Thursday, April 23, 2026

Seeking

Rueland Frueauf the Elder
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1490-91
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
Belvedere Museum, Vienna


Matthias Grünewald
St Anthony
ca. 1512-16
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Franciabigio (Francesco di Cristofano)
Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1524
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

il Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi)
Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery
ca. 1540
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Pier Francesco Foschi
Portrait of an Ecclesiastic
ca. 1550
oil on panel
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica

Theodor Galle after Johannes Stradanus
Amerigo Vespucci discovering America
1591
engraving
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Bernhard Francke
Portrait of philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
ca. 1705
oil on canvas
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Ferdinand Delamonce
Tomb of Cardinal Richelieu
1725
drawing
Menil Collection, Houston

Simon Fokke
Theseus at the entrance to the Labyrinth
1759
etching
(with collector's notes in Latin and Dutch and Greek)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Watering Trough
ca. 1763-65
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Johann Christoph Erhard
The Barmsteine Rocks near Hallein with Stormy Sky
1818
watercolor on paper
Hamburger Kunsthalle

David Wilkie
The Lost Receipt
1824
drypoint
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Asher Brown Durand
Capture of Major André
1845
oil on canvas
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama

Wilhelm Füssli
Portrait of Fanny Schaufelbühl-Meyer
ca. 1880
drawing
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Pierre Gaudard
Parc de la Tête d'Or, Lyon, Rhône
1980
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Karen Hackenberg
Calamari
2019
lithograph
Tacoma Art Museum

Karen Hackenberg
Baby Squids
2019
lithograph
Tacoma Art Museum

from The Village

       Next died the Lady who yon Hall possessed;
And here they brought her noble bones to rest.
In town she dwelt; – forsaken stood the Hall:
Worms ate the floors, the tapestry fled the wall:
No fire the kitchen's cheerless grate displayed;
No cheerful light the long-closed sash conveyed;
The crawling worm, that turns a summer-fly,
Here spun his shroud and laid him up to die
The winter-death:  – upon the bed of state,
The bat shrill-shrieking wooed his flickering mate;
To empty rooms the curious came no more,
From empty cellars turned the angry poor,
And surly beggars cursed the ever-bolted door. 

– George Crabbe (1783)