A somber monochrome watercolor of mayhem and dissent at sea. The depiction of a sinking raft, with one furled and one billowing sail, stretches from one side of the drawing to the other. Great, curved ...

Purchased from the artist by William Graham, London, 1877 (£2,000); his sale, Christie's, London, April 2-4, 1886, no. 161 (£1,732 10s.); purchased at that sale by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London; ...

At center, a male figure nude except for a loincloth floats above the ground in a stone archway of a darkened room, facing the viewer with outstretched arms. His eyes look upward and left as rays of ...

An employee at the Ministry of Finance, Victor Chocquet (1821–1891) met Degas in 1875, and by the second impressionist exhibition, in 1876, had become an avid supporter of the progressive artistic ...

Original Language Title: "Voyons...ouvrons la bouche!..." The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly ...

[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, October 1998] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1998-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006. The Harvard Art Museums encourage ...

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration, the exterior with carved vertical lines suggesting petals. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province. The ...

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A light-skinned man in a bicorn hat and double-breasted coat sits atop a donkey. He looks directly at the viewer and holds his right hand inside his coat at his stomach. The donkey is in decorative ...

A tan, headless figure stands on a low base. We can make out the figure’s large wings, which extend down to mid-thigh height. However, the top of both wings and the bottom corner of the left wing are ...

Against a medium dark brown background, monochrome tan brushstrokes depict a nude adolescent male crouching on the ground. Leaning forward on his arms, he looks ahead to the left and away from the ...

Greenish yellow translucent jade mask, carved from a corner fragment of a ts’ung. The corner forms the median ridge of the mask, the two halves of which meet almost at right angles. The mask is ...