Provenance

Frank T. Sabin

British, died 1915

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Shown from the chest up against a dark, teal-blue background, a light-skinned woman looks off to our left left in this vertical portrait painting. Her arms extend slightly in front of her, as if they rest on her knee. Her face turns almost in profile to our left as she gazes in that direction with hooded light brown eyes under curved brows. She has a sloping nose, a pointed chin, and her thin, light pink lips are closed. A white covering over her hair, which has been pulled back and up, is layered under a translucent ivory-white veil that covers her forehead and the sides of her face. A charcoal-gray stripe on the veil creates a line from her cheek to the back of her head. Her dress has a black bodice and sleeves, and the chest and the tops of her shoulders are covered with another veil. A patch of burgundy red shows through where the dress is laced up over the chest.
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, c. 1475, tempera and oil on poplar panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.62

Lucrezia Tornabuoni

Domenico Ghirlandaio · c. 1475 · tempera and oil on poplar panel ·  Accession ID  1952.5.62

Esaias van de Velde I, Villagers Skating on a Frozen Pond, 1625, black chalk with brown wash on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1994.79.1

Villagers Skating on a Frozen Pond

Esaias van de Velde I · 1625 · black chalk with brown wash on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1994.79.1

A man with pale white skin sits and a man with light brown skin stands in front of a cave-like, rocky outcropping in this vertical portrait painting. The light-skinned man closer to us has dark brown hair, and the light falls more strongly on him. He sits propped on or against a rock with his body angled to our left, and he looks off into the distance in that direction. He wears a scarlet-red overcoat, a white waistcoat, and moccasins. What appears to be an animal skin painted on the underside with red, tan, and black geometric patterns is tied around his chest and falls over his left arm, on our right. With that hand, he holds a musket like a walking stick. He also holds a black cap ornamented with beads and feathers on his other knee. The man with brown skin stands in shadow behind the other man, to our left. His body faces us, and he looks at the seated man. A dark cloak encircles his shoulders and is gathered around his waist. A strap crosses his bare chest and the strap, bracelets, and a feathered headdress seem to be beaded. Large gold rings curve from his earlobes up over his ears. A puff of smoke emerges from the top of the long, painted stick he holds, suggesting it is a pipe. He holds his left hand, on our right, at his chest, and points subtly to our left, perhaps to the landscape seen through a break in the rocky outcropping. There, in front of a waterfall in the distance, a small group of people with light brown skin gather around a camp fire in front of a tent-like structure.
Benjamin West, Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), 1776, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1940.1.10

Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill)

Benjamin West · 1776 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1940.1.10

François-Hubert Drouais, Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry, c. 1770/1774, oil on canvas, Timken Collection, 1960.6.9

Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry

François-Hubert Drouais · c. 1770/1774 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1960.6.9

Lemuel Francis Abbott, Captain Robert Calder, c. 1787/1790, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1954.1.8

Captain Robert Calder

Lemuel Francis Abbott · c. 1787/1790 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1954.1.8

Bibliography

1915

  • C.J.H. "A Monthly Chronicle." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 28 (November 1915): 81.