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James Sharples
ca. 1751–1811
9 1/2 x 7 7/16 in. (24.1 x 18.9 cm)
medium: Pastel on gray (now oxidized) laid paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1995.379.1 recto 1995
Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995
Horse armor with saddle: Wt., 87 lb. 14 oz. (39.85 kg); horse armor: Wt., 65 lb. 1 oz. (29.5 kg)
Bit: H. of the cheekpieces 9 1/4 (23 cm); W. 6 1/4 (15.9 cm)
medium: Steel, gold, leather
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 21.139.2a–h 1921
Fletcher Fund, 1921
James McNeill Whistler
American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London
11 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (28.6 x 18.4 cm)
medium: Conté crayon and white chalk on brown wove paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 40.91.7 1940
Gift of Harold K. Hochschild, 1940
This lidded square jar was likely paired with a complementary yet nonidentical mate. The pine tree, plum, and bamboo together form the frequently depicted motif known as the Three Friends of Winter (<em>shōchikubai</em>), so named because of their hardy perseverance in the cold. Each side also features a pair of birds, including cranes on one face and pheasants on another.
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Porcelain with overglaze color enamels and gold (Hizen ware, Kakiemon type)
Overall: 27.8 x 11.6 cm (10 15/16 x 4 9/16 in.)
Did you know...
A jar like this was fired at a high temperature, painted with colored enamels, and then fired again at a lower temperature.
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
On this medallion, Napoleon is idealized as a Roman emperor crowned with a laurel wreath. He is identified as the French emperor (r. 1804-14 and 1815) and as king of Italy (r. 1805-14). Sauvage, who left his native Antwerp for Paris in 1774, became famous for painting porcelain to resemble marble.
13 11/16 x 13 11/16 in. (34.8 x 34.8 cm)
medium: porcelain
style: Empire
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
This block statue is of a squatting man with an inscription on the front dress and rear.
Egyptian
H: 13 1/4 in. (33.6 cm)
medium: black granite
culture: Egyptian
dynasty: 22nd Dynasty
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Jane Simonton Chapman
born 1794
37 x 29 in. (94 x 73.7 cm)
medium: Cotton
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 23.20.3 1923
Gift of Jane A. Everdell, in memory of Cornelia Augusta Chapman Everdell, 1923
Primarily a painter and draftsman, Albrecht Altdorfer made only nine etchings, which were intended to imitate his drawings. Those he made between 1522 and 1525—printed in very small numbers for a growing market of print collector—are considered the first prints in European art to depict pure landscape without narrative or devotional content. Here, he displayed remarkable freedom of draftsmanship and apparent spontaneity. The site depicted cannot be readily identified, <br>and Altdorfer probably composed it from his imagination. Early etchings, such as this one, were made on iron rather than copper plates, which rendered the lines slightly hazy.
Germany, 16th century
etching
Platemark: 11.8 x 16.3 cm (4 5/8 x 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 11.8 x 16.3 cm (4 5/8 x 6 7/16 in.)
Did you know...
To make this early etching, the artist used an iron plate rather than the more supple copper, which would shortly come to dominate etching technique.
John L. Severance Fund
39 1/2 x 24 x 17 in. (100.3 x 61 x 43.2 cm)
medium: Ash
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 41.111 1941
Rogers Fund, 1941
John La Farge
American, New York 1835–1910 Providence, Rhode Island
7 3/4 x 10 3/8 in. (19.7 x 26.4 cm)
medium: Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 67.55.174 1967
Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966