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Stone Mother and Child Figure (First Woman On Earth)
View through The Met
Stone, Inuit
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of James A. Houston 1969
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Woman at the Window
Woman at the Window
The nineteenth century witnessed the evolution of the nuclear family unit—father, mother, and children—into a nexus of bourgeois social life throughout Europe and North America. In...
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block; pages of off-white wove paper, each 27.2 x 20.8 cm. Drawings made in graphite and in vertical orientation...
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block. Pages of white wove paper, each 34.7 x 27.1 cm. Pages numbered at l.l. of verso in graphite. Drawings i...
Pelike depicting Helen and Paris
Pelike depicting Helen and Paris
The scene on the front of the pelike (jar) comprises five figures: a couple consisting of a woman and a young man, flanked by a boy and second woman, respectively. A small Eros flu...
Village in Martinique (Femmes et Chevre dans le village)
Village in Martinique (Femmes et Chevre dans le village)
In 1887, Gauguin and Charles Laval went to Panama, and then to Martinique, searching for a warm, healthy climate and a cheap place to live a natural, "savage" life. Residing during...
Calyx Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Woman at a Tree, with Dionysos and a Satyr; Woman with Eros and Two Satyrs
Calyx Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Woman at a Tree, with Dionysos and a Satyr; Woman with Eros and Two Satyrs
Side A: In the center, a woman clad in a black-bordered mantle which leaves the upper part of her breast and right arm bare. Hovering over her left shoulder a nude winged Eros exte...
Two Figures (Mother and Child in Hats); verso: Mother and Child
Two Figures (Mother and Child in Hats); verso: Mother and Child
Backing was removed September 2004, revealing a drawing in black crayon on the verso....
painting (oil): ["Rest on the Flight Into Egypt"]
painting (oil): ["Rest on the Flight Into Egypt"]
Angels hovering overhead or bringing food on dishes are a common feature of the subject of the rest (or repose) on the flight to Egypt, where Joseph took Jesus and his mother to es...