Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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Joachim Franz Beich, The Angler, c. 1700/1725, etching on laid paper, laid down on Phillips's album sheet, Gift of C.G. Boerner LLC, 2019.161.1

The Angler

Joachim Franz Beich · c. 1700/1725 · etching on laid paper, laid down on Phillips's album sheet ·  Accession ID  2019.161.1

This free-standing, ivory-white plaster sculpture shows a nude, muscular, young man standing with his right hand, to our left, raised to the top of his head. In this photograph, his body faces us but his head turns slightly to our left toward the raised hand. He stands on a square base with his feet together and his right knee, on our left, slightly bent. That arm is raised in front of him with the elbow bent back so his hand grasps his short hair. His eyes and full mouth are closed. His other arm is also bent at the elbow at his side so that hand is at shoulder level, his fist curled. His face and arms have areas of straw yellow and flecks of caramel brown, presumably where the sculpture has been handled or worn.
Auguste Rodin, The Age of Bronze (L'Age d'Airain), model 1875-1876, cast 1898, plaster, Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.183.1

The Age of Bronze (L'Age d'Airain)

Auguste Rodin · model 1875-1876, cast 1898 · plaster ·  Accession ID  1991.183.1

Joseph Hubert Blees, Mountainous Landscape with a Brook, 1864, etching on chine collé [proof?], Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund, 2020.36.2

Mountainous Landscape with a Brook

Joseph Hubert Blees · 1864 · etching on chine collé [proof?] ·  Accession ID  2020.36.2