Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Imagined

Juan Gris
Le Compotier sur le Tapis bleu
1916
oil on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm


Juan Gris
La Chope
1913
oil on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Georg Emil Hansen
Portrait of Hans Christian Andersen
1862
albumen print (cabinet card)
Museum Odense, Denmark

Franz Hanfstängl
Odeonsplatz, Munich
1859
albumen print
Stadtmuseum, Munich

Lambertus Johannes Hansen
Corridor, Town Hall, Haarlem
1838
watercolor on paper
Noord-Hollands Archive, Haarlem

Anne-Louis Girodet
Landscape with Serpent
1793
drawing
Musée Magnin, Dijon

Francesco Guardi
Capriccio with Imaginary Monument
before 1793
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Noël Hallé
Perseus freeing Andromeda
1760
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Emanuel Handmann
Portrait of mathematician Leonhard Euler
1753
pastel on paper
Kunstmuseum, Basel

Alexis Grimou
Portrait of a Young Woman as a Pilgrim
1729
oil on canvas
Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai

Alexis Grimou
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1710
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse

Michele Greco after Michelangelo Buonarroti
The Prophet Ezekiel - Sistine Ceiling
ca. 1570
engraving
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome

Girolamo da Treviso the Younger
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
ca. 1525
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Virgin and Child
ca. 1520
oil on panel
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery,
Nashville, Tennessee

Matthias Grünewald
Figure with upraised Arms
ca. 1510-11
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
Holy Family, St Elizabeth and young St John the Baptist
ca. 1495-1505
engraving
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Giotto
Presentation of the Christ Child in the Temple
ca. 1320
tempera on panel
(as installed ca. 1900 by Mrs Gardner)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

from Man

    Weighing the steadfastness and state
Of some mean things which here below reside,
Where birds like watchful clocks the noiseless date
    And intercourse of times divide,
Where bees at night get home and hive, and flowers
        Early, as well as late,
Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers;

    I would (said I) my God would give
The staidness of these things to man! for these
To his divine appointments ever cleave,
    And no new business breaks their peace;
The birds nor sow, nor reap, yet sup and dine,
        The flowers without clothes live,
Yet Solomon was never dressed so fine.

    Man hath still either toys or care,
He hath no root, nor to one place is tied,
But ever restless and irregular
    About this earth doth run and ride,
He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where,
        He says it is so far
That he hath quite forgot how to go there.

– Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)