Finding

Jean Clouet
Portrait of a Banker
1522
oil on panel
Saint Louis Art Museum

Giuliano Bugiardini
Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1523-25
oil on panel
Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania

Corneille de Lyon
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1540
oil on panel
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Denys Calvaert
Study for Noli me tangere
ca. 1580
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Ludovico Carracci
Holy Family with young St John the Baptist
before 1619
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Pieter Brueghel the Younger
The Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1620
oil on panel
Národní Galerie, Prague

Bernardo Cavallino
The Finding of Moses
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Claude Lorrain
Pastoral Landscape
ca. 1666
drawing
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Gonzales Coques
Philosopher with Sphere
ca. 1670
oil on panel
National Museum, Warsaw

Antonio Zanchi
Almorò Dolfin adoring the Virgin and Child
with St Bellino and St Francis
1683
drawing (study for painting)
British Museum

Gerolamo Brusaferro
Mythological Composition
ca. 1710
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Simon Fokke
Figure of Death
before 1784
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Alexandre Calame
Mountainous Landscape
1853
oil on panel
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Eugène Carrière
Portrait of writer Alphonse Daudet
ca. 1880
oil on canvas
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Jean-Emmanuel van den Bussche
Jacques-Louis David in 1793
drawing Marie-Antoinette in the Tumbril
1900
oil on canvas
Musée de la Révolution française, Vizille

Simon Cooper
Still Life (Shroud)
1993
etching
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Julian Calder
Queen of Scots, Sovereign of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle
and Chief of the Chiefs [in a Balmoral landscape]
2010
C-print
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

from The Shield of War

Not worthy Hector, worthiest of them all,

    Her hope, her joy; his force is now for nought.

O Troy, Troy, Troy, there is no boot but bale;

    The hugy horse within thy walls is brought;

    The turrets fall, thy knights, that whilom fought

        In arms amid the field, are slain in bed,

        Thy gods defiled and all thy honour dead.

The flames upspring and cruelly they creep

    From wall to roof till all to cinders waste;

Some fire the houses where the wretches sleep;

    Some rush in here, some run in there as fast;

    In every where or sword or fire they taste;

        The walls are torn, the towers whirled to the ground;

        There is no mischief but may there be found.

– Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1563)