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Works of Art (31)

[Abu Simbel], 1850, Maxime Du Camp (French), Salted paper print (Blanquart-Evrard Process) from paper negative (1981.1229.2)
Balzac Toward the Light, Midnight, 1908, Edward Steichen (American, born Luxembourg), Direct carbon print (33.43.38)
Charles Baudelaire, ca. 1863, Étienne Carjat (French), Woodburytype (64.677.4)
Eugène Pelletan, 1855–59, Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) (French), Salted paper print from glass negative (1991.1198)
Final Study of the Monument to Balzac, modeled 1897, this bronze cast 1972, Auguste Rodin (French), Bronze (1984.364.15)
Gioacchino Rossini, 1856, Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) (French), Salted paper print from glass negative (1993.233)
Guillaume Budé, ca. 1536, Jean Clouet (French), Tempera and oil on wood (46.68)
Hanako, probably ca. 1908, Auguste Rodin (French), Graphite, pen and brown ink, gouache, and traces of red chalk (10.66.2)
Head of Balzac, 1891, Auguste Rodin (French), Terracotta (12.11.1)
Iris, Messenger of the Gods, also known as Another Voice, Called Iris, modeled ca. 1895, this bronze cast 1965, Auguste Rodin (French), Bronze, on a black marble base (1984.364.7)
Julius Caesar, ca. 1541, Couly II Nouailher (French, Limoges), Enamel, painted and partly gilded, on copper (28.217.2)
Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs, Paris, 1877–78, Edgar Degas (French), Lithograph on wove paper (only state) (19.29.3)
Orpheus and Eurydice, probably modeled before 1887, executed 1893, Auguste Rodin (French), Marble (10.63.2)
Pierrot Laughing, 1855, Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) (French); Adrien Tournachon (French), Coated salted paper print from glass negative (1998.57)
The Fireside, ca. 1876–77, Edgar Degas (French), Monotype in black ink on white heavy laid paper (68.670)
Victor Hugo, Three-Quarter View, 1885, Auguste Rodin (French), Drypoint, second of eight described states (16.37.2)
The Abduction of Rebecca, 1846, Eugène Delacroix (French), Oil on canvas (03.30)
Bust of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), after a model of 1778, After a model by Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), Plaster, painted to imitate terracotta (08.89.2a)
Bust of Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694–1778), 18th century (1778), Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), French (Paris), Marble (1972.61)
Bust of Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694–1778), after a model of 1778, After a model by Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), French, Plaster, painted to imitate terracotta (08.89.1a)
The Dead Christ with Angels, 1864, Édouard Manet (French), Oil on canvas (29.100.51)
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930), 1889, Vincent van Gogh (Dutch), Oil on canvas (1996.435)
Madame Georges Charpentier (née Marguérite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Émile-Charles (1875–1895), 1878, Auguste Renoir (French), Oil on canvas (07.122)
The Natchez, 1835, Eugène Delacroix (French), Oil on canvas (1989.328)
Oleanders, 1888, Vincent van Gogh (Dutch), Oil on canvas (62.24)
Portrait bust of Denis Diderot (1713–1784), 18th century (signed and dated 1773), Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), French (Paris), Marble (1974.291)
Saint-Maclou, Rouen, 1852–54, Edmond Bacot (French), Salted paper print from glass negative (1995.96.10)
Seated Voltaire (after the original model of 1778), 18th century (?), Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), French (Paris), Plaster, tinted to imitate terracotta (52.211)
The Storm, 1880, Pierre-Auguste Cot (French), Oil on canvas (87.15.134)
The Unknown Masterpiece, 1982, Anselm Kiefer (German), Watercolor, gouache, graphite pencil, cut-and-pasted printed papers on paper (2000.96.8)
Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889, Vincent van Gogh (Dutch), Oil on canvas (1993.132)

Thematic Essays (24)