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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

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  • Laura, 2012

    Jaume Plensa

    The highly elongated head of a young woman with her eyes closed in layered slabs of white marble sits on a patch of grass in front of a portion of the museum’s columned façade.
  • Only God Knows I'm Good, 2009 (produced 2011)

    Tracey Emin

    The phrase “Only God Knows I’m Good” in cursive English script is fabricated in snow white neon, which is mounted on a wall.
  • Difficult, 1942-1943

    Kurt Schwitters

    Difficult
  • Portrait of Jacques-François Desmaisons, 1782

    Jacques-Louis David

    Portrait of Jacques-François Desmaisons
  • Street Music, 1950

    Norman Wilfred Lewis

    Street Music
  • Les Falaises de Gréville (The Cliffs of Gréville), 1871-1872

    Jean-François Millet

    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.
  • Die Wölfe (Balkankrieg) [The Wolves (Balkan War)], 1913

    Franz Marc

    Die Wölfe (Balkankrieg) [The Wolves (Balkan War)]
  • L'Ambitieuse (Political Woman), 1883-1885

    James Tissot

    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.
  • Portrait of Miss Rosamond Croker, 1827

    Sir Thomas Lawrence

    Portrait of Miss Rosamond Croker

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