1989.23 Charles Wilson Peale, Rachel Leeds Kerr
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Rachel Leeds Kerr
1980.113 Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This is one of two known versions of an undraped portrait bust of George Washington by the great French neoclassical sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon.
1960.163 Edward Savage, Samuel Adams
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Samuel Adams appears at what he considered his greatest moment, his confrontation with royal governor Thomas Hutchinson of Massachusetts the day after the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770. He holds a petition signed by his fellow citizens protesting
1946.37.M Gilbert Stuart, John Ashley Esq.
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John Ashley, a Philadelphia merchant, holds letters, indicating that he was a man of serious business affairs. His coat, with a gap between the collar and wide lapel and his double-breasted waistcoat worn folded out, were fashion
1988.80 Jeremiah Theus, Mary Trusler
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Painted about five years into Mary Trusler's second marriage, her portrait reveals Jeremiah Theus's direct observation of his Charlestonian sitter, her desire for elegant representati
1985.R.57 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Bather
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1986.277 Edgar Degas, Ballet Dancers on the Stage
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In the 1880s and 1890s, Edgar Degas became increasingly fascinated by the ballet, especially its physical demands on dancers.
1978.68.FA Unknown, Portrait of Paul Verlaine as a Troubadour
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Paul Verlaine, a poet as revolutionary as the Impressionists were as painters, is shown in a vaguely Medieval costume, as a
1981.33.FA Honoré Daumier, Outside the Print Sellers
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Famous for his political and satirical cartoons, Honoré Daumier was also a painter and sculptor.