At left, a young fair skinned woman with long wavy brown hair stands facing us, wearing only an ornate crown and jewels, a richly embroidered open robe around her shoulders. With a leopard at her feet ...
Degas displayed the wax figure after which this bronze was cast at the sixth impressionist exhibition, in 1881. The only sculpture that he ever presented publicly, the work caused an uproar for its ...
The rectangular painted scroll shows a large black and white fish at the center. The fish’s head is pointed towards the upper-left with its tail turned towards the lower-left. The fish has large ...
This sculpture adorned a Roman garden or fountain, or possibly a child’s grave. Cupid (“Desire”), the Greek Eros, god of love, is represented as a young boy asleep on a rock covered with Herakles’s ...
At center below, a bearded man sits beside a woman. They give a loaf of bread to a beggar at right who is lead by a small dog on a leash. On either side of this group, angels hover, looking on with ...
This wide, bowl like cup has a smooth, almost black finish and incised lines and decorative motifs. Handles at either side extend upward from the rim in an elegant loop that rejoins at the base of the ...
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A watercolor painting of a forested scene. In the foreground to the left there is the edge of a lake, which is surrounded by forests which stretch into the distance and lead into mountains which get ...
We see the head and shoulders of a woman in the extreme foreground at lower center left, standing among some large rocks. She has long straight dark hair and pronounced dark circles around her eyes as ...
The objects in this case present different visions of the female body. Statuette or vessel, funerary offering or object of worship, decorative feature or conscious work of art, they would have ...