Thursday, October 30, 2025

Ornamental

Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano)
Triumphs of Fame, Time and Eternity
ca. 1450
tempera on panel (cassone)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston


Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano)
Triumphs of Love, Chastity and Death
ca. 1450
tempera on panel (cassone)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
Studies of Horses
ca. 1520
drawing
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Patanazzi Family (Urbino)
Pilgrim Flask
(Bacchus personifying Autumn)
ca. 1585-1600
maiolica
British Museum

Caspar Netscher
Woman with Parrot
1666
wash drawing (study for painting)
British Museum

Isaac de Moucheron
Walled Garden at the Château de Honselersdijk
1695
drawing
British Museum

Charles Parrocel
Dragoon of the King's Regiment (France)
before 1752
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

John Hamilton Mortimer
Enraged Monster
ca. 1760-70
drawing (print study)
British Museum

William Young Ottley
Studies of Roman Antiquities
1792
drawing
British Museum

Sigmund Ferdinand von Perger
Bellerophon and Pegasus
1809
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Samuel Palmer
Pear Tree in Walled Garden
ca. 1826
watercolor and gouache on paper
Morgan Library, New York

Georgia O'Keeffe
Music, Pink and Blue no. 2
1918
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Ben Nicholson
Still Life - Winter
1950
oil and graphite on hardboard
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Giorgio Morandi
Still Life
1951
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Harry Nadler
Paintings / Drawings
1971
screenprint (exhibition poster)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Victor Pasmore
Stromboli
1980
aquatint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Pamela Pecchio
Habitation (Still Life with Bill Clinton)
2001
C-print
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Upon a Rare Voice

When I but hear her sing, I fare
Like one that, raised, holds his ear
To some bright star in the supremest round,
Through which, besides the light that's seen,
There may be heard from heaven within
The rests of anthems that the angels sound.

– Owen Feltham (1661)