Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Duos

Pietro Paltronieri
Capriccio with Arch under Construction
ca. 1725
tempera on canvas
Portland Art Museum, Oregon


Pietro Paltronieri
Capriccio with Doric Portico
ca. 1725
tempera on canvas
Portland Art Museum, Oregon

Jean-Démosthène Dugourc
Design for Gilt-Bronze Chandeliers
1777
ink and watercolor on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Etienne-Claude Voysard after Pierre Ranson
Decorative Monogram
ca. 1780
hand-colored etching
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Etienne-Claude Voysard after Pierre Ranson
Decorative Monogram
ca. 1780
hand-colored etching
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Cobbler
Slippers
1840
silk satin
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Carl Schuch
Still Life with Flowerpots
ca. 1890
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Josef Hoffmann for Wiener Werkstätte
Dessert Fork and Knife
1903
silver
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Herbert Wendell Gleason
Fritillaria recurva
ca. 1915
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Durr Freedley
Design for Marquetry Piano Case
ca. 1916
graphite and watercolor on card
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Durr Freedley
Design for Painted Piano Case
ca. 1916
graphite and watercolor on card
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Viktor Schreckengost
Bottles
ca. 1935-40
gouache and ink on board
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Bruno Leti
Summer Garden I
1987
lithograph (after an acrylic painting)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Bruno Leti
Summer Garden II
1987
lithograph (after an acrylic painting)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Rachel Whiteread
Untitled (Yellow Bed - Two Parts)
1991
dental plaster
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Charles Bell
Circus Act
1995
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Ron van Dongen
Papaver somniferum
1996
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

from Upon the Duke of Yorke his Birth: A Panegyricke.

    Great Charles! thou sweet Dawne of a glorious day,
Center of those thy Grandsires, shall I say
Henry and James, or Mars and Phœbus rather?
If this were Wisdomes God, that Wars sterne father,
'Tis but the same is said, Henry and James
Are Mars and Phœbus under divers Names.
O thou full mixture of those mighty soules,
Whose vast intelligence tun'd the Poles
Of Peace and Warre; Thou for whose manly brow
Both Lawrels twine into one wreath, and wooe
To be thy Garland: see (sweet Prince) ô see
Thou and the lovely hopes that smile in thee
Are ta'ne out and transcrib'd by thy Great Mother,
See, see thy reall shadow, see thy Brother,
Thy little selfe in lesse, read in these Eyne
The beames that dance in those full starres of thine. 
From the same snowy Alablaster Rocke
These hands and thine were hew'n, these cherryes mocke
The Corall of thy lips. Thou art of all
This well-wrought Copy the faire Principall.

– Richard Crashaw, The Delights of the Muses (1646)