Provenance

Estate of Rachel Lambert Mellon

American, 1910 - 2014

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Berthe Morisot, Young Girl with an Apron, 1891, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2004.110.5

Young Girl with an Apron

Berthe Morisot · 1891 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2004.110.5

Raoul Dufy, The Landing, 1928, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2013.164.1

The Landing

Raoul Dufy · 1928 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2013.164.1

Eastman Johnson, Lambs, Nantucket, 1874, oil on board, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2012.89.3

Lambs, Nantucket

Eastman Johnson · 1874 · oil on board ·  Accession ID  2012.89.3

Raoul Dufy, Harbor Scene, c. 1923, watercolor and gouache on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2014.41.1

Harbor Scene

Raoul Dufy · c. 1923 · watercolor and gouache on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2014.41.1

Seven roses in full bloom are clustered in a wide bouquet set against a dark brown background in this horizontal still life painting. The blossom to our left is peach, and a bud dips down in front of that flower. Behind it and to our right is a lavender pink rose, and then wine red, blush pink, and white. Two butter-yellow roses are along the top of the bouquet, and one of those faces away from us to the right. Spring-green leaves are interspersed throughout, and a single maroon-red petal sits lies on the table in the lower left corner of the composition. The scene is painted with visible brushstrokes, especially evident in the dark background. The artist signed and dated the painting with red paint in the top right corner, “Fantin. 82.”
Henri Fantin-Latour, <em>Roses de Nice</em> on a Table, 1882, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2004.110.4

Roses de Nice on a Table

Henri Fantin-Latour · 1882 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2004.110.4

Eugène Boudin, Woman in a Crinoline on the Beach of Trouville, c. 1865, watercolor with gouache over graphite on laid paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2012.89.5

Woman in a Crinoline on the Beach of Trouville

Eugène Boudin · c. 1865 · watercolor with gouache over graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2012.89.5

A woman holding a baby stands near a young boy who perches in the tipped-up end of a rowboat that has been pulled onto a sandy beach in this horizontal painting. All the people have light skin. The turquoise and aquamarine-blue ocean beyond meets the pale blue sky at the horizon line, about halfway up the composition. To our left of center, one end of the wooden rowboat has been propped on what might be a fallen piling on the sandy, rocky beach. The boy sitting in the bow faces our left almost in profile, and wears a round, brimmed straw hat over brown hair, a brown, long-sleeved shirt, and charcoal-gray pants. His face turns away from us so we only see his cheek and the curve of his ear. To our right, the woman’s dark hair is pulled up and she wears a white apron over a long brown skirt. She stands angled to our right and looks over the shoulder of the blond baby she holds up against her chest. The child is dressed in a white skirt, blue sash, a red jacket, and black shoes. The beach around the people is strewn with another rowboat, large boulders, a wooden barrel, and fishing nets hung over a tall frame to dry. A few tufts of scrubby grass grow in the sand around the woman’s feet. The white sails of several ships line the horizon in the deep distance. Thin, pale peach clouds float across an ice-blue sky. The artist signed and dated the work in dark paint in the lower left corner: “WINSLOW HOMER 1873.”
Winslow Homer, Dad's Coming!, 1873, oil on wood, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2001.97.1

Dad's Coming!

Winslow Homer · 1873 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2001.97.1

Eugène Boudin, Crinolines on the Beach, c. 1865, watercolor and gouache over graphite on buff paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2004.110.2

Crinolines on the Beach

Eugène Boudin · c. 1865 · watercolor and gouache over graphite on buff paper ·  Accession ID  2004.110.2

William Merritt Chase, Gathering Autumn Flowers, 1894/1895, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2012.89.1

Gathering Autumn Flowers

William Merritt Chase · 1894/1895 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2012.89.1

Winslow Homer, Three Fisher Girls, Tynemouth, 1881, watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2012.89.4

Three Fisher Girls, Tynemouth

Winslow Homer · 1881 · watercolor over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2012.89.4