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This painting shows a man depicted from two angles; on the left, he faces us, while on the right, his back is to us. In both views he wears the same clothes and is in the same position. The man has dark brown skin and a black mustache, with short black hair covered by a tilted red hat. He wears a long, brown, long-sleeved garment with a red section at his chest, a white sash around his waist, and a tan sash draped over his shoulders and across his chest. Under the garment he has striped gray pants and red sandals on his feet, the toes curved upwards. The man stands with one hand on his hip and the other hand placed on an indistinct object, possibly a chair. The background is painted in blurred shades of brown and gray.

Two Studies of a Standing Indian from Calcutta

Eugène Delacroix

c. 1823/1824

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2006.128.18

On View: West Building, Main Floor, Gallery M81
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Facing away from us against a cherry-red background, the head and shoulders of a light-skinned woman wearing strawberry red, with her copper-brown hair piled atop her head, fills this vertical painting. Her body is angled to our right so her shoulders slope down in that direction, and we see the back edge of her right ear and the curve of her smooth cheek. Touches of coral pink outline the earlobe and sharpen the hollow below the top edge of the ear. Her hair is gathered into a bun on the top of her head, and curls flare out over her right temple. Her garment has puffy sleeves and a broad collar across her upper back. The neckline curves close to the base of her pale neck. The portrait is loosely painted, especially in the background, where black strokes are mixed into the red, and in the woman’s garment, where wide, visible brushstrokes create the impression of pleats and shadows. The artist signed the work in the upper left corner, “Carolus-Duran.”

Study of Lilia

Carolus-Duran

1887

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1999.45.1

On View: West Building, Main Floor, Gallery M82
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This painting depicts a wide, grassy green field with distant green hills under a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. To the right of center, two men and one woman seem to be engaged in conversation. One man wears a dark suit with a long jacket over it and a top hat, and the other man wears a red shirt with tan breeches, tall black boots, a shorter brown coat, and a round hat. The woman wears a long pink dress with a ruffled black neckline and a large pink hat. Behind them, on the left, are four people riding horses, all headed towards the back left. On the far left, more men and women in dresses and suits seem to watch as the horses and riders race by, one woman holding a large white parasol. All of the people appear to have light skin, and their facial features are indistinct. The brushstrokes in the painting are loose and visible, and the landscape and sky are painted with short, overlapping lines going in different directions, giving the scene a hazy impression.

The Race Track

Jean-Louis Forain

c. 1891

Gouache on canvas  Accession ID  1985.64.18

On View: West Building, Main Floor, Gallery M83
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We look slightly down onto two girls or young women with light skin sitting close to us in a green, grassy field in this square landscape painting. At the bottom center of the composition, the closest girl has her back to us and wears a blue and white striped shirt over a long skirt painted with a blend of muted red and yellow strokes. A blue apron covers most of the front of her legs, and at least one black shoe emerges from the bottom hem, resting in the grass. Her brown hair is pulled up and covered by a red and white-checked cap. She looks toward her companion to our right, who turns her head over her left shoulder, her body facing our left in profile. The second girl has dark blond hair covered with a yellow kerchief speckled with daubs of dark red. She wears a peanut-brown shirt and skirt, and her legs are also mostly covered in a blue apron. The field is bordered by a line of slender tree trunks on the left and tall, dense hedges on the right. A light brown cow and a white cow stand in the field a short distance away. The grass is painted with tightly packed strokes of celery, pine, and kelly green with flecks of goldenrod yellow. Farther in the distance, a narrow band of silvery water enters from the left and runs across the canvas. Another field lies beyond it with a cluster of low buildings in the far distance on the right side. The artist signed and dated the lower right corner, “C. Pissarro 1882.”

Young Peasant Girls Resting in the Fields near Pontoise

Camille Pissarro

1882

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2014.18.42

On View: West Building, Main Floor, Gallery M88
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Marguerite

Marie Bracquemond

c. 1874

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2026.9.1

On View: West Building, Main Floor, Gallery M86
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Shown from the lap up, a young woman with smooth, olive-toned skin tinged with pink sits facing our left on a waterfront verandah in this vertical painting. A peanut-brown stone wall behind her angles into the picture from the right edge of the painting, and a stone balustrade spans the width of the composition beyond her. A sliver of a coral-pink drapery hangs just behind her shoulders, to our right. She tips her head down and to our right over slightly slumped shoulders. She looks at or toward us with large brown eyes under dark, arching brows. She has a thin, straight nose, and her full, rosy lips are closed. Her black hair is parted down the middle and long braids fall to each side of her face. Her head is covered with a sheer, straw-yellow fabric that winds around the braids. Her bare arms stretch forward from her sleeveless dress, and her hands are loosely clasped on one raised knee. The dress has a white bodice trimmed with a delicate gold pattern around the loose neckline, and a gleaming bead at the shoulder we can see. The voluminous skirt starts just under the bust, and falls in folds around her lower body. It is patterned with stylized, golden-tan leaves, vines, and flowers against an aquamarine-blue background, and the skirt is belted around her waist. Water in the distance is painted with a band of pale blue. Where the clear sky meets the horizon is misty peach that deepens to topaz blue along the top of the composition. The artist has signed and dated the painting in the upper right corner “HEINRICH.LEHMANN 1837 PARIS.”

Woman of the "Orient"

Henri Lehmann

1837

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2019.15.1

On View: West Building, Main Floor, Gallery M81
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A man and woman stand in a sunny field near a line of cone-shaped haystacks under a massive blue sky in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout. A muted blue shadow cuts across the flax-yellow ground close to us from our left. About a dozen golden-brown haystacks extend from the center of the composition off into the distance to our right. The people stand in the harvested field to our left. Tiny in scale, the woman wears a rose-pink dress and white apron and cap. She bends over as the man stands nearby, resting a scythe against one shoulder. He wears a white shirt, a dark vest and cap, and blue pants. The field beyond is verdant green, with more haystacks in the distance. Dark green trees line the horizon, which comes about a third of the way up the painting. Lavender purple, blush-pink, and white clouds trundle across the ice-blue sky above. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “C. Pissarro, 1873.”

Landscape, Ile-de-France

Camille Pissarro

1873

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2014.18.40

On View: West Building, Main Floor, Gallery M87
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