Provenance

Gottfried Winkler

German, 1731 - 1795

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Hans Baldung Grien, The Lamentation, c. 1515, brush and black ink, heightened with white, on dark brown prepared paper; the surface varnished, Woodner Collection, 1991.182.3

The Lamentation

Hans Baldung Grien · c. 1515 · brush and black ink, heightened with white, on dark brown prepared paper; the surface varnished ·  Accession ID  1991.182.3

A stone bridge with turrets at each end spans a placid river in this horizontal landscape painting. The bridge takes up the right half of the composition, moving from the right edge of the canvas back and to our left. The horizon line comes about a quarter of the way up the painting so much of the tan-colored bridge is nearly silhouetted against the sky. The sun, low in the sky to our right, angles sharply through the four large stone arches of the bridge. The sky glows with golden light along the right side of the composition, and deepens to pale and then aquamarine blue to our left. Vegetation hangs down from the tops of tower-like structures rising at each end of the bridge. Along the shadowed riverbank, close to us, two men on horseback talk and gesture toward the bridge. Another standing to our right seems to point to a man in a boat near the shore, who stands with his arms spread. A dog looks at the man in the boat, and another man herds three cows through the water, near the lower left corner of the painting. All of the men except the cowherd wear or hold wide-brimmed hats and wear jackets and stockings in black, yellow, navy blue, or crimson red. The riverbank opposite us us sheer and rocky, but details are difficult to make out in the shadows there. Beyond the riverbank, sunlight brushes the tops of rolling green hills. Two buildings with low towers sit among the hills in the distance. Mountains beyond become more blue in the hazy light along the horizon.
Jan Asselijn, The Tiber River with the Ponte Molle at Sunset, c. 1650, oil on canvas, Florian Carr Fund, New Century Fund, and Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund, 2012.129.1

The Tiber River with the Ponte Molle at Sunset

Jan Asselijn · c. 1650 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2012.129.1

Shown from the chest up, a pale-skinned older woman looks down and to our right in front of a shadowy background in this vertical painting. Brushstrokes are visible throughout, especially in the woman’s face and clothing. Her shoulders square toward us but she looks down and to the side with heavy-lidded, sunken eyes. Her face is deeply lined between her eyebrows, down the sides of her nose, and at the corners of her mouth. Her cheeks sag in jowls on either side of a fleshy chin, and her thin lips are set in a line. A cream-white cloth wraps across her forehead and covers her head. An earth-brown, voluminous hood rests across the crown of her head and droops to her shoulders, where it meets the cloak fastened at her throat over a steel-gray garment. The background is also dark brown and signed to our left near the woman’s shoulder, “Rembrandt 1957.”
Dutch 17th Century, Head of an Aged Woman, 1655/1660, oil on panel, Widener Collection, 1942.9.64

Head of an Aged Woman

Dutch 17th Century · 1655/1660 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1942.9.64