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Introduction

The Age of Canova

November 6 - December 15, 1957

Selected Objects

After Giovanni Tognolli

George Washington, 1800s

Johann Gottlieb Facius

Sappho Inspired by Love, Composes an Ode to Venus, 1778

John Flaxman

Pernicious Dream, ca. 1792-1793

Italian

Drawing for Silver Bowl, ca. 1790

George Romney

Study for the Portrait of Frances Woodley (Mrs. Henry Bankes), ca. 1780

John Dun

Maria Annunciata (Caroline Bonaparte Murat), Queen of Naples (?), ca. 1812

Henry Fuseli

Head of a Lady, ca. 1810-1815

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Interior of a Tavern in Pompeii, ca. 1775

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

The Opening of the Will, ca. 1760 - 1780

Benjamin West

King Lear, ca. 1789

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Susannah and the Elders, 1782 - 1844

Raffaello Morghen

Portrait of Napoleon I in Coronation Robes, 1807

Joseph Chinard

Bust of Madame Récamier, after 1801

G. Devisme

Vue des Ouvrages de Peinture des Artistes Vivans... (Display of pictures by living artists, in the Museum Central des Arts (Louvre), in the 8th year of the Republic of France), ca. 1800

Jean-Victor Bertin

Tivoli, ca. 1835-1842
No Image Available

Hermann Ernst Freund

Mythological Subject, 1800 - 1840

Attributed to Eugène Isabey

Rossini, 1830
No Image Available

Anton Raphael Mengs

Three Studies of a Man's Arms, 1700s

Pietro Anderloni, engraver

Portrait of Antonio Canova, 1813

Raffaello Morghen, designer

Self-Portrait, late 1700s-early 1800s
No Image Available

Michael Wolgemut, designer

Bookpage, 1491

Circle of Antonio Canova

Female Head (Sappho), ca. 1810
No Image Available

Circle of Antonio Canova

Female Head

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, designer

Une Lecture
No Image Available

Jean Pierre Simon

Circe Going Home towards the Sea Side to Receive Ulysses, 1803
No Image Available

Horace Vernet, designer

Conrad Sauve Gulnare de l'Incendie, 1819
No Image Available

Hermann Ernst Freund

Mythological Subject, 1800 - 1840

G. Devisme

Vue des Ouvrages de Peinture des Artistes Vivans... (Display of pictures by living artists, in the Museum Central des Arts (Louvre), in the 8th year of the Republic of France), 1800

Anthony Meucci

Portrait of Captain William Hubbard Thompson, ca. 1825

Stefano Tofanelli

Portrait of Count Alessandro Castracane of Lucca, 1781
No Image Available

Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune

The Goddess Diana, a Sorceress, and the Furies, mid 1700s - early 1800s

Charles Lock Eastlake

The Celian Hill from the Palatine, ca. 1823

Raffaello Morghen

Angelica and Medoro, 1788

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Lady Dressing, ca. 1780-1790

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

Cupid and Psyche, late 1700s-early 1800s

John Flaxman

Miniature Portrait Medallion

Johann Adam Klein, designer

Gioncataro di Roma (Cheese-Seller of Rome), 1822

German, Prussia

Portrait Medallion of Napoleon, ca. 1803

After Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

Divine Vengeance and Justice Pursuing Crime, after 1808

Attributed to Jean-Antoine Houdon

Sorrow Consoled by Justice Who Points to Fame (Project for the Tomb of Monsieur Guillard), 1774

Benjamin West

Pax Artium Nutrix (Britannia as Protector of the Arts), 1787

French, France

Portrait of a Man, ca. 1805

Raffaello Morghen, engraver

Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, late 1700s-early 1800s

Joseph Nollekens

Ideal Portrait (Georgiana Spencer, The Duchess of Devonshire?), ca. 1780

Raffaello Morghen, designer

La Poésie, 1780

Franz Kobell

Rocky Landscape with Cattle, mid 1700s-early 1800s
No Image Available

Baron Pierre Narcisse Guérin, designer

The Vigilant One, 1816

Horace Vernet

Battle Scene, late 1700s-mid 1800s

Bartolomeo Pinelli

Neptune and Salacia, late 1700s - early 1800s

Joseph Anton Koch

Paliano, Seen from the Campagna between the Volsker and Albano Mountains, ca. 1825
No Image Available

Joseph Sanders, designer

Portrait of Alberto Thorwalson, 1823

John Flaxman

Grecian Women Washing Clothes by a Fountain, mid 1700s-mid 1800s

Johann Adam Klein, designer

Felicissimo Capo d'Anno 1822 (Happy New Year 1822), 1821
No Image Available

Caroline Watson, printmaker

Portrait of Benjamin West, 1786

Ernst Morace, designer

Portrait of the Painter Angelika Kauffmann, late 1700s - early 1800s

Giovanni Battista Lusieri

The Baths of Caracalla from the Villa Mattei, 1781

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