Leopold Hirsch

British, born Germany, died 1932

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John Russell, Miss Raymond, 1783, pastel on cream laid paper, mounted to canvas (on stretcher), Ellen F. Karpf and New Century Fund, 2004.20.1

Miss Raymond

John Russell · 1783 · pastel on cream laid paper, mounted to canvas (on stretcher) ·  Accession ID  2004.20.1

Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned, bearded man dressed in black gazes at us in this vertical portrait painting. His body is angled to our left, and he looks at us from the corners of his hazel eyes under thick brows. He has close-cut, dark brown hair, a short nose, a trimmed beard, and a bushy moustache over pale pink lips, which are closed. He wears a voluminous velvet-black cloak trimmed with sable-brown fur, and his far arm rests on a stone ledge under a window. The face of the ledge is carved in relief with leaves. The man’s other arm hangs by his side, and he holds a brown glove in that hand. A celery-green drapery behind him fills the right half of the background. A short span of wall leads to a window to the left, through which a deep landscape is painted in tones of tan, gold, and bronze brown. Hills, a fence, stairs, what might be aqueducts, and a castle-like complex are nestled against tall hills under a white sky shaded with light tan clouds.
Jacopo Tintoretto, Maarten de Vos, Portrait of a Man with a Landscape View, 1552/1556, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1943.7.10

Portrait of a Man with a Landscape View

Jacopo Tintoretto, Maarten de Vos · 1552/1556 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1943.7.10

Netherlandish 16th Century, Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, c. 1500/1599, tapestry: undyed wool warp; dyed wool, silk, and silver-gilt- and silver-wrapped silk weft, Widener Collection, 1942.9.445

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Netherlandish 16th Century · c. 1500/1599 · tapestry: undyed wool warp; dyed wool, silk, and silver-gilt- and silver-wrapped silk weft ·  Accession ID  1942.9.445