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Professor and Mrs. Henry A. Millon

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French 18th Century, Design for a Baldaquin, pen and black and brown ink over graphite on laid paper, Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.203.19

Design for a Baldaquin

French 18th Century · · pen and black and brown ink over graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.203.19

Printed in black and gray tones against cream-white paper, three cats, three kittens, two monkeys, and an owl gather on and around a dining table in this horizontal etching and engraving. A round-topped table is covered by a white cloth at the center of the composition. The pedestal-style legs have feet carved to look like sleepy fish. Three cats and three smaller kittens sit on the table and presumably sing, their mouths open, around a music book. An owl with brushy, feathery brows perches on the top of the book, which is propped up on the table. A seventh cat peers through a rectangular opening in the wall to our left, looking down on the scene. Two monkeys hunch together in the lower right corner. One wears a floppy cap with a feather, the other a hooded robe, and that second one plays a horn instrument. Two lutes, a bagpipe, and another horn instrument are clustered in the lower right corner of the sheet around a book titled “TENOR.” Text inscribed in the plate near the lower left corner reads, “D Teniers In et excud. cum privilegio” and one to the right reads, “Cory Boel. f.”
Coryn Boel, David Teniers the Younger, The Cat's Concert, engraving and etching on laid paper, Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.203.15

The Cat's Concert

Coryn Boel, David Teniers the Younger · · engraving and etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.203.15

Crispijn van de Passe I, Clio, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.203.13

Clio

Crispijn van de Passe I · · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.203.13

Jacobus Houbraken, James, Earl of Morton, 1740, engraving and etching on laid paper, Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.203.6

James, Earl of Morton

Jacobus Houbraken · 1740 · engraving and etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.203.6

Georg Pencz, The Judgment of Solomon, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.203.3

The Judgment of Solomon

Georg Pencz · · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.203.3

Francesco Bartolozzi, The Tomb of Death, engraving on wove paper, Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.203.21

The Tomb of Death

Francesco Bartolozzi · · engraving on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1991.203.21

Cornelis Vermeulen, Pierre Mignard, 1690, engraving and etching on laid paper, Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.203.8

Pierre Mignard

Cornelis Vermeulen · 1690 · engraving and etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.203.8

Jacobus Houbraken, Portrait of a Gentleman, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.203.4

Portrait of a Gentleman

Jacobus Houbraken · · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.203.4

Angelica Kauffmann, Johann Winckelmann, 1764, published 1780, etching and engraving printed in brown on laid paper, Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.203.22

Johann Winckelmann

Angelica Kauffmann · 1764, published 1780 · etching and engraving printed in brown on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.203.22

Adriaen van Ostade, Street Vendor Selling Spectacles at the Door, c. 1647, etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper, Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.203.2

Street Vendor Selling Spectacles at the Door

Adriaen van Ostade · c. 1647 · etching, with touches of drypoint, on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.203.2