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  4. The Box of Ointment

Charles Émile Jacque

French, 1813-1894

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The Box of Ointment, not dated

Artwork Details

Materials

unidentified print type

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Frederick H. James, 1905

Accession ID

1905:7.7

Object Classifications:

Prints

Work Type:

Print (visual work)

Information may change due to ongoing research. Glossary of Terms

Other Works by This Artist

  • Le Cheval Blanc (The White Horse), 1839

    Charles Émile Jacque

    Le Cheval Blanc (The White Horse)
  • Landscape with Cow, not dated

    Charles Émile Jacque

    Landscape with Cow
  • La Rentree, not dated

    Charles Émile Jacque

    La Rentree
  • Shepherd and Sheep, not dated

    Charles Émile Jacque

    Shepherd and Sheep

Collection Highlights

All Collection Highlights
  • No title, 1970

    Eva Hesse

    [no title]
  • London, Large Thames View I, 1926

    Oskar Kokoschka

    London, Large Thames View I
  • Le Vociférant (The Loud One), 1973

    Jean Dubuffet

    A number of small, irregularly shaped metal fragments are adhered together at various angles to form the contours of a vaguely humanoid figure. Each of these white fragments is heavily edged in black, and most of their interiors are filled with thin blue or red stripes; a small number of fragments are solid white, red, or blue. shape like a hand with three fingers and a thumb sticks out to the left side, midway down.
  • Traits, plans, profondeur (Lines, Planes, Depth), ca. 1920-1922

    František Kupka

    Traits, plans, profondeur (Lines, Planes, Depth)
  • Orange and Yellow, 1956

    Mark Rothko

    Two hazily painted rectangles, one yellow and the second a burnt orange, float against an orange creamsicle colored background, which is visible along the margins of the canvas and in a strip separating the two rectangles. The yellow rectangle is smaller, extending about a third of the way down from the top of the canvas. The burnt orange rectangle fills much of the bottom two thirds of the canvas.
  • Buffalo Newsboy, 1853

    Thomas Le Clear

    Buffalo Newsboy
  • The Anguish of Departure, 1913-1914

    Giorgio de Chirico

    The Anguish of Departure
  • Milkweed, 1955

    Lee Krasner

    This vertically oriented canvas seems to contain three layers. Softly defined rectangles in shades of mottled green, white, and cream form the background. Six large, amorphous black shapes with ragged edges rest on top. Finally, three cream-colored slivers extend vertically from the base of painting on its right side. Near the top and to the left of these forms, three small orange shapes peep out from background.
  • Year of Meteors, 1961

    Robert Indiana

    At the center of the painting is a blue, eight-pointed star against a green background within two concentric circles of stenciled, all-capitalized text on white. The circle within the smaller of these rings is green, and the background visible outside the larger of these rings is blue. The text in the smaller of these rings is blue and the text in the larger of these rings is green.

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