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Dancing in Colombia

Fernando Botero (Colombian, born 1932)

Date: 1980
Accession Number: 1983.251

Calligraphic Plaque

Date: probably late 17th century
Accession Number: 1987.14

I Love New York

Miguel Adrover (Spanish, born 1965)

Date: 2000
Accession Number: 2005.44.2

Statuette of a female

Date: ca. early 1st millennium B.C.
Accession Number: 64.130

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus (Netherlandish, Baarle-Hertog (Baerle-Duc), active by 1444–died 1475/76 Bruges)

Date: 1446
Accession Number: 49.7.19

The Bridal Chamber of Herse, from a set of eight tapestries depicting the Story of Mercury and Herse

Design attributed to Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona (Italian, active 1540–52)

Date: ca. 1550
Accession Number: 41.190.135

Sea Dragon

Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 89.4.881a-c

Caftan

Date: ca. 8th century A.D.
Accession Number: 1996.78.1

Helmet

Date: late 15th century
Accession Number: 50.87

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848–1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands)

Date: 1891
Accession Number: 51.112.2

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Date: ca. 1245–47
Accession Number: 24.167a-k

Dress

Ji Eon Kang (American, born 1973)

Date: spring/summer 1997
Accession Number: 1997.250.6

Basket

Myer Myers (1723–1795)

Date: 1770–76
Accession Number: 54.167

The Valley of Wyoming

Jasper Francis Cropsey (American, Rossville, New York 1823–1900 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York)

Date: 1865
Accession Number: 66.113

The Oxbow: After Church, After Cole, Flooded (Flooded River for the Matriarchs E. & A. Mongan), Green Light

Stephen Hannock (American, born Albany, New York 1951)

Date: 2000
Accession Number: 2001.153

Border #8

Michal Rovner (Israeli, born 1957)

Date: 1997–98
Accession Number: 1999.240

Lime Container (Poporo)

Date: 1st–7th century
Accession Number: 1991.419.22

Electric clock

Gilbert Rohde (American, New York 1894–1944 New York)

Date: ca. 1933
Accession Number: 2000.600.15

Dress

House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937)

Date: 1960–64
Accession Number: 1976.124.7a–c

Silk Animal Carpet

Date: second half 16th century
Accession Number: 14.40.721

[Light]

Jean-Marc Bustamante (French, born 1952)

Date: 1991
Accession Number: 1992.5158

Velvet Panel with Flowering Plants

Date: first half 17th century
Accession Number: 12.72.5

Bracelet with Agathodaimon, Isis-Tyche, Aphrodite, and Terenouthis

Date: 1st century B.C.–A.D. 1st century
Accession Number: 23.2.1

Three Standing Figures (recto); Seated Woman and a Male Hermit in Half-length (verso)

Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni) (Italian, Verona (?) 1374/75-?ca. 1438 Castel Bragher)

Date: 1435–38
Accession Number: 1996.364a, b

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguérite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Émile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)

Date: 1878
Accession Number: 07.122

Lake George

John Frederick Kensett (American, Cheshire, Connecticut 1816–1872 New York)

Date: 1869
Accession Number: 15.30.61

Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor

Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane) (1804–1865)

Date: 1862
Accession Number: 1978.203

Triton

Giambologna (Netherlandish, Douai 1529–1608 Florence)

Date: 1560–70
Accession Number: 14.40.689

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, Naples 1598–1680 Rome)

Date: ca. 1616–17
Accession Number: 1976.92

Helmet (Spangenhelm)

Date: 6th–7th century
Accession Number: 42.50.1

Lotiform Chalice

Date: ca. 945–664 B.C.
Accession Number: 26.7.971

Embroidered Sampler

Mary Jones

Date: 1795
Accession Number: 1984.331.22

[Thomas Eakins and John Laurie Wallace on a Beach]

Thomas Eakins (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1844–1916 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Date: ca. 1883
Accession Number: 43.87.23

The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-Room

Seymour Joseph Guy (1824–1910)

Date: 1866
Accession Number: 1992.128

Cuneiform tablet: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars

Date: ca. 3100–2900 B.C.
Accession Number: 1988.433.1

The Parthenon

Frederic Edwin Church (American, Hartford, Connecticut 1826–1900 New York)

Date: 1871
Accession Number: 15.30.67

Victory

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire)

Date: 1892–1903; this cast, 1914 or after (by 1916)
Accession Number: 17.90.1

Cloister from Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa

Date: ca. 1130–40
Accession Number: 25.120.398–.954

The Flower Girl

Charles Cromwell Ingham (American (born Ireland), Dublin 1786–1863 New York)

Date: 1846
Accession Number: 02.7.1

Condesa de Altamira and Her Daughter, María Agustina

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)

Date: 1787–88
Accession Number: 1975.1.148

The Falls of Niagara

Edward Hicks (1780–1849)

Date: ca. 1825
Accession Number: 62.256.3

Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon

Date: ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium B.C.
Accession Number: 1982.5

Dress

Gucci (Italian, founded 1921)

Date: spring/summer 2003
Accession Number: 2003.442

Saint Anthony Abbot

Attributed to Niclaus of Haguenau (German, ca. 1445–before 1538)

Date: ca. 1500
Accession Number: 1988.159

Head of a ram

Date: ca. 3500–3100 B.C.
Accession Number: 1981.53

Pocket bottle

Attributed to American Flint Glass Manufactory (1764–1774)

Date: 1769–74
Accession Number: 14.74.17

Academie de l'espee; ou se domonstrent par reigles mathématiques sur le fondement d'un cercle mystérieux, la théorie et pratique des vrais . . .

Author: Girard Thibault (Flemish, died ca. 1629)

Date: 1628
Accession Number: 240.7 T344 F

Mandora

Date: ca. 1420
Accession Number: 64.101.1409

Double-Eagle Pendant

Date: 1st–5th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.538

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Date: ca. 1175–80
Accession Number: 1984.232