Monday, September 14, 2026

Hand-Held

Michael Sittow
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1505
oil on panel
Groeningemuseum, Bruges


Jan van Scorel
Portrait of a Youth
ca. 1522-24
oil on panel
Denver Art Museum

Jan van Scorel
Virgin and Child
ca. 1530
oil on panel
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Pieter Claesz Soutman
Young Man holding a Staff
1640
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Sassoferrato (Giovanni Battista Salvi)
St Catherine of Siena with the Christ Child
before 1685
oil on canvas
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

Aert Schouman after Adriaen van der Werff
Flight into Egypt
ca. 1740
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Marie-Philippe Coupin de La Couperie for Sèvres Manufactory
Liberty given to Danzig
(allegorical scene with Napoleon Bonaparte)
1809
porcelain plaque
Musée du Louvre

Raimund von Stillfried
Fille de Sootchow
ca. 1870-80
hand-colored albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Joseph Simpson
Portrait of General French
ca. 1901
watercolor and gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Walter Sickert
Mrs William Hulton née Costanza Mazini
1901
colored chalks on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

James Jebusa Shannon
Portrait of Nora McMullen Mellon
1910
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC


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Ben Shahn
Jesus exalted in Song
1939
tempera on cardboard
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Louis Stettner
Subway, New York
1946
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Raymond Savignac
Astral Peinture Émail
1949
offset-lithograph (poster)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

George Segal
Girl Putting on an Earring
1967
plaster and found objects
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Joan Semmel
Double Take
1991
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Hugh Steers
Black Gift
1991
oil on paper
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

"It seems to be a kind of objection against the immortality of the soul to consider the trifling accidents of marriage, copulation, etc., that bring men into life."

– David Hume, from Memoranda (ca. 1737)