Private Collection c/o Mr. Stephane Cosman Connery

Sotheby's, New York
Sir Sean and Lady Connery

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We look slightly down onto a bay that curves away from us into the distance and to our right in this horizontal landscape painting. C-shaped, shallow waves lap at the sandy beach from our right. Several people standing and playing in the water wear hats and long-sleeved shirts. Two women there hold up their skirts as they wade in the ankle-deep water, a small brown dog close behind them. Another person wearing white walks on the wet sand, and four more gather a short distance away, to our left, perhaps on a blanket. Opposite us and far away, brown horses pull a carriage along the beach. The taupe-colored sand is hemmed in by a curving band of celery-green grasses, which in turn surround dunes or hills and a rocky formation. A tree-lined hill gives way to the rocky promontory that juts onto the beach where the shoreline curves to our right. The promontory has a crack near the bottom, resembling the open mouth of a turtle. Beyond this, touches of white paint suggest buildings deep in the distance, in front of slate-gray hills lining the horizon. In the top two-thirds of the picture, flat-bottomed, white clouds drift across a sky that deepens from nearly white along the horizon to pale blue across the top edge of the composition. The artist signed the painting in the lower left corner, with spiky, left-leaning letters in lavender purple: “W. Whittredge.”
Worthington Whittredge, Second Beach, Newport, c. 1878/1880, oil on canvas, Paul Mellon Fund and Gift of Juliana Terian in memory of Peter G. Terian, 2004.58.1

Second Beach, Newport

Worthington Whittredge · c. 1878/1880 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2004.58.1

Jan Pietersz Saenredam, Jan Pietersz Saenredam, Adam Naming the Animals, 1604, engraving on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1994.50.1

Adam Naming the Animals

Jan Pietersz Saenredam, Jan Pietersz Saenredam · 1604 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1994.50.1

Jan Pietersz Saenredam, Jan Pietersz Saenredam, Adam and Eve Lamenting over the Corpse of Abel, 1604, engraving on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1994.50.6

Adam and Eve Lamenting over the Corpse of Abel

Jan Pietersz Saenredam, Jan Pietersz Saenredam · 1604 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1994.50.6

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The Well

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · c. 1758 · etching, engraving, scratching, burnishing, and lavis on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2003.44.11

Maurice de Vlaminck, Still Life with a Bowl of Fruit on a Checkered Tablecloth, c. 1916, pen and black ink, Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke, 2004.91.1

Still Life with a Bowl of Fruit on a Checkered Tablecloth

Maurice de Vlaminck · c. 1916 · pen and black ink ·  Accession ID  2004.91.1

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The Grand Piazza

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · c. 1758 · etching, engraving, sulphur tint, and burnishing on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2003.44.3

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Prisoners on a Projecting Platform

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · c. 1758 · etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, and burnishing with ink dabbing on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2003.44.8

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Title Plate

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · c. 1758 · etching and engraving with ink dabbing on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2003.44.1

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The Giant Wheel

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · c. 1758 · etching and engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2003.44.7

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The Pier with a Lamp

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · c. 1758 · etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, and burnishing with ink dabbing on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2003.44.13