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Northern Italian 18th Century, Northern Italian 19th Century, Episodes from the Life of Christ: Christ Disputing with the Doctors, probably 18th or 19th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.162

Episodes from the Life of Christ: Christ Disputing with the Doctors

Northern Italian 18th Century, Northern Italian 19th Century · probably 18th or 19th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.162

Northern Italian 18th Century, Northern Italian 19th Century, Episodes from the Life of Christ: Presentation in the Temple, probably 18th or 19th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.156

Episodes from the Life of Christ: Presentation in the Temple

Northern Italian 18th Century, Northern Italian 19th Century · probably 18th or 19th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.156

Northern Italian 18th Century, Northern Italian 19th Century, Episodes from the Life of Christ: Flagellation, probably 18th or 19th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.157

Episodes from the Life of Christ: Flagellation

Northern Italian 18th Century, Northern Italian 19th Century · probably 18th or 19th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.157

Northern Italian 18th Century, Northern Italian 19th Century, Episodes from the Life of Christ: Flight into Egypt, probably 18th or 19th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.165

Episodes from the Life of Christ: Flight into Egypt

Northern Italian 18th Century, Northern Italian 19th Century · probably 18th or 19th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.165

Northern Italian 18th Century, Northern Italian 19th Century, Episodes from the Life of Christ: Baptism of Christ, probably 18th or 19th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.164

Episodes from the Life of Christ: Baptism of Christ

Northern Italian 18th Century, Northern Italian 19th Century · probably 18th or 19th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.164

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1735/1740, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper (backed with eighteenth century paper), Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.39.1

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1735/1740 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper (backed with eighteenth century paper) ·  Accession ID  1982.39.1

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Head of a Magician, c. 1760, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper (still mounted on original Tiepolo album page), Gift of Mrs. Christian Aall, 1998.110.1

Head of a Magician

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1760 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper (still mounted on original Tiepolo album page) ·  Accession ID  1998.110.1

Shown from the hips up, a nude woman stands between a table in front of her and a clothed man behind her, against a deep landscape in this vertical painting. The man rests one hand on her shoulder and holds up a mirror with the other. The woman’s pale skin has a pronounced golden glow. Her body faces us and she looks to our left, holding her waist-length, curly, strawberry-blond hair with her right hand by her face. Her hair on the other side is tied back with a sage-green band behind her ear. She wears a sheer white sash wrapped around her back and upper arms. A muted rose-pink, velvet sash loops over her left forearm, to our left. That hand rests on a round, squat glass bottle that sits on a leaf-green table, with her index finger covering the opening of the bottle. She wears a gold ring with a small dark stone on her left ring finger, and another gold ring rests on the table. The back corner of the table covers her genitals in the lower right corner of the painting. Behind her and to our left, a man with an olive-toned complexion and short curly brown hair, moustache, and long beard looks down his long nose at the woman as he rests his left hand, to our right, on her shoulder. He has dark eyebrows, flushed cheeks, and his pink lips are closed. He wears a cranberry-red coat embroidered along the edges with gold. White ruffles encircle his neck and the cuff we can see. Almost lost in shadow, the hilt of his sword peeks around his hip. With his right hand, to our left, he holds up a dark rectangular object in a wood-colored frame. The reflections of his fingertips in the glass indicate that this is a mirror, but the surface is otherwise black. A dense, forest-green tree grows in the landscape behind the woman. The view over the man’s shoulder, to our left, has sea-green hills beneath a watery blue sky with cream-white clouds.
Italian 15th/16th Century, Allegory of Love, c. 1520/1540, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.259

Allegory of Love

Italian 15th/16th Century · c. 1520/1540 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1939.1.259

Northern Italian 18th Century, Northern Italian 19th Century, Episodes from the Life of Christ: The Agony in the Garden, probably 18th or 19th century, nielloed silver, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.160

Episodes from the Life of Christ: The Agony in the Garden

Northern Italian 18th Century, Northern Italian 19th Century · probably 18th or 19th century · nielloed silver ·  Accession ID  1961.9.160

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Holy Family, 1754/1762, pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash on cream laid paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2007.111.42

The Holy Family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1754/1762 · pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash on cream laid paper ·  Accession ID  2007.111.42