Rodolphe Kann

Kann, Rudolphe

1845 - 1905

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Carved from white marble, a young woman holds a short spear by one side and looks down toward a dog standing by her other side in this free-standing sculpture. Her body faces us in this photograph, and her head is tipped forward and to our right. She has a straight, delicate nose, and her thin lips are parted, possibly in a slight smile. Her wavy hair is held back under a band with an ornament on the crown, and a long curl falls behind one shoulder. Her knee-length garment exposes one firm breast and half of the other. The drapery clings tightly to her body and legs so the folds accentuate her curves. A longer garment falls from her waist, behind her legs, to pool at her sandaled feet. She stands with her weight mostly on her left leg, to our right, and the other knee bent. She holds the shaft of the spear with her right hand, to our left. Her other arm is drawn across her body at waist level. With that hand, she loosely holds the dog’s leash, which then falls across her thighs to the dog, sitting at her feet to our right. The short haired, thin, muscular hound is seated so its chest squares toward us. It twists its head up to look at the woman, its nose pressed along her leg. Its mouth is open, and the tongue curls out over sharp teeth. The dog wears a snug, buckled collar. The woman and dog stand on a square platform of white marble resting on a slab veined with charcoal gray and black, against a smoke-gray wall.
Jean-Louis Lemoyne, A Companion of Diana, 1710-1724, marble, Widener Collection, 1942.9.133

A Companion of Diana

Jean-Louis Lemoyne · 1710-1724 · marble ·  Accession ID  1942.9.133

German 17th Century, A Dancing Faun, c. 1600, bronze, Widener Collection, 1942.9.120

A Dancing Faun

German 17th Century · c. 1600 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1942.9.120

Anonymous Artist, David, c. 1530, bronze, Widener Collection, 1942.9.103

David

Anonymous Artist · c. 1530 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1942.9.103

Bernardino Luini, The Misfortunes of Cephalus, c. 1520/1522, fresco, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.59

The Misfortunes of Cephalus

Bernardino Luini · c. 1520/1522 · fresco ·  Accession ID  1943.4.59

Bernardino Luini, Cephalus and Pan at the Temple of Diana, c. 1520/1522, fresco, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.54

Cephalus and Pan at the Temple of Diana

Bernardino Luini · c. 1520/1522 · fresco ·  Accession ID  1943.4.54

Bernardino Luini, Cephalus Punished at the Hunt, c. 1520/1522, fresco, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.55

Cephalus Punished at the Hunt

Bernardino Luini · c. 1520/1522 · fresco ·  Accession ID  1943.4.55

The head, shoulders, and chest of a man wearing a deep rose-red garment fills this vertical portrait painting. His body is angled slightly to our left, and he looks directly at us from the corners of his eyes. His brown hair falls across his forehead, sweeps down over his ears, and curls gently at the nape of his neck. His eyebrows arch over brown eyes, and he has a long, angular nose. His upper lip is full, and his mouth is closed. He has high cheekbones and a cleft in his chin. The high collar is a black band over the voluminous red garment, which falls in pleats or folds down his chest. His right hand, on our left, lifts to clutch the fabric near his chest, in the lower left corner of the painting, and he wears a gold ring on his pinky finger. The background behind the man fades from dark aquamarine blue across the top to pale arctic blue at his shoulders, which span the width of the composition.
Andrea del Castagno, Portrait of a Man, c. 1450, tempera on panel, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.17

Portrait of a Man

Andrea del Castagno · c. 1450 · tempera on panel ·  Accession ID  1937.1.17

Bernardino Luini, Procris and the Unicorn, c. 1520/1522, fresco, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.60

Procris and the Unicorn

Bernardino Luini · c. 1520/1522 · fresco ·  Accession ID  1943.4.60

Rhenish 12th Century, Mosan 12th Century, Crucifix, c. 1150/1175, gilded copper alloy with champlevé enamel, one jasper stone, and glass, Widener Collection, 1942.9.282

Crucifix

Rhenish 12th Century, Mosan 12th Century · c. 1150/1175 · gilded copper alloy with champlevé enamel, one jasper stone, and glass ·  Accession ID  1942.9.282

Bernardino Luini, Cephalus and the Nymphs, c. 1520/1522, fresco, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.57

Cephalus and the Nymphs

Bernardino Luini · c. 1520/1522 · fresco ·  Accession ID  1943.4.57

Bibliography

1900

  • Bode, Wilhelm. Die Gemälde-Galerie des Herrn R. Kann in Paris. (Trans. French by A. Marguillier). Vienna, 1900: 100 plates.

1901

  • Michel, E. Gazette des Beaux-Arts 25 (1901): 385+, 493+.

1905

  • "Necrologie." La Chronique des Arts, no. 6 (11 February 1905): 47.

1907

  • Mannheim, Jules. Catalogue of the Rodolphe Kann Collection: Objets d'art. 2 vols. Paris, 1907.

  • Sedelmeyer, Charles. Catalogue of the Rodolphe Kann Collection: Pictures. 2 vols. Paris, 1907.

1908

  • Nicolle, Marcel. "La Collection Rodolphe Kann." La Revue de l'Art 23 (1908): 187-204.

1909

  • Gillet, Louis. "La Collection Maurice Kann." La Revue de l'Art 26 (1909): 361-374, 421-434.

1978

  • Robb, David M. Apollo (January 1978): 46.

1989

  • Les Donateurs de Louvre. Paris, 1989:240.