Provenance

Hans Wendland

German, born 1880

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Madame Stumpf and Her Daughter, 1872, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.23

Madame Stumpf and Her Daughter

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1872 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1970.17.23

On the right side of this horizontal painting, two light-skinned men stand close to us on a spit of land separated from the rest of the scene by stretch of water that leads back to a town on the far shore. People gather on and around two boats floating in the water between the spit of land to our right and a copse of trees to our left. Beginning with the pair of men to our right: one man looking toward us has a broad forehead and grizzled blond beard. He wears a brick-red and canary-yellow turban, a yellow and crimson-red striped doublet with puffy sleeves, and a red codpiece. His scarlet-red hose have decorative slashes down the thigh to show yellow fabric underneath. He holds one long sword in his left hand, to our right, so the blade rests on that shoulder, and another sword hangs in a scabbard on his waist. Facing him, to our right, is the second man. He has a dark beard and a broad red hat trimmed with white feathers. He wears a doublet with wide red and white horizontal stripes and a white codpiece. His close-fitting white hose have thin, dark lines running from his waist to his feet, like pinstripes. He rests the back of his left hand, closer to us, on his hip. The tip of a long sword rests between his feet, and his far hand holds the hilt, which is as tall as his shoulder. Both men wear slipper-like shoes. Beyond this pair, near the center of the composition, a dozen men work on the wooden ships in the waterway. The trees to our left have feathery canopies of dense green foliage highlighted with butter yellow. A red pennant flutters in the wind near the left edge of the painting. About two dozen men, women, and children sit and stand closely under the trees. They wear capes, robes, turbans, and headdresses in aquamarine blue, marigold orange, burgundy red, cream white, and laurel green. Several of them are turned toward a woman dressed in blue holding an infant. Along the far shoreline, to our right, a city with tan-colored, stone towers glows under a soft topaz-blue sky, mirrored in the luminous blue water, as a ship with a billowing white sail passes by. On the distant horizon, high mountain peaks are faintly visible through a steel-blue haze.
Dosso Dossi, The Trojans Repairing Their Ships in Sicily, c. 1520, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.250

The Trojans Repairing Their Ships in Sicily

Dosso Dossi · c. 1520 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1939.1.250

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, A Seated Male Nude, 1752/1753, red chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2007.111.170.a

A Seated Male Nude

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752/1753 · red chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper ·  Accession ID  2007.111.170.a

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Male Nude Leaning on His Elbow (verso), 1752/1753, red chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2007.111.170.b

Male Nude Leaning on His Elbow (verso)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752/1753 · red chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper ·  Accession ID  2007.111.170.b

Bibliography

1945

  • Detailed Interrogation Report: Hans Wendland. 15 September 1945 [National Archives and Record Administration RG239/Entry 190B/Box 35]

1994

  • Nicholas, Lynn H. The Rape of Europa. New York, 1995: 165-169, 417-420.