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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

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

Gaspare Diziani, Aeneas Carrying Anchises from Burning Troy, c. 1733, pen and brown ink with gray wash on tan laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1971.79.1

Aeneas Carrying Anchises from Burning Troy

Gaspare Diziani · c. 1733 · pen and brown ink with gray wash on tan laid paper ·  Accession ID  1971.79.1

Edvard Munch, The Vampire (Vampyr), 1895, color lithograph and woodcut with watercolor [trial proof], Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Gift of Lionel C. Epstein, 1972.21.1

The Vampire (Vampyr)

Edvard Munch · 1895 · color lithograph and woodcut with watercolor [trial proof] ·  Accession ID  1972.21.1

Auguste Renoir, Dance in the Country, 1883, pen and brush and gray ink on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.65

Dance in the Country

Auguste Renoir · 1883 · pen and brush and gray ink on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.65

This painting depicts a woman and a child standing in a wooded area. The woman holds a closed parasol in one hand and reaches down towards the child with the other. The woman has dark hair tied back and adored with flowers, and she is wearing a blue dress with black lace and a light pink flower or brooch on the neckline. The child has curly blonde hair tied back with a ribbon, and she is wearing a white dress with a red sash, striped stockings, and black shoes. The background includes tall trees framing a dirt path with a hint of blue sky in the background.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Madame Stumpf and Her Daughter, 1872, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.23

Madame Stumpf and Her Daughter

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1872 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1970.17.23

This is a drawing of a man's face. His face is slightly turned to the left, and he looks at us out of the corners of his eyes. He has light skin, a white beard and mustache, and thinning hair. His eyebrows are dark and appear furrowed above his large, round eyes. He wears round glasses seated on the bridge of his nose. Around his neck is the outline of a collar. The background is blank paper.
Henri Matisse, Self-Portrait, 1937, charcoal with stumping on laid paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.104

Self-Portrait

Henri Matisse · 1937 · charcoal with stumping on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1985.64.104