Provenance

Heinrich Wilhelm Campe

German, 1770 - 1862

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Gustav Heinrich Naeke, Peter Paying the Temple Tax, 1820/1821, pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1999.133.1

Peter Paying the Temple Tax

Gustav Heinrich Naeke · 1820/1821 · pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1999.133.1

Carl Philipp Schallhas, Ancient Trees in a Pastoral Landscape, 1790/1795, red chalk over traces of black chalk on wove paper, Gift of Katrin Bellinger in memory of Wolfgang Ratjen, 1998.79.1

Ancient Trees in a Pastoral Landscape

Carl Philipp Schallhas · 1790/1795 · red chalk over traces of black chalk on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1998.79.1

Hans Bol, Winter Landscape with Skaters, c. 1584/1586, pen and brown ink and wash on laid paper, Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.15.1

Winter Landscape with Skaters

Hans Bol · c. 1584/1586 · pen and brown ink and wash on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.15.1

Swabian 15th Century, Knight in Armor, Holding a Halberd, c. 1500, pen and brown and black ink, point of the brush and black ink, and gray wash, heightened with white, on brown prepared paper (upper corners made up), Woodner Collection, 1998.17.9

Knight in Armor, Holding a Halberd

Swabian 15th Century · c. 1500 · pen and brown and black ink, point of the brush and black ink, and gray wash, heightened with white, on brown prepared paper (upper corners made up) ·  Accession ID  1998.17.9

Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman sits in front of a vast landscape and holds a nude baby boy on her lap in this horizontal painting. The woman, Mary, sits with her knees angled to our left, but she looks at us from the corners of brown eyes. She has a delicate nose, smooth cheeks, a pointed chin, and her pink lips are closed. A few strands of blond hair escape from braids that overlap across the top of her head. She wears a rose-red dress over a translucent white undergarment, which is visible along the neckline and on the forearms. A cloth striped with azure and powder blue, pale pink, lemon yellow, and teal drapes across her seated thighs and wraps back around her hips. One hand rests in her lap near one of the baby’s feet, and the other braces the child’s other hip. The baby, Jesus, has tightly curled blond hair and a flushed face. His body resembles a somewhat muscular adult. Jesus rests his shoulders back against the woman’s chest and turns to look up at her. One hand touches one of her breasts and the other holds a butterfly by its parchment-yellow wings. The foot not by the woman’s hand rests on a gold dagger near the woman’s far hip. A gnarled tree with dark green leaves winds from a rocky crag to our left. The pair are lit from our left, and Mary casts a shadow on the large, flat boulder on which she sits. The land dips steeply down beyond the boulder. A man wearing a pale pink garment that flaps in the wind stands on a rocky outcropping near a grazing animal. Tiny in scale, three more people walk or run in the distance to our right. Stone structures are tucked in among tree-dotted hills that roll gently back to a hazy blue, mountainous horizon, which comes about five-sixths of the way up this composition. The sky above is a similar icy blue.
Maerten van Heemskerck, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1530, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.36

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Maerten van Heemskerck · c. 1530 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1961.9.36

Bibliography

1921

  • Ref Number: 1391
    Lugt, Frits. Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes; marques estampillees et ecrites de collections. Amsterdam: Vereenigde drukkerijen, 1921.

1930

  • Winkler, Friedrich. "Die Sammlung Vieweg". Pantheon 5 (1930): 73, 78.