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ny170425192612 FILE ? A makeshift memorial at a playground in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on April 6, 2025, where a Russian strike killed 19 people, including nine children. Europe and America, at odds over Ukraine, try talking to each other; President Emmanuel Macron of France hosted a lunch with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, President Trump?s envoy, as European delegations converged on Paris. (Finbarr O?Reilly/The New York Times/Fotoarena)
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alb3641225 Plate 12 from "The Disasters of War' (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'This is what you were born for.' (Para eso habeis nacido.). Artist: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux). Dimensions: Plate: 6 7/16 × 9 1/4 in. (16.4 × 23.5 cm)Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 1/2 in. (25.2 × 34.3 cm). Series/Portfolio: The Disasters of War. Date: 1810 (published 1863). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb4146991 Study for Drawing Room, St. James, from Microcosm of London. Augustus Charles Pugin (English, born France, 1762-1832); Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1756-1827). Date: 1807-1809. Dimensions: 199 × 260 mm. Graphite on ivory wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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alb3634552 Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: The Victory of Scipio. Artist: Master of the Die (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1530-60); After (?) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483-1520 Rome) in the first state. Dimensions: plate: 8 9/16 x 10 in. (21.8 x 25.4 cm)sheet: 19 x 13 3/16 in. (48.3 x 33.5 cm). Publisher: Published by Antonio Lafreri (French, Orgelet, Franche-Comte ca. 1512-1577 Rome). Series/Portfolio: Speculum Romanae Magnificentia. Date: 16th century.This print comes from the museum's copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title page for this purpose, which is where the title 'Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae' first appears. Lafreri envisioned an ideal arrangement of the prints in 7 different categories, but during his lifetime, never appears to have offered one standard, bound set of prints. Instead, clients composed their own selection from the corpus to be bound, or collected a group of prints over time. When Lafreri died, two-third of the existing copper plates went to the Duchetti family (Claudio and Stefano), while another third was distributed among several publishers. The Duchetti appear to have standardized production, offering a more or less uniform version of the Speculum to their clients. The popularity of the prints also inspired other publishers in Rome to make copies however, and to add new prints to the corpus. The museum's copy of the Speculum entered the collection as a group of 3 albums with inlaid engravings and etchings. The prints have since been removed, but the original place of each print within the album is contained in the accession number: 41.72(volume.place).Originally volume 2, plate 134 in the scrapbook. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3676724 Footed goblet with bulging bowl. Culture: British, London. Designer: Philip Webb (British, Oxford 1831-1915 West Sussex). Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 4 3/4 × 3 3/8 × 3 3/8 in. (12.1 × 8.6 × 8.6 cm). Maker: James Powell and Sons. Manufacturer: Whitefriars Glassworks (British, 1834-1980). Retailer: Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.. Date: 1860.This footed goblet provides an ideal bridge between the burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement championed by Morris and Company and the endeavors of James Powell & Sons' Whitefriars Glassworks to encourage modern, British design in glassware. The goblet was designed by Philip Webb in 1860, as part of a series of table glasses with spiral trails for William Morris's home, the Red House. Made by James Powell & Sons, the series of glassware was also sold through Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. Harry Powell (grandson of the wine-merchant, James Powell, who had purchased the Whitefriars Glassworks in 1834) and principal designer at Whitefriars singled out this group of designs for special comment, illustrating this goblet design in an article in the Architectural Review in 1899. At that time, such were the Whitefriars' records of the commission that Harry Powell believed the designer to have been Morris himself. Following a visit to the Whitefriars Glassworks by the future director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Sydney Cockerell (at that time, still Morris & Co.'s manager) this mistake was rectified (on a postcard preserved in the Museum of London, acc. 3312) and when Harry Powell mentioned the Red House glassware designs in his revised entry for "Glass" in the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1906, he ascribed them to Webb. Harry Powell also sketched this goblet design amongst the series of designs annotated as "by Philip Webb for William Morris for the Red House at Upton" in his design notebook logging "Glasses with Histories", made around 1912 onwards (preserved in the Museum of London, acc. 3252). The page of this notebook illustrating this goblet's design is illustrated by W. Evans, C. Ross & A. Werner, Whitefriars Glass. James Powell & Sons of London, London: Museum of London, 1995 (plate 422, p.275). Very soon after Whitefriars first produced this group of glassware designed by Webb, Christopher Dresser admired it, in 1862, calling attention to its "simplicity of treatment". Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3629300 Charles Baudelaire. Artist: Étienne Carjat (French, Fareins 1828-1906 Paris). Printer: Goupil et Cie (French, active 1850-84). Date: ca. 1863.Although the great French poet Baudelaire famously declared photography to be "the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies," he posed before the camera several times. This striking portrait of the brooding poet by Carjat is perhaps the best known, for it was published in the widely distributed series entitled Galerie contemporaine, littéraire, artistique.The Galerie contemporaine is a high point in photographic publishing. Issued in parts from 1876 to 1884 by the firm of Goupil, the series contained 241 portraits of leading figures from the worlds of art, literature, music, science, and politics by a host of Parisian photographers. The illustrations were printed as woodburytypes-a photomechanical process that reproduced the continuous tones of photography but did so with printer's ink. The speed and economy with which woodburytypes could be printed, as well as their permanence (unlike traditional photographic processes that were subject to fading), made them a highly practical substitute for albumen silver prints in book publication or other situations where mass production was desirable. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3639817 A Gathering of Artists. Artist: After Louis Léopold Boilly (French, La Bassée 1761-1845 Paris); Alexandre Clément (French, ca. 1775-?1808). Dimensions: Sheet: 17 5/8 × 13 9/16 in. (44.7 × 34.4 cm). Date: 1804.This print in outline technique, and the related stipple engraving which accompanied it, both reflect the popularity of Boilly's painting, A Reunion of Artists in Isabey's Studio, (1798, Musée du Louvre, Paris). Likely intended to be sold with the stipple engraving, this work would have helped collectors identify the 29 artists depicted. Also in the Museum's collection are two preparatory drawings for the painting (2009.477 and 2010.449). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb4147078 Study for Workhouse, St. James' Parish, from Microcosm of London. Augustus Charles Pugin (English, born France, 1762-1832); Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1756-1827). Date: 1807-1809. Dimensions: 194 × 261 mm. Graphite on cream wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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alb3607646 Abraham Lincoln. Artist: William Marsh (American, active Springfield, Illinois, 1850s-1860s). Dimensions: Image: 19.9 x 14.5 cm (7 13/16 x 5 11/16 in.). Person in Photograph: Abraham Lincoln (American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809-1865 Washington, D.C.). Date: May 20, 1860.This photograph, made in Springfield, Illinois, on May 20, 1860, was the first portrait taken of Abraham Lincoln after he had received the nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. It is one of five photographs taken by William Marsh for Marcus L. Ward, a delegate from Newark, New Jersey. Although many in the East had read Lincoln's impassioned speeches, few had actually seen the senator from Illinois.At fifty-one years old, Lincoln appears much younger in this photograph, innocent as yet of the great toll the presidency would take on him. His face is an odd contra diction of parts: his right eye typically wanders, his large right ear flaps behind a high cheekbone and sunken cheek, and his hair, described by Sir William Howard Russell as a "thatch of wild Republican hair," is loosely combed. He did not grow his characteristic beard until October 1860. The first president of the United States to wear a beard, Lincoln appears cleanshaven in only one-third of the more than one hundred known photographs.Yet Lincoln is ruggedly handsome. Marsh presents the face of the prairie lawyer from the backwoods of Kentucky, the man who would declare, in support of the Union, "A house divided against itself cannot stand"; the man who only two years after this photograph was made would deliver the Emancipation Proclamation, and who, in his second inaugural address in 1865, spoke of reconstructing a vital, new country from the ashes of the South, "With malice toward none; with charity for all.". Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3661358 View of the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (now called Castel S. Angelo) from the rear, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views). Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720-1778 Rome). Dimensions: Sheet: 20 x 25 9/16 in. (50.8 x 65 cm)Plate: 17 5/16 x 21 15/16 in. (44 x 55.8 cm). Publisher: Bouchard & Gravier (Rome). Series/Portfolio: Vedute di Roma. Date: ca. 1756.Piranesi's earliest views of Rome, such as the Piazza del Popolo (37.45.3.49), had placed the principal buildings at the back of a vast, tilted space, filled with a diversity of human activity. By the mid-1750s, the monuments fill the space more commandingly, and are seen as if from below and close at hand, as in this view of the Castel Sant'Angelo. Piranesi produced this view at the same time he was working on the Antichità Romane (41.71.1.3.49; 41.71.1.3.53), his four-volume archaeological treatise, and it may have been originally intended for that work. The clear didactic character of the image and the type of lettering are characteristic of the Antichità Romane, although the dramatic view of the castle as it appeared in the eighteenth century is entirely in keeping with the other Vedute. The buildings at the top of the structure served as a gracious and well-fortified refuge for the pope in times of trouble--the corridor that stretches to the right atop huge arches leads all the way to the Vatican Palace. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3605917 Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus. Artist: After Anton Raphael Mengs (German, Ústi nad Labem (Aussig) 1728-1779 Rome); Raphael Morghen (Italian, Naples 1758-1833 Florence). Dimensions: Sheet: 24 15/16 × 35 1/16 in. (63.4 × 89 cm)Plate: 19 11/16 × 29 15/16 in. (50 × 76 cm). Date: 1784.One of the most significant commissions of the eighteenth century was the Parnassus painted by Mengs in 1761 for the Villa Albani, Rome, and hailed as a manifesto of the new style of Neoclassicism. The carefully differentiated Muses, accompanied by their mother, Mnemosyne, derive from ancient sculpture, while the setting, a small grove of laurels in which the Muses are grouped around their leader, harks back to Raphael's fresco in the Vatican.Morghen was one of the most admired of the technically accomplished printmakers whose reproductions of famous paintings were enormously prized at the end of the eighteenth century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3652542 Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Hercules Colossus at Padua (L'Ercole di casa Benavides a Padova). Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century; Depicts a statue by Bartolomeo Ammanati (Ammannati) (Italian, Settignano near Florence 1511-1592 Florence). Dimensions: sheet: 20 13/16 x 15 15/16 in. (52.8 x 40.5 cm). Draftsman: After drawing attributed to Enea Vico (Italian, Parma 1523-1567 Ferrara). Published in: Rome. Publisher: Published by Antonio Lafreri (French, Orgelet, Franche-Comte ca. 1512-1577 Rome). Date: 1553.This print comes from the museum's copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title page for this purpose, which is where the title 'Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae' first appears. Lafreri envisioned an ideal arrangement of the prints in 7 different categories, but during his lifetime, never appears to have offered one standard, bound set of prints. Instead, clients composed their own selection from the corpus to be bound, or collected a group of prints over time. When Lafreri died, two-third of the existing copper plates went to the Duchetti family (Claudio and Stefano), while another third was distributed among several publishers. The Duchetti appear to have standardized production, offering a more or less uniform version of the Speculum to their clients. The popularity of the prints also inspired other publishers in Rome to make copies however, and to add new prints to the corpus. The museum's copy of the Speculum entered the collection as a group of 3 albums with inlaid engravings and etchings. The prints have since been removed, but the original place of each print within the album is contained in the accession number: 41.72(volume.place).Originally plate 61, volume 2. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3657890 La Reine Hortense - Yacht de l'empereur, Havre. Artist: Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820-1884). Dimensions: Image: 31.8 x 41.3 cm (12 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.)Mount: 53.1 x 66.3 cm (20 7/8 x 26 1/8 in.). Date: 1856.Le Gray photographed the imperial yacht in the port of Le Havre in July 1856, just before it set off for Greenland and Spitzbergen on an expedition led by Prince Napoleon. The sleek vessel's rigging and guys seem to secure its perfect placement within Le Gray's frame.In the late 1840s, Le Gray had helped perfect the paper negative process and the salted paper print, using to aesthetic advantage their tendency to exaggerate light and shadow and to impart a soft graininess to the picture. But in this photograph, and in the dramatic seascapes that followed and that won him international renown, Le Gray used a new technique-the glass plate negative and the albumen silver print-to achieve a limpid atmosphere, extreme clarity of detail, and flawless surface. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3643024 Bacchus with his companions discovering Ariadne on the island of Naxos, after Reni. Artist: After Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575-1642 Bologna); Gian Battista Bolognini (Italian, Bologna 1611-1688 Bologna). Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 19 11/16 × 42 1/8 in. (50 × 107 cm). Date: 1650-80.Three joined sheets with impressions from three plates. After a painting by Reni made for the Queen of England (according to Bartsch). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3645072 Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Farnese Palace. Artist: Francesco Villamena (Italian, Assisi ca. 1565-1624 Rome). Dimensions: sheet: 15 1/16 x 18 11/16 in. (38.2 x 47.4 cm)plate: 15 1/16 x 17 9/16 in. (38.2 x 44.6 cm)mount: 17 1/2 x 21 7/8 in. (44.5 x 55.6 cm). Series/Portfolio: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Date: 16th century.This print comes from the museum's copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title page for this purpose, which is where the title 'Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae' first appears. Lafreri envisioned an ideal arrangement of the prints in 7 different categories, but during his lifetime, never appears to have offered one standard, bound set of prints. Instead, clients composed their own selection from the corpus to be bound, or collected a group of prints over time. When Lafreri died, two-third of the existing copper plates went to the Duchetti family (Claudio and Stefano), while another third was distributed among several publishers. The Duchetti appear to have standardized production, offering a more or less uniform version of the Speculum to their clients. The popularity of the prints also inspired other publishers in Rome to make copies however, and to add new prints to the corpus. The museum's copy of the Speculum entered the collection as a group of 3 albums with inlaid engravings and etchings. The prints have since been removed, but the original place of each print within the album is contained in the accession number: 41.72(volume.place).Originally volume 3, plate 54 in the scrapbook. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3655353 Hadley's Falls (No. 5 of The Hudson River Portfolio). Artist: after William Guy Wall (Irish, Dublin 1792-after 1864 Ireland (active America)). Dimensions: Image: 14 1/16 x 20 3/16 in. (35.7 x 51.3 cm)Sheet: 19 x 24 1/2 in. (48.3 x 62.2 cm). Etcher: Begun by John Rubens Smith (American, London 1775-1849 New York); Finished by John Hill (American (born England), London 1770-1850 Clarksville, New York). Printer: William and Charles Rollinson (American, active ca. 1808-33). Publisher: Henry J. Megarey (American, 1818-1845 New York); W. B. Gilley (New York, NY); John Mill (Charleston, South Carolina). Series/Portfolio: The Hudson River Portfolio. Date: 1821-22.When the artist William Guy Wall and writer John Agg visited this site, north of Glens Falls on the Hudson, it not easy to access. The text accompanying the image tells us that, "a moment's view of these Falls...as they suddenly burst upon the sight of the traveller...is sufficient compensation for all the difficulties he may have encountered. Instead of one unbroken sheet of water, falling perpendicularly...the whole body of the river seems to have forced a passage through the intercepting barrier of cliffs which obstructed its course; with ungovernable fury and deafening clamour, over a gradual but rugged declivity, composed of the massive and tenacious fragments which its impetuosity has thrown down." The image comes from the Hudson River Portfolio, a monument of American printmaking produced through the collaboration of artists, a writer, and publishers. In the summer of 1820, the Irish-born Wall toured and sketched along the Hudson, then painted a series of large watercolors. Prints of equal scale were proposed--to be issued to subscribers in sets of four--and John Rubens Smith hired to work the plates. Almost immediately, Smith was replaced by the skilled London-trained aquatint engraver John Hill, who finished the first four plates, and produced sixteen more by 1825. Over the next decade, the popularity of the Portfolio stimulated new appreciation for American landscape, and prepared the way for the Hudson River School. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3679155 Cassiopeia. Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron (British (born India), Calcutta 1815-1879 Kalutara, Ceylon). Dimensions: 34.9 x 27.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 13/16 in. ). Date: 1866.The model for "Cassiopeia" and "The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty" was identified by Cameron only as "Mrs. Keene." Although almost nothing is known about her, this photographic session appears to be one of just two instances in which Cameron used a professional model rather than friends, family, neighbors, and household staff. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3600357 "The Prettiest Doll in the World". Artist: Lewis Carroll (British, Daresbury, Cheshire 1832-1898 Guildford). Dimensions: 7 3/4 x 5 13/16. Subject: Alexandra "Xie" Rhoda Kitchin (British, 1864-1925). Date: July 5, 1870.The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics professor at Oxford better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, often photographed friends' children outfitted in storybook costumes, playacting the sorts of fantastic scenes that appear in his writing. The model in this photograph, Alexandra "Xie" Kitchin, posed more than fifty times over eleven years, frequently for images inspired by literature. The title Carroll gave this work is the refrain of the poem The Lost Doll by the popular Victorian author Charles Kingsley. It tells of a child's affection for her lost toy, which she finds and dotes on in spite of damage it has suffered. It is unclear whether Xie is meant to recall the girl or her doll, but the emulsion peeling from the edges of the glass negative--which Carroll purposefully retained during printing--frames her obstinance, a visual echo of the dramas played out in childhood imagination. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3655981 Plate 32: Venus asking Jupiter for protection; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 12 1/8 × 17 1/2 in. (30.8 × 44.5 cm). Published in: Antwerp. Publisher: Johannes Meursius (Flemish, active 1620-47). Date: 1636.On January 28, 1635, the city of Ghent celebrated the entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Spain, the recently appointed governor of the Southern Netherlands. A group of Flemish artists were commissioned to create paintings for the decoration of two triumphal arches erected in the city's main square for the occasion. Though the majority of these canvases are now lost, the engravings in Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis, S.R.E. Cardinalis, Triumphalis Introitus in Flandriae Metropolim Gandavum', Antwerp [1636], illustrate what the series looked like. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns 34 plates from the set of 42. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3631940 Spring (Le Printemps). Artist: Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840-1917 Meudon). Dimensions: sheet: 12 3/16 x 6 5/16 in. (31 x 16 cm)image: 5 13/16 x 3 15/16 in. (14.8 x 10 cm). Date: 1882-88.Rodin learned the drypoint technique--a printmaking method that involves drawing with a needle directly on a metal plate--from the artist Alphonse Legros during a visit to London in 1881. The motif of a female figure whose head is encircled by putti appeared first on a vase Rodin designed for the Sèvres porcelain factory, where he worked from 1879 to 1885, though the composition here is most similar to a related porcelain plaque in the collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3624139 [Clown]. Artist: Charles DeForest Fredricks (American, 1823-1894). Dimensions: Image: 8 1/16 × 6 13/16 in. (20.5 × 17.3 cm)Mount: 13 5/16 × 10 1/2 in. (33.8 × 26.7 cm). Date: ca. 1860.Fredricks operated one of the most successful photographic studios in New York City, at 585 and 587 Broadway. Beginning in 1854 and for more than thirty years, its painted sign hailed it as a "Photographic Temple of Art." Fredricks specialized in portraiture, producing large-format and cartes-de-visite likenesses of politicians, Civil War generals, celebrities, and actors, including Lincoln's assassin,John Wilkes Booth. This light-hearted photograph depicts a costumed figure--possibly a character from the commedia dell'arte--striking a gallant pose in a dramatic composition that emphasizes the theatrical nature of studio portraiture. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3645093 The Hippopotamus at the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park. Artist: de Borbón, Juan (Spanish, 1822-1887). Dimensions: Image: 11.1 × 12 cm (4 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)Mount: 43.8 × 30.5 cm (17 1/4 × 12 in.). Date: 1852.Although his childhood was spent at the court of his uncle Fernando VII, the king of Spain, Prince Juan de Borbón spent the major part of his life in England, in exile following his father's violent challenge to the succession of Fernando's daughter Isabel II in 1833. Apparently harboring no royal ambitions, Juan assumed the somewhat obscure title of Count de Montizon in public and, when the dubious title of pretender to the Spanish throne passed to him from his elder brother, he renounced all claim in favor of Queen Isabel. His passions, instead, ran to physics, chemistry, and natural history; photography, it seems, was an appropriate amateur pursuit that combined all three interests.This photograph was the Count de Montizon's contribution to "The Photographic Album for the Year 1855," a publication of the Royal Photographic Society's Photographic Exchange Club. The accompanying text reads: "This animal was captured in August 1849, when quite young, on the banks of the White Nile; and was sent over to England by the Pasha of Egypt as a present to Queen Victoria. He arrived at Southampton on May 25, 1850; and on the evening of the same day was safely housed in the apartment prepared for him at the Zoological Gardens, where he has ever since been an object of great attraction."The animals of the Zoological Gardens were a favorite subject for the count's demonstrations of photography's capacity to arrest movement in photographs "taken on collodion with a double lens, by instantaneous exposure" (as he wrote in the technical caption for this picture). If the notion of instantaneity seems incongruous in this picture of a sluggish and corpulent hippo, it is perhaps better seen in the curious spectators who, from the photographer's vantage point, appear to be the zoo's caged inhabitants. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Juan de Borbón.
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alb3664478 Priming Flask with Sundial and Compass. Culture: German, probably Nuremberg. Dimensions: H. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm); W. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm). Date: late 16th century.Small flasks like this one held fine-grained gunpowder for "priming" the wheellock mechanism. This example, fitted with a concealed sundial, exemplifies the ingenious multipurpose weapons and tools that were made for aristocratic huntsmen and collectors of curiosities. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3683495 Papal conclave following the death of Pope Alessandro VII, with an iconographic map of Vatican City and scenes of the funeral, procession, and election of the new pope. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 9 3/8 × 13 13/16 in. (23.8 × 35.1 cm). Publisher: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627-1691 Rome). Date: 1667.Conclave prints, circulated at the death of a pope, began to appear in Rome in the 16th century. The purpose of a conclave print was to reveal the secret and mysterious ritual surrounding the election of a new pope. With carefully compartmented scenes showing the funerary rites, a map of Vatican City, and the election including a list of names of the voting cardinals; conclave prints became popular among tourists to Rome. The timeframe in which these prints were rushed to the market paired with the unchanging rituals meant that many of the images could be repeated from one conclave to the next. For a similar print illustrating the conclave following the death of Pope Clement IX, see: British Museum 1987,0113.204.(Information from: Evelyn Lincoln, "Publishing, Secrecy and Curiosity in a German Conclave Print," Art in Print 2, Number 4 (November-December, 2012). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3625749 Saint John the Baptist. Artist: Juan Martínez Montañés (Spanish, Alcalá la Real 1568-1649 Seville). Culture: Spanish, Seville. Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): H. 60 5/8 x W. 29 5/8 x D. 27 5/8 in. (154 x 75.2 x 70.2 cm). Date: ca. 1620-30.Juan Martínez Montañés was one of the greatest spanish sculptors of the first half of the seventeenth century. Based in Seville, he carved numerous wooden statues and reliefs that were painted and integrated into large altar screens called retablos (English: retables) for churches in his native region or to be shipped to the New World. His forte as an artist was the single figure, standing or seated, usually robust, naturally posed, and richly robed. Somewhat defensively, he gave his reason for this: "As for the appearance of the statues when they are seen away from their settings by those who do not understand or maliciously criticize them, we say that once they are in their places they will be very effective, and if they did not have so much drapery they would look very insignificant when they were put in compartments at a distance." [Note 1] To modern eyes, his works even when removed from their original contexts have a powerfully sculptural form; but it is important to remember how critical the original church setting was in the artist's conception. The Museum's statue of Saint John the Baptist, a rare work by the master in a collection outside Spain or South America, illustrates these points. A mature man with a powerful physique, he wears a short brown tunic cinched with a rope around the waist. A crimson robe patterned with foliage and cherub heads is draped over his shoulder and partially covers the rock formation on which he stands and leans. His left hand rests on the rock while his right reaches across his body to point. This gesture was certainly toward a missing Lamb of God on an altar in the monastery church for which Saint John was made or toward the top of a banderole with the message "Behold the Lamb of God" stuck in the ground by the saint's left foot (where a hole exists) and rising to his left shoulder. The altar of Saint John the Baptist (1635 - 37) in the Convento de Santa Paula, Seville (fig. 31), gives an idea of how this might have appeared. [Note 2] His strongly defined carved features include a thin, split goatee -- the rest of his light beard and mustache are painted -- a knot of hair over the forehead and long tousled locks, a creased forehead, and straight, subtly carved eyebrows. Made of Spanish cedar, the statue has held up relatively well over the centuries, although some fingers of the right hand have been recarved and the right arm rejoined. [Note 3]As a physical type, John the Baptist is like other statues of the saint carved by the artist. The one he made for the retablo of San Isidoro del Campo at Santiponce (after 1609) is generally similar in pose, though the raised foot of the Museum's figure makes the saint's gesture more emphatic, and its face is smoother and not quite as eloquent as here. [Note 4] Closer to this one in its powerful presence and expressive face is the Saint John the Baptist in high relief on the retablo of the Convento de San Leandro, Seville (1622 - 23). [Note 5] A dating of the Museum's statue during the artist's mature years seems to be borne out by these comparisons. Beatrice Proske assigned it to the 1620s or early 1630s. José Hernández Díaz preferred to date the figure to the first decade of the century, before the retablo of San Isidoro at Santiponce. [Note 6] He viewed the Museum's Saint John as a striking and characteristic work entirely by Martínez Montañés, but Proske thought she detected the intervention of another artist in the sculptor's workshop and described it as in the style of Montañés.Documents connect the statue to the Sevillian Convento de la Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, which was suppressed in 1837. In a notice published in 1844 that inventoried the contents of the monastery church, Félix González de León described one of its retablos: Under a big molded arch with pilasters supporting a cornice, on a high pedestal placed over the base of the retable itself stood the most beautiful figure of Saint John the Baptist ever made by the celebrated Martínez Montañés. One can hardly explain the beauties of the design and the treatment of draperies and body of this famous image, the honor of its author and its country. [Note 7]He further noted niches on either side of the statue decorated with pediments and angels and filled with paintings of stories about the saint. Relatively modest by the standards of the time, the retablo must have been somewhat like those in the Convento de Santa Paula, centered on the statue of the saint. Martínez Montañés's resolutely straightforward image with pleasing partial side views would have been well suited to such a frame. The emphatic gesture was designed to be read from a distance, and as the sculptor himself explained, the voluminous drapery would give the figure weight and solidity in the midst of such splendid decorations. The sculptor's father was an embroiderer in the city of Alcalá la Real, and the son's taste for richly decorated textiles must have developed early in life. Traditionally, Spanish sculpture of this period was painted by specialists other than the carver. This figure's relatively simple painted patterns and colors only enhance the power of the carving. NOTES1. Quoted in Proske 1967, p. 4 (translated from López Martínez 1932, p. 238).2. Proske 1967, pp. 125 - 27, figs. 193, 194.3. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Madison, Wisconsin, letter of April 25, 1966, in the curatorial files of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum. The statue was cleaned by Christine Faltermeier and the right arm reset by Rudolph Colban in the summer of 1975.4. Proske 1967, pp. 61 - 69, figs. 73, 76.5. Ibid., pp. 93 - 95, figs. 108, 109, 131. 6. Hernández Díaz 1987, pp. 261, 264.7. González de León 1844, vol. 1, pp. 228 - 29. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3651520 Plate 9: Allegory of Temperance with a unicorn and Publius Scipio Africanus at bottom, from Barberinae aulae fornix. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century; After Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596-1669 Rome). Dedicatee: Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares and Duke of Sanlucar (Spanish, 1587-1645). Dimensions: Mount: 15 7/8 in. × 21 3/8 in. (40.3 × 54.3 cm)Sheet: 14 1/2 × 11 7/16 in. (36.9 × 29 cm). Publisher: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627-1691 Rome). Series/Portfolio: Barberinae aulae fornix. Date: ca. 1677.This print is from a series of plates loosely stitched together representing Pietro da Cortona's ceiling frescoes 'Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power' for the salone of Palazzo Barberini, Rome painted 1630-33. The prints are dedicated to Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares and Duke of Sanlucar (1587-1645). The frontispiece bares the name of Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi who published the series. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3645536 Barberinae aulae fornix. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century; After Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596-1669 Rome). Dedicatee: Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares and Duke of Sanlucar (Spanish, 1587-1645). Dimensions: Mount: 15 7/8 in. × 21 3/8 in. (40.3 × 54.3 cm). Publisher: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627-1691 Rome). Series/Portfolio: Barberinae aulae fornix. Date: ca. 1677.A series of plates loosely stitched together representing Pietro da Cortona's ceiling frescoes 'Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power' for the salone of Palazzo Barberini, Rome painted 1630-33. The prints are dedicated to Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares and Duke of Sanlucar (1587-1645). The frontispiece bares the name of Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi who published the series. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3907710 Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish. Date/Period: Between 1837 and 1838. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 174.5 cm (68.7 in); Width: 224.9 cm (88.5 in). Author: J. M. W. Turner.
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alb4142637 For Heaven's Sake: and it was Her Mother, plate 16 from Los Caprichos. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes; Spanish, 1746-1828. Date: 1797-1799. Dimensions: 175 x 125 mm (image); 200 x 150 mm (plate); 301 x 205 mm (sheet). Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper. Origin: Spain. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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alb3635426 The Apollo Belvedere from the Vatican his left hand resting on the tree trunk around which coils a python. Artist: Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480-before 1534 Bologna (?)). Dimensions: 11 7/16 x 6 3/8 in. (29.1 x 16.2 cm). Date: ca. 1510-27.The Apollo Belvedere was discovered near Rome in the late fifteenth century. Possibly a second-century marble copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, the statue was immediately appreciated as a masterpiece and showered with praise. Probably once in the private collection of Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (later Pope Julius II, r. 1503-13), it was moved to the Vatican in 1509 and placed, in 1511, in the Cortile del Belvedere, from which it derives its name. Raimondi's print became an important vehicle through which knowledge of the statue was transmitted far beyond the Vatican. He is famous for his many engravings after the designs of Raphael, including images such as the Judgment of Paris (19.74.1), scenes that, like the Apollo, illustrate Renaissance interest in classical antiquity and mythology. Here, Raimondi's mastery for replicating the effects of light on marble produces a convincing impression of the statue's form. Many artists incorporated the Apollo's much-lauded pose into their own work. Albrecht Dürer reverses the position of the figure's limbs and Apollo becomes Adam, reaching for the fruited branch offered by Eve in the 1504 engraving (19.73.1). A similar figure of Apollo, whose outstretched arm grasps--too late--a fleeing nymph, appears in the 1625 marble group Apollo and Daphne by the Roman Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3636568 Study for the Pietà. Artist: Giulio Cesare Procaccini (Italian, Bologna 1574-1625 Milan). Dimensions: 9 5/16 x 5 7/8in. (23.6 x 15cm). Date: 1604.Nancy Ward Neilson identified this drawing as a study for the 'Pietà' in the Milanese church of Santa Maria presso San Celso, which is Giulio Cesare Procaccini's earliest known oil painting and which the artist delivered in 1604. There are only minor differences between the Museum's composition study and the painting. A sheet of pen and ink figure studies by Giulio Cesare Procaccini in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan has been convincingly connected with the same 'Pietà' by Emma Spina Barelli (Disegni di maestri lombardi del primo Seicento, Milan 1959, no. 31, and reproduced in M. Valsecchi, I grandi disegni italiani del '600 lombardo all Ambrosiana, Milan 1975, p. 43, fig. 27). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3670105 Frontispiece to 'Le sorti di Francesco Marcolini da Forli intitolato Giardino di Pensieri'. Artist: After Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515-died 1527 Rome); Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati) (Italian, Castelnuovo di Garfagnana ca. 1520-ca. 1575 Venice). Dimensions: sheet: 9 7/16 x 7 5/8 in. (23.9 x 19.3 cm). Date: 1540.This woodcut of a scholarly gathering is fully signed by Giuseppe Salviati yet is an almost exact copy of an engraving by Marco Dente, who died in 1527. The only changes are the adaptation of the book in the foreground to represent Marcolini's fortune-telling book and the addition of the pack of cards required for divination. That Giuseppe so prominently signed a copy suggests that he cut the block himself-indeed, it was usually the cutter rather than the designer who signed or monogrammed a woodblock. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3607123 Queen Nefertari being led by Isis. Artist: Charles K. Wilkinson. Dimensions: facsimile: h. 70 cm (27 9/16 in); w. 46 cm (18 1/8 in)scale approximately 1:3framed: h. 73.7 cm (29 in); w. 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in). Dynasty: Dynasty 19. Reign: reign of Ramesses II. Date: ca. 1279-1213 B.C..Nefertari was the main wife of pharaoh Ramses II and her tomb with its vivid wall paintings is one of the most beautiful tombs in Egypt. This watercolor copy depicts the queen (left) being led by the goddess Isis (right). Noteworthy is that Nefertari's husband, Ramses II, is absent in these scenes, indicating the queen's high status that allowed her to directly interact with the deities without him; such depictions would not be possible for non-royal individuals. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Charles K. Wilkinson.
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alb3608782 [Oak Tree and Rocks, Forest of Fontainebleau]. Artist: Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820-1884). Dimensions: 25.2 x 35.7 cm (9 15/16 x 14 1/16 in.). Date: 1849-52.The Forest of Fontainebleau--forty thousand acres crisscrossed by footpaths and dotted with ancient oaks and anthropomorphic boulders--attracted a generation of painters in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Corot, Daubigny, Rousseau, and others found in the light-dappled woods south of Paris both a spiritual antidote for the tensions of modern urban life and a perfect subject for exploring the physical and expressive properties of their medium, free of academic strictures. Working alongside these pre-Impressionist painters and testing the limits of another medium was Le Gray, a young artist who had recently traded in his paint box and easel for a camera and tripod. In this early work, a unique print formerly in the famed Jammes collection, Paris, Le Gray sought to convey the sensuous experience of the sylvan interior. Rather than providing an inventory of precise details, Le Gray's waxed paper negative (a process he invented) translated the observable world into a painterly evocation of light, texture, and atmosphere. The network of branches, patches of lichen, and sparkling vegetation are woven into a tapestry of allover patterning--reminiscent of a Jackson Pollock painting--that merges solid and void, substance and shadow. . Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3608465 Diploma for the Freemasons of Bordeaux, after François Boucher. Artist: Pierre Philippe Choffard (French, Paris 1730-1809 Paris). Dimensions: 16 3/16 x 11 5/16 in. (41.1 x 28.7 cm). Date: 1766. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3651836 Exotic Flower. Artist: Édouard Manet (French, Paris 1832-1883 Paris); In the manner of Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux). Author: For a sonnet by Armand Renaud (French). Dimensions: 6 13/16 x 4 1/2in. (17.3 x 11.4cm)Sheet: 10 15/16 x 7 15/16in. (27.8 x 20.2cm). Publisher: For a publication by Philippe Burty (French, Paris 1830-1890 Astaffort). Date: 1868. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3655455 Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Laocoon. Artist: Sisto Badalocchio (Italian, Parma 1585-after 1619 Rome or Parma). Dimensions: sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 5/8 in. (38 x 29.6 cm)mount: 18 7/8 x 14 3/4 in. (48 x 37.4 cm). Publisher: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi) (Italian, Venice ca. 1490-after 1536 Rome). Series/Portfolio: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Date: 1561.This print comes from the museum's copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title page for this purpose, which is where the title 'Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae' first appears. Lafreri envisioned an ideal arrangement of the prints in 7 different categories, but during his lifetime, never appears to have offered one standard, bound set of prints. Instead, clients composed their own selection from the corpus to be bound, or collected a group of prints over time. When Lafreri died, two-third of the existing copper plates went to the Duchetti family (Claudio and Stefano), while another third was distributed among several publishers. The Duchetti appear to have standardized production, offering a more or less uniform version of the Speculum to their clients. The popularity of the prints also inspired other publishers in Rome to make copies however, and to add new prints to the corpus. The museum's copy of the Speculum entered the collection as a group of 3 albums with inlaid engravings and etchings. The prints have since been removed, but the original place of each print within the album is contained in the accession number: 41.72(volume.place).Originally volume 2, plate 79 in the scrapbook. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3645418 Plate 35: Philip of Spain as Neptune, riding in a chariot drawn by two sea horses; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'. Artist: Pieter de Jode II (Flemish, 1606-ca. 1674). Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 11 5/8 × 15 1/8 in. (29.5 × 38.4 cm). Published in: Antwerp. Publisher: Johannes Meursius (Flemish, active 1620-47). Date: 1636.On January 28, 1635, the city of Ghent celebrated the entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Spain, the recently appointed governor of the Southern Netherlands. A group of Flemish artists were commissioned to create paintings for the decoration of two triumphal arches erected in the city's main square for the occasion. Though the majority of these canvases are now lost, the engravings in Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis, S.R.E. Cardinalis, Triumphalis Introitus in Flandriae Metropolim Gandavum', Antwerp [1636], illustrate what the series looked like. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns 34 plates from the set of 42. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3721731 Designs for Decorative Vases. Dimensions: overall: 10 x 15.9 cm (3 15/16 x 6 1/4 in.). Medium: black chalk on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Hamilton Mortimer.
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alb4150153 Study for Egyptian Hall Mansion House, from Microcosm of London. Augustus Charles Pugin (English, born France, 1762-1832); Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1756-1827). Date: 1807-1809. Dimensions: 206 × 258 mm. Graphite on cream wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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alb4150114 Study for Chapel of the Philanthropic Society, from Microcosm of London. Augustus Charles Pugin (English, born France, 1762-1832); Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1756-1827). Date: 1807-1809. Dimensions: 212 × 260 mm. Graphite on cream wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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alb4141003 Design for Stage Scenery (Hampton Court) with Mythological Figures. James Thornhill; English, 1675-1734. Date: 1708-1734. Dimensions: 276 × 228 mm. Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, over graphite, on tan laid paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA. Author: James Thornhill.
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alb2646973 The moment of imagination, engraving 1785, Edward Topham, a pen in his hand, has just kicked over his circular writing table in frenzied inspiration. He raises his clenched fist. An inkstand and fragments of paper inscribed Epilogue Mrs. W... [Wells] Hay-Market, Epilogue Mrs. S...s [Siddons] Drury-Lane, and Prologue for Miss F... [Farren] Covent Garden lie on the floor. On the wall hangs an oval bust portrait of Mrs. Siddons. Over Topham's head is a small parrot in a cage, saying, Bravo Cptn. Prologue! Bravo!.
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alb2117075 The moment of imagination, engraving 1785, Edward Topham, a pen in his hand, has just kicked over his circular writing table in frenzied inspiration. He raises his clenched fist. An inkstand and fragments of paper inscribed Epilogue Mrs. W... [Wells] Hay-Market, Epilogue Mrs. S...s [Siddons] Drury-Lane, and Prologue for Miss F... [Farren] Covent Garden lie on the floor. On the wall hangs an oval bust portrait of Mrs. Siddons. Over Topham's head is a small parrot in a cage, saying, Bravo Cptn. Prologue! Bravo!.
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alb2110116 THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT: INCIDENTS IN THE COMMONS: 1. Mr. Balfour enters. 2. Alone in his glory. (After the interval preceding the discussion on the Address Mr. Gladstone was for several minutes the sole Member present.) 3. Sir W. Harcourt (the Chiltern Hundreds). 4. Country: The Mover of the Address. 5. Town: The Seconder. 6. Extremes meet. 7. Two hours of weary ballot. 8. The third-floor back. 9. The Premier presents his credentials. UK, 1893 engraving.
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alb3638637 The Jewish Woman of Algiers. Artist: Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier (French, 1827-1905). Culture: French, Paris. Dimensions: Overall on socle (confirmed): H. 35 1/2 x W. 25 1/4 x D. 13 3/4 in., 265lb. (90.2 x 64.1 x 34.9 cm, 120.2032kg) [Weight breakdown: head 37 lbs, marble bust 228 lbs; marble socle 100.7 lbs]; Pedestal (confirmed): H. 41 3/8 x W. 18 1/4 x D. 18 1/4 x 11 3/4 in., 551.2lb. (105.1 x 46.4 x 46.4 x 29.8 cm, 250kg). Maker: Pedestal attributed to designs by Charles-François Rossigneux (French, 1818-afer 1909). Date: 1862.In his unpublished memoirs Charles Cordier cites the law of April 27, 1848 that abolished slavery in France and its colonies, writing: "My art incorporated the reality of a whole new subject, the revolt against slavery and the birth of anthropology." In pioneering ethnography as a subject for sculpture in the nineteenth century, Cordier aimed to illustrate what he described as "the idea of the universality of beauty." His busts often paired couples of the opposite sex but of the same race. This rare instance of matched busts of women (see also La Capresse des Colonies, 2006.112) was desired by the purchaser, a gaming club in Marseilles, that also commissioned the sumptuous Second-Empire pedestals from Cordier. The busts revel in the period taste for polychromy in sculpture, an international phenomenon sparked by artistic debates about the painting of ancient statuary and inspired by ancient Roman and Renaissance sculpture composed of variously colored marbles. On a trip to Algeria in 1856 Cordier discovered onyx deposits in recently reopened ancient quarries and began to use the stone in busts such as these. He ingeniously fitted enameled bronze heads into the vibrantly patterned stone, creating exciting though costly representations of Africans that appealed to the highest levels of European society. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3622958 Elles (poster for 1896 exhibition at La Plume). Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, Albi 1864-1901 Saint-André-du-Bois). Dimensions: Image: 22 11/16 × 18 1/4 in. (57.7 × 46.3 cm)Sheet: 24 1/8 × 18 1/2 in. (61.2 × 47 cm). Publisher: Gustave Pellet (French, Paris 1859-1919 Paris). Date: 1896. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3638591 "Portrait of Mulla Muhammad Khan Vali of Bijapur", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album. Artist: Painting by Hashim (active 1620-60). Calligrapher: Mir 'Ali Haravi (d. ca. 1550). Dimensions: H. 15 5/16 in. (38.9 cm)W. 10 3/16 in. (25.9 cm). Date: recto: ca. 1620; verso: 1537-47.The inscription in Jahangir's hand on the inner border of this painting states that it is a portrait of Mulla Muhammad Bijapuri, probably the emissary sent by Ibrahim 'Adil Shah II to ask for assistance from the Mughals against his rival Malik Ambar of Ahmadnagar. Hashim was a Deccani painter specializing portraits who moved to the Mughal court ca. 1620. While his use of strong contours and choice of color palette remained constant, under Jahangir's direction Hashim's rendering of facial features evolved dramatically. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3633046 Astrolabe of 'Umar ibn Yusuf ibn 'Umar ibn 'Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari. Dimensions: Case (a): Max. W. 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm) Diam. 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm) D. 1/4 in. (0.6 cm)Bar with attached nail (b): Max. H. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)Max. W. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm)L. 5 in. (12.7 cm)Net (c): Diam. 5 in. (12.7 cm)Plates (d-g): Diam. 5 in. (12.7 cm)Pin (h): L. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)W. 1/2 in. (1.3 cm). Maker: 'Umar ibn Yusuf ibn 'Umar ibn 'Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari. Date: dated A.H. 690/ A.D. 1291.For an object produced during the medieval period, this astrolabe is unusually well documented. Its inscription attributes it to a Rasulid prince, 'Umar ibn Yusuf, a few years before he ascended to the throne (r. 1295-96). 'Umar compiled a number of scientific treatises, including one on the construction of astrolabes, an autographed version of which, preserved in Cairo, contains certifications by his teachers as to his competence as a maker of such devices and a description of this very piece. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3675335 Print of Designs for a Pommel, Quillons, and Locket. Culture: British. Designer: After Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98-1543 London). Dimensions: 6 1/8 x 4 1/2 in. (15.5 x 11.4 cm). Engraver: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607-1677 London). Date: 1645. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3608199 Steamfitter. Artist: Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940). Dimensions: 42.1 x 30.9 cm (16 9/16 x 12 3/16 in.). Date: 1921.Hine's iconic photograph of a mechanic in a Pennsylvania power plant celebrates the worker as a noble contributor to industry. The picture's perfect union of mechanic and machine equates human muscle with industrial strength. Hine carefully positioned the man within the curves of the steam line and cylinder head. Striking a coiled pose for the camera, the worker grips his wrench, but close inspection reveals that it does not connect fully to the nut. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Lewis Hine.
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alb3657653 Jewelry Elements. Dimensions: Large medallion: H. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm) W. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)Half medallion: H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)W. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)Cartouches: H. 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)W. 1/2 in. (1.3 cm). Date: late 14th-16th century.Few examples of medieval Islamic jewelry survive, leaving scholars to rely on depictions of jewelry in manuscript paintings of the period for evidence of their appearance. Imagery from Ilkhanid and later period painting reveals that necklaces sharing some details with the jewelry elements shown here were worn by women in the fourteenth to sixteenth century in Iran and Central Asia. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3646023 Courtier and Two Ladies of the Court, with a Poem by Mibu no Tadamine. Artist: Rekisentei (Chokyosai) Eiri (Japanese, active ca. 1789-1801). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 9 3/16 in. (23.3 cm); W. 7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm). Date: ca. 1791.The image presents a fanciful depiction of a court poet accompanied by two young women in contemporary Edo garb. The poem is by Mibu no Tadamine, an early Heian courtier-poet (active 898-920) who was counted among the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals (Sanjurokkasen). The poem refers to the New Year's custom of plucking pine saplings while composing poems praying for long life; it reads: Ne no hi suru nobe ni komatsu no nakariseba chiyo no tameshi ni nani o hikamashiIf on the day of the rat no pine saplingsare to be found what should we pluckto pray for longevity? --[Mibu no] Tadamine (Trans. John T. Carpenter). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3720929 Canvassing for Votes. Dated: 1757. Medium: etching and engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles Grignion after William Hogarth.
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alb3652137 Aesacus and Hesperie, Vide Ovid Metamorphosis, Book XI (Liber Studiorum, part XIII, plate 66). Artist and publisher: Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775-1851 London). Dimensions: plate: 7 1/16 x 10 3/16 in. (17.9 x 25.9 cm)sheet: 8 5/16 x 11 1/2 in. (21.1 x 29.2 cm). Date: January 1, 1819.Turner distilled his ideas about landscape In "Liber Studiorum" (Latin for Book of Studies), a series of seventy prints plus a frontispiece published between 1807 and 1819. To establish the compositions, he made brown watercolor drawings, then etched outlines onto copper plates. In a few instances he also developed the tone, here adding mezzotint to evoke a wooded landscape centered on the water nymph Hesperia, watched drying herself on a river bank by Aesacus, a prince of Troy. The Ovidian theme ties the imag to poetry, and Turner weaves arborial layers, slanted rays of sun, and dappled shadows into a kind of magic naturalism. The letter "H" in the upper margin indicates the artist's category of Historical landscape. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3650279 Portrait of the painter Eduardo Zamacois seated at a table. Artist: Mariano Fortuny, 1838-1874 (Spanish, 1838-1874). Dimensions: Sheet: 19 1/16 in. × 14 in. (48.4 × 35.5 cm)Plate: 7 1/16 × 5 7/16 in. (18 × 13.8 cm). Date: ca. 1869.Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala (1841-1871) was a painter of Basque ancestry who, after training in Paris, traveled to Rome in 1866 and befriended Fortuny. The inscription on this print--"A mi q. Zamacois" (to my dear Zamacois)--reflects their friendship. Recognizing Fortuny's talent as a printmaker, Zamacois introduced him to the publisher Adolphe Goupil in Paris. Goupil offered Fortuny a contract and published all his etchings. The print was made after Fortuny's reputation as a printmaker had been established. It is possible that he produced it as a token of his thanks to Zamacois for helping him in his career. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: 1838-1874 Mariano Fortuny.
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alb3900568 Sign for a paviour. Date/Period: Ca. 1725. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 559 mm (22 in); Width: 559 mm (22 in). Author: William Hogarth.
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alb3607754 High-Tin Bronze Bowl. Dimensions: H. 6 15/16 in. (17.6 cm)W. 15 15/16 in. (40.5 cm). Maker: Abu Nasr al-Naqqash. Date: 11th century.High-tin bronze was an alternative to silver, appreciated for its bright surface, resonant quality, and resistance to bronze disease. This piece belongs to a group of hemispherical footless bowls produced in the Ghaznavid period. The bowl is inscribed in Arabic with maxims, good wishes, and the artist's name. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3607157 Fujimigahara in Owari Province (Bishu Fujimigahara), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei). Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760-1849 Tokyo (Edo)). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 10 1/16 x 14 7/8 in. (25.6 x 37.8 cm). Date: ca. 1830-32.By framing Fuji and the cooper in the interior of the barrel and by casting the cooper's body in the same triangular form as that of Fuji beyond, Hokusai effects an intimate dialogue between the haggard man and the iconic mountain. This one-to-one relationship makes not only for a strong visual analogy between mountain and man but also for a potent iconographical one. The juxtaposition of the cooper and Fuji lends a religious overtone to the man's honest labor and existence. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3646128 Amputation. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 11 in. × 14 7/16 in. (28 × 36.6 cm). Publisher: William Hinton (British, active London, 1779-86). Date: February 17, 1786. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb4149865 An Accouchment. Charles WIlliams (English, active 1797-1830); published by S. W. Fores (English, active 1785-1825). Date: 1812. Dimensions: 229 × 340 mm (image);257 × 360 mm (plate); 267 × 374 mm (sheet). Hand-colored etching on ivory laid paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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alb3719971 A caza de dientes (Out Hunting for Teeth). Dated: published 1799. Medium: etching, burnished aquatint, and burin. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA.
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alb3651997 Nakht and Family Fishing and Fowling, Tomb of Nakht. Artist: Norman de Garis Davies (1865-1941); Lancelot Crane; Francis Unwin (Egyptian Expedition Graphic Section). Dimensions: Facsimile H. 200 cm (78 3/4 in); w. 153 cm (60 1/4 in)scale 1:1framed: h. 194.3 cm (76 1/2 in); w. 203.8 cm (80 1/4 in); th. 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in). Dynasty: Dynasty 18. Reign: reigns of Amenhotep II-Amenhotep III. Date: ca. 1425-1350 B.C..This facsimile painting copies an entire wall in the tomb of Nakht (TT 52) at Thebes. The wall has been split into two registers with Nakht and his wife, Tawy, seated at the left in both. At the right side of the upper register, Nakht and his family are shown twice: hunting birds (at the left) and fishing (at the right). The upper half of the bottom register shows the process of making wine and the lower half shows birds being caught in a clap-net and then prepared for storage in jars.The facsimile was painted at the tomb, probably around 1909-1910, by Norman deGaris Davies, director of the Graphic Section of the Museum's Egyptian Expedition. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3657148 Statue of Pasquin in the House of Cardinal Ursino. Artist: After Nicolas Beatrizet (French, Lunéville 1515-ca. 1566 Rome (?)). Dimensions: sheet: 16 3/4 x 12 3/16 in. (42.5 x 31 cm)plate: 15 15/16 x 11 7/16 in. (40.5 x 29 cm). Publisher: Nicolaus van Aelst (Flemish, Brussels 1526-1613 Rome). Series/Portfolio: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Date: Published after 1582.Published as part of Antonio Lafreri's Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence). It is likely that individuals who purchased the prints from Lafreri made their own selections and had them bound. For a history of the publication of the Speculum prints, see Peter Parshall, "Antonio Lafreri's Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae," Print Quarterly, 2001 (1-28). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3651523 Portrait of the Boy Eutyches. Dimensions: h. 38 cm (14 15/16 in); w. 19 cm (7 1/2 in). Date: A.D. 100-150.The young teenage boy in this remarkably lifelike portrait looks calmly at the viewer, his head in three-quarter view. He is dressed in a white Roman tunic with a narrow purple clavus (a vertical stripe) over the right shoulder. A mantle is draped over the left shoulder. The boy wears his dark brown hair short, with locks brushed to both sides of the forehead. The inscription in dark purple pigment below the neckline of the tunic is in Greek, which was the common language of the eastern Mediterranean at the time. Scholars do not completely agree on the inscription's translation. The boy's name ("Eutyches, freedman of Kasanios") seems indisputable; then follows either "son of Herakleides Evandros" or "Herakleides, son of Evandros." It is also unclear whether the "I signed" at the end of the inscription refers to the painter of the portrait or to the manumission (act of freeing a slave) that would have been witnessed by Herakleides or Evandros. An artist's signature would be unique in mummy portraits.Paintings of this type, often called Faiyum portraits (though not all of them come from the Faiyum oasis), are typical products of the multicultural, multiethnic society of Roman Egypt. Most of them are painted in the elaborate encaustic technique, in which pigments were mixed with hot or cold beeswax and other ingredients, such as egg, resin, and linseed oil. This versatile medium allowed artists to create images that in many ways are akin to oil paintings. The boy's head, for instance, stands out from the light olive-colored background, creating an impression of real depth. His face is modeled with flowing brushstrokes and a subtle blend of light and dark colors. Shadows on the left side of the face, neck, and garment and bright shiny spots on the forehead and below the right eye indicate a strong source of light on the boy's right. Most arresting are the dark brown eyes with black pupils reflecting the light with bright spots. This manner of painting, which is very different from the traditional Egyptian style but was well known in Graeco-Roman Egypt, originated in Classical Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E.Although the painting techique on Faiyum portrait panels is Greek, their use is entirely Egyptian. When a person died, the portrait panel was placed over the face of the mummy with parts of the outermost wrapping holding it in place. This implies Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife. After having been ruled for three hundred years by a Greek (Macedonian) dynasty and a century or more by Roman administrators, Roman Egypt was an extremely diverse civilization. The population consisted of Roman citizens and citizens of Greek cities such as Alexandria (both of these groups made up of peoples of many different ethnicities) and native Egyptians. The subjects of the mummy portraits clearly were dressed and coiffed like Romans, and many of them bore Greek names or names that were Greek versions of Egyptian names. However, they and their families found consolation in the ancient Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3668787 "Rustam's Fourth Course, He Cleaves a Witch", Folio 120v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp. Artist: Painting attributed to Qadimi (active ca. 1525-65). Author: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935-1020). Dimensions: Painting: H. 11 3/16 in. (28.5 cm) W. 7 5/16 in. (18.6 cm)Page: H. 18 5/8 in. (47.3 cm)W. 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm)Mat: H. 22 in. (55.9 cm) W. 16 in. (40.6 cm). Date: ca. 1525.The hero Rustam underwent seven tests of valor on his way to rescue Shah Kai Kavus. The artist has illustrated the climax of Rustam's fourth course when the beautiful maiden who had beguiled him turned back into the witch she really was, to be dispatched by his sword. The sorcerer in the background, raising his hands in horror, has been borrowed from Turkmen artistic sources, while the profile of the sorceress is an exaggerated version of the conventional one for the old retainer or crone. Note the faces of animals and humans incorporated in the rocks, a favorite element of the early paintings of Tahmasp's Shahnama. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3620996 "Design on Each Side for Waterwheel Worked by Donkey Power", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari. Artist: Copy by Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif. Author: Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari (1136-1206). Dimensions: H. 11 5/8 in. (29. 5 cm)W. 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm)Mat size: H. 19 in. (48.3 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)Frame: H. 21 5/8 in. (54.9 cm) W. 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm). Date: dated A.H. 715/ A.D. 1315. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Copy by Farrukh ibn 'Abd al-Latif.
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alb3601154 The Liberation of Oriane from a set of Amadis of Gaul. Culture: Dutch, Delft. Designer: Designed by Karel van Mander I (Netherlandish, Meulebeke 1548-1606 Amsterdam). Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): H. 139 x W. 159 1/4 in. (353.1 x 404.5 cm). Maker: Weaving workshop directed by Frans Spiering (Flemish, 1551-ca. 1630). Date: ca. 1590-95.This tapestry depicts scenes from Amadis of Gaul, a chivalric romance that enjoyed great popularity in European court circles in the late sixteenth century. Amadis, a knight from Gaul, has fallen in love with Oriane, daughter of the King of England, but she and the "Damsel of Denmark" have been kidnapped by the king's enemy, Arcalaus. Here we see Oriane's rescue. Toward the center of the scene Amadis encounters the army of Arcalaus and defeats each of his soldiers before finally confronting and killing Arcalaus. In the foreground, Amadis and Oriane are re-united.Woven from a design by Karel van Mander I, the tapestry is a rare example of late sixteenth-century Dutch production. It was made in the Delft workshop of the merchant-weaver Frans Spiering (ca. 1550-1620) who had relocated from Antwerp because of the religious turmoil of the era. The Spiering enterprise enjoyed great success between 1590 and 1620, providing high-quality tapestries to the Protestant courts of northern Europe who were no longer able to buy tapestries from Brussels, the traditional source of high-quality tapestries. Spiering seems to have enjoyed the unusual privilege of being able to use the coveted "BB" symbol of Brussels' production, even though he was not working in that town.Spiering's tapestries had a high silk content, rendering them especially vulnerable to light damage. This tapestry is remarkable for the intensity and richness of its color. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3714488 The Hairdresser - Program for the Theatre-Libre (Le coiffeur - Programme du Théatre-Libre). Dated: 1893. Medium: lithograph in green-black, yellow, and red. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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alb3738233 The Hairdresser - Program for the Théâtre Libre (Le coiffeur - Programme du Théâtre Libre). Dated: 1893. Medium: lithograph in green-black, yellow, and red. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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alb3673735 [Broadside for the Capture of John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold]. Artist: Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821-1882 Washington, D.C.). Dimensions: Sheet: 60.5 x 31.3 cm (23 13/16 x 12 5/16 in.)Each photograph: 8.6 x 5.4 cm (3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.). Maker: Unknown (American). Photography Studio: Silsbee, Case & Company (American, active Boston); Unknown. Date: April 20, 1865.On the night of April 14, 1865, just five days after Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C. Within twenty-four hours, Secret Service director Colonel Lafayette Baker had already acquired photographs of Booth and two of his accomplices. Booth's photograph was secured by a standard police search of the actor's room at the National Hotel; a photograph of John Surratt, a suspect in the plot to kill Secretary of State William Seward, was obtained from his mother, Mary (soon to be indicted as a fellow conspirator), and David Herold's photograph was found in a search of his mother's carte-de-visite album. The three photographs were taken to Alexander Gardner's studio for immediate reproduction. This bill was issued on April 20, the first such broadside in America illustrated with photographs tipped onto the sheet.The descriptions of the alleged conspirators combined with their photographic portraits proved invaluable to the militia. Six days after the poster was released Booth and Herold were recognized by a division of the 16th New York Cavalry. The commanding officer, Lieutenant Edward Doherty, demanded their unconditional surrender when he cornered the two men in a barn near Port Royal, Virginia. Herold complied; Booth refused. Two Secret Service detectives accompanying the cavalry, then set fire to the barn. Booth was shot as he attempted to escape; he died three hours later. After a military trial Herold was hanged on July 7 at the Old Arsenal Prison in Washington, D.C.Surratt escaped to England via Canada, eventually settling in Rome. Two years later a former schoolmate from Maryland recognized Surratt, then a member of the Papal Guard, and he was returned to Washington to stand trial. In September 1868 the charges against him were nol-prossed after the trial ended in a hung jury. Surratt retired to Maryland, worked as a clerk, and lived until 1916. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3675279 Outlines of Figures, Animals, and Carriages. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 11 3/16 × 17 5/16 in. (28.4 × 44 cm)Plate: 10 5/8 × 14 11/16 in. (27 × 37.3 cm). Series/Portfolio: Outlines. Date: March 8, 1790. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3671098 Women Near a River. Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797-1861). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: a) H. 14 7/8 in. (37.8 cm); W. 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm)b): H. 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm); W. 10 3/8 in. (26.4 cm)c): H. 14 13/16 in. (37.6 cm); W. 10 1/16 in. (25.6 cm). Date: ca. 1850.In the 1840s and 50s Kuniyoshi was noted for portraying beauties in triptych format. His images of women gave a round, soft impression in 1840s, but an angular, harder impression in 1850s. The dominance of blue throughout the three sheets effectively highlights the touches of red in the women's clothing.Each of the three women is individually portrayed under pine trees in each sheet. On the other hand, the background of rivers and distant scenes, as well as the continuous foreground, connects the three beauties together. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3610570 Ichikawa Danjuro V in a Shibaraku Performance. Artist: Katsukawa Shunko (Japanese, 1743-1812). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 12 11/16 in. (32.2 cm); W. 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm). Date: ca. 1789.The Ichikawa family was renowned for playing heroic "Shibaraku!" roles. Shown here in such a performance, Danjuro wears a persimmon red robe with a huge family crest of three nested squares (mimasu) on each of his large sleeves. His face shows red lines on white makeup, and he wears a bizarre wig. Shunko portrayed Danjuro V striking a pose (mie) at a climactic moment to make a powerful impression on the audience. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3618193 Hodogaya on the Tokaido (Tokaido Hodogaya), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei). Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760-1849 Tokyo (Edo)). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm); W. 14 9/16 in. (37 cm). Date: ca. 1830-32.Mount Fuji is enclosed by old pine trees that were planted along the highway as shade and shelter for the travelers. The location of this scene is probably the Gondazaka and Shinanozaka, hills that border the Musashi and Sagami provinces. Palanquin bearers at the left are resting after having crossed the hill. The trappings of the horse carry the trademark of the publisher and the character ju from the publisher's name of Eijudo. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3666364 The Custom House at Greenock, Scotland. Artist: Robert Salmon (1755-ca. 1844). Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 25 5/8 in. (41.9 x 65.1 cm). Date: 1828.One of America's earliest marine painters, Salmon worked for many years in his native Britain before immigrating to Boston in 1828, where he exhibited regularly until 1844. Painted probably just after Salmon's arrival in America, this composition pits a rising tempest--conveyed in the cyclonic cloud formation, the eerie light, and the tilting ships--against the fastness of architect William Burn's Doric-style Custom House, built in 1818. The artist lived in Greenock--Scotland's oldest and most important shipbuilding city--from 1812 to 1821. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3669522 The Prince of Whales or the Fisherman at Anchor. Artist: George Cruikshank (British, London 1792-1878 London). Dimensions: sheet: 8 3/4 x 20 15/16 in. (22.2 x 53.2 cm). Publisher: Published by M. [or W. N.] Jones (London). Date: May 1, 1812.This light-hearted marine triumph casts George, Prince of Wales as a sea monster distracted by pleasure. In January 1812 the prince had officially become Regent and Cruikshank emphasizes his fleshly self-indulgence and weakness for mistresses and flatterers. When he became Regent, the prince surprised his former Whig friends by retaining the Tory Spencer Perceval as chief minister. Perceval, the fisherman of the title, stands in a small boat holding his prize fast on a golden chain while being showered by the "Dew of Favor." The disgruntled Whigs at left receive only "the Liquor of Oblivion." Clearly bored with politics, the Regent eyes a buxom mermaid, his most recent mistress Isabella, Marchioness of Hertford. He ignores both her scowling merman husband, and a second mermaid, his former mistress Maria Fitzherbert. The background colonnade represents Carlton House, the prince's palatial home on Pall Mall. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3669724 Woman Digging Bamboo Shoots in the Snow, or Parody of Meng Zong (Moso), from Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety. Artist: Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725-1770). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm); W. 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm)medium-size print (chuban). Date: ca. 1765.Harunobu treated a popular paragon theme with great innovation here, applying the playfully subversive spirit of ukiyo-e to the story of Meng Zong (J.: Moso), a boy whose filial piety prompted heaven to cause the sprouting of spring bamboo shoots in the dead of winter for his ill mother. The story is incorporated in a New Year's calendar print of bijin, or beautiful women. Combining a popular subject with the associations of a holiday, he made the virtuous theme entertaining to a general Edo audience. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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akg557833 Manfred Niehaus; Composer; Born 1933. Works: The adventures of the tartarin from Tarascon (children's opera after A. Daudet, Libr.: M. Niehaus, UA 1977). Performance German Opera Berlin, 1979 (Inscribed.: K. Sommer, Dir.: W. B. Harpe): Scene with Tartarin (E. Krakowski). Drawing, 1979, by Gerd Hartung (1913-2003). Felt tip pen on paper 21 × 29.7 cm. Private collection. Museum: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Copyright: For editorial use only. Gerd Hartung's artistic copyright cleared via akg-images. This artwork is not in the public domain. akg-images represents the artistic copyright of this artist, please contact us from more information and to clear the necessary permissions.
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alb3631331 Central Park, Winter - The Skating Pond. Artist: After a painting by Charles Parsons (American (born England), Hampshire 1821-1910 New York); Lithographed by Lyman W. Atwater (American, 1835-1891). Dimensions: image: 18 1/8 x 26 9/16 in. (46 x 67.5 cm)sheet: 21 7/8 x 29 7/8 in. (55.6 x 75.9 cm)Storage (mat size): 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm). Publisher: Published and printed by Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857-1907). Date: 1862.The New York firm of of Currier & Ives (established by Nathaniel Currier, who formed a partnership with his brother-in-law James Merritt Ives in 1857), lithographed 4,300 subjects between 1835 and 1907 for distribution across America and Europe. They offered images of almost everything animal, vegetable, or mineral in the United States, including views of the citizens enjoying their freedoms. The pictures generally were drawn on lithographic stones in outline and, after being printed in monochrome, were hand-colored by women who worked for the firm at home. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: After a painting by Charles Parsons. Lithographed by Lyman W. Atwater.
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alb3670686 Sacred animal mummy in the form of a falcon. Dimensions: H. 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.); W. 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); D. 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in.). Date: ca. 400 B.C.-100 A.D..Animal cultsThe Egyptians considered certain individual animals to be living manifestations of a god, such as, since earliest times, the Apis bull . Those individuals were duly mummifed when they died and buried for eternal life, then replaced by another single living manifestation. During the first millennium BC, many multiples of animals associated with certain gods were specially raised in temple precincts as simultaneous avatars of that god and then mummified in large contingents and deposited in catacombs for eternal life. The ancient perception of these multiples, the evolution of the practice in this direction, and variations within the practice are not easily accessible to us. But the hundreds of thousands of often elaborately prepared animal mummies found in catacombs and other locales testify to its ancient resonance.Animal mummiesResearch on animal mummies has shown that the majority of mummies found at the large animal cemetery sites are pre-adults who were purposely killed for use. Some of the mummies are actually 'substitute' mummies containing only a few bones or feathers or possibly just sticks or sand. Recently a review of the museum's animal mummies and their x-rays was conducted in consultation with an expert in their study, and brought to light a number of interesting points.Size of this mummy suggests it was intended to serve as a falcon mummy, although the face is missing; x-rays do not reveal any recognizable bones so it appears to be a substitute mummy. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3629878 "Siyavush Plays Polo before Afrasiyab", Folio 180v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp. Artist: Painting attributed to Qasim ibn 'Ali (active ca. 1525-60). Author: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935-1020). Dimensions: Painting: H. 11 3/16 in. (28.4 cm)W. 9 5/16 in. (23.7 cm)Entire Page: H. 18 5/8 in. (47.3 cm)W. 12 9/16 in. (31.9 cm). Workshop director: Mir Musavvir (active 1525-60). Date: ca. 1525-30.The Turanian king Afrasiyab suggested a game of polo and Siyavush accepted, requesting, however, that he be allowed Iranian players for his team, as Turanians would not play their hardest against their own king. Afrasiyab agreed and was wonderfully impressed with the outstanding skill of Siyavush as a player and horseman. Like the other Iranians, Siyavush wears a tall baton, or taj, in his turban. He is the player on the black horse in the center of the field; Afrasiyab, mounted, watches from the horizon. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3661356 "Buzurgmihr Masters the Game of Chess", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings). Author: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935-1020). Dimensions: Painting: H. 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm) W. 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm)Page: H. 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm) W. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm). Date: ca. 1300-30.The text of the Shahnama has its own version of how the game of chess was introduced into Iran from India. In order to avoid paying tribute to the Sasanians, the rajah of Hind (India) sent an envoy challenging the Iranian ruler to figure out how this game was played. The clever vizier Buzurjmihr secured the tribute for his king by solving the problem. The Iranians are dressed in Mongol costume, whereas the erudite vizier wears Arab-style tunic and turban. The Indian envoy, all alone among the Iranians as if underscoring his defeat at the game, is typically represented as a dark-skinned man wearing baggy clothes and a loose turban. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb3647796 Sacred animal mummy of a cat. Dimensions: H. 34.4 cm (13 9/16 in.); W. 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.); D. 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.). Date: ca. 400 B.C.-100 A.D..Animal cults The Egyptians considered certain individual animals to be living manifestations of a god, such as, since earliest times, the Apis bull . Those individuals were duly mummifed when they died and buried for eternal life, then replaced by another single living manifestation. During the first millennium BC, many multiples of animals associated with certain gods were specially raised in temple precincts as simultaneous avatars of that god and then mummified in large contingents and deposited in catacombs for eternal life. The ancient perception of these multiples, the evolution of the practice in this direction, and variations within the practice are not easily accessible to us. But the hundreds of thousands of often elaborately prepared animal mummies found in catacombs and other locales testify to its ancient resonance. Animal mummiesResearch on animal mummies has shown that the majority of mummies found at the large animal cemetery sites are pre-adults who were purposely killed for use. Some of the mummies are actually 'substitute' mummies containing only a few bones or feathers or possibly just sticks or sand. Recently a review of the museum's animal mummies and their x-rays was conducted in consultation with an expert in their study, and brought to light a number of interesting points.This mummy is wrapped in a checkerboard pattern created by two slightly different shades of beige linen; inside the bundle is a perfectly preserved skeleton of a cat just reaching maturity, whose neck had been broken. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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alb4056592 This Appendix to issue forty-five of The North Briton was published after John Wilkes returned from exile in 1768. Despite being arrested and jailed in the King’s Bench Prison, Wilkes sought re-election to Parliament (1768–69), and he used The North Briton to promote himself as a defender of ancient English liberties. The Appendix supplied a detailed account of his prosecution, and began by repeating in full the famous clause from Magna Carta stating that ‘No freeman may be apprehended or imprisoned …’, which was quoted in Latin in the main body of the text and translated into English in a footnote. From his prison cell, Wilkes was re-elected as a Member of Parliament for Middlesex and Alderman of London, despite opposition from the government. His use of Magna Carta was a masterstroke, and throughout this period the rallying cry of ‘Wilkes and liberty’ was repeatedly heard on the streets of London. The North Briton. London : For G. Kearsley; J. Williams; W. Bingley, 1762-71. Source: Burney 78b, no. 45 (23rd April 1763). Language: English.
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akg8933706 Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward. Vanity Fair: Legal; 'The Solicitor General', Sir W. S. Robson, January 25, 1906, 1906. Chromolithograph. Inv. No. B1979.14.309. New Haven, Yale Center for British Art.
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akg357741 Berlin-Tiergarten, Hamburger Bahnhof (built 1845-47 by F. Neuhaus, 1906-45 transport & construct. museum, used for exhibitions since 1987; converted into Museum for Contemporary Art in the 1990s). Exterior view. Photo, 1979.
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akg557864 Otto Nicolai; Composer; 1810-1849. Works: The funny women of Windsor (opera, Libr.: Hermann S. Mosenthal after Shakespeare, UA Berlin 1849). Performance German Opera Berlin, 1983 (Ins.: W. Bauernfeind, conductor: P. Schneider):. Falstaff (A. Kuhn) and others. Drawing, 1983, by Gerd Hartung (1913-2003). Felt tip pen on paper 21 × 29.7 cm. Private collection. Museum: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Copyright: For editorial use only. Gerd Hartung's artistic copyright cleared via akg-images. This artwork is not in the public domain. akg-images represents the artistic copyright of this artist, please contact us from more information and to clear the necessary permissions.
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akg7070845 W.M., Two-piece bronze mold for spoon, W M 1820, cast molding tool tools base metal bronze, cast Two-piece bronze mold for casting an S-shaped spoon with triangular praise incised: WM 1820 Rotterdam tin foundry tin pewter Meeuws Druy craft Forms come from the originally 18th century Rotterdam tinnegieter J Druy. The large molds that were not signed or dated were the property of the tinker guild and were rented to the small tin caster.
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akg563941 Peter Hacks; Writer; 1928-2003. Works: The Jahrmarktfest to Plundersweilern (after J. W. v. Goethe, 1973). Performance Berlin, Tribune, 1977 (Inscribed.: K. Sonnenschein / K.-H. Grewe, Darst.: I. Wellmann, H. Pinnow, H. Schultheis, H. Münzer): Scene picture. Drawing, 1977; By Gerd Hartung (1913-2003). Felt tip pen on paper 21 × 29.7 cm. Private collection. Museum: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Copyright: For editorial use only. This artwork is not in the public domain. akg-images represents the artistic copyright of this artist, please contact us from more information and to clear the necessary permissions. Gerd Hartung's artistic copyright cleared via akg-images.
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akg563914 Peter Hacks; Writer; 1928-2003. Works: The Jahrmarktfest to Plundersweilern (after J. W. v. Goethe, 1973). Performance Berlin, Tribune, 1977 (Inscribed.: K. Sonnenschein / K.-H. Grewe, Darst.: I. Wellmann, H. Pinnow, H. Schultheis, H. Münzer): Scene picture. Drawing, 1977; By Gerd Hartung (1913-2003). Felt tip pen on paper 21 × 29.7 cm. Private collection. Museum: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Copyright: For editorial use only. This artwork is not in the public domain. akg-images represents the artistic copyright of this artist, please contact us from more information and to clear the necessary permissions. Gerd Hartung's artistic copyright cleared via akg-images.
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akg563934 Peter Hacks; Writer; 1928-2003. Works: The Jahrmarktfest to Plundersweilern (after J. W. v. Goethe, 1973). Performance Berlin, Tribune, 1977 (Inscribed.: K. Sonnenschein / K.-H. Grewe, Darst.: I. Wellmann, H. Pinnow, H. Schultheis, H. Münzer): Scene picture. Drawing, 1977; By Gerd Hartung (1913-2003). Felt tip pen on paper 21 × 29.7 cm. Private collection. Museum: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Copyright: For editorial use only. This artwork is not in the public domain. akg-images represents the artistic copyright of this artist, please contact us from more information and to clear the necessary permissions. Gerd Hartung's artistic copyright cleared via akg-images.
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akg3112042 Nil (Ägypten), Zweiter Katarakt. - "Second cataract of the Nile from the S. W., the first obstruction to navigation for 1000 miles". - Foto (Teil einer stereoskopischen Aufnahme), anonym. New York und London (Underwood & Underwood) 1904, Nr. 98. Privatsammlung. Museum: PRIVATE COLLECTION.
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alb3429030 Shrine-shaped case for an animal mummy surmounted by a lizard, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 664–30 B.C., From Egypt, Cupreous metal, H. 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); W. 4.6 cm (1 13/16 in.); L. 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.), The lizard in later periods of Egyptian history was linked with the creator and solar god Atum, in large part because of their reptilian tendency to warm themselves in the sunshine. Almost all copper alloy representations show the lizards prone, with legs slightly splayed, as if basking in the sun’s rays.
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alb4490014 Wheellock pistol, The polished lock has an outer wheel with a hard-soldered iron nub in the center for the spindle, and with a large brass hook at the bottom in the form of two curled leaves embossed, the lock plate is carved in relief with a triple leaf and engraved with lofwerk and a naked man, the brass pan is opened with a brass pin, engraved with a mask, and the end of the cockpit is chiseled in the shape of a leaf. The round barrel has a narrow rib at the top, flanked at the rear by two shorter ribs, stamped on top with S and K, bottom with an M and left with the number 59. The flask of fruit wood is grooved on the front, the butt knob has a cow horn cap, engraved with eight acanthus leaves around a gilt bud, the butt knob is separated from the handle by bands of ivory and ebony, the screw plates for the lock bolts are of cow horn, shaped and engraved like a flower, the flask is inlaid with cow horn in the form of curls and circles and a bird on a branch, and with three plates of mother-of-pearl in the form of and engraved as leaves and a heart. The brass fitting consists of a drawer cap engraved with floral scrolls, a loading stick tube, a trigger guard that ends in an asymmetrical blade, and the band around the butt knob engraved with floral scrolls, the loading stick is provided with an engraved cow horn cap, Maastricht, Sievardt Kitzen, c. 1650, iron (metal), brass (alloy), fruitwood, horn (animal material), gilding (material), ivory, ebony (wood), mother of pearl, inlay (process), l 64.9 cm l 45.3 cm d 13.1 mm w 1131 gr.
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alb4087355 A mother with her baby. Illustration for the story, 'the mother.' . Walter Crane's Picture Books. Large series. London ; New York : John Lane, [1901-10]. Source: 12809.w.57, vol.4, page 1-2.
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alb4449387 Pass card of part of the Irish Sea and St. George's Canal New Pass Kaert of the East Coast of Yrland Starting from the Hoeck of Waterfoort to the Mards As well as the West Coast of England From S. David to Moul of Galoway with all syn depth and so despondent feather Nauwkeurich drafted and noyt exposed for the animal (title on object), Passport card of a part of the Irish Sea, between Ireland and Great Britain, and the St. George Canal, with two compass roses, the North is on the right. Bottom left a cartouche with the title, the address of the publisher and the scale, shown in German, Spanish and English or French miles. On the scale are two dogs and a shepherd, sailing-ship, sailing-boat, dog, herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc, Ireland, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1681 - 1803, paper, etching, h 550 mm × w 640 mm.
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akg531105 Horvath, Ödön von; österr. Schriftsteller, 1901-1938. Werke:. Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung (1932). Aufführung Berlin Schloßpark-Theater, 1978 (Insz.: Günter Krämer; Darst.: M. Carstensen, W. Pampel, H. Schrader u. a.): Szene. Zeichnung, 1978, von Gerd Hartung (1913-2003). Filzstift auf Papier 21 × 29,7 cm. Privatsammlung. Museum: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Copyright: Gerd Hartung's artistic copyright cleared via akg-images. For editorial use only. This artwork is not in the public domain. akg-images represents the artistic copyright of this artist, please contact us from more information and to clear the necessary permissions.
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akg571168 Anouilh, Jean; franz. Dramatiker; 1910-1987. Werke: Der arme Bitos oder das Diner der Köpfe (Pauvre Bitos ou le diner de têtes; UA 1956). Aufführung Berlin, Schloßpark-Theater, 1961 (Insz.: Walter Henn; Bild: H. W. Lenneweit):. Rollenbild. Zeichnung, undat; von Gerd Hartung (1913-2003). Filzstift auf Papier 29,7 × 21 cm. Privatsammlung. Museum: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Copyright: Gerd Hartung's artistic copyright cleared via akg-images. This artwork is not in the public domain. akg-images represents the artistic copyright of this artist, please contact us from more information and to clear the necessary permissions. For editorial use only.
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akg569165 Anouilh, Jean; franz. Dramatiker; 1910-1987. Werke: Der arme Bitos oder das Diner der Köpfe (Pauvre Bitos ou le diner de têtes; UA 1956). Aufführung Berlin, Schloßpark-Theater, 1961 (Insz.: Walter Henn; Bild: H. W. Lenneweit):. Rollenbild. Zeichnung, 1961; von Gerd Hartung (1913-2003). Bleistift auf Papier 29,7 × 21 cm. Privatsammlung. Museum: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Copyright: For editorial use only. Gerd Hartung's artistic copyright cleared via akg-images. This artwork is not in the public domain. akg-images represents the artistic copyright of this artist, please contact us from more information and to clear the necessary permissions.
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