Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subject Index: Figure, Secular

Works of Art (102)

After the Hunt, ca. 1859, Gustave Courbet (French), Oil on canvas (29.100.61)
Aquamanile in the Form of a Falconer on Horseback, 13th century, North German (Lower Saxony), Copper alloy (47.101.55)
The Bather (model for a fountain), 18th century (ca. 1780) or 19th–early 20th century, By or after Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), Probably French, Terracotta (32.100.159)
Bather (statue from a fountain group), 18th century (1782), Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), French (Paris), Marble (14.40.673)
Bathers, 1874–75, Paul Cézanne (French), Oil on canvas (1976.201.12)
The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain, 1858, Jerome B. Thompson (American), Oil on canvas (69.182)
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), 18th century (1778), Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), French (Paris), Marble (72.6)
Block statue of a governor, Late Period, Dynasty 26 (ca. 664–525 B.C.), Egyptian, Graywacke (1982.318)
Boating, 1874, Édouard Manet (French), Oil on canvas (29.100.115)
Boys in a Dory, 1873, Winslow Homer (American), Watercolor washes and gouache over graphite underdrawing on medium rough textured white wove paper (2001.608.1)
Bust-Length Study of a Bearded Man with Cap in Three-Quarter View, Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) (Italian), Pastel and charcoal on blue paper (1999.164)
The Card Players, 1890–92, Paul Cézanne (French), Oil on canvas (61.101.1)
Château de Versailles seen from the forecourt, 1682, Israël Silvestre (French), Engraving (30.22[22–64])
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent, 1817, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French), Oil on canvas (1994.190)
Childbirth bowl (scodella) with confinement-chamber scene (interior) and Diana and Actaeon (exterior), ca. 1530s, Circle of Francesco Xanto Avelli (Italian), Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) (41.49.2)
Childbirth tray (desco da parto) with scenes from Boccaccio's Commedia delle ninfe fiorentine: Ameto's Discovery of the Nymphs and Contest between the Shepherds Alcesto and Acaten, ca. 1410, Master of 1416 (Italian, Florentine), Tempera on panel (26.287.1,2)
Childbirth tray (desco da parto) with the Triumph of Fame (recto) and Medici and Tornabuoni arms and devices (verso), 1448–49,Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guidi, called Lo Scheggia (Italian, Florentine), Tempera, silver, and gold on panel (1995.7)
Classical Landscape with Gypsies, 1748, John Wootton (English), Oil on canvas (32.53.2)
Combat at a City Gate, early 16th century, Il Riccio (Andrea Briosco) (Italian), Italy (Padua), Bronze (1986.319.30)
Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (née Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850), 1841, Théodore Chassériau (French), Oil on canvas (2002.291)
The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-Room, 1866, Seymour Joseph Guy (American), Oil on canvas (1992.128)
Costumes of Roman Women, Pietro Bertelli (Italian, Paduan), Engravings (62.676.31.2–6)

Dish with scene of Christ at Supper with Simon the Pharisee and with the Arms of Orsini Impaling della Rovere, 1528, Circle of Nicola da Urbino (Italian); lustered in the workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli (Gubbio), Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), with luster (1975.1.1103)
Dovizia, late 15th–early 16th century, Workshop of Giovanni della Robbia (Italian, Florentine), Glazed terracotta (22.16.6)
Dust Storm, Fifth Avenue, 1906, John Sloan (American), Oil on canvas (21.41.2)
The Emperor Aurangzeb at a Royal Hunt, ca. 1700, Bhavanidas (Mughal school, later Kishangarh), India, Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper (2003.430)
Ewer with profile busts of a man and a woman, ca. 1520, Possibly workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli (Italian), Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), with luster (27.97.39)
Female Dancer, Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.–9 A.D.), 2nd century B.C., China, Earthenware with slip and pigments (1992.165.19)
Figure: Mother and Child, 19th–20th century, Democratic Republic of Congo or Angola, Kongo peoples, Yombe group, Wood, glass, metal, pigment (1979.206.29)
Figurine: Three Males, 18th–20th century, Democratic Republic of Congo, Loango Region, Kongo peoples, Ivory (1978.412.348)
Francesco Sassetti and His Son Teodoro, ca. 1488, Domenico Ghirlandaio (Italian, Florentine), Tempera on panel (49.7.7)
Funeral Procession in an Initial R, second half of 15th century, Leaf from a gradual, Mariano del Buono (Italian, Florentine), Italian (Florence), Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment (96.32.16)
Funerary altar of Cominia Tyche, Flavian or Trajanic, ca. 90–100 A.D., Roman, Marble (38.27)
Garden at Sainte-Adresse, 1867, Claude Monet (French), Oil on canvas (67.241)
Gathering of Government-Officials, ca. 1551, Korea, Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk (2008.55)
George Washington, 1780, Charles Willson Peale (American), Oil on canvas (97.33)
George Washington, 1827–28, this version, ca. 1832, Horatio Greenough (American), Marble (84.8.2)
George Washington, ca. 1782, James Peale (American, 1749–1831), Oil on canvas; 36 x 27 in. (91.4 x 68.6 cm), Bequest of William H. Huntington, 1885 (85.1)
George Washington, ca. 1790, Charles Peale Polk (American), Oil on canvas (24.109.81)
George Washington, ca. 1795–96, Gilbert Stuart (American), Oil on canvas (07.160)
George Washington, ca. 1846, Rembrandt Peale (American), Oil on canvas (24.109.86)
Girl Braiding Her Hair, 1600–1610, Barthélemy Prieur (French), Bronze with red-brown lacquer patina (1982.60.126)
Head of a Bearded Man, 1355–80, Bohemian (Prague), Pen and ink, brush and gray black and brown ink, traces of white heightening, on white laid paper (2003.29)
Island of the Dead, 1880, Arnold Böcklin (Swiss), Oil on wood (26.90)
Jo, La Belle Irlandaise, 1865–66, Gustave Courbet (French), Oil on canvas (29.100.63)
Just Moved, 1870, Henry Mosler (American), Oil on canvas (62.80)
Kindred Spirits, 1849, Asher B. Durand (1796–1886), Oil on canvas (L.2008.21)
Kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup), ca. 530 B.C.; black-figure, Greek, Attic, Archaic, Terracotta (09.221.39)
Lady Su Hui and Her Verse Puzzle, Ming dynasty, 16th century, China, Handscroll; ink and color on silk (33.167)
Louise Brongniart (1772–1845), 18th century (after a model of 1777), After Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), French (Paris), Marble (14.40.670)
Low-footed bowl with bust of a woman, ca. 1530, Urbino or Castel Durante, Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) (1975.1.1084)
Luman Reed, 1835, Asher B. Durand (American), Oil on canvas (63.36)
Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910), ca. 1852–57, Gustave Courbet (French), Oil on canvas (29.100.130)
Madame Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Princesse de Bénévent (née Catherine Noële Worlée, later Madame George Francis Grand, 1762–1835), ca. 1808, François Gérard, called Baron Gérard (French), Oil on canvas (2002.31)
A Maid Asleep, ca. 1656–57, Johannes Vermeer (Dutch), Oil on canvas (14.40.611)
Man Weighing Gold, 1515–20, Adriaen Isenbrant (Netherlandish), Oil on wood (32.100.36)
Mechti Kuli Beg, Persian Ambassador to Prague, 1605, Aegidius Sadeler (Dutch), Netherlandish, Engraving (49.95.2202)
A Mercenary Holding the Banner of the Canton Glarus, 1521, Urs Graf (Swiss), Pen and brown ink (2003.323)
The Middleton Cousins, early 1750s, Mary Roberts (English, active United States), Watercolor on ivory (2007.61–.65)
The Milkmaid, 1510, Lucas van Leyden (Dutch), Engraving (41.1.24)
Morion, ca. 1560–65, Germany (Brunswick), Etched steel (1999.62)
The Mountain Ford, 1846, Thomas Cole (American), Oil on canvas (15.30.63)
The Music Lesson, 1870, John George Brown (American), Oil on canvas (21.115.3)
The Natchez, 1835, Eugène Delacroix (French), Oil on canvas (1989.328)
The New Bonnet, 1858, Francis William Edmonds (American), Oil on canvas (1975.27.1)
The Nurse, from a model of ca. 1607–8, Probably designed by Guillaume Dupré (French), Lead-glazed earthenware (1974.356.303)
On the Beach, Sunset, 1865, Eugène Boudin (French), Oil on wood (2003.20.2)
Pair of Nude Male Figures, Demonstrating the Principles of Contrapposto According to Michelangelo and Phidias, ca. 1911, Auguste Rodin (French), Terracotta (1987.179.1,.2)
Partial coffee service ("Déjeuner Culture et Récolte du Cacao"), 1836, Sèvres Manufactory (French); Decorated by Jean-Charles Develly (French), Hard-paste porcelain (1986.281.1ab–4)
Pendant with facing couple (obverse) and sacred monogram (reverse), 15th century, Italy, Silver gilt, niello (17.190.965)
Pilgrim at the Gate, 1827, Karl Blechen (German), Lithograph, second state of two (2007.225)
The Pink Dress (Albertie-Marguerite Carré, later Madame Ferdinand-Henri Himmes, 1854–1935), ca. 1870, Berthe Morisot (French), Oil on canvas (2003.20.8)
Plate with the Death of the Woman of Sestos, 1532, Francesco Xanto Avelli (Italian), Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) (32.100.378)
Plate, ca. 520–510 B.C.; red-figure, Greek, Attic, Signed by Epiktetos as painter, Terracotta (1981.11.10)
Portrait of a Man, ca. 1630, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish), Oil on canvas; 27 x 21 3/4 in. (68.6 x 55.2 cm), The Jules Bache Collection, 1949 (49.7.42)
Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini; and Portrait of a Woman, possibly Ginevra d'Antonio Lupari Gozzadini, ca. 1485–90, Attributed to the Maestro delle Storie del Pane, Tempera on panel (1975.1.95, 96)
Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1520, Quentin Massys (also Matsys or Metsys) (Netherlandish), Oil on wood (32.100.47)
Portrait of Alvise Contarini (recto) and a tethered roebuck (verso); portrait of a woman (recto) and scene in grisaille (verso), ca. 1485–95, Jacometto Veneziano (Italian, Venetian), Oil on panel (1975.1.85, 86)
Portrait of Charlotte Duchesne, ca. 1628–30, Philippe de Champaigne (French), Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, touches of red chalk (1994.7)
Portrait of Pietro Aretino (probably after a design by Sebastiano del Piombo), ca. 1517–20 or 1524–25, Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian), Engraving (17.50.40)
Relief fragment with gladiators, Imperial, 1st–3rd century A.D., Roman; recorded ca. 1880 in the Vigna Aquari in Rome, Marble (57.11.7)
A Rose, 1907, Thomas P. Anshutz (American), Oil on canvas (1993.324)
Roundel with mock Triumph of Love, ca. 1510–20, Perhaps Castel Durante or elsewhere in the Marches, Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) (1975.1.1025)
Seated figure bottle, 2nd–5th century, Peru; Moche, Ceramic (82.1.30)
Seated Peasant, ca. 1892–96, Paul Cézanne (French), Oil on canvas (1997.60.2)
Sir James Dashwood, 1737, Enoch Seeman the Younger (Polish), Oil on canvas (56.190)
The Source, 1862, Gustave Courbet (French), Oil on canvas (29.100.58)
Standing attendant, Tang dynasty, 7th century, China, Earthenware with slip and pigment (2002.501)
Standing court lady, Tang dynasty, mid-7th century, China, Earthenware with pigment (1978.345)
Standing female attendant, Tang dynasty, late 7th–early 8th century, China, Wood with pigment (1997.442.7.2)
Studies of ten (?) heads and two ears (recto); Studies of three figures and a head (verso), ca. 1495–98, Gerard David (Netherlandish), Silverpoint on prepared paper (recto); black chalk (verso) (2008.368a,b)
Table cover with story of Gombaut and Macée, ca. 1600, French, Wool and silk on canvas (54.7.1)
Two Men Contemplating the Moon, ca. 1825–30, Caspar David Friedrich (German), Oil on canvas (2000.51)
Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (German, active United States), Oil on canvas (97.34)
Washington Reviewing the Western Army, at Fort Cumberland, Maryland, after 1795, Attributed to Frederick Kemmelmeyer (German), Oil on canvas (63.201.2)
Woman Bathing, 1890–91, Mary Cassatt (American), Drypoint and aquatint (16.2.2)
The Woman in the Waves, 1868, Gustave Courbet (French), Oil on canvas (29.100.62)
Woman Seated in an Armchair Wiping Her Left Armpit, cast in 1920 from a sculpture made of wax, cork, and wood probably ca. 1895, Edgar Degas (French),Bronze, number 43/A (29.100.415)
Woman Seen from the Back, ca. 1862, Onésipe Aguado (French), Salted paper print from glass negative (2005.100.1)
Young Husband: First Marketing, 1854, Lilly Martin Spencer (American), Oil on canvas, Private collection, Promised Gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Young Woman Knitting, ca. 1883, Berthe Morisot (French), Oil on canvas (67.187.89)
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, ca. 1662, Johannes Vermeer (Dutch), Oil on canvas (89.15.21)

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