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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
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Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
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Title
Untitled
Artist
Ellen Driscoll
Physical Description
This is an ink drawing in shades of black and brown. In the center there is a figure of a seated nude woman with her back to the viewer. The top of her head is a swirl of dark black lines. In the upper right corner is a three-masted sailing ship.
Artist Life Dates
born 1953
Object Creation Date
1997
Accession Number
2010/2.58
Medium and Support
ink, gouche on paper
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Gift of Walter and Nesta Spink
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Title
The Sculptor
Artist
Peter Grippe
Physical Description
On the left the sculptor is shown working on a model of the woman on the right. There is an angel at the feet of the woman/muse.
Artist Life Dates
1912-2002
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1957
Accession Number
2013/2.531
Medium and Support
etching and drypoint on paper
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Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
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Title
Makara - Architectural Fragment
Artist
Artist Unknown, India
Physical Description
The head of a makara sea creature with large swirled waves behind it.
Century
5th century
Object Creation Date
400-499
Accession Number
2012/2.161
Medium and Support
terracotta
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Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
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Title
Castronauts
Artist
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Echaurren Matta
Physical Description
An abstract arrangement of coils, arcs, angular and organic forms in "space" shading from rose to blue.
Artist Life Dates
1911-2002
Object Creation Date
1965
Accession Number
2011/2.209
Medium and Support
color etching and aquatint on paper
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Gift of Walter and Nesta Spink
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Title
Adoration of the Shepherds
Artist
Nicolaus van Aelst
Physical Description
This black and white print depicts a scene with groups of figures separated compositionally by a large wooden post that is placed in the foreground of the composition, just left of center. Four male figures on the left look toward the scene on the right where a woman kneels in prayer before a child accompanied by two angels and a haloed man feeding hay to a donkey.
Artist Life Dates
1526-1613
Object Creation Date
circa 1604-1606
Accession Number
2012/2.185
Medium and Support
engraving and etching on off-white medium laid paper
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Title
Figures Listening to a Guitar Player, Malaga
Artist
Denis Raffet
Artist Life Dates
1804-1860
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2012/2.207
Medium and Support
pen and ink over graphite on brown wove paper, laid down on beige wove paper
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Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
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Title
Sketch of the Baths of Caracalla (?)
Artist
Anonymous
Physical Description
This sketch shows ancient ruins. The top half of the page is left empty with sky. At the righ is an apsed portico and from it, to the left of the page, runs a wall studded with windows. In the foreground is a set of stairs with shrubbery overgrowing.
Century
18th century?
Accession Number
2013/2.559.2
Medium and Support
red crayon on laid paper
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Title
Study of a Woman Standing
Artist
Artist Unknown
Physical Description
A woman in a formal dress in a red/orange color and beige hat standing next to a wall. In her arms she is holding fabric about her waist. She has long brown curly hair.
Object Creation Date
circa 1800
Accession Number
2013/2.530
Medium and Support
crayon and watercolor over graphite on laid paper
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Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
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Title
Zena Mill
Artist
Bolton Brown
Physical Description
This black and white lithograph gives the illusion that it was rendered in pencil. It depicts a building on the right of the composition with a series of wooden planks attached to the structure extending into the foreground. On the left there are large trees. The entire composition appears to be infused with sunlight.
Artist Life Dates
1864-1936
Object Creation Date
1921
Accession Number
2012/2.177
Medium and Support
lithograph on china paper
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Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
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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
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Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
Title
Jain Goddess
Artist
Artist Unknown, India
Century
12th-13th century
Object Creation Date
12th century - 13th century
Accession Number
2003/2.77A&B
Medium and Support
marble
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Gift of Walter and Nesta Spink
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Title
Three Women and a Man in the Garden
Artist
Anonymous
Physical Description
Oval format, three women next to a man in a group, one man off in the distance. Garden setting.
Century
18th-19th century
Accession Number
2013/2.547
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper, oval format
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Title
Christ at the Marriage at Cana
Artist
Giovanni Battista Vanni
Physical Description
This etching depicts a vast and lively gathering of figures around a large banquet table in the foreground accompanied by other crowds of figures throughout the composition. The scene takes place in an outdoor setting surrounded by classical architecture that recedes perspectivally in the distance.
Artist Life Dates
(1599 - 1660)
Object Creation Date
1637
Accession Number
2012/2.214
Medium and Support
etching and engraving on heavy laid paper
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Title
Achilles and Hector
Artist
Hans Sebald Beham
Physical Description
This engraving depicts a frieze-like arrangement of figures in horizontal format. Two central figures are engaged in a duel on horseback. Several other nude male figures are engaged in battle throughout the composition. The artist's monogram is placed in the upper left corner of the image.
Artist Life Dates
1500-1550
Object Creation Date
1518-1530
Accession Number
2012/2.195
Medium and Support
engraving on medium laid paper
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Title
Le Concert / Au Madame la Comtesse de Saint Brisson
Artist
Antoine Duclos
Physical Description
An Eighteenth Century audience attending a musical event in a grand salon.
Artist Life Dates
1742-1795
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
2011/2.210
Medium and Support
etching on paper
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Title
Sketch of a Woman
Artist
Dudley Hardy
Physical Description
A woman in motion walking towards the left. She is wearing a very full skirt that is flowing behind her. Her right arm is raised up while the left arm is on her thigh holding her dress. She is wearing an elaborate hat.
Artist Life Dates
circa 1867 -1922
Century
19th-early 20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1910
Accession Number
2013/2.537
Medium and Support
ink and wash on beige wove paper
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Title
Watercarrier
Artist
Artist Unknown, India
Physical Description
A standing figure of a watercarrier holding a bag on his left hand side. His right arm appears to be no longer part of the sculpture. He appears to be weighed down to the one side and his body is tilted. He is wearing a skirt and a turban.
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2012/2.164
Medium and Support
terracotta
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Title
Untitled [Ohne Titel] (1945) New Year Card for Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
Artist
Asger Jorn
Physical Description
New Years card with attached print that depicts an abstract figure with one large eye and long hair.
Artist Life Dates
1914-1973
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1945
Accession Number
2013/2.562
Medium and Support
etching on heavy wove paper
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Title
La Mode élégante
Artist
V. Muchot
Physical Description
This colored engraving features what appear to be three generations of women in elaborate dress in an interior space. A young girl in a brown dress is positioned with her back to the viewer on the left of the composition. She presents an object to a woman in a blue-grey dress who is seated in the center of the composition holding a piece of paper in her right hand. A young woman in a dark and pale turquoise dress stands on the right of the composition looking down at the child. Between the two adult figures is a table decorated with a vase of pink flowers.
Object Creation Date
circa 1870
Accession Number
2012/2.201
Medium and Support
wood engraving with hand coloring on paper
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Title
Rocky Hillside
Artist
Anonymous
Physical Description
This black and white chalk drawing on blue paper depicts a loosely sketched landscape featuring rock formations and small hills. The rocks in the foreground are highlighted in white chalk as is what appears to be a glimpse of sky in the upper right corner.
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2012/2.193
Medium and Support
black and white chalk on blue wove paper
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Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
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Title
Scene with Antique Ruins
Artist
Hubert Robert
Physical Description
This red-chalk drawing depicts a draped male figure standing with his arms crossed gazing up at a large column with a large urn on top of it amidst classical ruins. Other spoiled sections of columns and an ornate capital are piled next to the central column. The darkly shaded foreground contrasts with the light sky, which takes up the upper three-quarters of the composition.
Artist Life Dates
1733-1808
Accession Number
2012/2.183
Medium and Support
red crayon on heavy laid paper
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Title
Sketch of the Baths of Caracalla (?)
Artist
Anonymous
Physical Description
Sketch of ruins. In the foreground, piles of rubble can be see. At the back, there are a series of entrances flanked by columns.
Century
18th century?
Accession Number
2013/2.559.4
Medium and Support
red crayon on laid paper
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Title
Illustration Proof without text of A.M. David's "Statuaire" for Aloysius Bertard's book "Gaspard de la nuit:fantasies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot"
Artist
Artist Unknown
Physical Description
Two rectangular friezes: one horizontal, one vertical. In the larger horizontal section, there is a man's head inside a triangle with two angel heads on the sides, with an elaborate border. In the vertical section, there are two angel heads blowing air out of their mouths.
Century
Early 20th century
Object Creation Date
1904
Accession Number
2013/2.549
Medium and Support
woodcut on paper
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Title
Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew
Artist
Workshop of Michael Wolgemut
Physical Description
A haloed man is attached to a plank in the foreground of the composition. A male figure positioned behind him holds a knife to his knee while a male figure in front of him holds a knife to his wrist. A figure dressed like a church father stands watching over the scene on the right.
Artist Life Dates
1434-1519
Object Creation Date
15th century - early 16th century
Accession Number
2012/2.206
Medium and Support
woodcut on medium ivory laid paper
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Title
The Detraction of Good Things [Detractio Bonorum] from Sebastian Brant's "Stultifera navis [The Ship of Fools]" published by Johann Bergmann
Artist
Anonymous
Physical Description
Text on both sides. One side has the image of a man with dogs at his feet. There is also a jester at his feet, kneeling down.
Century
15th century
Accession Number
2013/2.550.1-2
Medium and Support
woodcut on paper
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Title
La Mysteriuse
Artist
James Tissot
Physical Description
A woman in an elegant dress with two small dogs, walking on a path through a woodland in advance of a gentleman in a top hat and two nuns in the distance.
Artist Life Dates
1836-1902
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1885
Accession Number
2011/2.206
Medium and Support
etching and drypoint on paper
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Gift of Walter and Nesta Spink
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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
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Title
Beauvais Cathedral
Artist
John Coney
Physical Description
This highly detailed drawing in a vertical format depicts the interior of a gothic cathedral looking up at the soaring rib-vaulted ceiling. It appears as though every brick and architectural detail is rendered. The image provides a view into the choir and a transept to the right, which is decorated with a very ornate rose window.
Artist Life Dates
1786-1833
Object Creation Date
1823
Accession Number
2012/2.192
Medium and Support
pen and brown ink on extremely fine paper laid down on heavy cream wove paper
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Title
Landscape with River and Farm
Artist
Anonymous English
Physical Description
A country scene with a river on the right side, side gable cabin in the center and two small figures. There are large trees surrounding the house.
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
2013/2.556
Medium and Support
graphite on paper
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Title
Alexander Pope Esq.
Artist
Jacobus Houbraken
Physical Description
The upper portion of this print depicts an ornate round frame inside of which is a three quarter portrait of a man from the waist up with his left hand held to his head. The lower portion of the print depicts the base on which the frame rests decorated with a classical scene of figures in a landscape. A collection of objects including books, a mask, a crown, a tambourine and sheet music rest atop the base.
Artist Life Dates
1698-1780
Object Creation Date
1747
Accession Number
2012/2.209
Medium and Support
etching and engraving on wove paper with printed text on accompanying shet
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Title
Torso of Goddess
Artist
Artist Unknown, India
Physical Description
A small figurine of a torso of a goddess. She has a long oval head with a decorated head piece and dress. Her eyes are circular in shape and hollowed out, so they appear very dark.
Century
pre-historic
Accession Number
2012/2.166
Medium and Support
terracotta
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Title
Mother with Two Children
Artist
Adriaen Jansz van Ostade
Physical Description
A woman in an arched doorway handing a baby to another woman on the other side. They both have head coverings on, the windows of the building are cross-hatched.
Artist Life Dates
1610-1685
Century
17th century
Accession Number
2013/2.545
Medium and Support
etching on paper
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Title
Figures with Greek Inscription
Artist
Anonymous
Physical Description
This lithograph depicts two highly abstracted and intertwined standing figures delineated in white outline against a black background. Fishtail-like forms emerge out of the figures. There is Greek lettering inscribed next to the top of the figure on the left and the letters HPA inscribed next to the top of the figure on the right.
Object Creation Date
20th century
Accession Number
2012/2.216
Medium and Support
three-color lithograph on heavy wove paper
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Title
Flying Dragon
Artist
Georges Rouault
Physical Description
This black and white print depicts a creature with an alligator-like open jaw with three sharp teeth. The creature takes up most of the image and appears to be floating in space. A black ground with a suggestion of a small plant appears at the lower edge of the composition.
Artist Life Dates
1871-1958
Object Creation Date
1928
Accession Number
2012/2.186
Medium and Support
etching, aquatint and roulette on heavy laid paper
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Title
Elevations/Sections of Urns
Artist
Anonymous
Physical Description
An elevation drawing of urns with dimensions and a lined background.
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
2013/2.568.2
Medium and Support
etching on laid paper
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Title
Le Follet
Artist
Gabrielle Toudaesq
Physical Description
This colored engraving features two women in elaborate dress on a beach with a wavy ocean behind them. The woman on the left wears a blue dress accented with pink and a hat in the same colors. The woman on the right wears a beige dress accented in brown and white and a hat in the same colors decorated with flowers. She also holds a small parasol above her head. The women appear engaged in conversation as they both gesture with their hands. In the distance in the water on the right there are three ships. On the left in the distance a rock formation is depicted.
Object Creation Date
circa 1870
Accession Number
2012/2.203
Medium and Support
wood engraving with hand coloring on paper
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Title
Banks of the Thames [Bords de la Tamise]
Artist
Artist Unknown
Physical Description
A sparse scene with an empty foreground representing water and a vacant sky above. There is a small house in the center, surrounded by trees and foliage.
Century
19th century
Accession Number
2013/2.577
Medium and Support
etching and drypoint on chine collé (Japan tissue laid down on cream laid paper)
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Title
Conversion of St. Paul [La Conversione de St. Paul]
Artist
Jacques Callot
Physical Description
A battle scene with the sun's rays shining down through the clouds. At the center, a man has fallen from his horse and lays on the ground. From the clouds above, a voice comes down, inscribed "SAVLE SAVLE QVID ME PERSEQVERIS." At base of print is written "Totus lesus in Paulo consumptus est. Chrysost. Iesus-Christ s'est enployé tout entier en ce mystere."
Artist Life Dates
1592-1635
Century
17th century
Accession Number
2013/2.544
Medium and Support
etching on laid paper
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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
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Title
Garcon donnant l'avione a un cheval detele
Artist
Théodore Géricault
Physical Description
A young boy holds a grain sack for a horse, tethered to a cart, in an expansive landscape.
Artist Life Dates
1791-1824
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2011/2.207
Medium and Support
lithograph on paper
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Title
Aqueduct of Nerone, Tivoli
Artist
Joseph Antoine David de Marseille
Physical Description
This drawing depicts a landscape with two figures against a tree in dark wash in the lower left foreground and a faintly washed mid-ground scene of a relief of a crowd of figures on an architectural element. An arch of an aqueduct and a faint castle tower somewhat in ruins appear in the background surrounded by lush foliage.
Artist Life Dates
1725-1789
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
2012/2.191
Medium and Support
pen and ink, black chalk and grey wash over graphite on laid paper, laid down
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Title
The Visitation
Artist
Anonymous
Physical Description
Two women on a staircase in an embrace. A man on one side with an arm raised in greeting. Another man is on the other side with a bag over his shoulder.
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1827
Accession Number
2013/2.560
Medium and Support
pencil, pen and brown ink on laid paper
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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
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Title
Les roches interrompues
Artist
Max Ernst
Physical Description
This etching consists of an abstracted composition executed in loose lines with a more figural representation of a figure with its arms raised on the left accompanied by a more abstracted form in the center of the composition. The etching is printed on a heavily embossed surface made up of raised circular lines. There are passages of hand coloring on the figure on the left whose torso is colored in yellow and blue. Other small circles are colored in red on the form to the figure’s right.
Artist Life Dates
1891-1976
Accession Number
2012/2.188
Medium and Support
etching with embossing and hand-coloring on heavy wove paper
relevance
rank 12.54326
Credit Line
Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
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