One of the most visually striking period rooms in the American Wing, the Richmond Room offers a curated suggestion of the grandeur of early-nineteenth-Âcentury domestic life for wealthy Americans.
The application of the Italianate ornaments and stucco may have taken place when
Signed (lower left): PR; inscribed (verso, lower left) 17/35b.
: 33 1/2 × 72 in. (85.1 × 182.9 cm) a: 32 5/8 × 23 1/2 in. (82.9 × 59.7 cm) b:
This roundel is a rare and splendid example of early fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish embroidery. The detailed pictorial design and luminous palette, created by colored silk and metallic threads, highlight the sophistication of this medium, which was so highly prized during this period
panels are now dispersed among public and private collections), the embroideries may have
versos, upper left, in black porous point pen):a: GILBERT & GEORGE / HERE 1987 / 1/35b:
Martin’s School of Art in London in 1967, Gilbert and George, as they are now known, have
From the north nave of the former Carmelite church at Boppard-am-Rhein in Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis), near Koblenz, Germany.; Count Hermann Pückler, Muskau (from 1818) ; [ Frédéric Spitzer Austrian, Paris (from at least 1875–sold 1893)] ; his posthumous sale, Chevallier & Mannheim, Paris (April 17–June 16, 1893, no
Beneath the Virgin are the arms of the bishop of Liège, whose diocese may have donated
From the north nave of the former Carmelite church at Boppard-am-Rhein in Rheinland-Pflaz (Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis), near Koblenz, Germany; Count Hermann Pückler, Muskau (from 1818) ; [ Frédéric Spitzer Austrian, Paris (from at least 1875-1893)] ; his posthumous sale, Chevallier & Mannheim, Paris (April 17–June 16, 1893, nos
Beneath her are the arms of the bishop of Liège, whose diocese may have donated
The first American artist to study in Italy, West painted assiduously and embraced the embryonic Neoclassical movement then developing over all of Europe.
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Superfine: Tailoring Black Style presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism.
Black identity formation in the Atlantic diaspora and the ways Black designers have
Inscription: (central medallion (A), front, on scroll of Moses, center): SIC . ERIT . VITA . TVA . PENDENS / . ANE . N . CREDES . VITE . TVE (Thus your life will hang in the balance before [you], you will not be sure of your life [Deuteronomy 28:66])(central medallion (A), front, on upper left scroll): SICVT
Q[V]O[D] : SCRIPSI : / SCRIPSI : (That which I have written I have written [John
Until 1982, private collection; May 20, 1982 sold through Sotheby’s New York (lot 118), reputedly acquired by Barbara Piasecka Johnson; 1982-1994, reputedly, collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson, Princeton, NJ; December 14, 1994, acquired by Phoenix Ancient Art, purchased through Sotheby’s New York (lot 124); [with Phoenix Ancient Art S
view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 160 Although these volute-kraters may have
