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Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1881
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Video
Virtual Tour with Dr Miranda Wallace and India Mahdavi
Learning Resource
Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi | Notes for Educators
Video
Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi | Exhibition introduction
Video
Transforming Worlds: Change and Tradition in Contemporary India
Essay
Transforming Worlds: Change and Tradition in Contemporary India
Video
Top Arts 2022 | India Wallace
Essay
A Kushān bodhisattva and early Indian sculpture
Essay
Gavin Brown’s Indian snakes and ladders outfit
Essay
Devotion and idolatry: the conflicting purposes of a nineteenth-century Indian deity album
Exhibition
Cinema India
Essay
A technical examination of William Blake’s Virgil wood engravings
Essay
William Blake and the NGV: the history of the Virgil wood engravings
Exhibition
El Dorado Columbian Gold
Exhibition
The Arts of Asia
Exhibition
MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025
Essay
Southern sojourns: Harden Sidney Melville’s 1874 painting of a Torres Strait canoe animated by Kulkalgal and Kemer Kemer Meriam voices of expeditions along the Great Barrier Reef
Essay
Caryatid
Essay
Rembrandt’s watermarked papers at the National Gallery of Victoria
Essay
Amorous soldiers and Amazons: queer tales from antiquity
Video
Megacities
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Dress with body chains
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Shoe covers
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Pregnancy ensemble
(ENGLAND)
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
The Banquet of Cleopatra
Giambattista TIEPOLO
A monk with a book
TITIAN
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
FRAGMENT
Look 15, dress
BALENCIAGA, Paris (fashion house); Nicolas GHESQUIÈRE (designer)
Dress
ULYANA SERGEENKO, Russia (fashion house); Ulyana SERGEENKO (designer)
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
Hat
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Dress
MOSCHINO, Milan (fashion house); Franco MOSCHINO (designer)
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
Teacup and saucer
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer)
DAMASK
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
Beach dress
FRANCE
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke
William BEECHEY
SHOE
Ulysses and the Sirens
John William WATERHOUSE
SEAT
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES
Pietà
CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller)
Top
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)