Munich

Barthel Beham
Portrait of Otto Henry, Count Palatine
1535
oil on panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Christoffel van Sichem the Elder
Harmen Schoenmaker (Anabaptist Messiah) 
ca. 1600
engraving
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Raphael Sadeler
St Felix of Cantalice (with Begging Bag)
1615
engraving
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Jan Boeckhorst
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1645-50
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Salomon Duarte
Portrait of Henrietta Dorothea,
Countess of Waldeck-Pyrmont
1661
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Bartholomäus Kilian after Franz Friedrich Franck
Portrait of Johann Leonhard Schorer
1665
engraving
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Cornelis Meyssens after Adriaen van Bloemen
Portrait of Cardinal Agostino Spinola
ca. 1673
engraving
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Laurent Dufour
Portrait of Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano
1675
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
Portrait of physicist and abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet
ca. 1753
pastel on paper
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Paolo Fidanza after Andrea Mantegna
Portrait of Giovanni Borgia
(younger brother of Cesare Borgia)
ca. 1757-64
etching
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Wilhelm von Schadow
Portrait of Angelina Magatti
1818
oil on canvas
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Heinrich Maria von Hess
Portrait of a Young Woman
ca. 1825
oil on canvas
Lenbachhaus, Munich

Heinrich Maria von Hess
Portrait of Marchesa Florenzi
1829
oil on canvas
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Heinrich Maria von Hess
Portrait of sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen
1832
oil on panel
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Leopold Bode
Mother and Child
1865
oil on panel
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Fernand Khnopff
I Lock My Door Upon Myself
(illustration to poem by Christina Rossetti)
1891
oil on canvas
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Hugo von Habermann
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1925
oil on canvas
Lenbachhaus, Munich

     For, if God had not happiness, He were not God, because happiness is the highest and greatest good: if then God have happiness, it can not be a thing differing from Him, for, if there were anything in Him differing from Him, He should be an essence composed and not simple.  More, what is differing in anything is either an accident or a part of itself: in God happiness can not be an accident, because He is not subject to any accidents; if it were a part of Him (since the part is before the whole) we should be forced to grant that something was before God.  Bedded and bathed in these earthly ordures, thou canst not come near this sovereign Good, nor have any glimpse of the far-off dawning of his unaccessible brightness, no, not so much as the eyes of the birds of the night have of the sun.  Think then, by death that thy shell is broken, and thou then but even hatched; that thou art a pearl, raised from thy mother, to be enchased in gold, and that the deathday of thy body is thy birthday to eternity. 

– William Drummond of Hawthornden, from A Cypress Grove (London: Hawthornden Press, 1919, reprinting the original edition of 1623)