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Andrea Boscoli (Italian (culture or style))
Four Episodes in the Life of a Saint
16th century
Purchased from the Estate of Edward Sonnenschein
1970/2.75
Left and right sides of print are seperated by an herm. The left side of the print is a darkened pseudo-interior, with light illimunating two female figures and dead lambs. The right side of the print is set in front of a barn(?) and features figures reacting to the body of a deceased woman in the foreground. BL 2/28/18
Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian (culture or style))
The Plague
1515 – 1516
Museum Purchase
1960/2.131

Laurent de La Hyre
A Scene from 'La Gerusalemme Liberata:' Tancred Mourns Clorinda
1620s
Purchased from the Estate of Edward Sonnenschein
1970/2.89
This color lithograph has an abstract composition of thin lines, all about the same width, in red, orange, green, and black. The print is numbered (l.l.) "79/250", titled (l.c.) "Children of Niobe", and signed and dated (l.r.) "S W Hayter 54" in pencil.
Stanley William Hayter
Children of Niobe
1954
Bequest of Jean Paul Slusser
1983/2.38

Stefano della Bella (Italian (culture or style))
Death on Horseback Holding a Trumpet, No. 1 of The Five Deaths series
1643 – 1653
Gift of Jean Paul Slusser
1963/2.46

Honoré Victorin Daumier (French (culture or style))
Actualités. Pl. 229: Vous aurez beau faire, ma pauvre presse ultramontaine; vou
1866
The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.117
This Persian miniature is attributed to the Shiraz and Timurid schools, ca. 1460. The painting is done in ink, opaque watercolor and gold leaf on paper. The scene, <em>The Death of Dara</em>, is part of the Shahnama of Firdausi, the Persian book of kings. 
Iranian (Iranian)
The Death of Dara, from the Shahnama of Firdausi
1455 – 1465
Museum Purchase
1963/1.64

Jacques Callot (French (culture or style))
The Wheel, No. 14 from 'Les Grandes Misères de la Guerre'
1633
Anonymous Gift for The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1972/2.366
This woodblock print depicts a man leaning over to gather up another figure lying contorted on the ground. There is a cross or a star by the squatting man's head. The print is signed (l.c.) "10 Pepe Ortega" in pencil.
José Ortega (Spanish (culture or style))
El enterrador
1952 – 1953
Museum Purchase
1954/1.66

Giuseppe Barberi
Studies for Three Ornamental Panels with Death's Heads as Motifs
1746 – 1809
Museum Purchase
1958/1.68
This installation is composed of a group of gelatin silver prints that are hung on the wall with sixty-four light bulbs strung throughout, a web of hanging electric cables connecting them.  In the center hang three larger photos of young people's faces. Above each and below the center image are smaller versions of similar portrait photographs. Four of these smaller photos are also arranged in the line of the large photographs, one on each end, and two separating the larger pictures.  
Christian Boltanski (French (culture or style))
Monument to the Lycée Chases
1989
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and anonymous individual benefactors
2006/1.154
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