Painting in Louisiana from the Historic New Orleans Collection

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- S. S. Atenas moored at Old Havana Harbor
- Woodward, William, 1859-1939
- In 1920 New Orleans artist William Woodward received a commission from the United Fruit Company to paint a 15-foot-diameter mural to cover the entrance rotunda for its new eleven-story million-dollar building at 321 St. Charles Street. The United...
- Oil on canvas
- Captain Julien Vienne and son Julien George Vienne
- Salazar y Mendoza, José Francisco Xavier de, ca. 1750-1802
- Double half-length portrait of a man wearing uniform of the Louisiana militia (broad-brimmed hat, gathered red ribbon and medal, dark dress coat with epaulets, broad red trim at collar cuffs and down front border with brass buttons on both sides...
- Oil on canvas
- Portrait of Edmond Jean Forstall and Desirée Forstall
- Vaudechamp, Jean Joseph, 1790-1866
- Three-quarter length double portrait of Edmond Jean Forstall (1794-1873) and his twelve-year old daughter, Désirée Forstall (1824-1845). The brown-eyed brunette Forstall is seated in a wood-backed chair, and wears black tie and suit coat with...
- Oil on canvas
- Robert Stanley Green
- Walker, William Aiken, 1838-1921
- Bust-length portrait of a middle -aged man set against a plain green background and facing left in three-quarter view. He is seated in a red upholstered chair. He has short curly brown hair, high forehead, and a full mustache and goatee. He wears a...
- Oil on canvas
- Eleven thirty four First Street, New Orleans
- Cruise, Boyd, 1909-1988
- View of a two-story residence at 1134 First Street in the Garden District. The house has five bays, veranda on first story with fluted columns with Ionic capitals, and a second-story balcony with fluted columns with Corinthian capitals. The house...
- Watercolor
- William L. Maylie
- de Witt, Dom Gregory
- Half-length portrait of William L. Maylie seated at a table. On the table is a water decanter, salt and pepper shakers, and sugar bowl. Maylie has brown hair and trim mustache, brown eyes, and black-rimmed spectacles. He wears a long sleeved white...
- Oil on canvas
- Portrait of Madame Celeste de Lavillebeuvre
- Salazar y Mendoza, José Francisco Xavier de, ca. 1750-1802
- Three-quarter portrait of a young woman shown facing right against a dark ochre-brown ground. She is seated in a wooden side chair with green velvet upholstered back. She wears an écru satin dress trimmed with lace at the scooped neckline and at...
- Oil on canvas
- Mandeville, Louisiana
- Trobriand, Régis de, 1816-1897
- View of a single-story house with attic, double-pitched roof over front porch, and blue-and-white striped awnings. A woman and child are on the steps with a female servant sitting on rail at left. A cabin and pidgeoniere are at left and two...
- Oil on canvas
- Charles Campbell Crawford and his Grandfather
- Crawford, Josephine Marien, 1878-1952
- Full length drawing of a standing man wearing a jacket and waistcoat and carrying a walking stick. Behind and to the man's left, a ghostly figure of an older gentleman, wearing lace collar and cuffs, also holds a walking stick. Image is drawn on...
- Pastel, charcoal and wash over white and gray ground on patterned wallpaper
- Portrait of a Young Girl
- Bernard, Franois, M., ca. 1812
- Three-quarter length portrait of a young dark-haired girl shown in near-frontal view against a background that is dark at the left and lightened at the right. She wears a white dress with scoop-neck and full skirt belted at the waist, and...
- Oil on canvas
- Marie Althée Josephine D'Aquin de Puech and Ernest Auguste de Puech
- Vaudechamp, Jean Joseph, 1790-1866
- Three quarter length portrait of a seated dark-haired woman and a small boy. The woman has an elaborate up doand wears a low cut green velvet gown with puffed sleeves and full skirt. She has a long gold chain fastened to her right shoulders, draped...
- Oil on canvas
- Madame Clara Durel Forstall and Eugène Forstall
- Vaudechamp, Jean Joseph, 1790-1866
- Three-quarter length double portrait of a seated Clara Durel Forstall (1805-1879), and her eleven year old son Eugène Forstall (1825-1864). Her dark brown hair is centrally parted and worn in an up-do with a wave in front of her ears. She wears a...
- Oil on canvas
- Portrait of Thomas Cripps
- Three-quarter length portrait of a bespectacled Thomas Cripps shown against a plain ground. He has brown hair and a beard and wears a dark dress coat, vest, and slacks. He holds a masonic sword in his left hand and a magnifying glass in his right....
- Oil on paper mounted to linen
- Allegory of the Americas
- Peruvian allegorical painting depicting an Indian woman wearing a feather headdress and feather girdle, and holding a green-headed parrot on her left arm. At her right is a cornucopia filled with fruit and coins, together with an alligator and a...
- Oil on canvas
- Dauphine and Ursuline Streets New Orleans
- Cruise, Boyd, 1909-1988
- French Quarter scene of the corner of Dauphine and Ursuline Streets in New Orleans. In the center is a building made of blue brick and green shutters. Men, women, and children walk on the sidewalks and riders in carts and horses are on the streets.
- Watercolor
- Shape and Form Evolves Out of chaos (Genesis series)
- Flettrich, Leonard Theobald, 1916-1970
- Abstract composition rendered in cadmium red, ochre, umber, and black showing a large shape in left and upper left quadrant and two smaller shapes directly below the large form. The background is abstract with red and ochre.
- oil on canvas
- Sun; Ecstacy; Joy (Genesis series)
- Flettrich, Leonard Theobald, 1916-1970
- Colorful canvas on a yellow ground and featuring an orange sun or circle in top center, a curved gray horizon arc in lower left and center and biomorphic shapes and dots covering the rest of the canvas. These shapes are rendered in dark gray,...
- Oil on canvas
- Old Absinthe House, Corner of Bourbon and Bienville Streets, New Orleans
- Woodward, William, 1859-1939
- French Quarter street scene showing the Old Absinthe House, corner of Bourbon and Bienville Streets. Children stand on the sidewalk looking in the open door toward a customer and bartender at the bar. To the right is a rear view of a Chinese man,...
- Raffaelli oil crayon on canvas
- Major General William J. Behan
- Blanchard, Blanche Virginia, 1866-1959
- Bust-length portrait of Major William J. Behan, shown in full shoulder view with face turned slightly right. He has dark brown hair receding at the hairline, a full mustache, and brown eyes. He wears a dress uniform jacket with gold-braided...
- Oil on canvas
- Twelfth Night Revelers Pageant Design
- Briton, Charles, 1841-1884
- Scene with eight characters, including a thin man drinking from a flask, followed by a corpulent man riding a donkey. A dancing figure in clogs and cow mask, and a cat and dog couple follow. Three figures, including two winged fairies, sit on a...
- Ink and watercolor on bristol board