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American 19th Century, British 19th Century, American 20th Century, British 20th Century, Madame G, c. 1900, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.64

Madame G

American 19th Century, British 19th Century, American 20th Century, British 20th Century · c. 1900 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.64

Alfred Stevens, Study of a Model, oil on wood, Chester Dale Collection, 1964.19.7

Study of a Model

Alfred Stevens · · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1964.19.7

Ignacio Zuloaga, Mrs. Philip Lydig, 1912, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.232

Mrs. Philip Lydig

Ignacio Zuloaga · 1912 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.232

A turreted, sprawling stone castle, bronzed by the setting sun, crowns a rocky cliff at the center of this horizontal landscape painting. A round turret rises in the center of the castle’s jumble of blocky, square buildings. The buildings are dramatically outlined against a mass of roiling charcoal-gray and indigo-blue clouds, which are edged in peach, in the upper right corner. Barely noticeable amid the hulking structure, a scarlet-red flag flutters from a window in the tower overlooking a distant crag to our right. On that distant mountain, a column of amber smoke rises to mingle with the clouds above a bright band of sunlight on the horizon. Low trees and bushes grow around the base of the battlements. The land dips steeply toward us to a river below the cliff. Through the tangle of trees, a dirt road winds down the hill to a bridge of pale stone that crosses the river in front of us, to our left of center. Groups of helmeted horsemen cross the bridge, passing under a stone archway at its center. Near the bridge, tiny in scale, a herd of goats capers on the road near the horsemen as they ride on in a double column coming toward us along the clay-brown road. One rider carries a red pennant fluttering in the breeze. The riders wear ruby-red tunics and carry upright lances and shields. Light glints off their armor and helmets as they head to our right, toward the dark mass of tangled trees and rocky cliff on the border of the picture. A copse of low, gnarled trees grows near the opposite edge of the painting, to our left. Behind these trees and riders stretches a river valley spanned by another stone bridge. A cluster of people can barely be seen near and along that massive bridge in the distance. Beyond, buildings and a tall, square tower are lit by fires belching clouds of smoke. A heavy bank of gray clouds obscures the rest of the valley. Birds soar in the mist near a distant cliff, where flames and more smoke rise behind a boulder. In the deep distance to our left, a high, craggy cliff topped by a sprinkling of snow surges above the blanket of fog and clouds. In front of a clear, blue sky, it is also bathed in coral-red by the setting sun.
Jasper Francis Cropsey, The Spirit of War, 1851, oil on canvas, Avalon Fund, 1978.12.1

The Spirit of War

Jasper Francis Cropsey · 1851 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1978.12.1

Frans van Doornik, Isaac de Peyster (?), 1731, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.135

Isaac de Peyster (?)

Frans van Doornik · 1731 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.135

Frans van Doornik, Anna de Peyster (?), 1731, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.134

Anna de Peyster (?)

Frans van Doornik · 1731 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.134

Thomas Sully, Mrs. William Griffin, 1830, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1943.1.8

Mrs. William Griffin

Thomas Sully · 1830 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1943.1.8

John George Brown, A Longshoreman, n.d., oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase by exchange: Mr. and Mrs. Ignatius Sargent), 2015.19.238

A Longshoreman

John George Brown · n.d. · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.238

Michiel van Miereveld, Portrait of a Lady with a Ruff, 1638, oil on panel, Gift of the Coe Foundation, 1961.5.4

Portrait of a Lady with a Ruff

Michiel van Miereveld · 1638 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1961.5.4