Hector Brame

est. c. 1865

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We look across a river at a long, flat bridge that runs parallel to a hazy, city skyline in the distance in this horizontal painting. The scene is painted with visible dashes and strokes of mostly pastel blue, ivory white, muted mauve purple, and navy blue. The flat bridge spans the width of the composition along the horizon, which comes a third of the way up the canvas. The sky above is filled with clouds painted in muted tones of cream white, pale blue, and a few touches of shell pink, which mirror the water below. Along the horizon, buildings with spires and towers stretch from our right about two-thirds of the way across the canvas. To our left, a cluster of several boats, tiny in scale, gather near the bridge. Closer, and to our right, three larger ferries are crowded with passengers who are represented by minuscule daubs of brightly colored paint, mostly in black, golden yellow, crimson red, sky and cobalt blue, and ivory white. These boats are painted in short, flat brushstrokes in bands of flame red and midnight blue. The artist signed and dated the work at the lower left: "C. Pissarro, 1890."
Camille Pissarro, Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1890, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.32

Charing Cross Bridge, London

Camille Pissarro · 1890 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1985.64.32

Eugène Boudin, On the Beach, Trouville, 1887, oil on wood, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.5

On the Beach, Trouville

Eugène Boudin · 1887 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1963.10.5

Pablo Picasso, Woman Sitting in a Garden [verso], 1901, oil on cardboard, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1996.129.1.b

Woman Sitting in a Garden [verso]

Pablo Picasso · 1901 · oil on cardboard ·  Accession ID  1996.129.1.b

A young man and boy look at a man laid out on a bed in this horizontal composition. All three people have white-colored skin and are loosely painted, as is the incomplete setting. The man lies with his eyes closed on the bed with his head to our left and feet to our right. He is on a baby-blue field, perhaps a blanket, and his head is propped up on a thick white pillow. He has black hair and delicate features, and his hands are together in prayer over his belly. The white ruffled collar and a diamond made up of smaller red, blue, yellow, and black diamonds are painted on his shoulder. The rest of his body is blocked in loosely with lapis blue except the cuff we can see, which is bright white. The young man and boy look on from near the man’s shins on the far side of the bed. Both have close-cropped hair. The young man cranes his neck forward, and his head and shoulders are surrounded by a white field against the brown cardboard on which this is painted. His garment is white over the shoulders and red on the torso. Only the head and neck of the boy are visible beyond the prone man. The artist signed the work in black in the lower right corner, “Picasso.”
Pablo Picasso, The Death of Harlequin [recto], 1905, gouache over charcoal on cardboard, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1996.129.1.a

The Death of Harlequin [recto]

Pablo Picasso · 1905 · gouache over charcoal on cardboard ·  Accession ID  1996.129.1.a

Camille Pissarro, Factory on the Oise at Pontoise, 1873, watercolor and graphite on wove paper mounted on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.109

Factory on the Oise at Pontoise

Camille Pissarro · 1873 · watercolor and graphite on wove paper mounted on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1985.64.109

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Souvenir of Terracina, 1864, reworked slightly later, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.26

Souvenir of Terracina

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1864, reworked slightly later · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.26

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Self-Portrait, 1822, graphite on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.51

Self-Portrait

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1822 · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.51

Vincent van Gogh, Harvest--The Plain of La Crau, 1888, reed pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1992.51.10

Harvest--The Plain of La Crau

Vincent van Gogh · 1888 · reed pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1992.51.10

Edgar Degas, Study of a Jockey (M. de Broutelles), c. 1884, black crayon on cream paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.13

Study of a Jockey (M. de Broutelles)

Edgar Degas · c. 1884 · black crayon on cream paper ·  Accession ID  1999.79.13

Auguste Rodin, Head of Hanako (Ohta Hisa), model c. 1908, cast 1965, bronze, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.21

Head of Hanako (Ohta Hisa)

Auguste Rodin · model c. 1908, cast 1965 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1995.47.21