.21

Henri Matisse, The Plumed Hat, 1919, graphite on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.58

The Plumed Hat

Henri Matisse · 1919 · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.58

A woman plays an upright piano as two boys play checkers at a table in this horizontal painting. The scene is loosely painted with areas of flat color and pattern. The people have pale, peachy skin and dark brown hair. Their facial features are painted with dots or short strokes of black. The piano is against the wall to our left. The woman wears a short-sleeved, lemon-yellow dress with a long skirt. A music book is propped on the music stand, and loosely painted objects line the top of the instrument. The wall behind the piano is patterned with white and pale yellow flowers under and around arches against a cranberry-red background. The table where the boys play is in the middle of the room. The players sit in wooden chairs and wear black and white striped jackets with white collars. The boy to our right looks at the board while resting his left cheek, closer to us, in his hand. The other boy looks on with his arms on the table in front of him. The checkerboard sits on a red and white striped cloth, which has lines of black dots in the white strips. Beneath the table is a floral rug with blue and black flowers against a red background. The border is painted loosely with leafy shapes against bright white. Beneath the area rug the floor or another carpet is garnet red with a diamond-shaped grid painted in orange. A petal-pink, upholstered chair sits in front of a tall wardrobe in the back corner of the room. A picture with two violins against a blue background hangs on the side of the furniture to our right. A chest of drawers next to the wardrobe holds a few bowls or objects and a white statue, about half human height. The statue is of a person standing with one knee bent in front of the other, one elbow tucked by the side with that hand held to the chest, and the other bent elbow raised overhead. Pictures hang on the wall around the statue, and the wallpaper there is ivory white with a dark yellow pattern. The artist signed the work in the lower right corner, “Henri Matisse.”
Henri Matisse, Pianist and Checker Players, 1924, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.25

Pianist and Checker Players

Henri Matisse · 1924 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1985.64.25

Eugène Boudin, Coastal Landscape with Shipping; Windmill in Distance, c. 1858, graphite, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1980.25.3

Coastal Landscape with Shipping; Windmill in Distance

Eugène Boudin · c. 1858 · graphite ·  Accession ID  1980.25.3

Eugène Boudin, River Landscape with Buildings, Boats, and Figures, c. 1858, graphite, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1980.25.6

River Landscape with Buildings, Boats, and Figures

Eugène Boudin · c. 1858 · graphite ·  Accession ID  1980.25.6