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| Jacquemart de Hesdin Via Crucis 1409 tempera on vellum (manuscript illumination) Musée du Louvre |
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| attributed to Gerard Horenbout Adoration of the Magi ca. 1515-25 tempera on vellum (leaf from prayer book) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Gerard Horenbout Scenes from the Life of St John the Baptist ca. 1515-25 tempera on vellum (leaf from prayer book) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Hans Hoffmann Hare ca. 1585-90 watercolor and gouache on vellum Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Isaac Oliver Miniature Portrait of an Elderly Man 1588 watercolor on vellum Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Giovanna Garzoni Penitent Magdalen in the Desert ca. 1642-50 gouache on vellum Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Giovanna Garzoni St John the Baptist in the Wilderness ca. 1642-50 gouache on vellum Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| John Hoskins Miniature Portrait of Lady Margaret Coventry 1655 watercolor on vellum Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Lievin Cruyl St Peter's Basilica & Piazza, Rome ca. 1664-70 ink and wash on vellum British Museum |
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| Frans van Mieris the Elder Self Portrait 1667 charcoal on vellum British Museum |
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| Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt Portrait of a Woman before 1691 graphite on vellum British Museum |
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| Anonymous Venetian Artist Portrait of a Venetian Senator 18th century watercolor on vellum British Museum |
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| John Faber the Elder Portrait of Queen Anne 1711 ink on vellum British Museum |
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| attributed to Elisabeth Ziesenis Miniature Portrait of Augusta, Princess of Wales 1736 gouache on vellum Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| François-Xavier Vispré Man reclining on a sofa and reading 1750 pastel on vellum Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Isabella Bozzolini Cabinet Miniature of Salome ca. 1810 oil on vellum Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Ed Moses Untitled 2004 acrylic on vellum Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
There is a portrait of Lloyd George shown on a page of this issue of "L'Illustration." A footman stands at attention in front of him. The footman has a chestful of medals. The footman gets these medals from Lloyd George because he does what he is ordered to do. Lloyd George stands behind and is about to make a gesture to make everybody laugh. Lloyd George always resorts to that trick. Lloyd George is funny. That is true, but his smile is wicked. Lloyd George's smile reminds one of Diaghilev's smiles. I know Diaghilev's smiles. All Diaghilev's smiles are artificial. My little girl has learned to smile like Diaghilev. I have taught her because I want her to give Diaghilev a smile when he visits me. I do not want to tell my wife anything, because she will be frightened if she discovers my intentions. I will tell her when everybody knows. I tell her that all I am writing is memoirs. I do not want to write my memoirs. I write everything that has been and everything that is. I am the present and not what has been.
– from The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, written in Russian in 1919, translated by Kyril FitzLyon and edited by Joan Acocella (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)