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American 19th Century, Chief Jumper of the Seminoles, possibly 1837/1838, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1953.5.77

Chief Jumper of the Seminoles

American 19th Century · possibly 1837/1838 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1953.5.77

L.M. Cooke, Salute to General Washington in New York Harbor, 1901, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1953.5.7

Salute to General Washington in New York Harbor

L.M. Cooke · 1901 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1953.5.7

Two children with pale, peachy skin stand and sit on a rocking horse in a wallpapered interior in this square painting. Both children have short, honey-brown hair, high foreheads, dark blue eyes, and small, rounded noses. Their cheeks are smooth and the corners of their thin, pale pink lips curl slightly up. Both wear dresses with puffy, elbow-length sleeves, white collars, calf-length skirts, and wide, white pantaloons over white stockings. At the center of the composition, one child sits astride the rocking horse, which faces our right in profile. The skirt of the forest-green dress splits at the waist to fall open on either side of a white garment underneath. That child’s head turns back over one shoulder to look down and to our left. One black shoe rests in a stirrup, and the child holds a riding crop in one hand. The horse is dappled with fawn brown and white, and has a parchment-brown mane and tail. The horse’s eye we can see is black and its red mouth is open around the bridle and reins. The second child stands at the back of the rocking horse, hands resting on the crossbar that connects the toy's long, curving rockers. That child wears a crimson-red dress and holds the red ribbon of a straw bonnet in one hand. The hair is parted down the middle and that child looks at us. A black cap with a curved, shiny visor and tassels hanging from the crown rests on the base of the rocking horse. The rug has a stylized, terracotta-orange floral pattern against a pine-green background. The wall behind the children is striped with wide bands of golden yellow and moss green. A door with a gold-colored doorknob is swung inward to our left, behind the child in red, to reveal the profile of a staircase beyond. To our right, just behind the horse’s head, a wooden table is draped with a cloth patterned with vines and leaves in dark green against a pea-green background. A lamp with a tall, spindly brass base is topped with a squat, round white globe. A folded newspaper behind the child in green could rest on the table, or could be held by that child. An inscription on the masthead of the paper begins, “Dai.”
Robert Peckham, The Hobby Horse, c. 1840, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1955.11.23

The Hobby Horse

Robert Peckham · c. 1840 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1955.11.23

Joseph Whiting Stock, Baby in Wicker Basket, c. 1840, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.62.23

Baby in Wicker Basket

Joseph Whiting Stock · c. 1840 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.62.23

A naked man with ghostly white skin sits upright in a canopied bed set in a narrow room in this tall, vertical painting. Wearing a black cap, he looks to our left in profile toward a skeleton who comes through a door along the left edge of the composition. The man gestures at the skeleton with one hand and, with the other, toward a bag of money held up by a small demon next to the bed to our left. The skeleton wears a white shroud and holds an arrow. A winged angel kneels next to the man in the bed, one hand on the man’s shoulder and the other lifted to gesture at a crucifix hanging in the window over the door. A small devil on the canopy above looks down onto the bed. At the foot of the bed, a man wearing a green robe and headdress drops coins into a sack held by another demon. Three more demons crawl about and hide under the chest. Pieces of armor and weapons lie on the ground to the right in front of a stone ledge in the foreground. Two pieces of clothing drape over the ledge to our left.
Hieronymus Bosch, Death and the Miser, c. 1485/1490, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.33

Death and the Miser

Hieronymus Bosch · c. 1485/1490 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1952.5.33

A headless rider holding up a pumpkin pursues a man clinging to the neck of a galloping white horse in this horizontal painting. The landscape around the pair has dark woods to each side and a twilight, azure-blue sky over a distant stone structure, perhaps a church, at the top center. To our left, the rider on the white horse is thin with a long, pale-skinned, cleanshaven face and high cheekbones. He holds one hand to his brown hair as he looks back, his eyes huge and mouth agape. His long black coat flaps behind him over a white cravat, cherry-red vest, black breeches, bright blue hose, and black shoes. The horse’s wide eyes also roll wildly back to look at the pursuer. The headless rider wears a ruby-red robe and brown hose. Pale-skinned hands hold up the round pumpkin. Both horses run with all four legs outstretched and tails flying over a flat bridge edged with a low fence on the side closer to us. The shadowy landscape presses in from both sides.
Anonymous Artist, Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, c. 1855, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1971.83.21

Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman

Anonymous Artist · c. 1855 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1971.83.21