SHOE TREE
c. 1914
Medium
Pair, wooden, in two pieces joined by metal bar
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs Pegg Milroy, 1979
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
Explore the collection
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
The thinker
Auguste RODIN
Dress
STEPHEN SPROUSE, New York (fashion house); Stephen SPROUSE (designer)
Rembrandt
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn; REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn (studio of)
CAP
Pregnancy ensemble
(ENGLAND)
Textile
William MORRIS
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT
Banner
ZANDRA RHODES, London (fashion house); Zandra RHODES (designer)
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
Dress
GUCCI, Florence (fashion house)
A monk with a book
TITIAN
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
Ulysses and the Sirens
John William WATERHOUSE
Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke
William BEECHEY
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
Lace
(FRANCE)
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
PANEL
(TURKEY)
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Look 15, dress
BALENCIAGA, Paris (fashion house); Nicolas GHESQUIÈRE (designer)
Dress
ENGLAND
Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
Jacopo AMIGONI
Jumpsuit
ALAÏA, Paris (fashion house); Azzedine ALAÏA (designer)
Dress
JULIEN MACDONALD, London (fashion house); Julien MacDONALD (designer)
Winter, from The four seasons
FULDA PORCELAIN FACTORY, Fulda (manufacturer)
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Dress
ALAÏA, Paris (fashion house); Azzedine ALAÏA (designer)