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A baby-like winged putto flies above and drops a stream of white flowers onto a woman who sits leaning against a cut tree trunk this vertical landscape painting. There are also two satyrs, who have the upper bodies and heads of people and the legs of goats. The woman and child have pale skin, and the satyrs have tan-colored skin. The central woman’s body is angled to our right, and her legs stretch in front of her on the grassy ground. She props her blond head against the hand supported by the tree trunk and looks to our right in profile. She has a round face, small nose, pursed lips, and a double chin. She wears a flowing white gown, and a flax-yellow cloak wraps around her shoulders and covers her lap. Above the woman, the putto has brown hair and wings, and wears a brown tunic that only covers the chest. The thin cloud on which the putto kneels is strewn with the same flowers being dropped down onto the woman. More flowers are gathered in the cloth of the putto's tunic, used like a basket. Lit from below, the putto looks down at the woman. The blond, female satyr looks and smiles at the woman from behind a spindly tree trunk to our left. More trees create groves on both sides of the scene. A male satyr with a dark goatee and hair leans against a low rock to face our right in profile in the bottom right corner of the composition. He holds up and looks at a small white urn. A stream runs from the rocky area in the lower right back to our left, and then zigzags through low moss-green and harvest-yellow hills. A band of smoky-gray mountains encloses the scene in the deep distance along the horizon, which comes about halfway up the composition. The sky is streaked with peach and pale yellow immediately over the mountains and deepens to ultramarine blue along the top edge.
Lorenzo Lotto, Allegory of Chastity, c. 1505, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.147

Allegory of Chastity

Lorenzo Lotto · c. 1505 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1939.1.147

Auguste Rodin, Jean d'Aire, model 1884-1889, cast probably early 20th century, plaster, Gift of the B. G. Cantor Art Foundation, 1984.85.1

Jean d'Aire

Auguste Rodin · model 1884-1889, cast probably early 20th century · plaster ·  Accession ID  1984.85.1

Gian Antonio Guardi, Francesco Guardi, Carlo and Ubaldo Resisting the Enchantments of Armida's Nymphs, 1750/1755, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1964.21.1

Carlo and Ubaldo Resisting the Enchantments of Armida's Nymphs

Gian Antonio Guardi, Francesco Guardi · 1750/1755 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1964.21.1

Shown from the chest up, a young woman faces us holding a nude baby in her arms in this vertical painting. They both have pale, peachy skin with pink cheeks. The woman has an oval face with a thin nose, and her coral-pink, bow mouth is closed. She looks down and to our left with dark eyes under arched brows. Her hair is covered by a bone-white veil, and an azure-blue mantle is draped over her rose-pink robe, which is a darker pink at the shoulders. She cradles the plump child in her crossed arms. The baby has short, wavy, copper-red hair framing a round, flushed face with a button nose, peach lips, and hazel eyes that look at us. He holds a bird in his left hand, on our right. The bird has an off-white body with charcoal-gray wings and neck, and a strawberry-red face. The baby grasps one end of the woman’s veil with his other hand. The background is concrete gray to our left, and the right half is covered by a ginger-brown curtain.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Madonna of the Goldfinch, c. 1767/1770, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.40

Madonna of the Goldfinch

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1767/1770 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1943.4.40

Francesco Guardi, Gian Antonio Guardi, Erminia and the Shepherds, 1750/1755, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1964.21.2

Erminia and the Shepherds

Francesco Guardi, Gian Antonio Guardi · 1750/1755 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1964.21.2

Antoine-Louis Barye, Lion of the July Column, 1836, tinted terracotta, Gift of Asbjorn R. Lunde, 1984.62.1

Lion of the July Column

Antoine-Louis Barye · 1836 · tinted terracotta ·  Accession ID  1984.62.1

Frans Francken the Younger, Master HDB, Garland of Flowers with Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1625/1630, oil on copper, Gift of Helen M.L. Marwick, 2003.140.1

Garland of Flowers with Adoration of the Shepherds

Frans Francken the Younger, Master HDB · c. 1625/1630 · oil on copper ·  Accession ID  2003.140.1

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, Three Figures Dressed for a Masquerade, c. 1740s, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.92

Three Figures Dressed for a Masquerade

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain · c. 1740s · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1961.9.92

Antoine-Louis Barye, Juno with Her Peacock, model c. 1840, cast after 1855, bronze, Gift of The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston, 1986.61.1

Juno with Her Peacock

Antoine-Louis Barye · model c. 1840, cast after 1855 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1986.61.1

Douglas Volk, Abraham Lincoln, 1908, reworked 1917, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1947.17.17

Abraham Lincoln

Douglas Volk · 1908, reworked 1917 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1947.17.17