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Chinese Qing Dynasty, Baluster Vase, Kangxi period, 1662/1722, porcelain with famille noire enamels on the biscuit, Widener Collection, 1942.9.617

Baluster Vase

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Kangxi period, 1662/1722 · porcelain with famille noire enamels on the biscuit ·  Accession ID  1942.9.617

A long-haired, small white dog with tawny-brown ears and spots sits on a garnet-red cushion in this loosely painted vertical portrait. The dog looks just to our left with large, round, black eyes under perked eyebrows. Long, floppy ears hang to either side of its short muzzle. A snub black nose glistens over its downward curving mouth. The long fur on the dog’s body is painted with visible strokes in white and silvery gray. Its thin front legs are braced near a black and white ball, which rests at the edge of the cushion near the lower right corner of the composition. The background is coffee brown, and the artist signed the lower right corner with black paint, “ed. Manet.”
Edouard Manet, A King Charles Spaniel, c. 1866, oil on linen, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.36

A King Charles Spaniel

Edouard Manet · c. 1866 · oil on linen ·  Accession ID  1970.17.36

Chinese Qing Dynasty, Young Woman, Kangxi period, 1662/1722, porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit, Widener Collection, 1942.9.593

Young Woman

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Kangxi period, 1662/1722 · porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit ·  Accession ID  1942.9.593

Chinese Qing Dynasty, Female Attendant, Kangxi period, 1662/1722, porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit, Widener Collection, 1942.9.599

Female Attendant

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Kangxi period, 1662/1722 · porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit ·  Accession ID  1942.9.599

Chinese Qing Dynasty, Female Attendant, Kangxi period, 1662/1722, porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit, Widener Collection, 1942.9.600

Female Attendant

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Kangxi period, 1662/1722 · porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit ·  Accession ID  1942.9.600

Chinese Qing Dynasty, Female Attendant, Kangxi period, 1662/1722, porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit, Widener Collection, 1942.9.601

Female Attendant

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Kangxi period, 1662/1722 · porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit ·  Accession ID  1942.9.601

Chinese Qing Dynasty, Hexagonal Trumpet Beaker Vase, Kangxi period, 1662/1722, porcelain with famille jaune enamels on the biscuit, Widener Collection, 1942.9.585

Hexagonal Trumpet Beaker Vase

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Kangxi period, 1662/1722 · porcelain with famille jaune enamels on the biscuit ·  Accession ID  1942.9.585

Chinese Qing Dynasty, Young Woman, Kangxi period, 1662/1722, porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit, Widener Collection, 1942.9.594

Young Woman

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Kangxi period, 1662/1722 · porcelain with famille verte enamels on the biscuit ·  Accession ID  1942.9.594

Three men and two women sit or stand along the far side of a long table, with more people looking on or gathered in other rooms behind them in this tall, vertical painting. All the people have pale skin. The long table stretches nearly the width of the painting. Near the left edge of the painting, a woman wearing a teal-blue robe over a white head scarf holds her hands together in front of her chest in prayer, and she looks down and to our right toward the tabletop. Next to her, a bearded man wearing a loose, eggplant-purple robe, Jesus, holds his right hand, to our left, up in front of his chest with his first two fingers raised, and the other hand rests on the table. His long, wavy brown hair hangs by his face, and he looks down toward the table with hooded eyes, his head tilted slightly to our left. Gold lines radiate out from the woman and Jesus’s heads. At his left shoulder, to our right, a man wearing a sky-blue cap and an emerald-green robe holds an oval-shaped bowl filled with a red liquid toward Jesus with one hand, and the other rests on the table. He looks to our left with light brown eyes under arched brows, and he has deep wrinkles across his forehead, at the corners of his eyes, along his chin line, and around his mouth. To our right and at the end of the table, a young, cleanshaven man sits next to a woman. Both have wavy blond hair, and they look down at the table. The man wears a crimson-red cap and a white fur-lined red cloak with a gold, jeweled clasp lined with teardrop pearls. His right hand, to our left, is lifted toward the woman sitting next to him. The woman wears a pearl-and-jewel headband around a white cloth that drapes down the back of her head. Her pine-green dress is patterned with shimmering gold, stylized leaf designs and has full, loose, white sleeves. She wears three gold rings on the hand resting on the table and two jeweled, gold bands on the other, which rests on her belly. Two younger people, both with brown, shoulder-length hair, stand on our side of the table, facing away from us as they look toward the woman to our right. The one to our left wears a brick-red tunic, and he holds a shallow, round bowl. The one to our right wears teal blue and holds a gold goblet on the table. With his other hand, he points down at six tall jugs on the geometrically patterned floor, and a brown dog stands at his feet. The table is covered with a white cloth, which is decorated with bands of stylized leaves and borders on the side facing us. Along the bottom of the cloth, above long fringe, a Latin inscription reads, “AVE GRACIA PLENA DOMINVS TECV BENEDICTATV INMVILEDIDVS ET BENEDICTVS.” Two gold plates, a few pieces of round, flat bread, and two knives are spaced along the tabletop. Behind the group at the table, one person stands to our left, another at the center, and a trio of men stand to our right. The far wall of the room is peirced with two tall, narrow arches of wood or dark stone to our left. At the top of the column separating the arches, there is white statue of a man holding up two round-topped tablets. The archway to our right opens onto a room with a bed covered with a ruby-red cover and a white pillow. Under the other arch, to our left, one woman and three men sit or stand around a round table in front of a tall fireplace mantle. One of the men holds a large, pewter-silver pitcher up to his lips, and the other three look on. The round table is covered with a white cloth and set with a few dishes. A door on the far wall of that room opens onto a street view lined with buildings.
Master of the Catholic Kings, The Marriage at Cana, c. 1495/1497, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.42

The Marriage at Cana

Master of the Catholic Kings · c. 1495/1497 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1952.5.42

Chinese Qing Dynasty, Hexagonal Trumpet Beaker Vase, Kangxi period, 1662/1722, porcelain with famille jaune enamels on the biscuit, Widener Collection, 1942.9.584

Hexagonal Trumpet Beaker Vase

Chinese Qing Dynasty · Kangxi period, 1662/1722 · porcelain with famille jaune enamels on the biscuit ·  Accession ID  1942.9.584