EditorialPierre-Auguste Renoir: Sailor Boy (Portrait of Robert Nun?s), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883, Oil on canvas, This 10-year-old boy is Robert Nun?s, the son of the mayor of a small town on the Normandy coast in France. Dressed in a sailor-boy outfit?a popul...
EditorialCoat, sandals and travelling cross of the Capuchin monk Marco d'Aviano (1631-1699). A famous preacher of penitence, he was also a diplomat, Papal envoy to the Imperial armies and a close confident and counsellor to Emperor Leopold I.
EditorialEmblem 33; youth leading age. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] A tragic head, in profile, with locks over the eyes. Emblem drawing of the ageing traveller on crutches accepting the confident guidance of youth, from 'Lo...
EditorialDish, late 16th?early 17th century, Spanish, Valencia, Tin-glazed and luster-painted earthenware, Overall: 3 1/4 ? 15 1/4 in. (8.3 ? 38.7 cm), Ceramics-Pottery, The free and confident draftsmanship of the eagle as well as the loose style of the leafy t...
EditorialCovered Jar (Hu), Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.?A.D. 9), 2nd?1st century B.C., China, Earthenware with painted decoration, H. 18 in. (45.7 cm); Diam. 11 in. 27.9 cm); Diam. of rim 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm); Diam. of foot 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm), Tomb Pottery, Th...
EditorialArchitectural Drawing, 1450?1500, French, Pen and brown ink over black chalk on vellum, Overall: 17 9/16 x 11 3/4 in. (44.6 x 29.8 cm), Drawings, Perfectly proportioned, finely detailed, and executed with ease, everything about this drawing suggests a ...
EditorialStudy of a Ballet Dancer (recto); Two Studies of Dancers (verso), ca. 1873, Black ink heightened with body color on prepared pink paper, 17 1/2 x 12 3/8 in. (44.5 x 31.4 cm), Drawings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834?1917 Paris), This drawing is associ...
EditorialSeated Man Reading, 1774, Red chalk, 13 3/8 x 9 3/16 in. (34 x 23.3 cm), Drawings, Jean Honor? Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732?1806 Paris), This confident drawing of a seated man absorbed in his book is closely related to a group of portraitlike drawing...
EditorialArmchair, ca. 1755, Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, American, Mahogany, 44 x 33 1/4 x 21 1/2 in. (111.8 x 84.5 x 54.6 cm), Furniture, This armchair is significantly larger than most made in this period and exudes a confident monument...
EditorialCoat, sandals and travelling cross of the Capuchin monk Marco d'Aviano (1631-1699). A famous preacher of penitence, he was also a diplomat, Papal envoy to the Imperial armies and a close confident and counsellor to Emperor Leopold I.