Jacques Seligmann & Cie.

French, est. 1880

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Pisan 14th Century, Angel with Tambourine, c. 1360, marble, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1960.5.15

Angel with Tambourine

Pisan 14th Century · c. 1360 · marble ·  Accession ID  1960.5.15

Jacopo della Quercia, Madonna of Humility, c. 1400, marble with traces of gilding, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1960.5.2

Madonna of Humility

Jacopo della Quercia · c. 1400 · marble with traces of gilding ·  Accession ID  1960.5.2

A pair of arched cave openings yawn in a steep, rocky cliff face that fills this horizontal painting. The cliff face is painted with dabs and textured strokes of slate gray, peachy tan, and muted blue, and some moss grows along crevices to our left. The opening to our left of center is four times the size of the smaller opening next to it. Murky green water reflects the shadowy openings and the pier-like stone between them. The water churns white over large boulders to our right, in the lower corner of the canvas. A pale-skinned man, minuscule in scale in front of the larger opening, stands barefoot with his back to us. His pants are rolled up over his knees and the long shirt sleeves up to the elbow under a vest. One hand is raised to hold a long stick. He is on what might be a pier stretching across the water. The artist signed the work with red paint in the lower left corner, “Gustave Courbet.”
Gustave Courbet, La Grotte de la Loue, 1864, oil on canvas, Gift of Charles L. Lindemann, 1957.6.1

La Grotte de la Loue

Gustave Courbet · 1864 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1957.6.1

Jean Honoré Fragonard, Visit to the Nurse, c. 1780/1790, gray wash and watercolor over black chalk on laid paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.19

Visit to the Nurse

Jean Honoré Fragonard · c. 1780/1790 · gray wash and watercolor over black chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.217.19

Venetian 17th Century, Tiziano Aspetti, Andiron with Figure of Venus, c. 1600/1675, bronze, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.101

Andiron with Figure of Venus

Venetian 17th Century, Tiziano Aspetti · c. 1600/1675 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1961.9.101

Neroccio de' Landi, Madonna and Child with Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Sigismund, c. 1490/1495, tempera on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.17

Madonna and Child with Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Sigismund

Neroccio de' Landi · c. 1490/1495 · tempera on panel ·  Accession ID  1952.5.17

Florentine 15th Century, An Old Man, second half 15th century, painted terracotta, Given by the children of Mr. and Mrs. Otto B. Kahn in memory of their parents, 1952.13.1

An Old Man

Florentine 15th Century · second half 15th century · painted terracotta ·  Accession ID  1952.13.1

Painted almost entirely in tones of beige and golden brown, we look across a smooth body of water at a row of buildings around a large church and several windmills scattered across the skyline in this horizontal landscape painting. The horizon comes about a quarter of the way up the painting, and the ice-blue sky above is nearly filled with pink-tinged clouds. Closest to us, a man bends over a container or bundle on a narrow spit of land in the lower left corner. Three boats float close by in the water beyond him. A rowboat at the lower center of the painting is filled with at least ten people, wearing bonnets or hats, dressed in tones of muted teal blue, golden yellow, and smoke gray. An empty, smaller boat is tied to and floats off one end of the rowboat. To our left, beyond the spit of land, a second rowboat is pulled up alongside a shallow boat with sails unfurled. Five people sit or stand in the rowboat as a sixth person is helped from the smaller rowboat up onto the sailboat. At least seven people and perhaps some bundles fill the deck of the sailboat. A bird flies low to the surface of the water nearby. A church with a tall, square tower and the lower buildings around it reflect in the placid water on the distant shore. More boats float along the winding shoreline in the deep distance, and a few more spires, windmills, and stately buildings are silhouetted against the sky.
Jan van Goyen, View of Dordrecht from the Dordtse Kil, 1644, oil on panel, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1978.11.1

View of Dordrecht from the Dordtse Kil

Jan van Goyen · 1644 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1978.11.1

French 18th Century, Portrait of a Young Man, possibly c. 1770, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.18

Portrait of a Young Man

French 18th Century · possibly c. 1770 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1961.9.18

Paul Gauguin, Reclining Nude [recto], 1894/1895, pastel and black crayon over charcoal, corrected with white gouache, on laid paper, Gift of Robert and Mercedes Eichholz, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.77.1.a

Reclining Nude [recto]

Paul Gauguin · 1894/1895 · pastel and black crayon over charcoal, corrected with white gouache, on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1990.77.1.a