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Galerie Georges Petit

French, est. 1846 - closed 1933

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Auguste Renoir, The Young Soldier, c. 1880, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2014.18.46

The Young Soldier

Auguste Renoir · c. 1880 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.18.46

Three apples and two pears sit next to a knife and a luminous, white mug on a tan, stone surface before a muted, olive-green background in this horizontal still life painting. The objects and background are painted with blended strokes, giving the painting a soft, glowing appearance. At the center of the ledge or table, the apples are dappled with candy red and pale yellow. Two golden and moss-green pears are to our left, one upright and the other lying with its stem coming toward us. The fruit is painted with white highlights from a light source to our left. The cream-white mug sits next to the apples to our right. The mug has straight sides, a low band near the top and bottom, and the handle curves out to our right. Between the apples and mug, the black handle of a knife angles to our right, off the edge of the table. Shadows are painted in brick red on the surface of the table, which extends off both sides of the canvas. There is a vertical seam in the table under the upright pear.
Jean Siméon Chardin, Still Life with a White Mug, c. 1764, oil on canvas, Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman, 1972.9.6

Still Life with a White Mug

Jean Siméon Chardin · c. 1764 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1972.9.6

A bearded man, a young man, and five monks stand in a cream-white hall hung with a map and paintings in this horizontal painting. The people all have pale, peachy skin. The scene is lit from windows lining the wall to our left, where three monks stand, presumably talking. They and the other two monks wear long white robes with marine-blue hoods and cloth panels that hang down the fronts of the cassocks. Two monks have their hoods up and the other two have their hair cut into rings around their heads. The bearded man, Christopher Columbus, stands to the right on the other side of the hall, looking at a map hanging there. He has chin-length, dark hair and wears a bronze-brown, knee-length jacket, dark blue, knee-length pantaloons, and golden yellow stockings. His right hand, closer to us, is planted palm out against his hip, and he holds a red hat in that hand. The other foot is perched on a long bench that stretches along that wall. The young man sits and leans back on the bench with one forearm along the bench’s armrest. His other hand rests on Columbus’s knee, and Columbus rests his hand on that. The boy has long brown hair and wears a red cap, a parchment-white robe over yellow sleeves, sage-green stockings, and laced, toeless boots. Two bundles and a long stick are against the wall on our side of the bench. An object on the floor next to Columbus’s standing leg is covered by a brown cloth. A gold chain and a pink hoof protrude from the blanket. One of the monks standing behind Columbus wears a tight-fitting blue cap. A rosary hangs over his cassock from his waist, and extra panels of blue fabric drape down over his shoulders. Four paintings in our view hang near the high ceiling of the hall, which has arched openings and a pink floor. Doors or oversized shutters swing into view at the far end of the hall. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “Eug. Delacroix. 1838.”
Eugène Delacroix, Christopher Columbus and His Son at La Rábida, 1838, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.127

Christopher Columbus and His Son at La Rábida

Eugène Delacroix · 1838 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.127

Honoré Daumier, Fugitives (Emigrants), model c. 1850/1852, cast 1893, bronze, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.25

Fugitives (Emigrants)

Honoré Daumier · model c. 1850/1852, cast 1893 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1943.3.25

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, View near Epernon, 1850/1860, oil on canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.13

View near Epernon

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1850/1860 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.9.13

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The Watering Place

Constant Troyon · mid 19th century · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2014.136.49

Alfred Sisley, The Road in the Woods, 1879, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.215

The Road in the Woods

Alfred Sisley · 1879 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.215

Edgar Degas, Woman Reading a Book, c. 1879, charcoal and black chalk with stumping and erasing, heightened with white chalk, on blue wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.35

Woman Reading a Book

Edgar Degas · c. 1879 · charcoal and black chalk with stumping and erasing, heightened with white chalk, on blue wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.35

Shown from about the hips up, a woman whose pale face is deep in shadow stands with her back to us, wearing a black and gray dress and hat, in front of a colorful but loosely painted, indistinct background in this nearly square painting. She stands just to our right of center with her elbows bent, perhaps to clasp her hands in front of her. Her head is turned slightly toward us so we see the line of her forehead, nose, and chin almost in profile facing our left. Her auburn hair seems to be pulled up under a black hat that sits on the back of her head. Her high-necked, charcoal-gray vest-like bodice has a line of white at the neck, suggesting lace or an undershirt. The bodice covers a black shirt with ruffles that fall at least to her elbows, and the long dress drapes close along the contours of her legs. She looks to the far wall, which is painted with sketchy, visible brushstrokes in marigold orange, lemon-lime green, brown, black, and pale yellow to create the impression of paintings in gold frames. The artist signed the painting in dark red in the lower right corner: “Degas.”
Edgar Degas, Woman Viewed from Behind (Visit to a Museum), c. 1879-1885, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.11

Woman Viewed from Behind (Visit to a Museum)

Edgar Degas · c. 1879-1885 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1985.64.11

Anonymous Artist, Portrait of a Man, 18th century, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1943.7.3

Portrait of a Man

Anonymous Artist · 18th century · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1943.7.3