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Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture in the Permanent Collection

Publisher

The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery

Buffalo, New York

Editor

Ritchie, Andrew C.

Type

Collection catalogue

Year

1949

This collection catalogue celebrates those highlights of the museum’s collection created before 1900 and features full-page reproductions of and short introductory essays on these works.

Related Artworks

Héraklès archer — Emile Antoine Bourdelle

Héraklès archer , 1909 (casting date unknown)

L'Hymne Interieur — Emile Antoine Bourdelle

L'Hymne Interieur , not dated

La Vierge d'Alsace — Emile Antoine Bourdelle

La Vierge d'Alsace , not dated (cast executed 1921)

This painting features at center a young man in a blue and red military uniform and carrying a rifle mounted on a chestnut brown horse. They ride through a winter landscape. Light snow covers the ground, perforated by small clumps of brown and dried-looking grasses. A cluster of tall pine trees fills the upper-left corner and a few additional trees frame the right edge of the canvas. The small patch of sky visible behind the rider is tinged the light pink of dawn. — Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille

The Dragoon , 1896

Berthe Morisot

Femme cousant (Woman Sewing) , ca. 1879

The thin sliver of beach in the bottom left corner of this horizontally oriented canvas features a loosely painted scene of multiple Caucasian figures dressed for a summer’s outing. Two thin wooden piers extend horizontally into the ocean, filling most of bottom two-thirds of the canvas. A couple sailboats dot the horizon and a third boat is pulling up to the pier in the foreground. The sky filling the upper third of the canvas is light blue with lilac tinged clouds reflecting in the water below. — William James Glackens

Jetties at Bellport , 1912

Similarly short, distinct brushstrokes primarily in cool shades of green and blue coalesce into a sketchily painted landscape; portions of the canvas are visible. A light green field fills much of the bottom third of the canvas, and the sky above, while largely blue, also includes some green areas. A slender, leafless tree rises from the left edge of the field and curves at its top toward the right and downward. A small, light brown house sits on the right edge of the field. — Paul Cézanne

Le matin en Provence (Morning in Provence) , ca. 1900-1906

La ferme à Montfoucault (Farm at Montfoucault) — Camille Pissarro

La ferme à Montfoucault (Farm at Montfoucault) , 1874

Mère et Enfant (Mother and Child) — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Mère et Enfant (Mother and Child) , 1910

Music and Literature — William Michael Harnett

Music and Literature , 1878

A young white-skinned woman, nude to the waist, sits on the grassy bank of a body of water in the center of this vertically oriented painting. A blue cloth or portion of a garment with white edges loosely covers her lap. She grasps her left ankle, which rests on her right knee, with both hands, and she gazes toward the bottom left of the canvas. The paint was applied quickly and loosely with visible brushstrokes. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Petit nu bleu (Little Blue Nude) , ca. 1878-1879

A woman wearing a low-cut pink evening dress and elbow-length gloves sits at the center of this horizontally oriented painting. What appears to be a multicolored furred or feathered garment rests on the back of her red chair. Her face, oriented left, is largely obscured by shadow. She clutches a folded fan in her right hand and adjusts the top of her left hand. The entire scene is loosely painted in a palette dominated by dark greens and yellows. — Edgar Degas

Portrait de Mlle Rose Caron (Portrait of Rose Caron) , ca. 1892

Étude pour "Le Chahut" (Study for "Le Chahut") — Georges Seurat

Étude pour "Le Chahut" (Study for "Le Chahut") , 1889

La Seine à Rouen (The Seine at Rouen) — Eugène Boudin

La Seine à Rouen (The Seine at Rouen) , 1895

The Lady's Last Stake — William Hogarth

The Lady's Last Stake , 1759

Portrait of Miss Evans — Thomas Gainsborough

possibly by Gainsborough Dupont

Portrait of Miss Evans , 1786-1790

Portrait of Miss Rosamond Croker — Sir Thomas Lawrence

Portrait of Miss Rosamond Croker , 1827

Le Christ jaune (The Yellow Christ) — Paul Gauguin

Le Christ jaune (The Yellow Christ) , 1889

Small Standing Venus — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Small Standing Venus , 1913

The Marina Piccola, Capri — Albert Bierstadt

The Marina Piccola, Capri , 1859

Buffalo Harbor from the Foot of Porter Avenue — Lars Gustaf Sellstedt

Buffalo Harbor from the Foot of Porter Avenue , 1871

Catskill Creek, New York — James McDougal Hart

Catskill Creek, New York
, 1855

Bringing Home the Cattle - Coast of Florida — Thomas Moran

Bringing Home the Cattle - Coast of Florida , 1879

Croquet Players — Charles Edouard Boutibonne

Croquet Players , 1871

Church at Old Lyme, Connecticut — Childe Hassam

Church at Old Lyme, Connecticut , 1905

The Wild Cherry Tree — John Henry Twachtman

The Wild Cherry Tree , ca. 1900

A standing woman approaches two seated women stringing beads over a shallow wooden bowl in the center right of this painting, which is set in a large, mostly empty room. An open doorway and windows at the back of the room provide limited light. At right, a bench is positioned against a wall. The two seated women wear dark dresses while their standing companion wears a white dress mostly covered with a dark shawl. — John Singer Sargent

Venetian Bead Stringers , 1880 or 1882

The Temple of the Mind — Albert Pinkham Ryder

The Temple of the Mind , before 1885

Beneath a looming mass of clouds that fills the top third of this painting, rocky cliffs extend into a calm sea painted in tones of grayish blue and green. A cluster of large gray rocks fills the foreground, and the remainder of the cliffs, dotted with additional clusters of boulders amid pale green grass, extend to fill much of the left half of the canvas. A thin line of white traces where the sea meets irregular, meandering path of the coast. — Jean-François Millet

Les falaises de Gréville (The Cliffs of Gréville) , 1871-1872

This wintery landscape features a path that follows a still gray river as it curves from the bottom right corner of the canvas and recede into the distance under an overcast sky. On the right side of the painting, smokestacks on a distant are reflected in the water. Four small figures summarily rendered in dark tones walk on the path, with one appearing to move toward the viewer. To the left is a patch of trees and grass that peeks out beneath melting snow. — Claude Monet

Chemin de halage à Argenteuil (Towpath at Argenteuil, Winter) , 1875-1876

Portrait of Gabriel Manigault — Gilbert Stuart

Portrait of Gabriel Manigault , 1794

Portrait of Mrs. Gabriel Manigault — Gilbert Stuart

Portrait of Mrs. Gabriel Manigault , 1794

Elinor, Jean and Anna — George Wesley Bellows

Elinor, Jean and Anna , 1920

This life-sized, muscular nude is captured as if in mid-stride, with his right hand raised to clasp his scalp and his left hand raised in a fist. His mouth is open, and his facial features contorted in what appears to be pain or anger. — Auguste Rodin

L'Age d'Airain (Age of Bronze) , 1875-1876 (cast executed 1911)

Portrait of Dr. Gustav Stresemann — Augustus John

Portrait of Dr. Gustav Stresemann , 1925

Similarly short, distinct brushstrokes coalesce into the trees and shallow, walled pool that fill this landscape. A thin-trunked tree with light-dappled yellow-green foliage fills much of the left side of the canvas. Behind the tree, a low sandy colored wall contains a shallow, rectangular pool of water. Additional trees with darker green leaves line the right edge of the pool, extending to the upper edge of the canvas. — Paul Cézanne

Le bassin du Jas de Bouffan (The Pool at Jas de Bouffan) , ca. 1878-1879

Madonna and Child — Luca della Robbia

Madonna and Child
, probably ca. 1450

Portrait of Madame Rosenthal — attributed to Adolphe Monticelli

Portrait of Madame Rosenthal
, ca. 1870-1899

Prancing Horse — unknown Chinese

Prancing Horse , ca. 600-799

Seated Musician — unknown Six Dynasties Chinese

Seated Musician , ca. 500-550

Portrait of Colonel William Taylor — Ralph Earl

Portrait of Colonel William Taylor , 1790

Portrait of Mrs. William Taylor — Ralph Earl

Portrait of Mrs. William Taylor , 1790

The Coming Storm — George Inness, Sr.

The Coming Storm , 1878

Sunlight streams into a living room from open floor to ceiling windows on the left-hand side of this painting. A man sits with his back to the window, facing a child who stands slightly to the right of the image’s center on the room’s red-and-white striped carpet. A table with a decorative urn, a patterned curtain behind the child, and the rest of the room’s furnishings are also largely in shades of white and red with blue accents. The entire scene is painted in rough, loose brushstrokes. — Edouard Vuillard

Le peintre Ker-Xavier Roussel et sa fille (The Painter Ker-Xavier Roussel and His Daughter) , 1903

A landscape of recently cleared fields and grass covered hills beneath a sunny blue sky filled with white clouds fills this horizontally oriented painting. In the bottom left foreground, a woman holding a basket in her right hand watches as a man thrusts a shovel into the ground. A horse-drawn wagon approaches in the distance, and a child sits in the field toward the right edge of the painting. The entire scene is rendered in individual dots of paint in deep blue, violet, green, orange, and other shades. — Camille Pissarro

Paysans dans les champs, Éragny (Peasants in the Fields, Éragny) , 1890

Sous-bois (Under the Trees) — Paul Cézanne

Sous-bois (Under the Trees) , ca. 1882-1884

Four barefoot figures populate this scene of a Moroccan street at midday. On the left, a woman and a young adult stand outside a darkened doorway; an older man sleeps hidden in its shadows. The woman wears a knee-length garment belted with a decorative sash and a scarf covers her hair. The young adult wears a knee-length tunic and a voluminous shawl. A white robed man holding a knife sits on the other side of the doorway. — Eugène Delacroix

Street in Meknes , 1832

Étude pour "La Grande Jatte" (Study for "La Grande Jatte") — Georges Seurat

Étude pour "La Grande Jatte" (Study for "La Grande Jatte") , 1884-1885

Moine italien assis, lisant (Seated Italian Monk Reading) — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Moine italien assis, lisant (Seated Italian Monk Reading) , ca. 1827

At center, a woman holds the hand of a small child, helping her up a set of stairs. The woman carries a bundle of laundry under her left arm, and both figures are dressed in what appears to be clothing typical of the mid-nineteenth century working class, although the dark, muted colors and sketchy brushwork make it difficult to make out detail. The brightly lit outlines of a city landscape cast the shadowy figures in strong relief. — Honoré Daumier

Une laveuse au Quai d'Anjou (Laundress on the Quai d'Anjou) , ca. 1860

Vase de fleurs (Vase of Flowers) — Odilon Redon

Vase de fleurs (Vase of Flowers) , ca. 1912-1914

A ruddy-complexioned, jowly man wearing a powdered white wig and a red fur-lined coat with elaborate gold fastenings over gold vest embroidered with small floral patterns sits at the center of this vertically oriented portrait. He sits at a table, staring straight out at the viewer and turning the rest of his body away slightly. He rests his left elbow on the table, which is littered with books, architectural drawings, a compass, and a ruler. — Jacques-Louis David

Portrait of Jacques-François Desmaisons , 1782

No image available,
but we're working on it

unknown

after Claude Lorrain

Landscape with St. Philip Baptizing the Eunuch , 1678

Seated Musician — unknown Six Dynasties Chinese

Seated Musician , ca. 500-550

King Akhenaten Worshipping the Sun God — unknown Ancient Egyptian

King Akhenaten Worshipping the Sun God
, 1376-1362 BCE

Étude de nu pour la danseuse habillée (Study in the Nude for the Dressed Ballet Dancer) — Edgar Degas

Étude de nu pour la danseuse habillée (Study in the Nude for the Dressed Ballet Dancer) , 1879-1880 (cast executed 1919-1921 from original wax)

Figure of a Woman — unknown Cycladic

Figure of a Woman
, ca. 2800-2100 BCE

Cupid as Link Boy — Joshua Reynolds

Cupid as Link Boy , 1774

Lady Hamilton as "Serena" Reading a Newspaper — George Romney

Lady Hamilton as "Serena" Reading a Newspaper
, 1782-1786 or 1791

No image available,
but we're working on it

unknown Italian

formerly attributed to Giovanni Paolo Panini

Festival Outside the Church of Montenero with a View of Leghorn in the Distance

, ca. 1775

Thin Stone Head with Jaguar and Serpent — unknown Mexican

Thin Stone Head with Jaguar and Serpent , ca. 600-900

La Porte St. Denis (The Gate of St. Denis) — Jean-François Raffaëlli

La Porte St. Denis (The Gate of St. Denis) , before 1909

Scène de rivière (River Scene) — Charles François Daubigny

Scène de rivière (River Scene) , ca. 1860-1870

Several figures are gathered on a lush green field flanked by tall trees. Toward the left edge of the painting, a woman in a brown dress and a man in a brown suit face each other, as if in conversation. Another man in a black suit and top hat watches three women in white, blue, and red Victorian-style dresses playing croquet in the foreground. The woman in white appears poised to hit a blue ball through a wicket with her mallet. — Winslow Homer

Croquet Players , 1865

A number of animals congregate in the bottom right foreground of this horizontally oriented painting. A bull stands next to a lion beneath a mass of trees that extend from the right edge of the image, and at their feet rests a wolf accompanied by two lambs. Small children interact with additional beasts at the lower edge of the painting. At the left side of the painting, the trees give way to a view of a body of water and verdant hills beneath a pink-tinged sky. — Edward Hicks

Peaceable Kingdom , ca. 1848

A young boy wearing a brimmed hat, green jacket, long black pants, and brown leather boots sits on a wooden crate at the side of a red brick road. He holds an apple in his left hand, and there are a couple newspapers at his feet. The brick wall behind the boy is covered in layers of printed posters. — Thomas Le Clear

Buffalo Newsboy , 1853

Study of a Head — Daniel Chester French

Study of a Head , 1907

Dance — Cecil de Blaquiere Howard

Dance , ca. 1923

Bust of Proserpine — Hiram Powers

Bust of Proserpine
, ca. 1839

No image available,
but we're working on it

attributed to Samuel Bell Waugh

Portrait of Colonel Ira Allen Blossom

, ca. 1835

Portrait of Mrs. Eunice Hubbard Blossom — attributed to Samuel Bell Waugh

Portrait of Mrs. Eunice Hubbard Blossom
, ca. 1835

Juliet — Florence Julia Bach

Juliet
, 1925

Portrait of Evelyn Christie Phelps Murnan — Florence Julia Bach

Portrait of Evelyn Christie Phelps Murnan , 1917

Looking Down on Gloucester — Grace Barron

Looking Down on Gloucester
, not dated

Mares' Tails — Alexander Brook

Mares' Tails , 1929

Portrait of Mrs. John J. Albright and Children — George de Forest Brush

Portrait of Mrs. John J. Albright and Children
, 1902

Bust of Henry W. Rogers — William Henry Rinehart

Bust of Henry W. Rogers
, 1869

The Convalescent — Antonio Mancini

The Convalescent
, not dated

Le jeune buveur — Eugène Zak

Le jeune buveur
, not dated

No image available,
but we're working on it

Frank Romanelli

Study for the Lincoln Monument

, not dated

Eight Caryatid Figures — Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Eight Caryatid Figures , 1906-1907

Le Marteleur (The Hammerman) — Constantin Meunier

Le Marteleur (The Hammerman) , 1885 (cast executed ca. 1886)

Le Débardeur (The Dockhand) — Constantin Meunier

Le Débardeur (The Dockhand)
, 1885 (cast executed 1893)

Horse Nuzzling His Leg — unknown Chinese

Horse Nuzzling His Leg , ca. 650-699

Bactrian Camel — unknown Chinese

Bactrian Camel , ca. 600-699

No image available,
but we're working on it

unknown Chinese

Tomb Guardian Figure , ca. 730-769

Genesee Falls, Rochester — Thomas Chambers

Genesee Falls, Rochester
, ca. 1830-1869

Portrait of a Man — William Merritt Chase

Portrait of a Man , 1873-1876

An Anniversary — Edwin Walter Dickinson

An Anniversary , 1920-1921

In the Studio — Edward Dufner

In the Studio , 1899

Portrait of a Young Man — Frank Duveneck

Portrait of a Young Man , ca. 1875

Interior of Château du Bréau — Walter Gay

Interior of Château du Bréau
, ca. 1910

Brook Back of New Canaan, Conn. — Childe Hassam

Brook Back of New Canaan, Conn. , 1902

This painting includes a middle-aged Caucasian man, a young Caucasian boy, and a Caucasian woman—presumably a family of father, child and mother. The father and child meet the viewer’s gaze. The father is seated and extends his left hand around the waist of the standing boy, who rests his right hand on his father’s right hand. The boy’s left arm rests on a table, on which sits a large empty metal bowl and a dead silvery fish. Behind the table sits the mother, who is focused on an object in her hands. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

The Family , 1911

Mist Off Sable Island Shoals — William M. Hekking

Mist Off Sable Island Shoals
, not dated

After the Storm — William M. Hekking

After the Storm
, 1932

This painting features a young Asian woman, shown from the waist up, against a loosely painted background of warm yellow and tangerine orange. The paint has been applied with visible brushstrokes throughout. She meets the viewer’s gaze, and a hint of smile plays across her lips. Her long-sleeved lilac top features a standing collar, and light blue piping extends from the collar to the right edge of her torso and down to her waist. A couple loose strands of her jet-black hair frame her face. — Robert Henri

Tam Gan , 1914

Belt Line — Ethel Johnt

Belt Line , 1939

Springtime — Ridgway Knight

Springtime , ca. 1890

Red Pagoda, Nikko — John La Farge

Red Pagoda, Nikko , 1886

The Collector — Charles Le Clair

The Collector
, 1944

This painting features a young, Caucasian child, shown from the waist up, against a solid dark brown background. The brushwork overall is quite loose. The child’s cheeks are bright right, and she meets the viewer’s gaze. She wears a somewhat oversized, olive green coat with a bright red fringe at slightly below shoulder height. A hat of the same green color with additional bright red decorative elements covers her head. — George Benjamin Luks

The Trapper's Daughter , ca. 1920

The Wedding — Gari Melchers

The Wedding , ca. 1892

Pelago-Tuscany — Willard LeRoy Metcalf

Pelago-Tuscany , 1913

Fishing Scene — Nelson Augustus Moore

Fishing Scene
, 1870

Neglected Lands — John Francis Murphy

Neglected Lands
, ca. 1900

The Captive Soul — Johannes Adam Simon Oertel

The Captive Soul
, 1855

No image available,
but we're working on it

Harold L. Olmsted

The Lord Giveth , not dated

Young Franklin at the Press — Enoch Wood Perry

Young Franklin at the Press , 1876

No image available,
but we're working on it

Louisa Winslow Robins

Outside the Campo-Santo on "All Souls' Day" in Guanajuato , 1936

Conjockety — Lars Gustaf Sellstedt

Conjockety
, 1850

Portrait of Francis Walsingham Tracy — Lars Gustaf Sellstedt

Portrait of Francis Walsingham Tracy
, not dated

Self Portrait of the Artist in his Studio — Lars Gustaf Sellstedt

Self Portrait of the Artist in his Studio , 1871

Theater Box — Everett Shinn

Theater Box , 1906

New England Port — Anthony J. Sisti

New England Port
, 1936

Portrait of Colonel Charles Clifton — Eugene Edward Speicher

Portrait of Colonel Charles Clifton
, 1923

Portrait of John Joseph Albright — Edmund Charles Tarbell

Portrait of John Joseph Albright , 1914

Boy and Angel — Abbott Handerson Thayer

Boy and Angel
, 1918

No image available,
but we're working on it

unknown Chinese

Tomb Guardian Figure , ca. 730-769

Dancer — unknown Chinese

Dancer , ca. 670-699

Relief Fragment - Bust of a Man — unknown Ancient Egyptian

Relief Fragment - Bust of a Man , 1411-1375 BCE

Figure of a Servant — unknown Ancient Egyptian

Figure of a Servant
, ca. 2065-1785 BCE

Group from a Retable — unknown German

Group from a Retable
, 1460

Sarasundari, A Celestial Beauty — unknown Indian

Sarasundari, A Celestial Beauty
, ca. 1100-1199

Head of Xipe Totec — unknown Mexican

Head of Xipe Totec , ca. 900-1521

Study of a Young Girl — Hermann Haller

Study of a Young Girl , 1918

Portrait of Lincoln — Douglas Volk

Portrait of Lincoln
, 1921

Mac's Clam Stand — James J. Vullo

Mac's Clam Stand
, not dated

Plaza de Toros — Clifford Westermeier

Plaza de Toros , not dated

The Gossips — James McNeill Whistler

The Gossips , 1901

Sand Dunes: Coney Island — Carleton Wiggins

Sand Dunes: Coney Island
, not dated

Still Life with White Roses — Philipp Yost

Still Life with White Roses
, not dated

Woman and Child — Augustus John

Woman and Child , ca. 1911-1912

Woman with Cloak — Gwen John

Woman with Cloak
, ca. 1920-1924

Portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson — attributed to Frances Reynolds

Portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson , 1783

Self Portrait of the Artist as a Deaf Man — Joshua Reynolds

Self Portrait of the Artist as a Deaf Man
, ca. 1775

Portrait of Mrs. Mabel Dodge and Son — Jacques-Emile Blanche

Portrait of Mrs. Mabel Dodge and Son
, 1911

Head of a Woman — Thomas Couture

Head of a Woman , 1876

Portrait of a Man — unknown

formerly attributed to Édouard Manet

Portrait of a Man , not dated

A woman in an elaborately ruffled pink dress with a large feathered fan enters an ornately decorated ballroom filled with party-goers on the arm of a much older gentleman. She looks left and outward beyond the viewer, while the attention of nearly all other male figures in the scene is directed at her. The textures of various surfaces and fabrics are painted with rich detail and texture, especially the pink dress ruffles gathered on a plush red ottoman at the bottom of the frame. — James Tissot

L'Ambitieuse (Political Woman) , 1883-1885

A corpulent older man wearing a long white apron over his scarlet cardinal’s robes stands with a copper sauce pan in his left hand and a spoon held aloft in triumph in his right while, to the left, a younger man in chef’s hat and coat with an apron partially covering his bright blue, knee-length trousers looks at the spoon held in his right hand with skepticism. A large stove with a massive stone hood appears behind the cardinal, and a table laden with produce and meat appears behind the chef. — Jehan Georges Vibert

The Marvelous Sauce , ca. 1890

Eve (après la faute) [Eve (After the Fall)] — Auguste Rodin

Eve (après la faute) [Eve (After the Fall)] , 1881 (cast executed 1913)