Works of Art (28)
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Balzac Toward the Light, Midnight, 1908, Edward Steichen (American, born Luxembourg), Direct carbon print (33.43.38) |
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Bust of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), after a model of 1778,
After a model by Jean-Antoine Houdon (French),
Plaster, painted to imitate terracotta (08.89.2a) |
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Bust of Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694–1778), 18th century (1778),
Jean-Antoine Houdon (French),
French (Paris),
Marble (1972.61) |
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Bust of Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694–1778), after a model of 1778,
After a model by Jean-Antoine Houdon (French),
French,
Plaster, painted to imitate terracotta (08.89.1a) |
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Charles Baudelaire, ca. 1863,
Étienne Carjat (French),
Woodburytype (64.677.4) |
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The Dead Christ with Angels, 1864,
Édouard Manet (French),
Oil on canvas (29.100.51) |
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Eugène Pelletan, 1855–59, Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) (French), Salted paper print from glass negative (1991.1198) |
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Final Study of the Monument to Balzac, modeled 1897, this bronze cast 1972, Auguste Rodin (French), Bronze (1984.364.15) |
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The Fireside, ca. 1876–77,
Edgar Degas (French),
Monotype in black ink on white heavy laid paper (68.670) |
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Guillaume Budé, ca. 1536, Jean Clouet (French), Tempera and oil on wood (46.68) |
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Head of Balzac, 1891, Auguste Rodin (French), Terracotta (12.11.1) |
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Iris, Messenger of the Gods, also known as Another Voice, Called Iris, modeled ca. 1895, this bronze cast 1965, Auguste Rodin (French), Bronze, on a black marble base (1984.364.7) |
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Julius Caesar, ca. 1541,
Couly II Nouailher (French, Limoges),
Enamel, painted and partly gilded, on copper (28.217.2)
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La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930), 1889,
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch),
Oil on canvas (1996.435) |
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Madame Georges Charpentier (née Marguérite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Émile-Charles (1875–1895), 1878,
Auguste Renoir (French),
Oil on canvas (07.122) |
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Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs, Paris, 1877–78, Edgar Degas (French), Lithograph on wove paper (only state) (19.29.3) |
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The Natchez, 1835,
Eugène Delacroix (French),
Oil on canvas (1989.328) |
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Oleanders, 1888,
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch),
Oil on canvas (62.24) |
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Orpheus and Eurydice, probably modeled before 1887, executed 1893, Auguste Rodin (French), Marble (10.63.2) |
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Ovid among the Scythians, 1862,
Eugène Delacroix (French),
Oil on paper laid down on wood (2008.101) |
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Pierrot Laughing, 1855, Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) (French); Adrien Tournachon (French), Coated salted paper print from glass negative (1998.57) |
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Portrait bust of Denis Diderot (1713–1784), 18th century (signed and dated 1773),
Jean-Antoine Houdon (French),
French (Paris),
Marble (1974.291) |
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Saint-Maclou, Rouen, 1852–54,
Edmond Bacot (French),
Salted paper print from glass negative (1995.96.10) |
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Seated Voltaire (after the original model of 1778), 18th century (?),
Jean-Antoine Houdon (French),
French (Paris),
Plaster, tinted to imitate terracotta (52.211) |
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The Storm, 1880,
Pierre-Auguste Cot (French),
Oil on canvas (87.15.134) |
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The Unknown Masterpiece, 1982,
Anselm Kiefer (German),
Watercolor, gouache, graphite pencil, cut-and-pasted printed papers on paper (2000.96.8) |
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Victor Hugo, Three-Quarter View, 1885, Auguste Rodin (French), Drypoint, second of eight described states (16.37.2) |
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Woman in a Riding Habit (L'Amazone), 1856,
Gustave Courbet (French),
Oil on canvas (29.100.59) |
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Thematic Essays (24)
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