Edmond de Goncourt

French, 1822 - 1896

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A group of four people gather around a person in a bed, seen through an open doorway to our left, while a man and woman stand near a second doorway of a beige building in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale skin. Seen through the arched opening in the room to our left, two people with flat, plate-like gold halos offer a vessel to the person sitting up in bed. The people with the halos wear raspberry-pink and white cloaks over aquamarine-blue robes. They each also wear a cap with a red, mushroom-like top over a white band that encircles the head. The person sitting up in bed wears a white robe, and her lap is covered with a red blanket. Two more people peer over the headboard behind her. A three-legged stool and a tray with a ewer sits near the bed. In the arched opening to our right, a woman wears a lilac-purple dress with a white head covering that drapes over her shoulders. She holds out a straw-colored box, perhaps a basket, to a man with a gold halo, who also wears pink and white cloaks over a blue tunic and the red cap. He holds one hand up in front of his chest and reaches for the box with the other. The door to our right is set back and the ground in front of it is covered with paving stones. Atop the wall over the right-hand door sits a wide, rounded pot with dark green plants, in front of a sliver of topaz-blue sky. There are cracks across the surface of the panel, especially visible in the building’s flat façade.
Fra Angelico, The Healing of Palladia by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian, c. 1438/1440, tempera and oil on poplar panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.3

The Healing of Palladia by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian

Fra Angelico · c. 1438/1440 · tempera and oil on poplar panel ·  Accession ID  1952.5.3

Nicolas Lancret, Two Elegant Women in Polish Dress, c. 1723, red, black, and white chalk on light brown paper, Gift of Myron A. Hofer in memory of his mother, Jane Arms Hofer, 1944.9.1

Two Elegant Women in Polish Dress

Nicolas Lancret · c. 1723 · red, black, and white chalk on light brown paper ·  Accession ID  1944.9.1

Antoine Watteau, The Bower, c. 1716, red chalk and red chalk counterproof on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.72.1

The Bower

Antoine Watteau · c. 1716 · red chalk and red chalk counterproof on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1982.72.1

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Fête Champêtre with Game of Hot Cockles (La Main Chaude)

Jean-Pierre Norblin · before 1774 · graphite with pen and gray and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2018.174.2

Jean Moyreau, J.-B. Rebel, c. 1730, etching on laid paper [unique proof impression of the second state], Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2009.133.2

J.-B. Rebel

Jean Moyreau · c. 1730 · etching on laid paper [unique proof impression of the second state] ·  Accession ID  2009.133.2

Bibliography

1996

  • Rosenberg/Prat 1996, no. 234.