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Title
Solar Effect in the Clouds--Ocean (Effet de soleil dans les nuages--ocean)
Artist
Gustave Le Gray
Artist Life Dates
(Villiers-le-Bel, France, 1820 - 1882, Cairo, Egypt)
Object Creation Date
circa 1856
Accession Number
2008/2.1
Medium and Support
albumen print on paper
Date Added/Updated
2015-05-15 10:49:50
Artist Nationality
French
Title
Le Cannet
Artist
Henri-Joseph Harpignies
Artist Life Dates
1819-1916
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1896
Accession Number
1963/2.19
Medium and Support
watercolor on white wove paper
Date Added/Updated
2015-05-15 10:48:40
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Monument to the Lycée Chases
Artist
Christian Boltanski
Physical Description
Three black and white photographs of young people's faces are vertically arranged. Above each and below the center image are smaller versions of similar portrait photographs. Four of these smaller photos are also arranged in the line of the large photographs, one on each end, and two separating the larger pictues. All the photos are surrounded by an arrangement of light bulbs, which are connected by a network of electrical cables that snake along the walls and over the photos.
Artist Life Dates
Born 1944
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1989
Accession Number
2006/1.154
Medium and Support
gelatin silver prints, biscuit tins, electric cables, and sixty-eight lightbulbs
Date Added/Updated
2015-05-15 10:48:13
Artist Nationality
French
Title
The Break-up of the Ice (La Débâcle or Les Glaçons)
Artist
Claude Monet
Physical Description
A sweeping winter river scene opens up from the foreground and sweeps away towards the left. Ice floes dot the river surface and snowy hills frame trees that stand along the riverbank in the middle distance. The palette of this painting is restricted to mauves, blues, greens, and whites.
Artist Life Dates
1840-1926
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1880
Accession Number
1976/2.134
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Date Added/Updated
2015-05-15 10:45:05
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Satan, from "Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes"
Artist
Paul Gavarni
Physical Description
Draped room with a man in black cloak behind a young woman who is not paying any attention, combing her hair.
Artist Life Dates
1804-1866
Object Creation Date
circa 1840-1860
Accession Number
2014/2.214
Medium and Support
lithograph on paper
Date Added/Updated
2015-02-20 15:34:44
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
La Mort a révéle le secret de sa vie
Artist
Charles-Nicolas Cochin
Physical Description
A group of women in robes all grouped together, sunlight shining from the top.
Artist Life Dates
1715-1790
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
2014/2.204
Medium and Support
crayon-manner engraving, printed in sanguine on paper
Date Added/Updated
2015-02-20 15:34:00
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Tsitrusvaan
Artist
Iaroslav Serpan
Artist Life Dates
1922-1976
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1956
Accession Number
1959/2.104
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Date Added/Updated
2015-02-20 15:30:25
Artist Nationality
Czechoslovakian and French
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Title
Le Charlatan Francois
Artist
Isidore Stanislas Helman
Physical Description
Man standing at a podium, crowd surrounding, one man on a horse.
Artist Life Dates
1743-1806
Object Creation Date
1777
Accession Number
2014/2.221
Medium and Support
engraving on paper
Date Added/Updated
2015-02-20 15:30:18
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Perseus Slaying the Dragon
Artist
J. J. de LaPorte
Physical Description
Man on a horse piercing a dragon, mountain on the side. Skeletons in the lower right corner.
Artist Life Dates
active 1787-1822
Object Creation Date
1787-1822
Accession Number
2014/2.218
Medium and Support
etching and engraving on paper
Date Added/Updated
2015-02-20 15:28:38
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Détails de la frise de la retraite des Apôtres, Valée de Hinnom, Jérusalem
Artist
Auguste Salzmann
Physical Description
A large stone carving occupies the center of the image. Above is rough-cut stone, indicating that the carving is part of a larger stone setting; below is a recess and darkness, indicating that the carving acts as a kind of decorative lintel above a cave entrance. The carving itself consists of eight square zones (or metopes) and within each is a decorative pattern of radial symetry (circles) or vegetative imagery.
Artist Life Dates
1824-1872
Object Creation Date
1854-1856
Accession Number
2014/2.104
Medium and Support
Blanquart-Evrard process salted paper print from a paper negative on cream colored plate paper
Date Added/Updated
2015-02-20 15:28:08
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Ex-membres de l'ex-société
Artist
Honoré Victorin Daumier
Physical Description
Two men seated at a table, both appear to be very sad.
Artist Life Dates
1808-1879
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2014/2.208
Medium and Support
lithograph on paper
Date Added/Updated
2015-02-20 15:27:14
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Boar Hunt
Artist
J. J. de LaPorte
Physical Description
A large group of men on horses piercing a large boar in the middle of a forest.
Artist Life Dates
active 1787-1822
Object Creation Date
1787-1822
Accession Number
2014/2.219
Medium and Support
etching on paper
Date Added/Updated
2015-02-20 15:26:15
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Le Croquet
Artist
James Tissot
Physical Description
Girl with a croquet mallet behind her back standing in grass. Dog and tree in the foreground.
Artist Life Dates
1836-1902
Object Creation Date
1878
Accession Number
2014/2.223
Medium and Support
etching and drypoint on Japan paper
Date Added/Updated
2015-02-20 15:25:44
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Du Cabinet de Madame d'Axaincourt (Reclining Female Nude)
Artist
François Boucher
Physical Description
Woman recling against a cloth covered seat. Two small children play on either side of her.
Artist Life Dates
1703-1770
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
2014/2.213
Medium and Support
sanguine on paper
Date Added/Updated
2015-02-20 15:25:18
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Ile de la Cite, Paris
Artist
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Physical Description
Image of across a body of water looking at a small triangular land mass and a bridge spanning the entire image.
Artist Life Dates
1908-2004
Object Creation Date
1952; printed later
Accession Number
2014/2.262
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
Date Added/Updated
2015-02-20 15:24:32
Artist Nationality
French
Title
Campo Vaccino (Forum Romanum)
Artist
Claude Lorrain
Artist Life Dates
1604/5?-1682
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
1636
Accession Number
1953/1.47
Medium and Support
etching on paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-11-11 15:15:30
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Faste, from "Spectacles"
Artist
Jean Dubuffet
Physical Description
This print is a vertical rectangle in tones of grey, brown, beige. The area within the rectangle looks like the surface of a granite rock or boulder.
Artist Life Dates
1901 - 1985
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1959
Accession Number
2009/2.8
Medium and Support
lithograph in color on paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-11-11 15:11:50
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Ecrits et Lithographies
Artist
Jean Dubuffet
Physical Description
A color print of "JEAN DUBUFFET écrits et lithographies, Galerie LA POCHADE 157 Boulivard 5th Germian, Vermissage le 29 Février 1968." An abstract image of a woman is placed on the left while the text covers the top and right side of the print.
Artist Life Dates
1901 - 1985
Object Creation Date
1968
Accession Number
2010/2.23
Medium and Support
print on paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-11-11 15:07:24
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
The Banks of the Seine near Argenteuil [Les Bords de la Seine près Argenteuil]
Artist
Maxime Lalanne
Physical Description
A ship in the middle of a river, land on either side.
Artist Life Dates
1827-1886
Century
19th century
Accession Number
2013/2.565
Medium and Support
etching and drypoint on laid paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:05:18
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Market Scene, Town Square
Artist
Camille Pissarro
Physical Description
Street scene with a lot of blue toned umbrellas and people at a market. Lamp post in the foreground, line drawings of buildings in the background. Birds flying in the sky. Blues, browns, whites, greens and specks of red colors throughout.
Artist Life Dates
1830-1903
Object Creation Date
mid 19th century
Accession Number
2014/1.616
Medium and Support
watercolor and gouache on paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:05:15
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Madame Perregeaux (standing)
Artist
Horace Vernet
Physical Description
A woman in a ruffled long dress, hair pulled back. One foot is peaking out from under the long skirt. Her hands are together at her waist and she has a forlorn look on her face.
Artist Life Dates
French, 1789 - 1863
Century
19th century
Accession Number
2013/2.555
Medium and Support
lithograph on wove paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:05:11
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Six Scenes of Theatrical Figures
Artist
Jacques Callot
Physical Description
Twp actors performing six different scenes, wearing bird masks.
Artist Life Dates
1592-1635
Century
17th century
Accession Number
2013/2.557
Medium and Support
etching, woodcut on laid paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:05:06
Artist Nationality
French
Title
Route de Schyn, Pont du Solis
Artist
Adolphe Braun
Artist Life Dates
1812-1877
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1875
Accession Number
1981/2.141
Medium and Support
albumen print on paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:04:31
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Night Scene from Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's "The Lectern" [Le Lutrin], Illustration for the 3rd Canto
Artist
Bernard Picart
Physical Description
Three men standing in a surprised movement with an owl coming out of an overturned lectern. There is decorated border around the drawing.
Artist Life Dates
1673-1733
Century
18th century
Accession Number
2013/2.566
Medium and Support
etching and engraving on laid paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:04:18
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Fleurs
Artist
Maurice Utrillo
Physical Description
A terra cotta plant holder on a table with a small green leaf plant with yellow and purple flowers. There is text above.
Artist Life Dates
1883-1955
Object Creation Date
1928
Accession Number
2014/1.610
Medium and Support
watercolor on paper laid to board
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:04:11
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Pass and Pay [Passez Payez]
Artist
Philbert-Louis Debucourt
Physical Description
A man holding on to a woman's hand, helping her walk across. He is holding a broom in the other hand, she is wearing a formal dress. There is a busy street behind.
Artist Life Dates
1755 - 1832
Century
19th century
Accession Number
2013/2.572
Medium and Support
hand-colored lithograph on paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:03:51
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Beaumont/Oise from George Duchamel's "Maurice De Vlamnick"
Artist
Maurice de Vlaminck
Physical Description
A row of houses on the right hand side, all with side gables facing the street. There are swirled clouds above and a road leading off into the distance.
Artist Life Dates
1876-1958
Century
20th century
Accession Number
2013/2.551
Medium and Support
etching, drypoint on light brown wove paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:03:42
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Woman and Child
Artist
Anonymous French
Physical Description
A woman with a child on her back. She is wearing a long dress and has her arms folded up reaching her one shoulder (left).
Accession Number
2013/2.535
Medium and Support
black and white crayon on brown laid paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:03:28
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
L'Englise d'Aulnay-sous-Bois
Artist
Maurice Utrillo
Physical Description
A winter scene with a steepled church (with a bird on top of the steeple) in the center surounded by other buildings and a three-story building on the right hand side. There is snow on the ground and bare trees. Pinks, whites, browns and blues are the colors throughout.
Artist Life Dates
1883-1955
Object Creation Date
circa 1938
Accession Number
2014/1.615
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:03:06
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Bord de Riviere
Artist
Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine
Physical Description
People walking on a path next to the river. In the river is one small rowboat. There are trees along the right side, city in the distance and a cloudy blue sky.
Artist Life Dates
1835-1892
Object Creation Date
2nd half of the 19th century
Accession Number
2014/1.609
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:02:36
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Rue a Montmartre
Artist
Alphonse Léon Quizet
Physical Description
A view down a street, left side of the painting is a tree with foliage. Two white buildings center and right side. There are two people in blue, one in red on the lower center of the street.
Artist Life Dates
1885-1955
Object Creation Date
1st half of the 20th century
Accession Number
2014/1.611
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:01:31
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Pons, original lithograph included in the May 1961 edition of "XXe siècle" no.16
Artist
César
Physical Description
Varying rows of lines in pinks, blues, reds and browns with a white background.
Artist Life Dates
1921-1998
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
mid 20th century
Accession Number
2013/2.573
Medium and Support
color lithograph on heavy woven paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:01:03
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Assumption of the Virgin [L'Assomption]
Artist
Jacques Callot
Physical Description
Saints below surrounding a stone pedestal with the inscription "Non est hic. Mat 28", with the Virgin Mary above in the clouds with arms spread out surrounded by smaller angels. At the bottom edge of the print is engraved (left) "Callot fecit" and (center right) "Israel ex. cum priuil. Reg.".
Artist Life Dates
1592-1635
Century
17th century
Accession Number
2013/2.543
Medium and Support
etching on laid paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:00:57
Artist Nationality
French
Title
Rouen from above St. Catherine's
Artist
Anonymous French
Artist Life Dates
()
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1862-1868
Accession Number
1981/2.140
Medium and Support
albumen print on paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 13:00:36
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Classical Scene after Panini
Artist
Anonymous French
Physical Description
An outdoor scene of a man next to a stone fountain, with a man on a horse and various other people around. The fountain has an arched top and is part of a stone wall with other rounded arched openings. There is a decoration of an ornate handled urn. There is also a fleur-de-lis watermark.
Century
18th-19th century
Accession Number
2013/2.538
Medium and Support
pen and wash on paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:59:54
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Le Givre a Veneux
Artist
Alfred Sisley
Physical Description
A country scene with swirls of color all around. Two people in the lower right corner walking. There are two building in the far back past the dirt path that a vanishing point. A fence on one side in front of trees topped with green and blue leaves.
Artist Life Dates
1839-1899
Object Creation Date
1880
Accession Number
2014/1.618
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:59:30
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Paysage d'Eure et Loir
Artist
Maurice de Vlaminck
Physical Description
A street scene with a darkened sky and long buildings. There is snow and dust on the roads, telephone poles leading into the far distance and a low horizon line.
Artist Life Dates
1876-1958
Object Creation Date
late 19th century - mid 20th century
Accession Number
2014/1.608
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:58:26
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Sheet of Sketches and Caricatures
recto: studies for a group of figures (religious or allegorical) and two studies of standing women, one with child
verso: two sets of couples in caricature in contemporary dress
Artist
Anonymous French
Physical Description
First side: Various people, one holding her hands below her waist, one speaking to a little boy, a group clustered together.
Second side: two fashionably dressed couples (man and woman) walking.
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1866
Accession Number
2013/2.563.1-2
Medium and Support
graphite on paper (double-sided drawing)
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:58:08
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
8th Illustration from Twelve Illustrations of Fragments [VIIIe Cahier, Douze Cahier des Fragments]
Artist
Gilles Demarteau
Physical Description
Swirled flowers all around creating a border, various birds flying.
Artist Life Dates
1729-1776
Century
18th century
Accession Number
2013/2.571
Medium and Support
Lavis-manner engraving on paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:57:51
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Saint Maria, Saint Claude, Saint Norbert, and Saint Robert from Israel Henriet's "Images of the Saints" (Plate 48)
Artist
Jacques Callot
Physical Description
Four oval illustrations of different scenes of saints helping others.
Artist Life Dates
1592-1635
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
1636
Accession Number
2013/2.540
Medium and Support
etching on laid paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:57:31
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Landscape
Artist
Bernard Descamps
Physical Description
A curvy dirt road wrapping around a town scene with bare buildings. There is a large tree on the right side, empty sky above.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1947
Century
mid-19th century
Object Creation Date
1912
Accession Number
2013/2.552
Medium and Support
black and white chalk on brown paper, laid down on blue paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:57:15
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
The Coronation of the Virgin [ Le Couronnement de la Vierge] from a Book of Hours
Artist
Simon Vostre
Physical Description
A woman in the center being crowned. There are angels surrounding her. Christ on a thrown is blessing her.
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1508
Accession Number
2013/2.558
Medium and Support
woodcut on laid paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:56:41
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
La Bastide-du-Vert au Printemps
Artist
Henri Martin
Physical Description
Church spire in center. Lavender mountangs just above horizontal center. Vertical trees left half and two at right. Pinkish tan road curving from center to lower left. Two black cloaked figures at lower left.
Artist Life Dates
1860-1943
Object Creation Date
mid 19th century - mid 20th century
Accession Number
2014/1.613
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:55:21
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Paysage
Artist
Camille Pissarro
Physical Description
Landscape with a horizon line just below center. Land is horizontal waves in various shades of green. The line of trees at the horizon on left. The sky is blue-grey with four clouds.
Artist Life Dates
1830-1903
Object Creation Date
mid 18th century - early 20th century
Accession Number
2014/1.617
Medium and Support
oil on panel
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:54:16
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Study of Two Angels
Artist
Henri Laurens
Physical Description
A drawing of two angels side by side in almost the same position.
Artist Life Dates
1885-1954
Accession Number
2013/2.541
Medium and Support
black chalk on brown paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:54:11
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Devotion of Little St. John the Baptist [Les hommages du petit saint Jean] from a suite of nine scenes of the life of the Virgin
Artist
Anonymous French
Physical Description
The Virgin Mary seated with an infant on her lap. She is surrounded by angels and two saints on either side. To her left, the little St. John the Baptist looks up to her. There is a puti above sprinkling something in the air. Drapes pushed back on either side.
Century
17th century
Accession Number
2013/2.542
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:53:56
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Landscape (Paysage)
Artist
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Physical Description
Landscape with blue cloudy sky, green leaved trees and grass below. Two women in the clearing, one standing, one seated. Across from them is a brown cow in the lower left. There is a dense forest on the right and left edge and in the background along the bottom half of the image.
Artist Life Dates
1796-1875
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2014/1.612
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:53:23
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Le Port de le Havre (Le Havre, un Bassin)
Artist
Eugène Boudin
Physical Description
Cloudy, gloomy sky at a seaport with boats docked. Low horizon line, all sailboats, but one dingy on the left hand side. Colors of greys, blues, blacks, browns and whites.
Artist Life Dates
1824-1898
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2014/1.606
Medium and Support
oil on panel
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:53:22
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Stone Eater
Artist
Alain Mailland
Physical Description
Turned-wood sculpture composed of a cluster of small jar-like vessels with stones embedded througout
small hollow vessels with stones, joined into one whole
Artist Life Dates
born, Ivory Coast, Africa, 1959
Century
late 20th century
Object Creation Date
2000
Accession Number
2003/2.80
Medium and Support
elm burl, Italian stones
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:53:19
Artist Nationality
French
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Title
Victor Hugo
Artist
Auguste Rodin
Physical Description
A portrait of Victor Hugo. It is a profile image with his head turned to the right side. He has a long shaggy beard and a collared shirt.
Artist Life Dates
1840-1917
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2013/2.528
Medium and Support
drypoint on chine colle
Date Added/Updated
2014-08-15 12:53:15
Artist Nationality
French
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