Provenance

Count Grigory Sergeievich Stroganoff

Stroganov, Grigory Sergeievich, Count

1829 - 1910

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Agostino dei Musi, Peasant and Egg Woman, c.1514-1536, engraving on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1949.5.483

Peasant and Egg Woman

Agostino dei Musi · c.1514-1536 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1949.5.483

Sebastiano Ricci, The Exaltation of the True Cross, 1733, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.72

The Exaltation of the True Cross

Sebastiano Ricci · 1733 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1939.1.72

Sebastiano Ricci, A Miracle of Saint Francis of Paola, 1733, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.71

A Miracle of Saint Francis of Paola

Sebastiano Ricci · 1733 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1939.1.71

A nude, muscular man with wings on his ankles balances on the toes of one foot as the other leg and one arm raise up, creating a spiral that moves from the toes of his weight-bearing foot to the top of his opposite, raised hand in this freestanding bronze sculpture. In this photograph, his body is angled to our left and he looks off over his right shoulder, farther from us, so we see his face in profile. He wears a smooth, dish-like helmet with wings to each side over short, curly hair. He has a long, straight nose, and his lips are parted. His right arm, farther from us, reaches high into the air with his index finger pointing upward. He holds a scepter tucked near his side with his other hand, closer to us. The staff is as tall as the man’s torso, and has two snakes entwined up its length with wings at the top. His right leg is raised behind him as he leans a bit forward over the other toes, which balance on a narrow wedge. The wedge is held in the mouth of a human head tipped back so it rests on the disk-like base.
Anonymous Artist, Mercury, c. 1780/c. 1850, bronze, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.131

Mercury

Anonymous Artist · c. 1780/c. 1850 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1937.1.131

Giovanni Bellini, Andrea Mantegna, Jupiter and Ganymede Above an Extensive Landscape, 1490s, pen and brown ink on laid paper, the two figures (only) incised (laid on late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century mount), Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1996.11.1

Jupiter and Ganymede Above an Extensive Landscape

Giovanni Bellini, Andrea Mantegna · 1490s · pen and brown ink on laid paper, the two figures (only) incised (laid on late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century mount) ·  Accession ID  1996.11.1

Bibliography

1896

  • Harck, Frtiz. "Notizen über italienische Bilder in petersburger Sammlungen." Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 19 (1896):431-433.