Object Notes

The Bath of Diana dates from 1855, a highpoint in Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's career when his works were greatly admired at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.

In this enigmatic scene, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot uses energetic lines to describe a variety of forms and textures, particularly in the two trees in the foreground.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's love for landscape and light, his favorite subject matter throughout his career, began on childhood walks with a nature-loving, family friend.

Lady Godiva is the first life-sized marble figure executed by Anne Whitney, one of America’s premiere women sculptors working durin

Waterfall is a remarkable product from one of the most innovative periods of Henrietta Shore’s long car

Fruit Still Life with Champagne Bottle is among the earliest known signed and dated works Severin Roesen painted in the United States. As such it occupies a singularly important niche in his career, and in the development of American still life painting.

French sculptor Antoine-Augustin Préault created eerie contrasts of shadow and light in this composition featuring merely a face and a hand. Linear drapery enshrouds the androgynous figure’s face, drawing attention to its gaunt features, half-closed eyes, and skeletal hand.

Jean Metzinger worked in several styles throughout his career, but he is best known as one of the first artists to practice cubism. The Harbor, one of his largest cubist works, is divided into several vertical panels that depict a busy port from separate points of view.

Moving from Europe to New Hampshire in 1930, Marsden Hartley turned to the White Mountains for inspiration, marrying the lush New England colors he remembered from his Maine childhood with the faceted forms of Paul Cézanne, whose paintings and home base of Aix-en-Pr

Jacques-Louis David may have produced this as a figure study or sketch in preparation for one of his completed paintings. Draftsmanship played a major role in David’s working method.