40 YEARS 40
our fortieth-anniversary show
our fortieth-anniversary show
- French School, Adoration of the Shepherds
- Mantegna, Bacchanal with a Wine Vat
- Robetta, Adoration of the Magi
- Dürer, The Virgin with the Infant Child
- van Leyden, St. Francis of Assisi
- Altdorfer, Dido
- after Raphael, Raphael and His Mistress
- Pencz, The Taking of Carthage
- Brosamer, Nude Woman in Profile
- Barocci, Madonna and Child in the Clouds
- Zucchi, Design for an Ornate Ceiling
- Goudt, Tobias with the Angel
- Della Bella, Le Reposoir du Saint Sacrement
- Rembrandt, Woman Sitting Half-Dressed Beside a Stove
- Challe, Fantasy Capriccio of a Roman Palace
- Piranesi, St. Peter’s
- Bonet, The Lady ta King Coffee; The Milk Woman
- Goya, Felipe IV, Rey de España
- Meryon, Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris
- Whistler, Thames Police
- Manet, Queue Devant la Boucherie (Siège de Paris)
- Doré, Children’s Ward in a London Hospital
- Buhot, La Maison Maudite
- Guérard, Eventail: Oiseaux dans les Roseaux
- Rivière, La Village de La Chapelle
- Auriol, Bois Frissonnants
- Lepère, Les Laveuses (Les Blanchisseuses)
- Toulouse-Lautrec , La Troupe de Mademoiselle Eglantine
- Cezanne, Self Portrait at the Easel
- Sloan, Turning Out the Light
- Goodwin, Durham with the Cathedral
- Villon, Musiciens Chez le Bistro
- Kollwitz, Selbstbildnis
- McBey, Farm Scene at Hatford
- Beckmann, Umarmung (Embrace)
- Drewes, The City (Carcassonne)
- Sutherland, Number Forty-Nine
- de Chirico, Scuola di Gladiatori II
- Friedlander, 3 A.M.
- Marsh, Coney Island Beach
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1. French School 15th Century Adoration of the Shepherds |
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Adoration of the Shepherds
Watercolor and gold leaf on vellum, from a Book of Hours, 183 x 158 mm.
The framed scene, charmingly naïve in its execution with its medieval landscape, is set into a complex ornamental border of flowers and foliage of considerable sophistication. Which leads one to the supposition that the leaf is the work of at least two different artists. The capital D that begins the text is also highly ornamented and the additional text verso also has ornamented capitals. The colors are bright and fresh and the gold leaf brilliant, although there are bits of rubbing and tiny surface losses, hardly a problem in an object over 500 years old.
