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Mrs. John Jay Ide

Ide, Dora Donner
Ide, Dora Donner Estate of

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Perched on a rocky outcropping in the lower left corner of this landscape, a person sits with their back to us with a canvas near their knees, facing a moss-green, craggy mountain that fills most of our view this horizontal scene. The person wears a floppy-brimmed, straw-yellow hat and a teal-blue smock. He has cream-white pants and black shoes, and sits on a three-legged stool. A canvas rests on or just beyond his knees, and he holds one hand up to its blank surface. A tall, parchment-white umbrella is pitched next to him, to our right, to provide some shade. A few swipes of brick red, brown, and pinkish beige next to him could be bags or other materials leaning against a rock. He sits in the curve of the rocky outcropping, which is painted with dabs and swirls of olive green, butter yellow, and ginger brown. A valley stretches out between the painter and the mountain. Meadows in the valley are painted with pale sage green, and a cluster of tan buildings sits near the edge of an ice-blue body of water. The hill rises steeply from the valley. It dips a bit to our left and comes more than three-quarters up the composition to our right. It is painted in hazy, muted tones of moss green, mauve purple, and smoke gray. The sky deepens from pale lemon yellow along the horizon through light peach to muted blue along the top edge. The artist signed and dated the work in the lower left corner, “Botzen. 1837.”
Jules Coignet, View of Bozen with a Painter, 1837, oil on paper on canvas, Gift of Mrs. John Jay Ide in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Donner, 1994.52.1

View of Bozen with a Painter

Jules Coignet · 1837 · oil on paper on canvas ·  Accession ID  1994.52.1

Alexander Jacovleff, Un Lama de Lambrunn, 1932, colored chalks on wove paper, Gift of Dora Donner Ide in honor of and in memory of Choy Fung, 1993.40.1

Un Lama de Lambrunn

Alexander Jacovleff · 1932 · colored chalks on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1993.40.1

Louis-Léopold Boilly, The Vaccine, 1806, pen and black ink and wash on laid paper, Gift of Dora Donner Ide in memory of William Henry Donner and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.3.1

The Vaccine

Louis-Léopold Boilly · 1806 · pen and black ink and wash on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.3.1

André Giroux, Forest Interior with a Painter, Civita Castellana, 1825/1830, oil on paper, Gift of Mrs. John Jay Ide in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Donner, 1994.52.3

Forest Interior with a Painter, Civita Castellana

André Giroux · 1825/1830 · oil on paper ·  Accession ID  1994.52.3

Anonymous Artist, Queen Victoria, c. 1843, oil on canvas, Gift of the children of the late William H. Donner, 1954.3.1

Queen Victoria

Anonymous Artist · c. 1843 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1954.3.1

André Giroux, Forest Interior with a Waterfall, Papigno, 1825/1830, oil on paper, Gift of Mrs. John Jay Ide in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Donner, 1994.52.4

Forest Interior with a Waterfall, Papigno

André Giroux · 1825/1830 · oil on paper ·  Accession ID  1994.52.4

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[Les Vues des Maisons Royales et des Villes Conquises par Louis XIV]

Various Artists, François Dorbay II, Sébastien Le Clerc I, Jean Marot I, Simon de La Boissiere, Pierre Brissart, Jean Bérain, Israël Silvestre · published c. 1675/1685 · 1 vol: ill: 47 etching and engravings (3 full-page, 26 double-page, 18 folding, versos blank), artists include: Israel Silvestre, Jean Marot, François Dorbay, Sébastien Le Clerc, Simon de La Boissiere, Pierre Brissart, Jean Bérain ·  Accession ID  1985.61.439

Jules Coignet, View of Lake Nemi, 1843, oil on paper on canvas, Gift of Mrs. John Jay Ide in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Donner, 1994.52.2

View of Lake Nemi

Jules Coignet · 1843 · oil on paper on canvas ·  Accession ID  1994.52.2

Charles Haslewood Shannon, Two Male Figures: Study for "The Good Samaritan", 1918, black and white chalk on gray laid paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Ide, 1999.40.2

Two Male Figures: Study for "The Good Samaritan"

Charles Haslewood Shannon · 1918 · black and white chalk on gray laid paper ·  Accession ID  1999.40.2

Carle Vernet, View of Paris from the Terrace of the Pavillon de Brimborion, 1810/1812, watercolor over graphite with touches of white gouache on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Ide, 1999.40.1

View of Paris from the Terrace of the Pavillon de Brimborion

Carle Vernet · 1810/1812 · watercolor over graphite with touches of white gouache on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1999.40.1

Bibliography

1953

  • The New York Times, 4 November 1953 [obituary for William Donner]

1962

  • The New York Times, 13 January 1962 [obituary for John Jay Ide]