The Human Position: Old Master Works from the Collection
From the Collection
The Human Position featured more than 70 works of art spanning five centuries from the Nasher Museum’s permanent collection, and rarely on view. The exhibition included paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the 14th through the 19th centuries. Artists included European old masters, including Italian Renaissance and baroque painters such as Titian’s contemporary Bonifacio de’Pitati, Spanish court painters Vicente Carducho and Francisco Rizi, French neoclassical artists François Gerard and Merry-Joseph Blondel, master printmakers Dürer, Callot and Rembrandt, and many more.
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Pieter van Slingeland (attributed), Dutch, Allegorical Portrait of a Lady (after Casper Netscher), c. 1675. Oil on canvas, 20 1/8 x 15 1/8 inches (51.1 x 38.4 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Gift in honor of Marilyn M. Segal by her family, 1998.22.10. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.
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Jasper Gerardi (Geeraerts), Flemish, Still Life with Meat Pie, c. 1650. Oil on panel, 19 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches (48.9 x 64.1 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum. Gift in honor of Marilyn M. Segal by her family. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.
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Daniel Seghers, Dutch, and Simon de Vos, Flemish, A Garland of Flowers Surrounding a Mocking of Christ, c. 1643. Oil on canvas, 51 1/2 x 42 inches (130.8 x 106.7 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Gift in honor of Marilyn M. Segal by her family, 1998.22.8. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.
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School of Francesco Guardi, Italian, View of Venice, 18th century. Oil on canvas, 22 x 28 3/4 inches (55.9 x 73 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum. Anonymous gift. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.
