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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

Carved from cream-white marble, a woman stands next to a hip-high, three-legged table in this free-standing sculpture. Her weight rests on her left leg, her right knee bent. She wears a flower crown over a garment that covers her head and falls in sweeping, voluminous folds to her sandaled feet. An urn is tucked into her left elbow and she holds a saucer-like dish in her right hand down by her side to pour oil onto the flames on the altar below. She looks down toward the altar, which is decorated with a ram’s head and garlands.
Clodion, A Vestal, 1770, marble, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.99

A Vestal

Clodion · 1770 · marble ·  Accession ID  1952.5.99

Raoul Dufy, The Landing, 1928, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2013.164.1

The Landing

Raoul Dufy · 1928 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2013.164.1

Sitting on a rock and shown from the lap up, an elegantly dressed, light-skinned man holds up a partridge by one leg and sits next to a dog, all against a landscape with trees and a stone manor house in this vertical portrait painting. On the far side of the rock, the man’s legs angle away from us to our right, but he turns his torso to look at us with brown eyes under dark brows. His nose has a bump near the bridge, and his full, pink lips are closed. His rounded cheeks are slightly flushed, and he has a bit of a double chin. His hair curls around his face from a widow’s peak on his forehead, and locks are tied back with a black silk bow. His white shirt is pleated vertically across the front below a high collar, which wraps around his neck. Lace lines the front of the shirt down the chest and the cuffs at the end of puffy sleeves. His camel-brown jacket is lined with topaz blue and edged with silvery lace down the front and at the unbuttoned cuffs. His brown pants are lost in shadow beyond the rock on which he sits. In his raised left hand, on our right, the partridge dangles from one red leg, its brown wings spread and its head hanging back. By the man’s right side and closer to us, the dog is white with a few black spots. It has large floppy ears and a short tail. It crouches on its hind legs, angled to our left, and braces itself on its front paws, looking up at the bird. A second dead bird lies on the rock under the dog’s poised body. A few tufts of plants and grasses grow out of the rock next to the dog’s front feet, and behind the dog and man is a fawn-brown sack and a cylindrical vessel with a spout, a powder horn. Two trees grow beyond the rock, up the left edge of the canvas. To our right, in the distance, two women talk near a low wall. One wears an aquamarine-blue dress and gestures with arm outstretched to our left, and the other, in pale pink, sits looking up at her companion. Beyond, trees line the drive up to the three-story manor house. The middle story is lined with notably tall windows, like a series of French doors. Steel-gray clouds against a few glimpses of turquoise-blue sky fill the top half of the painting above the house. The painting is signed and dated in the lower right corner: “peint par JB. Oudry 1722.”
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Henri Camille, Chevalier de Beringhen, 1722, oil on canvas, Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund, Patrons' Permanent Fund, and Chester Dale Fund, 1994.14.1

Henri Camille, Chevalier de Beringhen

Jean-Baptiste Oudry · 1722 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1994.14.1

Shown from the chest up, a pale-skinned, clean-shaven man wearing a cloth wrapped around his head looks at us in this vertical painting. The man’s shoulders are angled to our right, but he turns his round face to us to gaze out of the corners of his blue eyes under furrowed brows. His head tips slightly to our right, and his pink lips are parted. He has a rounded nose, full checks, and a slight double chin. The cloth wrapped around his head is white striped with pale blue. He wears a coral-orange and white neckerchief tied in a knot at his throat and a slate-blue collarless jacket. The background is pale, asparagus-green near his face and deepens to moss green at the edges. There are some white or light blue streaks and spots where paint has been lost or damaged.
Anonymous Artist, Portrait of a Man, 18th century, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1943.7.3

Portrait of a Man

Anonymous Artist · 18th century · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1943.7.3

French 19th Century, Bacchante, 19th century, marble, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.96

Bacchante

French 19th Century · 19th century · marble ·  Accession ID  1952.5.96

Painted almost entirely in shades of cool blues, a little girl stands at a table holding a bowl and spoon in this vertical painting. The table comes into the scene from our left, and she faces it in profile facing our left. The table is covered with a cloth and comes up to her chest. She looks down into the bowl, which she tips toward her with the hand closer to us, and she holds a spoon inside, as if stirring, with the other. She has a high forehead, a snub nose, and a rounded chin. The vivid pink of her lips and cheeks and the tawny brown of her shoulder-length hair contrast with the icy blues of the rest of the picture. She wears a knee-length dress with a wide cloth wound around her neck with the ends trailing down her chest and back. Marine-blue socks come halfway up her otherwise bare calves, and she wears dark shoes. There are two more objects on the table: a mug, painted with a coral-orange and blue design, and a flax-yellow object that could be a piece of food. The girl's dress, the cloth around her neck, and the tablecloth are painted in shades of turquoise, sky, and cobalt blue. A brown wooden leg emerges from under the tablecloth. The floor around the girl is pale blue with a darker blue area indicating the shadow cast by the table. The shadow is streaked with a few lines of orange and light brown. Blue fields on the back wall behind the girl could be blue curtains next to a patch of brown wall, in the upper left corner. All of the objects and the girl’s features are outlined in royal blue. The artist signed the upper left corner, “Picasso.”
Pablo Picasso, Le gourmet, 1901, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.52

Le gourmet

Pablo Picasso · 1901 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.52

Benoît Massou, Anselme Flamen, Nicolas Rebillé, A Garden Allegory: The Dew and Zephyr Cultivating Flowers, 1683/1732, marble, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.106

A Garden Allegory: The Dew and Zephyr Cultivating Flowers

Benoît Massou, Anselme Flamen, Nicolas Rebillé · 1683/1732 · marble ·  Accession ID  1952.5.106

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

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1615, black and red chalk heightened with white chalk, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1971.66.1

Portrait of a Young Man

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · c. 1615 · black and red chalk heightened with white chalk ·  Accession ID  1971.66.1