Beginnings: The Taste of the Founders
January 21–March 19, 2000
Upper Gallery
Upper Gallery
Selected works

Hermonax Painter
Nolan Amphora
475–465 BC
C Painter
Siana Cup
560–550 BC
Long-Nose Painter
Neck Amphora
540–525 BC
Kensington Painter
Stamnos
460–450 BC
Unknown (Egyptian)
Coffin and mummy of Henut-Wedjebu
1391–1350 BC
Thomas Eakins
Portrait of Professor W. D. Marks
1886
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Brocart de Venise (Venetian Brocade)
c. 1904–5
Charles Émile Jacque
Landscape with Sheep
19th century
Unknown (American)
The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Louis, Missouri
1881
George Caleb Bingham
Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap
1851–52
Thomas Ball
Freedom's Memorial
1875
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Le chemin des vieux, Luzancy, Seine-et-Marne (The Path of the Old People)
1871–72
Charles François Daubigny
Landscape (On the Oise River)
1877
Charles Baugniet
The Visit of Consolation
1867
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat
Peasant Girl
1891
Jules Breton
Le lundi (Mondays)
1858
Gustave Brion
Paysans des Vosges fuyant l'invasion de 1814 (Vosges Peasants Fleeing before the Invasion of 1814)
1867
William Merritt Chase
Garden of the Orphanage, Haarlem, Holland
1883
Frederic Edwin Church
Twilight: Mount Desert Island, Maine
1865
Frederic Edwin Church
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
1883
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña
Wood Interior
1867
Asher Brown Durand
A New England Landscape
1870
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Early October in the White Mountains
1860
William Hogarth
Lord Grey and Lady Mary West as Children
c. 1740
Harriet Hosmer
Daphne
1854
Harriet Hosmer
Oenone
1854–55
Harriet Hosmer
Portrait of Wayman Crow, Sr.
1866
George Inness
Storm on the Delaware
1891
Jozef Israëls
Mother and Children
19th century
Franz Seraph von Lenbach
Portrait of Prince Otto von Bismarck
1884–90
Léon Lhermitte
La moisson (The Harvest)
1883
George Romney
Portrait of the Honorable Francis North, 4th Earl of Guilford
1780
Vincente Palmaroli y Gonzales
The Interrupted Reading
c. 1865–75
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
La charité (Charity)
1894
Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Mrs. Charles Ogilvie
1762
Adolf Schreyer
Arab Warriors
c. 1870s
Anton Seitz
The Wine Taster
19th century
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
¡Otra Margarita! (Another Marguerite!)
1892
Dwight William Tryon
Before Sunrise (Morning Twilight, at Daybreak)
1906–7
Charles Ferdinand Wimar
Indians Approaching Fort Union
c. 1859
Charles Ferdinand Wimar
The Buffalo Hunt
1860
Julien Dupré
Au pâturage (In Pasture)
1882
Unknown (Native North American, Mississippian, Dunklin County, Missouri, Woodlands, Missouri, United States)
Repoussé Plaque
c. 1200–1400
Unknown (Native North American, Mississippian, Dunklin County, Missouri, Woodlands, Missouri, United States)
Repoussé Plaque
c. 1200–1400
Unknown (Native North American, Mississippian, Dunklin County, Missouri, Woodlands, Missouri, United States)
Repoussé Plaque
c. 1200–1400