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Frits Lugt

Dutch, 1884 - 1970

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Warm, diffuse light fills a room where a girl sits, chin in hand, on a ladderback chair facing our left in profile in this vertical painting. She is at the opposite end of a long room from us, across an expanse of ginger-brown floor. A dark, cabinet-like form spans the far, narrow end of the room and we slowly realize that a woman with closed eyes lies in the shadowy bed enclosed within. Both women both have light skin. The girl in the chair wears a slate-gray skirt and cinnamon-brown jacket with a white kerchief draped down her shoulders. The back of her brown hair is covered by a pleated white cap. She is flanked by short, ladderback chairs with rushed seats along the far wall. To our left, in front of her, the top half of a Dutch door is swung inward. Light pours through the door and the deep-set window above it. The room has tall cream-white walls with dark wooden beams and a wooden ceiling overhead. The opening to the enclosed bed is lined with burgundy-red curtains, and two gleaming brass balls hang from the top edge. A perforated brass bowl hangs at the opening to our left. The right side of the room is nearly filled with a tall, wide fireplace mantel that supports an angled chimney rising to the upper right. Footed, pewter bowls hang from the top corners of the mantelpiece and a silver candlestick stands atop each of the two front corners. A small fire burns in the fireplace, while a pair of tongs and copper vessel stand nearby. The beams, door, doorframe, and mantel are all mahogany brown. Almond-white plates decorated with loosely painted strokes and daubs of brown are set along the ledges created by the molding over the bed and mantel.
Jacobus Vrel, Young Woman in an Interior, c. 1660, oil on panel, Gift of June deH. and Henry H. Weldon, 2012.106.1

Young Woman in an Interior

Jacobus Vrel · c. 1660 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  2012.106.1

Andrea Mantegna, The Virgin and Child, c. 1490, engraving on laid paper, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1998.50.1

The Virgin and Child

Andrea Mantegna · c. 1490 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1998.50.1

Hercules Seghers, Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg: Small Version, c. 1618-1622, etching printed in black on linen (prepared with ground) and hand-colored with blue watercolor, Rosenwald Collection, 1944.5.132

Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg: Small Version

Hercules Seghers · c. 1618-1622 · etching printed in black on linen (prepared with ground) and hand-colored with blue watercolor ·  Accession ID  1944.5.132