Monday, February 23, 2026

Concert

Gerrit van Honthorst
Concert on a Balcony
1624
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre


Jean-Antoine Houdon
Constance Marie de Theis, princesse de Salm-Dyck
ca. 1803
plaster bust
Musée du Louvre

Juan de Flandes
Birth and Naming of St John the Baptist
ca. 1496-99
oil on panel
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Charles Keene
Madame Zambaco drawing
ca. 1855
etching
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Giovanni Domenico Lombardi (l'Omino)
Concert
ca. 1720-25
oil on canvas
private collection

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Portrait of Denis Diderot
1771
terracotta bust
Musée du Louvre

Juan de Flandes
Nativity
ca. 1508
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Charles Keene
Sketch of Passengers
ca. 1875
drawing (print study)
British Museum

Leonello Spada
The Concert
ca. 1615
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Portrait of Sophie Arnould
1775
marble bust
Musée du Louvre

Juan de Flandes
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1508
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Charles Keene
Garden Scene
ca. 1880
drawing (sketch for illustration in Punch)
British Museum

Abraham van der Schoor
Concert
ca. 1662
oil on canvas
National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Portrait of Voltaire
1778
marble bust
Musée du Louvre

Juan de Flandes
Baptism of Christ
ca. 1508
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Charles Keene
Study of Hands holding Musket
1862
drawing (print study for magazine illustration)
British Museum

Gaspare Traversi
The Concert
ca, 1755-60
oil on canvas
Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples

from the field's plane tree
Telemon wolf-killer hangs
this hide this wild olive
staff he threw so often

bless him woodland god
by taking these poor gifts
by giving him hunting rights
where you rule, this mountain

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Dennis Schmitz