MANTILLA COMB
Medium
Carved tortoiseshell
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1913
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
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas POUSSIN
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
Portrait of a gentleman
Louis TOCQUÉ
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
Dress
STEPHEN SPROUSE, New York (fashion house); Stephen SPROUSE (designer)
A monk with a book
TITIAN
Pregnancy ensemble
(ENGLAND)
Cap
CHRISTIAN DIOR, Paris (fashion house); John GALLIANO (designer); Stephen JONES (milliner)
FRAGMENT
Dress
ENGLAND
Lace
(FRANCE)
Banner
ZANDRA RHODES, London (fashion house); Zandra RHODES (designer)
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
Scaramouche and Columbine
MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, Meissen (manufacturer); Johann Joachim KÄNDLER (modeller)
Ecstasy
André MASSON
Jumpsuit
ALAÏA, Paris (fashion house); Azzedine ALAÏA (designer)
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
BROOCH
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
DAMASK
Beach dress
FRANCE
Ulysses and the Sirens
John William WATERHOUSE
Skin heel boots
FECAL MATTER, Montreal (fashion house); Steven Raj BHASKARAN (designer); Hannah DALTON (designer)
BROCADE
Top
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Untitled (Red)
Mark ROTHKO
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
Mary, Lady Vere
William LARKIN
Winter, from The four seasons
FULDA PORCELAIN FACTORY, Fulda (manufacturer)
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT