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Fine Arts


Painting, Watercolour, Plastic Arts, Woodcuts, Etching, Drawing.



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Altars

ALTARS

Armours

ARMOURS

Book Illumination

BOOK ILLUMINATION

Carvings

CARVINGS

Ceramic

CERAMIC

Drawing

DRAWING

Enamel

ENAMEL

Engravings

ENGRAVINGS

Fresco and Wallpainting

FRESCO AND WALLPAINTING

Goldsmith Works

GOLDSMITH WORKS

Handicraft

HANDICRAFT

Jewelry

JEWELRY

Mosaics

MOSAICS

Painting

PAINTING

Plastic Arts

PLASTIC ARTS

Posters

POSTERS

Prints

PRINTS

Relief

RELIEF

Sculpture

SCULPTURE

Silverwork

SILVERWORK

Textile Works

TEXTILE WORKS

Watercolour

WATERCOLOUR

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Travelling by boat, from 'Album of Scenes from Daily Life', late Choson dynasty, 19th century. Scene depicting two boats, crowded with people and livestock. The late Choson period was a period of relative prosperity in Korea. Chin'gyong, or 'true-view' landscape paintings became fashionable among the scholar literati class, and depicted real scenes from the Korean landscape, rather than those copied from Chinese paintings. Scenes of daily life, such as this one, became popular among the growing middle class. Kim Hong-do was one of the most famous painters of these scenes. This album is one of at least two known copies of Hong-do's famous original. The paintings focus on people and their activities, with the background barely illustrated. Scenes incude schoolroom scenes, wrestling, and other everyday activities. OA, 1961.5-13.04
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Travelling by boat, from 'Album of Scenes from Daily Life', late Choson dynasty,...

Horsemen, from 'Album of Scenes from Daily Life', late Choson dynasty, 19th century. The late Choson period was a period of relative prosperity in Korea. Chin'gyong, or 'true-view' landscape paintings became fashionable among the scholar literati class, and depicted real scenes from the Korean landscape, rather than those copied from Chinese paintings. Scenes of daily life, such as this one, became popular among the growing middle class. Kim Hong-do was one of the most famous painters of these scenes. This album is one of at least two known copies of Hong-do's famous original. The paintings focus on people and their activities, with the background barely illustrated. Scenes incude schoolroom scenes, wrestling, and other everyday activities. OA, 1961.5-13.04
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Horsemen, from 'Album of Scenes from Daily Life', late Choson dynasty, 19th cent...

'Young Woman Fanning a fire with a bird's wing', 1469. The meaning of this curious drawing is unclear. The young woman who lifts the front of her dress and who fans the flames with a bird's wing may symbolically refer to 'fanning the flames of desire'. It is also unclear if the flower at upper left is connected with the rest of the drawing. PD, 1884-9-13-14
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'Young Woman Fanning a fire with a bird's wing', 1469. The meaning of this curio...

'Picture Puzzle of Jonah and the Whale and a Squatting Peasant', 1537. The anamorphic, or distorted, view in this large, dated print shows Jonah stepping out from an imaginative whale but the landscape is not distorted. In the foreground, the stretched inscription reads, WAS SICHST DV? ('What do you see?'), with the date and a small printer's name. To 'see' the subject correctly, a viewpoint from the lower right-hand corner is required. A squatting and defecating peasant then appears. The vulgarity is disguised by the distortion, but the goat on the far left about to charge the naked buttocks gives a clue to the woodcut's underlying peculiarity. PD, 1880-7-10-643 (CD I. 552,9)
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'Picture Puzzle of Jonah and the Whale and a Squatting Peasant', 1537. The anamo...

'The Three Trees', 1643. The three trees are buffeted by gusts of wind and rise in a burst of sunlight against a sky of rapidly moving clouds. On the left, a standing fisherman watches the end of his line, while his wife waits with a lunch basket. Above them, cows, horses and people are scattered in the sunlit fields, beyond which the towers of the distant city almost vanish in a squall of rain. On the near right, two lovers can be glimpsed in the undergrowth. A wagon on the brow of the hill approaches a seated artist, who sketches the view that is out of our sight. Behind the trunks of the three trees, some cottages shelter in the hollow of the hill, while far above them a flock of birds soars high in the sky.This atmospheric print is widely regarded as Rembrandt's greatest as well as his most elaborate landscape etching. PD, 1868-8-22-678 (Hind 205; Bartsch 212)
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'The Three Trees', 1643. The three trees are buffeted by gusts of wind and rise...

Les glaneuses - The gleaners, before 1857. Chalk on paper, 29,5 x 44 cm
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Les glaneuses - The gleaners, before 1857. Chalk on paper, 29,5 x 44 cm

Design for a flying machine. Pen on paper
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Design for a flying machine. Pen on paper

Design for a flying machine. Pen on paper
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Design for a flying machine. Pen on paper

Design for various war vehicles. Pen on paper
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Design for various war vehicles. Pen on paper

Design for a flying machine. Pen on paper
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Design for a flying machine. Pen on paper

Title page of "Les Fantaisies , 1635. 14 etchings (one missing in the collection), 6,1 x 8,2 cm. Lieure 1372
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Title page of "Les Fantaisies , 1635. 14 etchings (one missing in the collectio...

A lady with gathered-up skirt and two cavaliers, from "Les Fantaisies de Noble J.Callot", 1635. 6,1 x 8,2 cm Lieurre 1373
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A lady with gathered-up skirt and two cavaliers, from "Les Fantaisies de Noble...