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Pablo Picasso, Woman Sitting in a Garden [verso], 1901, oil on cardboard, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1996.129.1.b

Woman Sitting in a Garden [verso]

Pablo Picasso · 1901 · oil on cardboard ·  Accession ID  1996.129.1.b

A young man and boy look at a man laid out on a bed in this horizontal composition. All three people have white-colored skin and are loosely painted, as is the incomplete setting. The man lies with his eyes closed on the bed with his head to our left and feet to our right. He is on a baby-blue field, perhaps a blanket, and his head is propped up on a thick white pillow. He has black hair and delicate features, and his hands are together in prayer over his belly. The white ruffled collar and a diamond made up of smaller red, blue, yellow, and black diamonds are painted on his shoulder. The rest of his body is blocked in loosely with lapis blue except the cuff we can see, which is bright white. The young man and boy look on from near the man’s shins on the far side of the bed. Both have close-cropped hair. The young man cranes his neck forward, and his head and shoulders are surrounded by a white field against the brown cardboard on which this is painted. His garment is white over the shoulders and red on the torso. Only the head and neck of the boy are visible beyond the prone man. The artist signed the work in black in the lower right corner, “Picasso.”
Pablo Picasso, The Death of Harlequin [recto], 1905, gouache over charcoal on cardboard, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1996.129.1.a

The Death of Harlequin [recto]

Pablo Picasso · 1905 · gouache over charcoal on cardboard ·  Accession ID  1996.129.1.a

Adolph Menzel, The Waterproof Coat of General Moltke, 1871, graphite with black and gray wash heightened with white gouache on tan wove paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke, 2007.111.127

The Waterproof Coat of General Moltke

Adolph Menzel · 1871 · graphite with black and gray wash heightened with white gouache on tan wove paper ·  Accession ID  2007.111.127

Venetian 15th Century, Portrait of a Man, late 15th century, oil on panel, Timken Collection, 1960.6.1

Portrait of a Man

Venetian 15th Century · late 15th century · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1960.6.1

We look slightly down onto a baby tucked into an oval-shaped cradle with a woman sitting on the far side looking down at the child in this vertical painting. Both the woman and baby have light skin. The cradle is draped with a sky-blue, scallop-edged cloth decorated with pink flowers and green leaves. A curtain of the same material is tied above so it hangs down behind the head of the cradle from the top center of the composition. The baby’s dark eyes are wide open, and he seems to gaze ahead. His cheeks are flushed peach, and his coral-pink lips are pressed down in a crescent shape. The baby’s head is wrapped in a white hood with a royal-blue bow or decoration over the right ear, to our left. Two loosely painted, round, salmon-pink shapes on either side of the child suggest hands emerging from the under the white blanket. In his left fist, to our right, the baby holds a white drum on a pumpkin-orange stick, with red and white forms, possibly feathers, at the top. The dark green handle of a pinwheel lies across the baby’s legs in the cradle. Another green, vertical form overlapping the edge of the crib suggests that another toy is clipped or propped there. It is difficult to tell if the pinwheel in the crib has canary-yellow and mauve-pink blades or if there are two, overlapping toys. The woman sits with her back to us but is angled so we see her profile looking down at the baby. Her face is painted with broad strokes of sand brown and parchment white. Her dark hair is pulled back under a white cap, and she wears a charcoal-gray and black, vertically striped dress with a white collar. Her back rests against the slats of a wooden chair, which seems to dissolve into the loosely painted, fawn-brown area in the lower right corner. The cradle sits next to a bed, mostly cut off by the left edge of the painting, with a golden-brown blanket or cover. Eggshell-white cloth seems to hang around the bed and along the wall behind the woman. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes.
Claude Monet, The Cradle - Camille with the Artist's Son Jean, 1867, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.25

The Cradle - Camille with the Artist's Son Jean

Claude Monet · 1867 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1983.1.25