Saturday, November 22, 2025

Ornamental

Albrecht Dürer
Study of Rock Face
ca. 1497-98
watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum


Jean de Gourmont the Elder
Triumph of Bacchus in a Temple
ca. 1530-40
drawing
British Museum

Pierre Reymond
Triumph of Caesar
ca. 1540
enamel on copper
British Museum

Anonymous Italian Artist
Head of Michelangelo's Night
from the Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici in Florence

ca. 1550-1600
drawing
British Museum

Johann Michael Moscherosch
Allegory of Sight
(series, The Five Senses)
ca. 1660
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Johann Georg de Hamilton
Portrait of a Piebald from the Stud at Eisgrub
1700
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Johann Heinrich Ramberg
Audience at a Performance of Hamlet in London
ca. 1781-88
watercolor on paper
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Edward Calvert
The Primitive City
1822
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Constantin Hansen
Georgia Skovgaard with her sons Joakim and Niels
ca. 1860
oil on canvas
Skovgaard Museet, Viborg, Denmark

Camille Pissarro
Banks of the Oise
1867
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Charles Ricketts
Design for Pendant
ca. 1901
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Walker Hancock
Torso
1927
limestone
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Mabel Dwight
Fish (Aquarium)
1928
hand-colored lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

George Hurrell
Merle Oberon
1935
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Georgia O'Keeffe
Summer Days
1936
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Williams, Brown & Earle (Philadelphia)
Round Pool - Château Vaux le Vicomte
1936
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Gerhard Richter
Korn
1982
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Stillborn silence! thou that art
Flood-gate of the deeper heart!
Offspring of a heavenly kind,
Frost of the mouth, and thaw of the mind.
Secrecy's confidant, and he
Who makes religion mystery!
Admiration's speaking'st tongue!
Leave thy desert shades among
Reverend hermits' hallowed cells,
Where retired devotion dwells!
With thy enthusiasms come,
Seize our tongues and strike us dumb!

– Richard Flecknoe (1653)