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Art market, France

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Michel Anguier, Neptune with a Hippocamp, model 1652, cast probably 1652/1680s, bronze, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2001.41.1

Neptune with a Hippocamp

Michel Anguier · model 1652, cast probably 1652/1680s · bronze ·  Accession ID  2001.41.1

Perched on a rocky outcropping in the lower left corner of this landscape, a person sits with their back to us with a canvas near their knees, facing a moss-green, craggy mountain that fills most of our view this horizontal scene. The person wears a floppy-brimmed, straw-yellow hat and a teal-blue smock. He has cream-white pants and black shoes, and sits on a three-legged stool. A canvas rests on or just beyond his knees, and he holds one hand up to its blank surface. A tall, parchment-white umbrella is pitched next to him, to our right, to provide some shade. A few swipes of brick red, brown, and pinkish beige next to him could be bags or other materials leaning against a rock. He sits in the curve of the rocky outcropping, which is painted with dabs and swirls of olive green, butter yellow, and ginger brown. A valley stretches out between the painter and the mountain. Meadows in the valley are painted with pale sage green, and a cluster of tan buildings sits near the edge of an ice-blue body of water. The hill rises steeply from the valley. It dips a bit to our left and comes more than three-quarters up the composition to our right. It is painted in hazy, muted tones of moss green, mauve purple, and smoke gray. The sky deepens from pale lemon yellow along the horizon through light peach to muted blue along the top edge. The artist signed and dated the work in the lower left corner, “Botzen. 1837.”
Jules Coignet, View of Bozen with a Painter, 1837, oil on paper on canvas, Gift of Mrs. John Jay Ide in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Donner, 1994.52.1

View of Bozen with a Painter

Jules Coignet · 1837 · oil on paper on canvas ·  Accession ID  1994.52.1

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Floorboarding (parquet de Versailles)

Unknown 19th Century · 19th century · oak ·  Accession ID  1957.7.9