FINIAL
Medium
Gilt, of a large mirror frame, 2 figures issuing from acanthus
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1895
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Exhibition
Survey 15: Relics and Rituals
Essay
Collection care and performance art at the NGV
Essay
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
Essay
Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
Essay
Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Breakfast With Bonnard
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
Video
The Picasso Century | Online tour
Video
Session one: Queer People Archiving Their Histories
Video
Session two: The Legacy of David McDiarmid
Video
Session three: HIV/AIDS Activism, Then and Now
Video
Session four: Landmark LGBTQ+ Exhibitions in Australia
Video
Virtual Curator Tour | Goya
Video
NGVWA Presents ‘Art of Tea’
Video
Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence – From Australia Out
Video
Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
Learning Resource
Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
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Commemorative Certificate awarded at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Louis Pierre RIGAL (draughtsman); Omer BOUCHERY (etcher)
BOWL & COVER
Swansea (manufacturer)
Coffee pot
GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE, Copenhagen (manufacturer); Henning KOPPEL (designer)
SPURS
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas POUSSIN
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
Ulysses and the Sirens
John William WATERHOUSE
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
Charles LOUPOT
RING
A monk with a book
TITIAN
Windsor bench
(UNITED STATES) (manufacturer)
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
The Mayor's Cup
William KERR
The thinker
Auguste RODIN
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night
J. M. W. TURNER
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
Jacopo AMIGONI
The Virgin and Child
FLANDERS
BOWL
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
Clock garniture
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator)
EWER
CHELSEA (manufacturer)
Portrait of a gentleman
Louis TOCQUÉ
VASE
Furstenberg (manufacturer)
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
André GIRARD