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A Private Passion Madonna della Seggiola (Raphael), I)7, I)9 Martyrdom ofSaint Symphorien, The (Ingres, I8)8), 26, Portrait ofthe Duchesse d'Aiguillon, 12n27 Madonna di Foligno (Raphael), I96 203-4, 203; cat. no. 79 Miles, Emily Winthrop, 10, n, 2I-23, 38 Madrazo y Agudo, Jose de, 29 Marville, Charles, I 52 Millais, John Everett, 356 Magar_ine ofArt, IO Marx, Roger, 67, 236 A Dream ofthe Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford, 360 Le malijice (Diaz de la Pefia), I2n27 Masked Ball at the Opera (Manet), 22I Ford Madox Brown, 358n9 Maleterre, Rose-Cecile, ;6n6 Masque ofCupid (Burne-Jones), 374ni9 Six Parables, 366 Malory, Sir Thomas, Marte d'Arthur, p8, 360, 43I Massacres ofChios (Delacroix), I04, II2, I27n8 Miller, The, His Son, and the Ass (Daumier), 74 Mamluk Holding Back His Horse (Delacroix), I04, 106n3 Master of the Ursula Legend, Madonna and Child, I3, Millet, Frank, 460 Manchon, Gaston, The Chimera: After Gustave Moreau, 29n96 Millet, Jean-Frans:ois, 144, I45, 227-29, 305, 452, 458 236 Mathews, Elkin, 334 Antoinette Hebert devant le miroir, 227 Mancini, Antonio, Self-Portrait, 232n14 Matisse, Henri, I46, 272 The Gleaners, 228 Manet, Edouard, I9, 24, )2, I I4, 287, 288, 300, 458 "Cahiers d'Aujourdhui" series, 224 Head ofa Boy, 227-28, 227; cat. no. 89 At the Races, 219, 220 Cinquante dessins, 224 Pauline Ono en dishabille, 22 7 The Balcony, I I 5 Mlle Yvonne Landsberg, 224 Peasant Mother at the Hearth (Le Pot au Feu), 228, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, 22I The Plumed Hat, 22 3-24, 225, 226; cat. no. 88 229; cat. no. 90 Masked Ball at the Opera, 22I Portraits, 224 Millet, Pierre, 228 Race Course at Longchamp, 2I8-2o, 219; cat. no. 86 The Red Madras Headdress, 226n10 Millingen, James V., 2I2, 2I3 Manet, Edouard, attrib. to, Emmanuel Chabrier, 22I, The White Plumes, 224, 226n1 Minerva Wearing a Helmet (Rodin), 289 222, 223, 232ni4; cat. no. 87 Matisse, Pierre, 4 3 Minerva without a Helmet (Rodin), 289 Manet, Suzanne, 22I Mauclair, Camille, 282 Mink Pond (Homer), 2I, 46,449-50, 45o; cat. no. 202 Man in a Felt Hat (unknown artist), 35, 36 Mayer, Constance, 264 Miollis, General Sextius-Alexandre-Frans:ois, I 54, I)6, Man ofSorrows (Oderisi), I3, 13 The Dream ofHappiness, 266 I8I, I94 Man Reading (Sargent), 46o-6I, 46z, 465n3; cat. no. 208 Medieval Town (Bresdin), ;6ni Miracle ofthe Sacred Fire in the Church ofthe Holy Manship, Paul, I7, 43, 48 Medusa (Gericault), I29 Sepulchre (Hunt), 42, 396-98,396, .197; cat. no. I76 Celestial Sphere, I9, 19 Meeting ofAttila and Leo the Great (Raphael), I I7 Mirbeau, Octave, 287 Sarah jane Manship, I9n55 Mendes, Catulle, 55, 223n3 Mlle Yvonne Landsberg (Matisse), 224 Mantegna, Andrea, 368 Mengs, Anton Raphael, 208, 253 Mlle Zelie (Courbet), 67ni Saint Sebastian, 36I Menzel, Adolph, 3I8-27 La moisson en Provence (van Gogh), I42, 143 Virgin and Child with Saint john the Baptist and the The Balcony Room, 3I8 Mole, comte Louis-Mathieu, 179 Magdalen, 36I Before Confession, 3 I8, 32o--2I, 321, 322; cat. no. I35 Moliere, 73 Manutius, Aldus, 368 The Berlin-Potsdam Railway, 3I8 Imaginary Invalid, 70 Man with a Glove (Titian), 200 Children's Album, 320 Monet, Claude, 46n132, 22I, 248, 274, 300, 310, Man with a Pipe (Courbet), 62 Couple on a Bench, 322, 322 460n2 Man with the Key, The, jean d'Aire (Rodin), 296-97, Early Morning in the Cafi, 324,324 Banks ofthe Seine, 22 3n8 296, 299; cat. no. I2I Head ofa Bearded Man Facing Right, 324,325, p6; The Cart, Snowy Road at Honjleur, with the Farm Marat, Jean-Paul, 94 cat. no. I37 Saint-Simeon, 2 30, 230 Marchi St. Honore, The (Pissaro ), 250 Head ofa Woman, p6, 327; cat. no. I38 Fete Nationale, Rue St-Denis, Paris, 22 3n8 Marcotte d'Argenteuil, Charles, I)4, I6o, I87, I89, I94, In the Park, 3 I8, 320, 322, 323; cat. no. I36 Road toward the Farm Saint-Simeon, Honjleur, 34, I96,203,208,209 The Iron-Rolling Mill, 3I8 230--32, 231; cat. no. 9I Marcotte d 'Argenteuil, Mme Charles, I 96 Portrait Group: jean Paul, Schiller, Goethe, and Moore, Albert Joseph, 36I, 402-5 Margaret, Lady Brook, 378 Herder, JI8, 3Z9 Companions, 402-3, 403; cat. no. I79 Margueritte, Paul, 293 The Statue, 3I8-20,319; cat. no. I34 Ivory Beads, 403 Marianna Russell (Mrs. john Russell) (Rodin), 23, 289, Travel Plans, 322,323 Myrtle, 402, 404-5, 404; cat. no. I8o 290, 29I; cat. no. 118 Woman Combing Her Hair, 326, 326 Silver, 404 Marin, John, I8 Mephistopheles Presents Himselfat Martha s House A Summer Night, 404 Marin, Joseph-Charles, I62-63 (Delacroix), zo8, I09n6 The Toilette, 404 Maris, Matthijs, 46 Mercier, Louis-Sebastien, 94 Moore, Charles Herbert, I6 Market, The (Daumier), 68n4 Mesoamerican masks, 38 Moore, Florence Morris, 428 Market Place, The (Pissaro), 249-)I, 25o; cat. no. 99 Metamorphoses (Ovid), 234, 236 Moore, John Morris, 428 Marquis de Lafayette, The (Scheffer), 302,303, 304; Metropolitan Museum of Art, The, New York, 5, 27, Moorish Woman, A, with Her Servant by the River cat. no. I27 29, 38,40 (Delacroix), 100, zoz, 102, 103; cat. no. 26 Marriage at Cana (G. David), 354 Meurs, Otto van, clock, 2I, 22 Moreau, Charles, 78 Marriage ofHeaven and Hell, The (Blake), 348 Meyrick, Samuel, 354 Moreau, Gustave, 5, 36, 37, 232-46, 272, 378 Marriage ofthe Virgin (Raphael), 209 Michelangelo, 6o, I22, I3I, 28I, 284, 294, 38o, 422, 427 Aphrodite or Birth of Venus, 30, 238-40, 239; Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces (David), Last judgment, I 24 cat. no. 94 86,9on8 Night, 234 The Apparition, u, 240, 241, 242; cat. no. 95 Martyrdom ofSaint Symphorien, The (Ingres, I834), Sistine Chapel, 128, 375, 382 Centaur, 2 36 I83, 183, I89, 203 Mignard, Pierre, I 2 The Chimera, II, 236-38, 237; cat. no. 93 GENERAL INDEX )37 .
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