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Private Collector c/o Didier Aaron, Inc.

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Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, Family Promenade in the Park, 1765/1766, watercolor and gouache with pen and black ink, with later framing line in black ink, Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips Fund in Honor of Andrew Robison, 2004.96.1

Family Promenade in the Park

Pierre-Antoine Baudouin · 1765/1766 · watercolor and gouache with pen and black ink, with later framing line in black ink ·  Accession ID  2004.96.1

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

Eugène Isabey, Fishing Boats Tossed before a Storm, c. 1840, watercolor with touches of gouache and pen and brown ink with gum arabic, over black chalk, with scraping and incising into wet paint on wove paper, Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke, 2001.79.1

Fishing Boats Tossed before a Storm

Eugène Isabey · c. 1840 · watercolor with touches of gouache and pen and brown ink with gum arabic, over black chalk, with scraping and incising into wet paint on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2001.79.1

Jean-Antoine Constantin, An Ancient Tree Fallen Beside a Stream, c. 1814, pen and black and gray ink over black chalk on laid paper, Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin, 2003.96.1

An Ancient Tree Fallen Beside a Stream

Jean-Antoine Constantin · c. 1814 · pen and black and gray ink over black chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2003.96.1

Pierre-Adrien Pâris, Architectural Fantasy: Ruins of a Circular Temple Seen through a Natural Arch, c. 1785, pen and black ink with watercolor and gouache over graphite on laid paper, New Century Fund, 2004.111.1

Architectural Fantasy: Ruins of a Circular Temple Seen through a Natural Arch

Pierre-Adrien Pâris · c. 1785 · pen and black ink with watercolor and gouache over graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2004.111.1

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

From a high vantage point, we look across a snow-covered expanse at the long side of a pale, parchment-colored building with a town beyond in this horizontal landscape view. The scene is painted loosely and mostly in tones of icy blue, cream white, golden tan, and brown. Closest to us but far below, a hedge of moss-green treetops lines the sun-drenched, ivory-white field. The field slopes up to our left and a path, between two rows of cinnamon-brown trees, leads from the bottom center of the painting to the building. Four stories of mostly rectangular windows pierce the wall of the building in front of us. Shadows on the snow-covered roof are painted with thick strokes of steel blue. On the other side of the building, a second long roofline runs parallel to the first. The short side of the building, to our right, has a tower at each corner. A fawn-brown obelisk, which is a tapering, pointed column, is topped with a cross and stands in front of the building façade. Stacked and overlapping rooflines, painted broadly in azure blue and silvery gray, fade toward the distant horizon, which comes halfway up the canvas. A blanket of white clouds with arctic-blue bottoms sweep across the sky, revealing only a few small patches of vivid blue sky beyond.
André Giroux, Santa Trinità dei Monti in the Snow, 1825/1830, oil on paper on canvas, Chester Dale Fund, 1997.65.1

Santa Trinità dei Monti in the Snow

André Giroux · 1825/1830 · oil on paper on canvas ·  Accession ID  1997.65.1

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