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Title

L'Amour dans les Ruines

Artist

Jean-Émile Laboureur

Artist Life Dates

1877-1943

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1916

Accession Number

1948/1.373

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

Primary Keywords

lovers

ruins

Title

Study for 'Lovers'

Artist

Jacques Lipchitz

Artist Life Dates

1891-1973

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1939

Accession Number

1948/1.91

Medium and Support

ink and wash with red and black Conté crayon on faded blue laid paper

Primary Keywords

lovers

nudes

Title

The Triangle

Artist

Paul Rosié

Artist Life Dates

Born 1914

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1947

Accession Number

1949/2.34

Medium and Support

ink and pen on white paper

Primary Keywords

lovers

woman

Title

Lovers

Artist

Anthony Caro

Artist Life Dates

1924-2013

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1956

Accession Number

1961/1.172

Medium and Support

bronze

Primary Keywords

abstraction

lovers

sculpture

Title

Love in Kazalamoo

Artist

Roland Ginzel

Artist Life Dates

born 1921

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1964

Accession Number

1965/2.24

Medium and Support

lithograph on paper

Primary Keywords

couples

lovers

Title

Dish (Tondino) with portrait of a young woman and grotesque decoration

Artist

Nicola da Urbino

Physical Description

The profile bust of a young woman is depicted in the well of this dish. The rim features a variety of grotesque ornament, including two winged, serpent-like creatures with human heads, whose tails interlace at the top of the plate. Cornucopias full of fruit appear beneath these creatures, followed by weapons and shields, one of which bears the date 1526. At the bottom appears the head of a cherub supporting a vase of fruit.

Artist Life Dates

c. 1480-1537/1538

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1526

Accession Number

1965/2.79

Medium and Support

tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

Primary Keywords

grotesques

lovers

maiolica

plates (dishes)

portraits

Title

The Discovery of Mars and Venus

Artist

Jacob Cornelisz. Cobaert

Physical Description

A nude man and woman recline together on the right side of this octagonal plaque. They lay upon the mesh of a net, which is being pulled by a nude male figure seated nearby next to an anvil. Behind the seated man appear two standing figures working at a brick forge. Another pair of figures stands in the middle ground with a row of trees behind them. A diminutive figure mounted on horses appears against a disk in the sky.

Artist Life Dates

active 1602-1621

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1602-1621

Accession Number

1969/2.158

Medium and Support

bronze

Primary Keywords

bronzes

lovers

mythology (literary genre)

net (object)

rome (inhabited place)

Title

Eternal Spring

Artist

Auguste Rodin

Physical Description

Two nude figures embrace and kiss. The man is seated with his legs crossed as he bends to the side to embrace the woman, his arm under her shoulders. The woman, kneeling beside the man, arches upward and backwards to meet the bending figure of the man. The smooth modeling of the figures is contrasted by the more agitated modeling of the base and the support on which the man sits.

Artist Life Dates

1840-1917

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1884; cast 1898 - 1918

Accession Number

1976/1.235

Medium and Support

bronze

Primary Keywords

lovers

nudes

woman

Title

Lady meeting her lover from the Rasamanjari of Bhanudatta series

Artist

India, Rajasthan, Mewar School

Physical Description

Brightly colored painting with three primary registers. The uppermost and smallest register contains a poem. The lower two are larger and similar in size. The bottommost depicts stairs, architectural structures, snakes, and flowering plants. Above, the middle register frames a seated man under a canopy-like architectural form, who reaches out to grasp the wrist of a woman. Behind her is a flowering tree, and and the far right, and open door.

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1630

Accession Number

1980/2.242

Medium and Support

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Primary Keywords

calligraphy

lovers

painting

palm tree

poetry

stairs

Title

Man and Woman

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Artist Life Dates

1881 - 1973

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1963

Accession Number

1981/2.106

Medium and Support

etching, aquatint and drypoint on paper

Primary Keywords

lovers

nudes

Title

La Visite par la Fenêtre, from 'Maternité'

Artist

Marc Chagall

Artist Life Dates

Russia, 1889-1985

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1925-1926

Accession Number

1981/2.171

Medium and Support

etching and aquatint on paper

Primary Keywords

lovers

window

woman

Title

Dipak Raga from Ragamala series

Artist

India, Rajasthan, Bundi-Kotah School

Physical Description

Two lovers sit in an elaborate, symmetrical marble palace, decorated with inlaid stone and a domed roof. Inside, a highly individualized prince sits near his lover and caresses her chin. Above the scene is a box containing calligraphic text.

Century

late 18th-early 19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1800

Accession Number

1985/1.134

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Primary Keywords

calligraphy

lovers

painting

palace

prince

Title

Cuffbands: Lovers in the Garden

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1989/2.31

Medium and Support

embroidered silk

Primary Keywords

lovers

objects of adornment

textiles

Title

Manet's Olympia

Artist

Mel Ramos

Physical Description

A female nude reclining on a bed wearing one yellow slipper on her left foot, a gold bracelet on her right arm and a black ribbon tied in a bow around her neck. An African American woman in a blue dress stands behind her holding a bouquet of yellow and white flowers. A small monkey sits at the foot of the bed. All subjects look directly at the viewer.

Artist Life Dates

born 1935

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1974

Accession Number

1991/2.102.1

Medium and Support

collotype on wove paper

Primary Keywords

african american

appropriation

baby

beauty

eroticism

figures

figures (representations)

flowers (plants)

lovers

monkeys

nudes

pop art

portraits

prostitutes

realism

women

Title

Untitled (March 5th) #2

Artist

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Physical Description

Two forty-watt light bulbs in simple porcelain light sockets hang together by their extension cords from a nail on the wall.

Artist Life Dates

1957-1996

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1991

Accession Number

1999/2.17

Medium and Support

40-watt light bulbs, extension cords, porcelain light sockets

Primary Keywords

abstraction

aids

conceptual

deaths

installations (sculpture)

lamps (lighting device components)

light art

lovers

memory

minimal

mortality

ready-mades

time

Title

Genji espies Murasaki for the first time, from the Wakamurasaki chapter of The Tale of Genji

Artist

Kanô Tsunenobu

Physical Description

Among a gold and bright mineral pigmented landscape, Genji stands below a cherry tree in full bloom and watches Murasaki, who stands in an architectural structure. A distant stream and hilltops indicate the isolated setting.

Artist Life Dates

active 1636-1713

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1670-1680

Accession Number

2002/1.168

Medium and Support

ink, color, and gold pigment and foil on paper

Primary Keywords

allegory

buildings

cherry tree

figures

flowers

gold

gold (metal)

hills

house

landscape

landscapes

literature

lovers

stream

trees

Title

Smile For Your Lover Comes (Stone Ridge, New York)

Artist

John Dugdale

Physical Description

Photograph with deep blue tint of a nude man, with his back to viewer, sitting on a porch railing, looking out into into the night. On the viewer's right, along the front of the porch, there is abundant vegetation.

Artist Life Dates

born 1960

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

2000

Accession Number

2003/1.379

Medium and Support

hand-coated cyanotype on paper

Primary Keywords

cyanotypes

grape vines

lovers

males

men

new york

nudes

porches

railing

railings

seated

sitting

smile

ulster (county)

Title

February Fourteenth

Artist

Charles Clough

Physical Description

Enamel abstract expressionist painting in traditional Valentine’s Day colors: white, orange, red, magenta, salmon.

“In place of the brush and other typical painter's tools, Clough uses an instrument he calls the ‘Big Finger,’ a large balloon-like contraption that he invented to spread poured house enamel on masonite into broad gestural constellations.” (Max Henry, “charles clough,” http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/reviews/henry/henry2-5-99.asp)

Artist Life Dates

b. 1951

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1986-1989

Accession Number

2008/2.227

Medium and Support

enamel on board

Primary Keywords

abstract expressionist

holidays

lovers

Title

A Scene with a Pair of Lovers and Children Playing by the Waterside

Artist

William Etty

Physical Description

A light sketch drawing of a scene full of activity. Towards the center of the piece is a pair of lovers in embrace. All around them are nude figures, identified as children, playing by the water. Some are fishing, others are in a boat, and the remainder are either swimming of reclining by the water's side. Below these figures is a study drawing of a person's profile angled to the left, while above the scene is a more detailed study drawing of a young boy's head.

Artist Life Dates

(1787 - 1849)

Object Creation Date

1800-1850

Accession Number

2009/1.529

Medium and Support

graphite on paper

Primary Keywords

boat

children (people by age group)

fishing

lovers

nudes

swimmer

Title

Head of Paris [Testa di Paride]

Artist

Guido Reni

Physical Description

Bust portrait of Paris of Troy. He looks off to the upper left. He is shown with a helmet that is toped with a sphynx-like figure and long feathers.

Artist Life Dates

1575-1642

Century

18th century

Accession Number

2013/2.569

Medium and Support

etching on laid paper

Primary Keywords

armies

lovers

men

poems

portraits