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A group of light-skinned people and animals gather in an oval ring around a shallow pool in a wooded landscape in this horizontal painting. Deep in shadow but closest to us, animals, objects, and people create a continuous band in the foreground. From left to right is a horse, a reclining woman and small child, a goat tended by a nude child, a dog sniffing at a pile of crockery, baskets, and metal pans and dishes, a cat lapping from a shallow pewter dish, and a young man drinking from a dish or large shell in the lower right corner. Beyond this and to our right, an older man with gray hair and beard and wearing turquoise, pink, and blue robes taps an outcropping of rocks with a thin rod. Water gushes in thin streams from the outcropping into the pool below. The bearded man is surrounded by several standing men and women. Men, women, and children bend over the edge of the pool around its perimeter, filling or drinking from jugs, dishes, and pans. Most of the men wear long robes and some wear turbans, and the women wear long dresses or robes in teal, aquamarine, shell pink, pale yellow, and ivory. Trees enclose this group to the left and at the center of the painting. Another band of dozens of people, animals, and wagons line the horizon in the distance. They are painted in pale gray, blue, pink, and white. The horizon line comes three-quarters of the way up the composition and glimpses of vibrant blue sky and white clouds are seen through breaks in the trees. Light glints off of clothing, smooth skin, the fur of the animals, and especially the metalware in the foreground to give the painting a glimmering, almost glossy look.
Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael, Moses Striking the Rock, 1624, oil on panel, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.11.1

Moses Striking the Rock

Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael · 1624 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1972.11.1

Edouard Manet, Man Wearing a Cloak [verso], 1852/1858, charcoal on wove paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.23.b

Man Wearing a Cloak [verso]

Edouard Manet · 1852/1858 · charcoal on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1991.217.23.b

Edouard Manet, Man Wearing a Cloak [recto], 1852/1858, charcoal on wove paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.23.a

Man Wearing a Cloak [recto]

Edouard Manet · 1852/1858 · charcoal on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1991.217.23.a

Stefano Della Bella, Two Men in Masquerade Costumes: A Cannon Firing and a Cat Inside a Mousetrap, c. 1645, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2002.31.1

Two Men in Masquerade Costumes: A Cannon Firing and a Cat Inside a Mousetrap

Stefano Della Bella · c. 1645 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2002.31.1

Egon Schiele, Dr. Ernst Wagner, 1918, black crayon on wove paper, Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1984.3.59

Dr. Ernst Wagner

Egon Schiele · 1918 · black crayon on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1984.3.59