Provenance

Victoria Sackville-West, Lady Sackville

Sackville Lady

British, 1864 - 1936

Explore Selected Works

French 18th Century, Louis, Duc de Bourgogne, 18th century, marble, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1960.5.8

Louis, Duc de Bourgogne

French 18th Century · 18th century · marble ·  Accession ID  1960.5.8

Edme Bouchardon, Cupid, 1744, marble, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.93

Cupid

Edme Bouchardon · 1744 · marble ·  Accession ID  1952.5.93

Antoine Coysevox, Louis of France, The Grand Dauphin, c. 1698/1699, marble, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1960.5.7

Louis of France, The Grand Dauphin

Antoine Coysevox · c. 1698/1699 · marble ·  Accession ID  1960.5.7

Jacques Bousseau, Soldier Drawing His Bow, model 1715, cast mid 19th century, bronze, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.248

Soldier Drawing His Bow

Jacques Bousseau · model 1715, cast mid 19th century · bronze ·  Accession ID  2014.136.248

Jean-Antoine Houdon, Giuseppe Balsamo, Comte di Cagliostro, 1786, marble, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.103

Giuseppe Balsamo, Comte di Cagliostro

Jean-Antoine Houdon · 1786 · marble ·  Accession ID  1952.5.103

Charles Renaud, Prometheus Attacked by the Eagle, n.d., bronze, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.246

Prometheus Attacked by the Eagle

Charles Renaud · n.d. · bronze ·  Accession ID  2014.136.246

Close to us, a woman and a winged, child-like putto float on clouds above a clean-shaven young man in a forest setting in this horizontal painting. All three people have smooth, pale skin, rosy cheeks, and ash-blond hair. The man reclines with his torso propped so his feet extend along the rocky ground to our left. He rests his head in his right hand, farther from us, with that elbow resting on a rock. We look up onto the underside of his chin and delicate features. A scarlet-red robe falls from his shoulders and across his hips. One knee is propped up, and that foot is tucked behind his other ankle. His muscular torso, arms, and legs are bare. His left hand, closer to us, rests by his side and loosely holds a staff. Three tan-colored sheep with long faces lie or stand behind the man, in the lower right corner of the painting. A light gray hound dog with floppy ears sleeps with its drooping muzzle resting on its paws in the shadows at the man’s feet. The woman floats just above the man, reclining on a fog-gray cloud with her feet angled toward the man’s torso. Her curls are held back by a topaz-blue ribbon, and she looks down at the man, a faint smile on her lips. A loose white garment partially covered by a blue robe falls from her shoulders, leaving one breast and one leg bare. She reaches outward with her left hand, palm out, and the other hand rests down on the cloud alongside her. A sharply pointed, luminous crescent moon curves up to each side behind the cloud. The chubby, nude, baby-like putto nestles on his belly in a cloud between the man and woman. He has short, tousled hair, stubby wings, and his skin is flushed pink. An arrow held in one hand points toward the man, and the putto rests his other hand in a bunch of pink roses. Plants and flowers grow in patches on the ground around the man. The sky above is framed with steel-gray clouds against pale blue.
Jean Honoré Fragonard, Diana and Endymion, c. 1753/1756, oil on canvas, Timken Collection, 1960.6.2

Diana and Endymion

Jean Honoré Fragonard · c. 1753/1756 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1960.6.2

Bibliography

1930

  • Phillips, Charles. History of the Sackville Family. 1930.

1971

  • Webster's Biographical Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts, 1971: 1300.