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1. LEGIOP_110728_0001.JPG: Jean-Marc Nattier Terpsichore, Muse of Music and Dance, ca 1739
2. LEGIOP_110728_0013.JPG: Charles-Andre (Carle) Vanloo Painting, 1753
3. LEGIOP_110728_0018.JPG: Charles-Andre (Carle) Vanloo Sculpture, 1753
4. LEGIOP_110728_0027.JPG: Studio of Francois Boucher Vertumnus and Pomona, 1757
5. LEGIOP_110728_0038.JPG: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Empire of Flora, ca 1743
6. LEGIOP_110728_0048.JPG: Jean-Marc Nattier Thalia, Muse of Comedy, 1739
7. LEGIOP_110728_0064.JPG: Giovanni Paolo Panini Ruins with Prophet, 1731
8. LEGIOP_110728_0082.JPG: Nicolas de Largillierre Portrait of a Gentleman, 1710
9. LEGIOP_110728_0091.JPG: Jean-Baptiste Oudry The Pate, 1743
10. LEGIOP_110728_0102.JPG: Jean-Honore Fragonard The Useless Resistance, ca 1770
11. LEGIOP_110728_0145.JPG: Charles-Andre (Carle) Vanloo Music, 1753
12. LEGIOP_110728_0152.JPG: Charles-Andre (Carle) Vanloo Architecture, 1753
13. LEGIOP_110728_0170.JPG: Thomas Gainsborough Landscape with Country Carts, ca 1784-1795
14. LEGIOP_110728_0193.JPG: Thomas Gainsborough Samuel Kilderbee of Ipswitch, ca 1755
15. LEGIOP_110728_0201.JPG: Sir Joshua Reynolds Anne, Viscountess Townshend, later Marchioness Townshend, ca 1779-1780
16. LEGIOP_110728_0210.JPG: Sir William Beechey Master James Hatch, 1796
17. LEGIOP_110728_0241.JPG: Joseph Wright, called Joseph Wright of Derby The Dead Soldier, 1789
18. LEGIOP_110728_0278.JPG: Rembrandt Hermensz. van Rijn Joris de Caulerii, 1632
19. LEGIOP_110728_0285.JPG: Peter Paul Rubens The Tribute Money, ca 1612
20. LEGIOP_110728_0313.JPG: Ferdinand Bol The Crowning of Mirtillo, 1650
21. LEGIOP_110728_0326.JPG: Jan van Goyen The Thunderstorm, 1641
22. LEGIOP_110728_0336.JPG: Salomon van Ruysdael River View of Nijmegen with the Valkhof, 1648
23. LEGIOP_110728_0351.JPG: Anthony van Dyck Marie Claire de Croy, Duchesse d'Havre, and Child, 1634
24. LEGIOP_110728_0356.JPG: Abraham van Beyeren Still Life, 1666
25. LEGIOP_110728_0366.JPG: Anthony van Dyck Portrait of a Lady, ca 1620
26. LEGIOP_110728_0374.JPG: Jan van Noordt Susanna and the Elders, ca 1670
27. LEGIOP_110728_0380.JPG: Matthias Stom[er] The Calling of St. Matthew, ca 1629
28. LEGIOP_110728_0404.JPG: Frans Hals Portrait of a Gentleman in White, ca 1635
29. LEGIOP_110728_0411.JPG: Jan Wynants Landscape with Huntsman and Dogs, 1673
30. LEGIOP_110728_0440.JPG: Frans Pourbus the Younger Portrait of a Lady, 1591
31. LEGIOP_110728_0477.JPG: Jan Steen The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah, ca 1673
32. LEGIOP_110728_0536.JPG: Joseph-Siffred Suplessis Portrait of a Gentleman, ca 1779-1782
33. LEGIOP_110728_0542.JPG: Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes A Capriccio of Rome with the Finish of a Marathon, 1788
34. LEGIOP_110728_0576.JPG: Jacques-Louis David Laure-Emile-Felicite David, Baronne Meunier, 1812
35. LEGIOP_110728_0582.JPG: Baron Francois-Pascal-Simon Gerard La Comtesse de Morel-Vinde and Her Daughter, 1799
36. LEGIOP_110728_0591.JPG: Jacques-Louis David The Fortune Teller, 1824
37. LEGIOP_110728_0595.JPG: Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun Hyacinthe Gabrielle ROland, later Marchioness Wellesley, 1791
38. LEGIOP_110728_0609.JPG: Konstantin Makovsky The Russian Bride's Attire, 1887
39. LEGIOP_110728_0645.JPG: Edgar Degas Portrait of a Man, ca 1864
40. LEGIOP_110728_0653.JPG: Charles-Francois Daubigny The Village of Gloton, 1857
41. LEGIOP_110728_0671.JPG: Gustave Courbet The Wave, ca 1869
42. LEGIOP_110728_0677.JPG: Julien Dupre Peasant Girl with Sheep
43. LEGIOP_110728_0685.JPG: Luigi Bazzani The Temple of Saturn, 1894
44. LEGIOP_110728_0697.JPG: William Adolphe Bouguereau The Broken Pitcher, 1891
45. LEGIOP_110728_0723.JPG: Honore Daumier Third Class Carriage (Un wagon de troisieme classe),ca 1856-58
46. LEGIOP_110728_0731.JPG: Jose Jimenez y Aranda Holy Week in Seville, 1879
47. LEGIOP_110728_0760.JPG: John Roddam Spencer Stanhope Love and the Maiden, 1877
48. LEGIOP_110728_0777.JPG: Charles Robert Leslie A Scene from "Vicar of Wakefield" (Chapter XI) by Oliver Goldsmith, ca 1843
49. LEGIOP_110728_0791.JPG: John Martin The Assuaging of the Waters, 1840
50. LEGIOP_110728_0804.JPG: Thomas Seddon The Pyramids at Gizeh, 1855
51. LEGIOP_110728_0812.JPG: Edward Lear The Rocks at Kasr-es-Saad, Egypt [now called Kasr-es-Saiyyad], ca 1856
52. LEGIOP_110728_0823.JPG: John Constable A View on Hampstead Heath with Harrow in the Distance, ca 1821-1822
53. LEGIOP_110728_0831.JPG: Edward Lear Masada (or Sebbeh) on the Dead Sea, 1858
54. LEGIOP_110728_0839.JPG: James Abbott McNeill Whistler The Pier: A Grey Note, 1884
55. LEGIOP_110728_0853.JPG: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Madame Aline Gilbert, 1887
56. LEGIOP_110728_0857.JPG: Jean-Francois Raffaelli The Absinthe Drinkers, 1881
57. LEGIOP_110728_0864.JPG: Edgar Degas The Impresario (Pierre Ducarre), ca 1877
58. LEGIOP_110728_0876.JPG: Edgar Degas Musicians in the Orchestra, ca 1870
59. LEGIOP_110728_0883.JPG: Pierre-Auguste Renoir The Theater Box (La Loge), 1874
60. LEGIOP_110728_0889.JPG: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Mother and Child, ca 1895
61. LEGIOP_110728_0896.JPG: Odilon Redon Vase of Flowers, 1901
62. LEGIOP_110728_0907.JPG: Claude Money La Gorge de Varengeville, 1882 (The Gorge at Varengeville)
63. LEGIOP_110728_0918.JPG: Gustave Caillebotte Sunflowers along the Seine, ca 1885-86
64. LEGIOP_110728_0927.JPG: Claude Monet Waves Breaking, 1881
65. LEGIOP_110728_0937.JPG: Camille Pissarro The Road near the Farm, 1871
66. LEGIOP_110728_0947.JPG: Claude Monet Grand Canal, Venice, 1908
67. LEGIOP_110728_0953.JPG: Camille Pissarro Paysage a Pontoise avec un Chasseur, 1879
68. LEGIOP_110728_0958.JPG: Paul Cezanne Forest Interior, ca 1898-1899
69. LEGIOP_110728_0965.JPG: Georges Seurat Eiffel Tower, ca 1889
70. LEGIOP_110728_0975.JPG: Vincent van Gogh Shelter on Montmartre, ca 1886
71. LEGIOP_110728_0983.JPG: Claude Monet Sailboats on the Seine, 1874
72. LEGIOP_110728_0992.JPG: Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Il Guercino Samson and the Honeycomb, ca 1657
73. LEGIOP_110728_1000.JPG: Mattia Preti, called Il Calabrese St. John the Baptist Preaching, ca 1665
74. LEGIOP_110728_1014.JPG: Simon Vouet The Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist, 1626
75. LEGIOP_110728_1021.JPG: Eustache Le Sueur Sleeping Venus, ca 1638-1639
76. LEGIOP_110728_1027.JPG: Giovanni Battista Gaulli, called Il Baciccio The Adoration of the Lamb, ca 1680
77. LEGIOP_110728_1078.JPG: Georges de La Tour Old Woman, ca 1618-1619
78. LEGIOP_110728_1087.JPG: Louis (?) Le Nain Peasants Before Their House, ca 1641
79. LEGIOP_110728_1102.JPG: Massimo Stanzione Woman in Neopolitan Costume, ca 1635
80. LEGIOP_110728_1125.JPG: Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco St. John the Baptist, ca 1600
81. LEGIOP_110728_1138.JPG: Panel with Vase of Flowers, 1600-1650 Opificio delle Pietre Dure (Granducal Hardstone Workshops)
82. LEGIOP_110728_1202.JPG: Dieric Bouts and/or Workshop Virgin and Child, ca 1475
83. LEGIOP_110728_1259.JPG: Unknown Tyrolean Master, roughly 1500 Last Judgment Triptych
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Wikipedia Description: California Palace of the Legion of Honor
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The California Palace of the Legion of Honor (often abbreviated to simply Legion of Honor by locals) is a fine art museum in San Francisco, California. The name is used both for the museum collection and for the building in which it is housed.

History:

The Legion of Honor was the gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, wife of the sugar magnate and thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder Adolph B. Spreckels. The building is a three-quarters scale imitation of the Palais de la L�gion d'Honneur also known as the H�tel de Salm in Paris by George Applegarth and H. Guillaume. It was completed in 1924.

The museum building occupies an elevated site in Lincoln Park in the northwest of the city, with views over the Golden Gate Bridge. Most of the surrounding Lincoln Park Golf Course is on the site of a potter's field called the "Golden Gate Cemetery" that the City had bought in 1867. The cemetery was closed in 1908 and the bodies were relocated to Colma. During seismic retrofitting in the 1990s, however, coffins and skeletal remains were unearthed.

The plaza and fountain in front of the Palace of the Legion of Honor is the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across America. The terminus marker and an interpretive plaque are located in the southwest corner of the plaza and fountain, just to the left of the Palace.
Collections

The Legion of Honor displays a collection spanning more than 6,000 years of ancient and European art and houses the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in a neoclassical building overlooking Lincoln Park and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Ancient Art:

The Ancient Art collection has been an integral part of both Fine Arts Museums since they were founded. M.H. de Young and Alma Speckles, the founders of the museums, furnished their institutions with a variety of ancient objects. The works they brought to their collections, and those that have been added over the years, cover broad geographical and chronological ranges within the ancient Mediterranean basin—primarily Egypt, the Near East, Greece, the Aegean Islands, Etruria, and Rome. The earliest pieces date to the fourth millennium B.C. and the latest to early Christian, Sasanian, and early Islamic periods, through the 14th century A.D.––a period of almost 6,000 years of art.

It is a relatively small collection, under 1,400 objects, containing a number of rare works of high quality and importance that form the basis for an introduction to the art of the cultures represented. They provide, in a coherent, aesthetically pleasing manner, splendid examples of the art of early civilizations. The collection also provides the foundation for the understanding of Western art and the procession of cultures through the ages. It illustrates the origins of later European and American art in the Museum’s collection in form, iconography, and materials by displaying sculpture, pottery, glass, decorative art, and painting.

The main strength of the collection lies in Greek vase painting, where over 100 examples represent most periods of Greek art from the prehistoric to the end of the classical age. Among the most important objects are nine carved ivory plaques and a palace wall relief from the 9th—7th-centuries B.C. Assyrian site of Nimrud, which epitomizes a high point in the history of Ancient Near Eastern art and have few equals in museum collections worldwide. The most recent acquisitions include an exquisitely carved Persian sculpture of an Offering Bearer (ca. 490–470 B.C.) from the fabled ancient site of Persepolis, which in style and form connects ancient Near Eastern art with the classical world.

Exhibitions add visibility to the permanent collection and Ancient Art shows have had wide appeal bringing in hundreds of thousands of visitors. The Department has organized and mounted world-renowned exhibitions that secure the Museum’s international reputation for scholarly excellence. Some of these enabled the Museum to foster and secure relationships with foreign cultural organizations, especially those in Europe and the Middle East.

European Art:

The museum contains a representative collection of European art, the largest portion of which is French. Its most distinguished collection is of sculpture by Auguste Rodin. Casts of some of his most famous works are on display, including one of The Thinker in the Court of Honor. However there are individual works by many other artists, including Fran�ois Boucher, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, David, El Greco, Rubens, and many of the Impressionists and post-Impressionists—Degas, Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Seurat, C�zanne and others. There are also representative works by key twentieth century figures such as Braque and Picasso, and works of contemporary artists like Gottfried Helnwein and Robert Crumb.Painters also represented include;Lorenzo di Bicci("Madonna and Child With Angels"),Master of Cappenburg,Friederich Pacher("Saint Catherine")Rodrigo Osona the Elder,Titian,Simon Vouet,Guercino("Samson and the Honeycomb"),Domenichino("Italian River Landscape")Lodewijk de Vadder("Village Road"),Frans Hals,Jan Goyen,Jan Van Noordt("Susannah and The Elders"),Claude Lorrain,J.M. Nattier("Thalia,Muse of Comedy"),Frederic Leighton,Thomas Seddon,Konstantin Makovsky("Russian Bride's Attire"),Charles Daubigny,Rafaelli("Absinthe Drinkers"),and Eduard Viullard.
The Grand Canal, Venice, 1908

Collection Highlights

St. Francis Venerating the Crucifix. El Greco, 1595
St. John the Baptist. El Greco, 1600
The Tribute Money. Peter Paul Rubens, 1612
The Age of Bronze. Auguste Rodin, 1875
Trotting Horse. Edgar Degas, 1881
The Kiss. Auguste Rodin, 1884
The Grand Canal. Claude Monet, 1908
Waterlilies. Claude Monet, 1914

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts:

Mr. and Mrs. Moore S. Achenbach created the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in 1948, giving their personal collection of works on paper to the city of San Francisco. Over the 50 years previous, Mr. Achenbach strove to build a collection that systematically illustrated the entire development of the graphic arts, and in this pursuit he built a collection of reputedly more than 25,000 graphic works. When he donated it to the city, the collection was briefly placed in the San Francisco Public Library, but in 1950 it was moved to the Legion of Honor, where it remains to this day. This enormous collection became the foundation for the museum’s department of works on paper, which has the distinction of being the largest collection of works of art on paper in the western United States. Today the department’s holdings number more than 90,000 and cover the period from the end of the 15th century to the present time. Thanks to the Achenbach’s endowment bequest and gifts of other donors, the collection now consists of Old Master and 19th-century prints and drawings, Japanese prints, Indian miniatures, photography, modern and contemporary graphics, and artists’ books.

The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts and the collections of works on paper of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco receive financial support for the department’s exhibitions, programs, and acquisitions from the Achenbach Graphic Arts Council, a member council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Symphonic organ:

In 1924 John D. Spreckels commissioned the Ernest M. Skinner Company of Boston to build the symphonic organ. The museum organ, which is housed inside the museum above the main galleries, has 4 manuals and pedals, 7 divisions, 63 ranks, with a total of 4,526 pipes. Symphonic music is especially effective on the museum organ with its battery of pneumatically-operated percussion instruments and set of tubular chimes. A thunder pedal is used for the musical representation of storms. All together, the organ comprises one Great Organ, a Swell Organ, a Choir Organ featuring a 16 foot Contra Dulciana, Choir Organ Echo, a Solo Organ, Solo Organ Echo, an Arch Organ outfitted with 8 foot Arch Clarion, a 64 foot Gravissima and a 32 foot Bourdon Profunda, in addition to the final Traps that were enclosed in the Choir: Bass drum, castanets, Chinese block, crash cymbal, gong snare drum (f), snare drum (ff), and a tambourine triangle.

Proponents have acclaimed that an instrument that is capable of producing these sounds, (similar to that of an orchestra), is a work of art, no matter its outright visual appeal. The organ's console, made of mahogany, ivory, and ebony, is located in the A.B. and Alma de Bretteville Spreckels Rodin Gallery. The apse of the gallery is canvas, painted to look like marble in order to allow the organ to "speak" through the dome. The frieze over the main entrance to the museum is made of plaster and can be opened so that the music can be heard in the Court of Honor also containing ten large tubular chimes and a heroic fanfare register concealed behind doors that can be opened during performances. The museum hosts a weekly organ recital from 4:00-5:00pm every Saturday and Sunday.
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