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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Fantasy of a Magnificent Wall Monument, 1764/1766, pen and dark brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, with some gray wash on laid paper, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1996.119.1

Fantasy of a Magnificent Wall Monument

Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1764/1766 · pen and dark brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, with some gray wash on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1996.119.1

Georg Philipp Rugendas, Studies of Soldiers in Camp, graphite on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1985.34.1

Studies of Soldiers in Camp

Georg Philipp Rugendas · · graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1985.34.1

Anonymous Artist, Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, c. 1661-1665, oil on canvas, Timken Collection, 1960.6.26

Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland

Anonymous Artist · c. 1661-1665 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1960.6.26

Frederic, Lord Leighton, Study for "Greek Girl Dancing", c. 1867, black chalk heightened with white on blue wove paper, Gift of William B. O'Neal, 1995.52.105

Study for "Greek Girl Dancing"

Frederic, Lord Leighton · c. 1867 · black chalk heightened with white on blue wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.52.105

More than a dozen light-skinned men, women, and children eat, drink, talk, and make music around a dancing couple under an arbor in this horizontal painting. Most of the people are dressed in muted tones of green, gray, and black. The patio-like space is enclosed by a railing along the back and a half wall to our right. Sage-green vines and leaves covering the roof-like trellis hang down. Ten men and women sit or stand closely around a long table along the left, next to the exterior wall of a red brick building. A woman sitting in a wooden chair at the end of the table closest to us wears a flax-yellow gown with a wide white collar and a starched white cap. She smiles up at the child she braces in her lap. The child stands and holds a toy in both hands and looks over one shoulder to our right. The child wears a carrot-orange gown with a white pinafore. Two men lean out of open windows at the far end of the brick building, and the people along the table drink, smile, or look on as a man in the center leads a woman by the hand to an open spot under the arbor. He wears a charcoal-gray suit, and a muted pink cap is pulled low over his eyes. He has a long, hooked nose, and light glints off teeth in his smiling mouth. The woman is pulled behind the man, so she stands flat-footed to our left of him. She faces our right but turns to looks at us from the corners of her dark eyes. Her light brown hair is gathered at the back of her head under a pearl-lined covering. She wears a dusty rose-pink gown with a sheer black shawl around her shoulders and white apron at her waist. Beyond the back rail, a man smiles widely as he balances a covered basket containing a gray chicken with one hand on his head. Nearby, a boy on our side of the rail talks with a little girl across the railing, who smiles back. Two men and a woman wearing a black head covering talk a short distance away. Close to us, a man, woman, and child in the lower right corner sit near two young men perched on the half wall, one playing a violin and the other a flute. A gleaming pewter ewer, a wooden barrel with a square opening, a white pipe, a terracotta bowl, broken eggs, a spoon, and an overturned pail of flowers lie scattered across the foreground of the patio. The artist signed and dated the lower left, “JSteen. 1663,” with the J and S overlapping.
Jan Steen, The Dancing Couple, 1663, oil on canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.81

The Dancing Couple

Jan Steen · 1663 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.9.81

Mountains painted in tones of sage and mint green and mauve purple are backlit against a hazy sky in this expansive, nearly square landscape painting. In the bottom quarter of the composition, the dirt-packed land is partially covered with patches of scrubby grass. A person, tiny in the landscape, sits on a rock to the left of the bottom center of the painting. That person has pale skin and wears a wide-brimmed, dark hat, a slate-blue jacket, muted red pants, and shin-high boots. He rests his head in one hand, that elbow propped on his bent knee. He braces a stick, perhaps a walking stick, against the other shoulder, and a canteen hangs by one hip. A path starting in the lower left corner of the painting winds back into the deep distance. A complex of pale-colored buildings sits on a rocky cliff face near the center of the composition, and another complex is tucked on a distant mountain to the left. The mountains span the left two-thirds of the painting and taper down to meet a crescent-shaped body of water to the right. Another building in the deep distance near the right edge of the canvas is outlined against a smoky, pale blue ridge. White clouds pile in the hazy sky in the top half of the painting. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “I Wright Pinx 1790.”
Joseph Wright, Italian Landscape, 1790, oil on canvas, Paul Mellon Collection, 1983.1.47

Italian Landscape

Joseph Wright · 1790 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1983.1.47

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jane Morris, 1870, pen and iron gall ink with brown wash on laid paper; laid down on paperboard, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1988.29.1

Jane Morris

Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1870 · pen and iron gall ink with brown wash on laid paper; laid down on paperboard ·  Accession ID  1988.29.1

George Richmond, Studies of Sheep in Pasture, c. 1837/1839, pen and brown ink on wove paper, Gift of William B. O'Neal, 1995.52.145

Studies of Sheep in Pasture

George Richmond · c. 1837/1839 · pen and brown ink on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.52.145

Robert Smirke, Hôtel de Ville, Place des Terreaux, Lyons, 1845, pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on wove paper, Gift of William B. O'Neal, 1995.52.167

Hôtel de Ville, Place des Terreaux, Lyons

Robert Smirke · 1845 · pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.52.167

George Du Maurier, The Ilyssus!, 1880, pen and brown ink over graphite with scratching-out on wove paper, Gift of William B. O'Neal, 1995.52.216

The Ilyssus!

George Du Maurier · 1880 · pen and brown ink over graphite with scratching-out on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.52.216