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This is an oil on canvas painting. In the foreground Lot and his two daughters, one facing the viewer on her father's lap pouring wine and the other partially turned away from the viewer. Two putto play behind the latter daughter: one is masked symbolizing deception, and the other is unmasked, symbolizing truth. The central background of the painting Lot and his daughters are shown fleeing Sodom, which is being consumed, along with Gomorrah, in a hail of fire and brimstone. Lot's wife turned back to look at Sodom and turned into a pillar of salt.
More Details 		Bonifazio de' Pitati
Italian (1487-1553)
Lot and His Daughters , ca. 1545
Oil on canvas
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object ID: 71.622
 This is an oil and tempera on panel painting. Christ is seated in the center of the scene with the Virgin Mary to the left and St. John the Baptist to the right. Centrally located on the panel is Christ. He is seated on a rainbow, wearing a red robe, the folds of which appear so stiff, they look more carved from stone than fabric. His right hand points with two fingers, his left appears to be outstretched in a wave. He wears a decorative halo, and beneath his feet is an orb on which is painted a landscape scene with trees and flowing water. Out of the right side of his mouth comes a stalk of lilies, the left, a double edged sword. There a two angels with trumpets aiming downward announcing the last judgment. The judgement scene is divided into two halves. On the right the Virgin Mary, draped in a green robe, kneels praying. She also wears a decorated halo. She is floating on layers of white clouds above the saints being welcomed into heaven. The saints are ushered in by an angel with green wings, they themselves are naked and pale as marble. There is one who still wears his Emperor's crown, and a Pope who still has on his three tiered papal crown. On the other side, John the Baptist floats before Christ on dark clouds. He is draped in light green and also has a decorated halo. Beneath him are the tormented souls being dragged to eternal damnation. Their skin tone is painted darker, than the pale saints, as if there was actually blood flowing through their veins. The demons dragging them away have odd anatomical arrangements. At the bottom center one of the demons even gives the viewer a toothy grin. Center of the panel are people coming out of squares in the ground, to represent the dead rising for judgement. The top portion of this painting is covered by an elaborate frame, wood carved in ornate arabesques, making the viewing portal in the shape of a Gothic arch.
More Details 		Marx Reichlich
German (active ca. 1485-1520)
Last Judgment , ca. 1490
Tempura | Oil on panel
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object ID: 71.3098
This very large oil on canvas painting exhibits the Biblical story from the book of Luke. The upper left corner of the canvas is filled with the aura and light of the
More Details 		Thomas Cole
American | English (1801-1848)
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds , 1833-1834
Oil on canvas
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. in memory of Edgar...more
Object ID: 80.30
 This is an oil on canvas painting. Lying deathlike on the ground, a naked maiden holds a plucked flower (an iris?), a traditional symbol of lost innocence. With her left arm she embraces an evil-eyed fox, who precipitates her downfall with a paw upon her heart. In the background, composed of broad fields color with dark outlines, peasants, possibly part of a wedding party walk along a narrow path.
More Details 		Paul Gauguin
French (1848-1903)
The Loss of Virginity , 1890-1891
Oil on canvas
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object ID: 71.510
This is an oil on canvas painting. A double portrait of the two daughters of Jean-Marie-Fortuné Durand and his wife Marie Ruel, owners of a famous art gallery in Paris. Jeanne, the younger girl with her hat off, and Marie-Therese are posed on a garden bench dressed in light-colored summer frocks.
More Details 		Pierre Auguste Renoir
French (1841-1919)
The Daughters of Durand-Ruel , 1882
Oil on canvas
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. in memory of Thelm...more
Object ID: 71.518
 This is an oil on canvas painting. It is a scene set in a bar or tavern with a female singer dressed in a blue dress in the center. The musicians, in tuxedos, frame the singer: the saxophonist to her left, pianist and trumpet player behind her, and the drummer to her right, in the background. She is further set into the picture plane by the red arches of the interior room.
More Details 		Franz Kline
American (1910-1962)
Hot Jazz (Bleecker Street Tavern Mural) , 1940
Oil on canvas
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object ID: 71.1077
This is an oil on canvas painting depicting a modern apartment house with a low stoop. In the lower left corner, a nanny walks with a baby carriage on a street in New York City . The nanny wears a bright blue uniform; the building exterior is mostly grey.
More Details 		Edward Hopper
American (1882-1967)
New York Pavements , 1924 or 1925
Oil on canvas
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object ID: 83.591
 This is on oil on canvas painting. The viewer is given a slightly omniscient view of this scene, similar to actors on a stage. The characters are numerous and nearly without distinction. The heads are done isocephaly, with figure size as the only indication of background and foreground. The panels of the doors in the background are also unsymmetrical. Thomas Jefferson, having red hair and a dark blue suit with a red vest, is identified for the viewer as important: he is in the front of the stage and is the only one wearing red. Benjamin Franklin is on his left. The others move as the group to the front to sign the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
More Details 		Edward Hicks
American (1780-1849)
The Declaration of Independence , ca. 1840-45
Oil on canvas
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisc...more
Object ID: 76.53.1
This is an oil on canvas painting. The figures are arranged in a pyramid shape in the foreground, reminiscent of Renaissance Madonna and child groupings. Both the Mother and older daughter gaze at the baby. The baby looks at the older sister, or perhaps at the carnation she holds. The viewer is standing slightly above the seated figures. The background shows a path that leads into some trees, but only the bottoms of the trees are visible. The mother wears a violet dress with a wide lace collar; her two hands firmly hold the baby.
More Details 		Mary Cassatt
American (1844-1926)
The Family , 1893
Oil on canvas
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object ID: 71.498
 Oil on canvas painting depicting women at a florist. In the foreground to the right, a woman with a black hat decorated with red flowers selects flowers for a bouquet. A woman in apron beside her holds the selections. The bouquets are all wrapped in white paper.
More Details 		Frederick Childe Hassam
American (1859-1935)
At the Florist , 1889
Oil on canvas
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. This work of art ...more
Object ID: 71.500
This oil on canvas painting is irregulary-shaped and combines still-life objects with a woman's foot with painted toenails. The foot lines the bottom edge of the canvas, the ball of the foot resting on a round, yellow pillow. An orange, a rose, a portrait of a lover (self-portrait of Wesselmann) is in the background. The contour of the canvas is shaped to fit the objects depicted.
More Details 		Tom Wesselmann
American (1931-2004)
Bedroom Painting #15 , 1968-70
Oil on canvas
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object ID: 77.420
 This oil on canvas painting was inspired by the Old Testament wherein Ezekiel foretells God's destruction of Gog, the infidel prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal. In the painting, Ezekiel, standing on the lower left promontory, calls forth at God's command predatory birds and wild beasts to devour Gog's troops. The troops fill the valley; the birds sweep down from the sky and the wild beasts, seen in the foreground, approach the troops.
More Details 		Asher B. Durand
American (1796-1886)
God's Judgment Upon Gog , ca. 1851-1852
Oil on canvas
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object ID: 71.499
This painting, painted with tempera on board, underscores much of the political and social issues of the day. There are illustrations from the left to the right of a woman driving a car, a locomotive, industrialization, wage strikers and the gunmen firing at them dominate the scene. The bright red, green, and yellow colors, paired with the suggestion of movement, infuses the painting with energy.
More Details 		Thomas Hart Benton
American (1889-1975)
The Arts of Life in America: Unemployment, Radical Protest, Speed , 1932
Tempera on board
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object ID: 71.2011
 This is an oil on canvas painting showing a woman in a white gown, embroidered in gold, trimmed with pearls, lace, pink silk and a pink silk sash, holding a miniature of a man in a jeweled frame with a black picot ribbon. The figure is seated and shown in three quarters length, the head almost full-faced, hair is natural graying blond. The nosegay of star-shaped flowers on her bodice may be a tremblant. The background has a curving high stone wall with two urns, green foliage of a tree above the wall and two small weeping willows by the water at the left end of wall.
More Details 		Charles Willson Peale
American (1741-1827)
Mrs. John O'Donnell (Sarah Chew Elliott) , 1787
Oil on canvas
Gift of Mrs. Frank Batten
Object ID: 62.94.1
This is an oil on canvas depicting Samson, on the right of the canvas, handing his parents a block of honey. The canvas is divided vertically into two halves. The left side shows Samson's parents standing in front of a brown stone building. They are seen from the waist up in seventeenth century costume. On the right side is Samson, almost silhouetted as his face is in the shadows and behind him is a light blue sky with clouds. There is specific light on the parents' faces, but Samson is deliberately eclipsed. He has brown wavy shoulder length hair. All three figures are focused on the honeycomb in Samson's right hand as he places in his father's hands. Less noticeable is the honeycomb still remaining in Samson's left hand; the central focus is left foreground, which shows three hands and a honeycomb.
More Details 		Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
Italian (1591-1666)
Samson Bringing Honey To His Parents , ca. 1625-1626
Oil on canvas
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., in honor of the B...more
Object ID: 71.521
More Details 		Tiffany Studios
Portrait of a Woman in a Pergola with Wisteria , ca. 1915
Stained glass | Leaded glass
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object ID: 78.477
This is an idealized oil painting on panel of the Madonna and child. The Madonna, draped in red, and child, who sits on her lap, both hold a golden yellow fruit.
More Details 		Jan Gossaert | Mabuse
Flemish (1478-1532)
Madonna and Child , ca. 1525-1530
Oil on panel
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object ID: 71.491
 This is an oil on canvas painting which may depict the garden of Chases's Villa Silli, Florence, Italy, in the summer of 1909. The viewer is placed on the central path in the garden. The lightness of the color and pale mauve shadows directly underneath indicate it is around noon. On the right and left of the viewer are blurred beds of color representing a myriad of flowers. The architecture of the middle ground is closely surrounded by trees and shrubs, except for a low fountain gurgling in front of an iron wrought gate. The background of this peaceful scene has cumulus clouds peaking from behind tall trees (some appear to be the traditional poplars) against a light blue sky.
More Details 		William Merritt Chase
American (1849-1916)
An Italian Garden , ca. 1909
Oil on canvas
Gift of Edward J. Brickhouse
Object ID: 59.79.1
This is tempera on masonite panel painting. The foreground displays a very foreshortened scene of seven people in a boat are rowing away from a large ship. On the rowboat, a red banner displays most of the phrase,
More Details 		Hale Aspacio Woodruff
American (1900-1980)
Battle of Lake Erie , ca. 1934
Tempera | Masonite
Gift of Mr. A. Ailon
Object ID: 83.593
 This is a bronze statue blending Greek mythology and local geography into a tribute to a man named Spencer Trask. He was a wealthy man who did much to benefit the town of Saratoga Springs in New York. The statue is of the Greek goddess of health, Hygeia. She is standing tall, draped with swirling cloth, fitted with wings and standing on a rock, out of which a spring is flowing (Saratoga Springs). Her arms are raised, the left hand holds the bowl of life-giving water and the right a twig from a pine that grows in Saratoga Springs.
More Details 		Daniel Chester French
American (1850-1931)
The Spirit of Life , modeled 1914
Bronze
Gift of The Imperial Recreation Club for Men of th...more
Object ID: 26.4.1
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