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1650 · bronze · Accession ID 2022.181.45 Artwork Netherlandish 16th Century, Hand
1650 · bronze · Accession ID 2022.181.45 Artwork Netherlandish 16th Century, Hand
She braces the child’s torso with her left hand, to our right, and touches his
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as he turned from a career as a painter and a graphic and tapestry designer to concentrate on sculpture, Aristide Maillol was shaping what would become the leitmotif of his career. The subject that inspired him was the female nude, carefully observed but transmuted by underlying geometric forms into a kind of architecture, evoking the timeless rather than the individual.
She holds her left hand, to our right, to that cheek so the elbow is close to the
Marks Inscriptions "Sylvia Snowden 10/94" lower right margin, graphite, artist’s hand
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"SEPIA + 981 WP 1" verso, right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.
Associated Names Isaacs, Charles Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions by unknown hand
wears pearl earrings, a pearl necklace, and a four-stranded pearl bracelet on the hand
The engravings of Andrea Mantegna were the most influential prints produced in 15th-century Italy. Motifs from his creations appear in works by every major early Italian printmaker, and it was through Mantegna’s prints that Albrecht Dürer made his first acquaintance with the southern Renaissance.
The rider holds the reins of the snarling creature in one hand and holds a tall staff
; in later hand, lower left: #63; in later hand, upper center verso in graphite: