Charles A. Loeser

American, 1864 - 1928

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Italian 17th Century, Figures Carrying a Body, 1655/1665, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Gift of William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.150.58

Figures Carrying a Body

Italian 17th Century · 1655/1665 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.150.58

Gasparo Galliari, Stage Design, pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper, Gift of William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.150.28

Stage Design

Gasparo Galliari · · pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.150.28

Close to us, a bearded man with pale, peachy skin sits against a tall, narrow rock formation against a deep landscape in this vertical painting. The man has gray hair, deep-set eyes, high cheekbones, and his lips are downturned in his long beard. He sits with his knees and body angled to our left, but he turns to look up and to our right at a raven perched on the stone. His right elbow, to our left, is propped on a rocky ledge, and his head rests in that hand. His other veined, large hand rests on his knee. He wears a voluminous, long-sleeved, aquamarine-blue robe under a cloth tied around his neck. The cloth is rose-pink on the outside and appears to be lined with fleece on the underside. Near the top right corner of the composition, the raven leans toward the man holding a roll in its beak. The man’s bare feet rest on the dirt ground, and a couple of scrubby plants grow in the lower right corner of the painting, next to the rock on which the man sits. A river cuts through grassy land in the deep distance to the left of the rock formation. Several people gathered near the water’s edge point or look up into the sky, where a man kneeling in a chariot is drawn into a peach-toned cloud bank in the blue sky. Steep mountains on the horizon are icy blue.
Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, Elijah Fed by the Raven, c. 1510, oil on panel transferred to canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.35

Elijah Fed by the Raven

Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo · c. 1510 · oil on panel transferred to canvas ·  Accession ID  1961.9.35

Bibliography

1928

  • Obituary, Art News (24 March 1928)

1978

  • Oberhuber, K. "Charles Loeser as a Collector of Drawings," Apollo CVII (June 1978):464