#The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles

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Irises (1889) by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890), oil on canvas, 74.3 × 94.3 cm, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Waiting (1882) 🎨 Edgar Degas 🏛️ The J. Paul Getty Museum 📍 Los Angeles, United States

A young ballet dancer bends forward to massage her foot, while her somberly dressed older companion sits silently beside her on a bench. They appear to be waiting, perhaps for an audition or its outcome. The two figures are a study in contrasts: The athletic dancer dressed in a dazzling costume reflects the glamour and artifice of the stage, while the shabbily dressed, bent figure represents the drabness of everyday life.

Edgar Degas painted modern life; his subjects, including laundresses, milliners, nightclub singers, horse races, and the ballet, reflected contemporary Parisian occupations and diversions. From the 1860s onward, Degas frequented the Paris Opéra, where he made numerous studies of performances, rehearsals, and backstage scenes. Later, he would refine and combine these motifs in his studio, in exercises of daring technical skill and compelling psychological subtlety. Here he demonstrated his complete mastery of the pastel technique. Delicately blended strokes are combined with bold hatching and emphatic slashes; pink, blue, and creamy tones describe the dancer in contrast to the dark, severe form of the older woman.

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The J Paul Getty Villa Museum in Malibu, 1982. Architects: Langdon & Wilson. Dubbed 'Heraculaneum Goes To Malibu' by AD.

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The Getty Center

The Getty Center, also known as the J. Paul Getty Museum, is a world-renowned museum located in Los Angeles, California. The museum is home to a vast collection of art, manuscripts, photographs, and other cultural artifacts from around the world. The Getty Center was founded by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, who was a passionate collector of art and antiques. He opened the museum in 1954, and it…

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The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Man Ray, Seabrook, Justine in Mask, 1930, Gelatin silver print, 23.7 x 18.8 cm

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Hippolyte Bayard About 1842-1843 Part of Dessins photographiques sur Papier. Recueil No. 2. [The “Bayard Album”] 1839-1855 Cyanotype 13.8 x 11.1cm (5 7/16 x 4 3/8 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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The goddess Minerva depicted on the bezel of a Roman gold ring from the 1st century AD. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

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mary & elizabeth with jesus & john the baptist

from a copy of brother philipp's "life of the virgin mary", included in a "weltchronik" compilation, bavaria, c. 1400-1410

source: Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 33 (88.MP.70), fol. 257r

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Typography Tuesday

We return to our facsimile of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, or Model Book of Calligraphy, written in 1561/62 by Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and illuminated 30 years later by Flemish painter Joris Hoefnagel for the grandson of Ferdinand I, Emperor Rudolph II. The manuscript was produced by Bocskay in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. To complement and augment Bocskay's calligraphy, Hoefnagel added fruit, flowers, and insects to nearly every page, composing them so as to enhance the unity and balance of the page’s design. Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.

Our facsimile was the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It was printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992. 

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The Getty Museum Return Ancient Bronze Head to Turkey

A life-sized bronze head of a young man has been removed from view by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and will be returned to Turkey after the institution learned it was illegally excavated.

The head had been in the antiquities collection at the Getty Villa Museum since it was acquired in 1971. But the museum said it had received new information from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in New York indicating it had been illegally excavated.

The California museum did not reveal what new information had come to light about the excavation, and officials in New York did not yet respond to a request for information. The head has been removed from view until it can be handed over to Turkish officials.

“In light of new information recently provided by Matthew Bogdanos and the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office indicating the illegal excavation of this bronze head, we agreed that the object needed to be returned to Türkiye,” museum director Timothy Potts said in a statement.

The district attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the details of its investigation.

The Getty Museum said that its policies are to return objects to the country of their origin or modern discovery when reliable information indicates they were stolen or illegally excavated. In 2022, the museum returned a cache of artworks to Italy after learning that they were linked to disgraced antiquities dealer Gianfranco Becchina.

The bronze head dates to somewhere between 100 B.C.E and 100 C.E. and is a separately cast component of a life-size figure, detached from the body at the upper neck. The eyes were once inlaid with an unknown material that was not preserved. Researchers have not yet identified the body of the figure. The subject of the figure also remains elusive as it was fabricated in a “highly idealized” style and has not been matched to a member of an imperial family or other named individual, the museum said, although an inscribed alpha (“A”) is visible on the interior of the neck at the bottom rear edge.

Some scholars have associated the bronze head with the archaeological site of Bubon, in the Burdur province of southwestern Turkey. Bubon was subjected to illicit excavations in the late 1960s.

Potts added that by returning the head to Turkey, the museum seeks to continue building a constructive relationship with the Turkish Ministry of Culture archaeological colleagues in the country.

In total, the Manhattan District Attorney’s antiquities trafficking unit has recovered more than 4,500 antiquities stolen from 30 countries with a value in excess of $410 million since it was launched in 2017.

By Adam Schrader.

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Venus on the Waves (1769), (detail), by François Boucher (1703–1770), oil on canvas, 265.7 × 76.5 cm, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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André Kertész

Still Life with Snake

Negative 1960; print later

Gelatin silver print

Image: 24.8 × 19.7cm (9 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née Thérèse Feuillant, James Tissot, 1866

Oil on canvas 128.3 x 77.2 cm (50 ½ x 30 ⅜ in.) J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Portrait of Leonilla

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805 - 1873) Portrait of Leonilla, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, 1843 The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 86.PA.534