Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Ornamental

workshop of Jan van Eyck
Portrait Study of a Man
ca. 1430-40
drawing
British Museum


Adrien Ysenbrandt
Young Man with a Rosary
before 1551
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Giovanni Battista Ferrari after Pietro da Cortona
Frontispiece to The Hesperides
1646
hand-colored engraving
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Boy seated on the ground
ca. 1655
drawing
British Museum

Ciro Ferri
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
ca. 1670-80
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Allaert van Everdingen
Landscape with Ruined Castle and Plank Bridge
before 1675
drawing
British Museum

Giovanni Battista Falda
Plan of the Vatican Gardens as laid out under Pope Sixtus V (died 1590)
before 1678
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Pietro Fancelli
Draped Woman leaning on Balustrade
ca. 1800
drawing
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Émile Faivre
Head of Youth
before 1868
drawing
British Museum

Anselm Feuerbach
Study for a Venetian Scene
ca. 1877
watercolor on paper
British Museum

George Wilson
The Spring Witch
ca. 1880
oil on canvas
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Williams, Brown & Earle (Philadelphia)
Fontanella delle Api, Piazza Barberini, Rome
ca. 1910
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Abel Faivre
Entrez!
Marianne at table [personification of France] with black-hung portrait of Armand Fallières,
defeated for President of the Republic by Raymond Poincaré, who knocks at the door
1913
lithograph
(magazine illustration for Le Rire)
Universitätsbibliothek, Heidelberg

Paul Wonner
Girl in Swing
1957
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Emerson Woelffer
Portrait of Max Ernst
1970
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Joel-Peter Witkin
Androgyny Breast-Feeding a Fetus
1981
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Kate Lucey Whitney
Garden Shed at The Whim, Newport, Rhode Island
2010
digital photograph
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Viola's Song

    Wake all the dead! What ho! What ho!
How soundly they sleep whose pillows lie low!
They mind not poor lovers who walk above
On the decks of the world in storms of love.
    No whisper now or glance can pass
    Through wickets or through panes of glass;
For our windows and doors are shut and barred.
Lie close in the church, and in the churchyard.
    In every grave make room, make room!
The world's at an end, and we come, we come.

    The state is now love's foe, love's foe;
Has seized on his arms, his quiver and bow;
Has pinioned his wings, and fettered his feet,
Because he made way for lovers to meet.
    But O sad chance, his judge was old;
    Hearts cruel grow, when blood grows cold.
No man being young his process would draw.
O heavens that love should be subject to law!
    Lovers go woo the dead, the dead!
Lie two in a grave, and to bed, to bed!

– Sir William Davenant (1673)