Art Gallery

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Woman Meditating

Artist: Copy after Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)

Date: After 1868

Medium: Oil on fabric

Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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The Puerta de Alcalá Seen from Cibeles

Artist: Ginés Andrés de Aguirre (Spanish, 1727-1800)

Date: 1785

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

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Alla Fontana (Le due Colombe)

Artist: Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Italian, 1859-1933)

Date: 1896

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Description

The model in Sogni is Elena Vecchi, the daughter of the artist’s friend Jack La Bolina, who was a naval officer and an author of adventure stories. She was also Corcos’s lover.

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The Card Players

Artist: Anonymous; After Lucas van Leyden (Dutch, 1489/1494-1533)

Date: c. 1550-1599

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

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The Sick Girl

Artist: Michael Ancher (Danish, 1849-1927)

Date: 1882

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Young Woman in an Interior

Artist: Jacobus Vrel (Dutch, fl. 1654 - c. 1670)

Date: c. 1660

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

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A Young Woman Reading

Artist: Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)

Date: c. 1866-1868

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

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The Terrace

Artist: Follower of Canaletto (Antonio Canal; Italian, 1697–1768)

Date: c. 1745

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

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A Telegram

Artist: Julius Exner (Danish, 1825-1910)

Date: 1893

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Woman and Little Girl of Constantine with a Gazelle

Artist: Théodore Chassériau (French, 1819–1856)

Date: 1849

Medium: Oil on wood panel

Collection: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States

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Vanitas

Artist: Barthel Bruyn de Oude (German, 1493-1553)

Date: 1524

Medium: Tempera on panel

Collection: Kroller Muller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands

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The Jovial Company

Artist: Attributed to Willem Pietersz Buytewech (Dutch, 1591/1592–1624)

Dateca. 1622−1624

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Frick Collection, New York City, NY, United States

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View of the Banqueting House, Whitehall

Artist: Antonio Visentini (Italian, 1688-1782)

Date: 1746

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

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A Lassie Yet

Artist: Emma Minnie Boyd (Australian, 1858-1936)

Date: 1888

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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The Mitherless Bairn

Artist: Thomas Faed (Scottish, (1825–1900)

Date: 1855

Medium: Oil on wood panel

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Description

Foundlings have long occupied a different position to the illegitimate child – like Moses – believed to have a potentially unique parentage and destiny which merited their protection. The Mitherless bairn features a ‘foundling’ who begged entry to the home of a large impoverished family which, despite its tatters, displays all the hallmarks of virtue.

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On the Fence

Artist: Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910)

Date: 1878

Medium: watercolor, gouache, and graphite on wove paper

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

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Capricious Girl

Artist: Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721)

Date: c. 1718

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, France