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Title

Tao Yuanming Appreciating Chrysanthemums

Artist

Ni Tian (Ni T'ien)

Physical Description

Pastoral poet Tao Yuanming (372–427) and a boy-servant bearing chrysanthemums on his back are shown. Two pine trees dominate the composition. Tao Yuanming’s forward gaze and slightly hunched posture exhibit his full inner exhilaration when chrysanthemums were collected. The subtle smile on the poet’s face seems also to reflect a moment of transcendence.

Has signature and seal of the artist

Artist Life Dates

1855 - 1919

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1855-1919

Accession Number

1987/1.275

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink and color on paper

relevance

rank 7.01995

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Back of Seated Nude

Artist

Humbert Albrizio

Artist Life Dates

1907-1970

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

1951/1.26

Medium and Support

pen and ink on cream-colored paper

relevance

rank 7.01503

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Title

A votive plaque depicting an image of the Buddha, housed within a small temple

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

A small, thin, molded clay plaque with a bas-relief scene.

Century

6th-7th century

Object Creation Date

late 6th century - early 7th century

Accession Number

1964/2.21

Medium and Support

terracotta, molded

relevance

rank 7.01088

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Title

Picture of the Cinnabar Peak

Artist

Sun Yi (Sun I)

Physical Description

This is a delicate landscape. There are mountain crags, dispersed trees and bushes, and some houses/huts depicted. There is calligraphy on the upper right hand corner with one red seal, and towards the upper left corner with a red seal. There is also another red seal on the lower left hand corner. The colors are muted and are barely discernable from one another. There is a central jutting rock in the center of the painting that takes up a lot of horizontal space, and encourages the eye to travel upwards.

Artist Life Dates

active mid-17th century

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1657

Accession Number

1987/1.155

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper

relevance

rank 7.00734

Secondary Keywords

upward

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Title

Cloudy Mountains and Misty Trees, after Dong Yuan

Artist

Zha Shibiao (Cha Shih-piao)

Physical Description

This vertical composition consists of tall, thin trees in the foreground, with a lone boatman floating beneath and behind them. As the scene stretches upwars, mountains take up a dominant position in the picture, stretching toward the sky. Above them is calligraphic text.

Artist Life Dates

(Haiyang, Anhui, 1615 - 1698)

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

2nd half of 17th century

Accession Number

1975/1.73

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink and color on paper

relevance

rank 6.99197

Secondary Keywords

upward

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Title

A Cottage

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Physical Description

A two-story cottage with two chimneys is in the middle of the page. The view of it is obstructed by the large mound that takes up the right half of the image. There is a green tree on the left side of the cottage.

Artist Life Dates

1775-1851

Century

18th-19th century

Object Creation Date

1775-1851

Accession Number

1985/1.100

Medium and Support

watercolor and graphite on off-white laid paper

relevance

rank 6.99170

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Floral Still Life

Artist

Hans Zatzka

Physical Description

A wide gladd vase rests upon a table partly covered by a cloth in a blue pattern. The vase contains a tall floral arrangement. Some flowed include pink, white, red and yellow roses, hydrageas, and lillies, among other flowers and greens. Floating around the flowers are three blue and white butterflies. The background behind the flower arrangement transitions from an almost black background from the left to a distant landscape scene, either through a window view or a painting.

Artist Life Dates

1859-1945

Object Creation Date

1877-1977

Accession Number

2009/2.92

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 6.98918

Secondary Keywords

buildings and the land

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Title

Agfa, Berlin, 1945

Artist

Dmitri Baltermants

Physical Description

A man in uniform and heavy coat looks to his right as he stands posed next to a broken sign and broken mannequins in the rubble-filled street of Berlin.

Artist Life Dates

Russian, 1912-1990

Object Creation Date

2003

Accession Number

2012/2.77

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 6.98567

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Title

Untitled, (European Farm)

Artist

Brett Weston

Physical Description

A black and white aerial view of farms and their surrounding land. A forest can be seen in the background.

Artist Life Dates

1911-1993

Object Creation Date

1972

Accession Number

2011/2.151

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 6.97762

Secondary Keywords

color

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Title

Netsuke of a child holding a lion mask (pair with 2002/2.31)

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

late 19th century

Accession Number

2002/2.30

Medium and Support

paint, gilding and lacquer on wood

relevance

rank 6.97644

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Title

Brooklyn Beachcomber

Artist

Brett Weston

Physical Description

A man sits in the second of three rowboats docked on a beach. A wooden building is in the background.

Artist Life Dates

1911-1993

Object Creation Date

1945

Accession Number

2011/2.152

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 6.97644

Secondary Keywords

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Title

The Locket

Artist

David Shapiro

Physical Description

An abstract oil painting, similar to a blank canvas.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1922

Object Creation Date

1971

Accession Number

2011/1.86

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 6.97193

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Title

Prayer scroll fragment, from a prayer wheel

Artist

Artist Unknown, Tibet

Physical Description

A fragment of a horizontal scroll, which would originally have been rolled up and tucked inside a Tibetan prayer wheel, with the text of a prayer printed in red and black ink.

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

1959/1.158

Medium and Support

red and black ink on paper

relevance

rank 6.96940

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Title

Athens - Altar of Dionysus in Theatre

Artist

Anonymous Italian?

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1865

Accession Number

1980/1.162

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

relevance

rank 6.96045

Secondary Keywords

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Title

La Ultima Cena del General Sandino

Artist

Armando Morales

Physical Description

A group of men sit at a round table drinking. The full moon is seen through a window on the right.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1927

Object Creation Date

1993

Accession Number

2011/1.96.5

Medium and Support

lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 6.95778

Secondary Keywords

furnishings

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Title

Autumn Wind, from the Furyu rokkasen (The Six Elegant Poets) series

Artist

Suzuki Harunobu

Physical Description

A young woman hurries across a bridge, using one of her sleeves to shield her head from the strong wind. Plants around her bend in the force of the wind, and tree branches lose their leaves. An Uta poem by Bunya-no-Yasuhide graces the top register.

Artist Life Dates

1725-1770

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1768

Accession Number

1948/1.156

Medium and Support

chûban (medium size) nishiki-e (full-color woodblock print) on paper

relevance

rank 6.95633

Secondary Keywords

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Title

La Ventanita

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

A small, square door set into a wall is opened.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

1970

Accession Number

2011/2.102

Medium and Support

black and white lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 6.95512

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Netsuke of a man and badger

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2002/2.27

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 6.95489

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Title

Netsuke of a child holding a lantern (pair with 2002/2.30)

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

late 19th century

Accession Number

2002/2.31

Medium and Support

paint, gilding and lacquer on wood

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rank 6.95489

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Title

Calendar

Artist

Serizawa Keisuke

Physical Description

This print of a calendar for the month of January, 1964, is dominated by red. Blues and purples round out the composition. Sundays are indicated with red numbers and purple boxes, while the rest of the calendar days sit in red boxes with the numbered date showing as paper through negative space. The year 1963 is printed at top center in a rounded and pointed red rectangular shape. Birds, flowers, and kanji are used to decorate the upper register.

Artist Life Dates

1895-1984

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1962

Accession Number

2010/2.48.1

Medium and Support

color print (kataezome) on handmade mulberry paper

relevance

rank 6.94874

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Title

El Saguán, San Juan

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

A black and white lithograph print of a long arched tunnel. Down the archway are two more entryways, projecting light from within out to the first archway, where the street outside is dark.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

1967

Accession Number

2011/2.96

Medium and Support

black and white lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 6.94288

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Title

Wig

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Zulu peoples South Africa

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1900-1983

Accession Number

1983/1.98

Medium and Support

woven wool and red dye

relevance

rank 6.93656

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Title

Terracotta Mold

Artist

Artist Unknown, India

Physical Description

This is a wood-colored, stump-like figure that is narrower on the bottom and blossoms towards its top. The surface has multiple, engraved designs. The top and bottom have jagged edges.

Century

ca. 1st Century BC

Object Creation Date

circa 1st century BCE

Accession Number

2010/2.57

Medium and Support

terracotta

relevance

rank 6.93137

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descriptors

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Title

Netsuke of seated sage with lion dog

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

18th century-19th century

Object Creation Date

late 18th century - 19th century

Accession Number

2002/2.35

Medium and Support

ivory

relevance

rank 6.92204

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Title

Untitled, Bronx Storefronts

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

An oil painting of two storefronts. The first store is brightly painted, while the second one is in more neutral shades.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

1985-1990

Accession Number

2011/2.135

Medium and Support

oil on board

relevance

rank 6.91752

Secondary Keywords

image form

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Title

Cape Cod, 1972 (Volleyball Net)

Artist

Harry Callahan

Physical Description

A black and white phto of a beach. A volleyball net is set up in the sand and some small boats are washed up on the shore.

Artist Life Dates

1912 - 1999

Object Creation Date

1972

Accession Number

2011/2.6

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 6.91459

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Windfall (Czech-Republic)

Artist

Jill Mathis

Physical Description

A black and white photo of a forest. A white line down the center divides the photo.

Artist Life Dates

American, born 1964

Century

20th-21st century

Object Creation Date

1996

Accession Number

2011/2.170

Medium and Support

digital image, chromogenic print on paper

relevance

rank 6.91332

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Vase (one of a pair)

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Cloisonne (metalwork with enamel decor) jar. This jar uses brightly colored red, blue, green, yellow, and pinkish-purple enamelsto decorate its registers with intricate floral and vegetal patterns. Mounted on a sturdy circular base, the body of the vase flares outward to its widest point, then curves inward more steeply toward the neck, from which a bowl-like mouth curves upwards.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.470.2

Medium and Support

Cloisonné (metalwork with enamel décor)

relevance

rank 6.91332

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Untitled, (Tree Trunk & Branches)

Artist

Brett Weston

Physical Description

A black and white photo of a tree trunk and its branches. The forest floor can be seen through the branches.

Artist Life Dates

1911-1993

Object Creation Date

1958

Accession Number

2011/2.154

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 6.91332

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Vase (one of a pair)

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Cloisonne (metalwork with enamel decor) jar. This jar uses brightly colored red, blue, green, yellow, and pinkish-purple enamelsto decorate its registers with intricate floral and vegetal patterns. Mounted on a sturdy circular base, the body of the vase flares outward to its widest point, then curves inward more steeply toward the neck, from which a bowl-like mouth curves upwards.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.470.1

Medium and Support

Cloisonné (metalwork with enamel décor)

relevance

rank 6.91332

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Flowers and Grasses

Artist

Watanabe Shikô

Physical Description

Realistic flowers and grasses, painted with vivid colors on a hanging scroll.

Artist Life Dates

1683-1755

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

1st half of 18th century

Accession Number

1964/2.65

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink and color on paper

relevance

rank 6.91200

Secondary Keywords

asia (continent)

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Title

Grape Picker

Artist

Antonio Frasconi

Physical Description

This two-color woodcut in black and pale pink depicts a standing female figure against a black background in vertical format. The figure is shown bending over collecting grapes in the folds of her apron. Her skirt is decorated in a bird motif and her hair is windswept. The verso of this print contains an announcement for an exhibition at Weyhe Gallery in New York in March and April of 1951.

Artist Life Dates

1919-2013

Object Creation Date

circa 1951

Accession Number

2012/2.187

Medium and Support

two-color woodcut on laid paper

relevance

rank 6.91177

Secondary Keywords

agricultural functions

costume

costume by form

descriptors

food

fruit

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main garments for the lower body

materials

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Title

Netsuke of demon hiding under a straw hat

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2002/2.24

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 6.91133

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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Title

La Lithographie en Couleurs par Andre Mellerio

Artist

Andre Mellerio

Object Creation Date

1898

Accession Number

2008/2.455

Medium and Support

beige wove paper book

relevance

rank 6.91133

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

books

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Title

Netsuke of emaciated man, seated crosslegged with head thrown back in a scream

Artist

Shôzan

Artist Life Dates

19th century

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2002/2.29

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 6.91133

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Title

Jerusalem Plant

Artist

Jim Dine

Physical Description

A print of a multi-leaved plant. The plant is in black in white but the image is framed in red.

Artist Life Dates

1935

Object Creation Date

1982

Accession Number

2011/1.70

Medium and Support

lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 6.90869

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Title

The Labors of Hercules: The Dragon of the Garden of the Hesperides (one of the s

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist Life Dates

1502- circa 1561

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1550

Accession Number

1956/1.68

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

relevance

rank 6.90749

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Title

Bamboo and Rock

Artist

Chang Ku-nien, Liu Yantao, Gao Yihong

Physical Description

A rock rises above the earth, and branches of bamboo mimic the gentle curve of its shape. Grasses grow below. Two lines of calligraphic text are written verticalley on the left side of the painting.

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1960-1975

Accession Number

2006/1.134

Medium and Support

ink on paper

relevance

rank 6.89663

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Title

Pont de l'Estacade

Artist

Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine

Physical Description

This painting shows a view of the Seine river in Paris, including the wooden bridge, the Pont de l'Estacade. The foreground is filled is small boats and a dock winch, while the in the distance the bridge and buildings of Paris glow in late afternoon light.

Artist Life Dates

1835-1892

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1880-1885

Accession Number

1938.21

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 6.88671

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Title

Untitled, Ropa Vieja

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

Pieces of white cloth are hanging on the laundry lines to be blown dry by the wind.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

1997

Accession Number

2011/2.74

Medium and Support

color lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 6.88585

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Title

Ancona with a View of the Arch of Trajan

Artist

Samuel Prout

Physical Description

This small watercolor shows the view of an arch by a city waterfront. A wall closes off the left side of the street leading up to the arch, and creates a powerful sense of recession into space leading from the foreground to the monument in the middle distance. Scattered figures inhabit the street. Beyond the arch may be glimpsed the waters of a bay and a hill rising above the far shore.

Artist Life Dates

(1783 - 1852)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1824-1852

Accession Number

2009/1.511.4

Medium and Support

watercolor, bodycolor, pen with brown ink on paper

relevance

rank 6.88046

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Title

Plum Blossoms, after Jin Nong

Artist

Li Jishou (Li Chi-shou)

Physical Description

The branches of a plum tree stretch skyward, skillfully utilizing the vertical space of this hanging scroll. Black dots are used as accents along the branches, making them look knotted and full of texture. These heavy features are offset by the delicate depiction of plum blossoms. Calligraphic text is in the upper right corner, with two seals.

Artist Life Dates

active 19th century

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1985/2.28

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink on paper

relevance

rank 6.88026

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Title

Florence - Loggia dei Lanzi

Artist

Anonymous Italian

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1875

Accession Number

1980/1.154

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

relevance

rank 6.88018

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Title

Woman at a Window

Artist

Rembrandt van Rijn

Physical Description

This is an ink drawing of a woman with crossed forearms in a window.

Artist Life Dates

1606-1669

Object Creation Date

1625-1700

Accession Number

2009/1.512

Medium and Support

ink on paper

relevance

rank 6.87895

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Title

Figures from Chinese History: The Taoist Luo Gongyuan

Artist

Huang Shen

Physical Description

Paper mounted on aqua silk. There are three figures present in the image. The focal point is a cart full of fruit. There is calligraphy on the upper left hand side of the image, complete with two red seals. There is a Christies sticker on the bottom left corner of the mounting.

Artist Life Dates

1687-1766

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

1687-1766

Accession Number

1983/2.157

Medium and Support

album leaf, ink and color on paper

relevance

rank 6.87846

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Title

Eiffel Tower

Artist

André Kertész

Physical Description

A black and white photo of the area beneath the Eiffel Tower. A shadow from an arch covers most of the ground. A crowd of people stand beneath the tower.

Artist Life Dates

1894-1985

Object Creation Date

1929

Accession Number

2011/2.166

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 6.87666

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Taiwan Cross-Island Highway (Section 1)

Artist

Chang Ku-nien

Physical Description

A panoramic view of the highway cutting across the Tarako Gorges, laid out in four connecting hanging scrolls.

Inscription: “sublime and bright--what opens in this enormous curtain (the connected hanging scrolls).”

Artist Life Dates

(Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1967

Accession Number

2006/1.104.1

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink and color on paper

relevance

rank 6.86995

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Title

Taiwan Cross-Island Highway (Section 3)

Artist

Chang Ku-nien

Physical Description

A panoramic view of the highway cutting across the Tarako Gorges, laid out in four connecting hanging scrolls.

Inscription: “sublime and bright--what opens in this enormous curtain (the connected hanging scrolls).”

Artist Life Dates

(Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1967

Accession Number

2006/1.104.3

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink and color on paper

relevance

rank 6.86995

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Title

TOP: Fishermen with the Inhauler of the Nets at the Town’s Shore (Fischer beim Einholen der Netze am Ufer vor der Stadt), sheet 4 from the folio 12 Views of Normandy (XII Vues de la Normandie)

BOTTOM: River Landscape with Four Men Encamping on a Rock (Flußlandschaft mit vier auf einem Fels lagernden Männern), sheet 5 from the folio 12 Views of Normandy (XII Vues de la Normandie)

Artist

Franz Edmund Weirotter

Physical Description

5 physical tears on left edge, indicating the original book bindings.

TOP IMAGE. A river appears in lower right corner, traveling from "front" to "back" of image. Along its banks two distant windmills occur, indicating Holland as the location. A distant boat with sails, and a closer group of three row boats on river. The closer group has thee figures bent over their work, which looks like hauling nets. In the center is a nearly barren twisted tree, at whose base is a rough hut of blanks and branches. A path from the bottom right bends up and around the hut and tree, on which a small group of three are poised (two sitting figures appear to listen to a standing third) and a single man travels further into the distance. Houses with thatched roofs, some patched with boards, appear on the right of the image, along the riverbanks into the distance.

BOTTOM IMAGE. A river curves gently back from the bottom right. Boulders surround the bank on the left half of the image, with scraggly trees and vegetation. Several boulders stretch out into the water, and on one of these, on the bottom right, is a group of perhaps three viewers. Two are seated, and appear to be listening to a third, who is standing and pointing to the right. Hills can be seen in the bottom right corner, stretching into the distance along the river.

Artist Life Dates

1730 - 1771

Century

18th century

Accession Number

2007/2.113

Medium and Support

engraving in black ink on laid paper

relevance

rank 6.86992

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Title

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802)

Artist

Rembrandt Peale

Physical Description

Bust-length portrait of a woman with grey hair in a cream colored dress seated in a red chair with a view of the landscape to right of figure seen through an illusionistic stone oval window or oculus.

Artist Life Dates

1778-1860

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1858

Accession Number

1895.76

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 6.86933

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