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Doll and Richards

est. 1866

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A woman with smooth, pale skin and wearing a hat, long dress, and gloves, stands holding a bunch of pumpkin-orange leaves against a background of trees painted with touches of rust orange and pine green in this vertical painting. The woman tips her head back slightly to look at us with dark eyes under arched eyebrows. Her cheeks are flushed and her coral-pink lips closed. Her round black hat perches on the back of her head and she has an inky black, long-sleeved, hip-length jacket with bronze trim at the shoulders, cuffs, and down the front. A gauzy bow is tied at her neck. Her left elbow, on our right, is bent and she holds up her tan-colored, ruffled skirt with a white-gloved hand. The raised skirt exposes sky-blue lining and white, ruffled flounces at her feet. Her right arm, on our left, hangs at her side and holds the handle of a basket. Deep marigold-orange leaves cascade out of the basket. One black shoe peeks out from under her long skirt. She stands on a hill carpeted with crimson-red, tawny-brown, golden yellow, and forest-green leaves. The space behind her is filled with touches and dabs of red, orange, brown, black, and tan.
Winslow Homer, Autumn, 1877, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.22

Autumn

Winslow Homer · 1877 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1985.64.22

Cast in bronze, this free-standing sculpture shows a slender, young, nude woman balanced on the toes of one foot on a globe as she pulls back an arrow in a bow. The smooth, dark brown bronze surface is touched with hints of honey gold where light catches it, as on her chest and along her outstretched leg. In this photograph, her body is angled to our right, and she turns her head so we see her profile facing our right. She balances on the ball of her left foot, farther from us, as she lifts her nearly straight right leg up behind her. Her left arm extends straight, holding the bow. With her other hand, she pulls the long arrow and bowstring back to nearly touch her right shoulder, so the arms of the bow are almost parallel. Her wavy hair is pulled up in a bun on the crown of her head. She has a long, straight nose, and her lips are closed. The ball on which she stands balances on a rectangular, slightly flaring plinth, which is about half the height of the woman. The bottom corners of the plinth nestle between the wings of two sphinx-like creatures with animal faces, horns, wide, lion-like paws, and wings. Below a row of three stylized rosettes near the top edge of the plinth, the cast inscription reads, “DIANA OF THE TOWER.”
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Diana of the Tower, model 1892/1893, cast 1899, bronze, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, 1975.12.1

Diana of the Tower

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · model 1892/1893, cast 1899 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1975.12.1

John La Farge, Girl in Bow of Canoe Spreading Out Her Loin-Cloth for a Sail, Samoa, 1895-1896, watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper mounted to paperboard, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase), 2015.19.966

Girl in Bow of Canoe Spreading Out Her Loin-Cloth for a Sail, Samoa

John La Farge · 1895-1896 · watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper mounted to paperboard ·  Accession ID  2015.19.966

Carl Fredrik von Breda, Mrs. William Hartigan, 1787/1796, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1942.8.15

Mrs. William Hartigan

Carl Fredrik von Breda · 1787/1796 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.8.15

David Claypoole Johnston, Study for "The House that Jeff Built", 1863, graphite on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase), 2015.19.767

Study for "The House that Jeff Built"

David Claypoole Johnston · 1863 · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.767