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Hôtel Drouot

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Vettor Gambello, called Camelio, Leonardo Loredan, 1436-1521, Doge of Venice 1501 [obverse], c. 1501/1510, bronze, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1957.14.745.a

Leonardo Loredan, 1436-1521, Doge of Venice 1501 [obverse]

Vettor Gambello, called Camelio · c. 1501/1510 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1957.14.745.a

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

A man with tanned skin is surrounded by animals as he reclines against a grassy slope in this horizontal landscape painting. The area close to us is darkened or in shadow, so some details are difficult to make out, but the land brightens under a golden sky as it recedes into the deep, hazy distance. In the lower left corner of the canvas, the man faces our right in profile, looking toward the grazing animals. He wears a wide-brimmed hat and a caramel-brown jacket over a knee-length garment. He leans back on his near arm with one leg bent and the other extended. His far hand lies across his torso and holds a short staff. A dark brown goat, tan-colored sheep, and brown and gray cows wander and nibble on muted green, scrubby growth that carpets the hilly ground, which stretches across the center and right side of the composition. Trees with laurel-green canopies grow up beyond the man, and extend off the top edge of the painting. A slender, almost leafless tree frames the scene on the right. Two men walk on a gently arched, stone bridge beyond the spindly tree. Low hills slope down to a misty blue-gray plain, where a river winds along a jagged bank dotted with trees. In the far distance, ghostly buildings stretch along a line of slate-blue mountains. A glowing sun in the upper left corner casts diffused light across the scene. The sky is scattered with wisps of thin clouds.
Anonymous Artist, The Herdsman, 17th or 18th century, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1946.7.12

The Herdsman

Anonymous Artist · 17th or 18th century · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1946.7.12

Italian 16th Century, Pietro Aretino, 1492-1556, Satirist [obverse], c. 1542, bronze, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1957.14.1020.a

Pietro Aretino, 1492-1556, Satirist [obverse]

Italian 16th Century · c. 1542 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1957.14.1020.a

Odilon Redon, Saint Sebastian, 1910/1912, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.57

Saint Sebastian

Odilon Redon · 1910/1912 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.57

A person at the center of this loosely painted horizontal landscape rides a dark horse across a field as a man to the left works the field behind a horse-drawn plow. The field is carpeted with muted and gold-shaded green, and a grove of trees in the right third of the composition are painted in fern, olive, and dark green. A patch of darker green near us and to left of center is dotted with red and yellow to suggest flowers. The men and horses are small in relation to the composition. The people have brown skin and are painted with a few strokes in dark gray and muted green for the man behind the plow to the left and pale yellow and white and a red cap for the person on horseback. A band of houses with tan or light yellow walls and gray or terracotta red roofs line the far side of the field to the left, and an arched bridge crosses what appears to be a shallow, grassy ravine near the center. The horizon comes about a third of the way up this composition and a few smoke-gray clouds line the upper edge of the otherwise milk-white sky. The artist signed the lower left corner, “COROT.”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, View near Epernon, 1850/1860, oil on canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.13

View near Epernon

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1850/1860 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.9.13

The sculpture is a bust depicting a young girl with delicate features. Her head is slightly turned to the left, and she has a neutral expression. Her hair is styled up in a bun on the back of her head. The bust includes her bare shoulders and upper chest. It is white and mounted on a dark gray pedestal.
Jean-Antoine Houdon, Louise Brongniart, 1777, marble, Widener Collection, 1942.9.124

Louise Brongniart

Jean-Antoine Houdon · 1777 · marble ·  Accession ID  1942.9.124

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The Watering Place

Constant Troyon · mid 19th century · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2014.136.49

Mantuan 16th Century, The Judgment of Paris [reverse], c. 1510, bronze, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1957.14.682.b

The Judgment of Paris [reverse]

Mantuan 16th Century · c. 1510 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1957.14.682.b

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, Décoration de sallon pour Brunoy (Design for the Interior of the Château de Brunoy), 1781, pen and black ink with watercolor on laid paper, laid down on an old album sheet, Gift of David H. McDonnell, 2022.14.4

Décoration de sallon pour Brunoy (Design for the Interior of the Château de Brunoy)

Jean Démosthène Dugourc · 1781 · pen and black ink with watercolor on laid paper, laid down on an old album sheet ·  Accession ID  2022.14.4