L'Escargot

Hans Süss von Kulmbach
Virgin of the Annunciation
ca. 1513
oil on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Nicolaus Kremer
Portrait Study of a Man
1543
watercolor and colored chalks on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Johann Ladenspelder
St John the Evangelist on Patmos
(receiving dictation from the Virgin)
1549
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Cornelis Ketel
Portrait of a Man
1596
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

attributed to Ottavio Leoni
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1610
oil on canvas
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Jean Langlois after Louis Boullogne the Younger
Allegorical Figure with Portrait of architect Jacopo Barozzi Vignola
1699
engraving (book frontispiece)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

François Le Moyne
Study for Head of Hercules
ca. 1733
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Jean-Jacques Lagrenée
The Finding of Moses
ca. 1785
oil on canvas
Musée Magnin, Dijon

Jean-Louis Laneuville
Portrait of Pierre-Charles Ruamps de Surgères
(French Revolutionary politician)
1792
oil on canvas
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

Joseph Anton Koch
Sacrifice of Noah
1814
oil on panel
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Edwin Landseer
Portrait Sketch of Niccolò Paganini
before 1840
drawing
British Museum

Louis Kolitz
On the Edge of Staatspark Karlsaue, Kassel
ca. 1890-1900
oil on paper
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Ragnhild Keyser
Still Life
ca. 1925
watercolor and gouache on paper
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

František Kupka
L'Escargot
1926
linocut
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Mark Kolthoff
Rolls of Wallpaper
ca. 1955
gelatin silver print
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Louise Lawler
Grieving Mothers (Attachment)
2005
C-print
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Annie Leibovitz
Anna Wintour, New York City (age 66)
2015
pigment print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

from Ye goat-herd Gods

Strephon.  Meseems I see the high and stately mountains

    Transform themselves to low dejected valleys;

    Meseems I hear in these ill-changèd forests

    The nightingales do learn of owls their music;

    Meseems I feel the comfort of the morning

    Turned to the mortal serene of an evening.

Klaius.  Meseems I see a filthy cloudy evening

    As soon as sun begins to climb the mountains;

    Meseems I feel a noisome scent, the morning

    When I do smell the flowers of these valleys;

    Meseems I hear, when I do hear sweet music,

    The dreadful cries of murdered men in forests. 

– Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)