Monday, March 9, 2026

Much Making

Felice Cerruti-Beauduc
Self Portrait at work in the Studio
1855
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence


John Ballantyne
London Studio of painter John Phillip
ca. 1864
oil on canvas
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Mosè Bianchi
The Painter
1874
oil on canvas
Museo Frugone, Genoa

Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard
Diane de Poitiers in the studio of Jean Gujon
ca. 1825
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Giuseppe Macpherson
Conversazione in the studio of Johann Zoffany
1772
oil on canvas
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Florence

Norman McBeath
Portrait of painter Alison Watt
2010
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Yves Hervochon
Atelier Halser
ca. 1955-60
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Leslie Gill
Garden of Sculptor Elie Nadelman, New York
1948
dye transfer print from Kodachrome negative
New Orleans Museum of Art

Christian Rohlfs
At the Weimar Academy
1875
oil on canvas
Kunsthalle zu Kiel

Brassaï
L'Académie Julian, Paris
1931
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Johannes Stradanus (Jan van der Straet)
Practice of the Visual Arts
1573
drawing (print study)
British Museum

Michiel Sweerts
Roman Street Scene with Young Artist copying Bernini's Neptune and Triton
ca. 1646-48
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Eduardo Paolozzi
Lots of Pictures - Lots of Fun
1971
screenprint
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Bruce Bernard
Francis Bacon, Recce Mews Studio, London
1984
C-print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Bruce Bernard
Lucian Freud in his Studio
2000
C-print
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Hyacinthe Rigaud
Portrait of painters Charles Le Brun and Pierre Mignard
1730
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Johannes Gumpp
Self Portrait in the Studio
1646
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

By the lyre I rose, fell with the flute –
Thebes.  Alas for the discordant Muse;
the lyre-charmed remnants of my towers lie mute,
the stones self-risen for my song-built walls:
your effortless gift, Amphion, who walled in
the seven-gate city with your lyre's seven strings. 

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Peter Jay