Fours

Helen Levitt
New York
ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Louise Nevelson
Ancient Secrets
1964
painted wood
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Michelangelo Pistoletto
Sacra Conversazione
1963
painted tissue paper on stainless steel
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Quentin Massys
Virgin and Child with St Elizabeth
and young St John the Baptist
ca. 1520-25
oil on panel
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Francesco Maffei
Sheet of Figure Studies
ca. 1650-60
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Albrecht Altdorfer
The Baggage Train
ca. 1516-18
woodcut (four joined sheets)
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Leonard Freed
New York City
1966
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anne-Louis Girodet
Malvina and the Bards
(scene from the Ossian saga)
ca. 1802
oil on panel
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Julia Margaret Cameron
Summer Days
ca. 1866-69
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Franz Antoine
Alfons, Eugen, Marie and Hermine Antoine
ca. 1860
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jean-François Lorta
Set of floor-standing Candelabra
ca. 1788
gilt bronze, supported by marble statues representing the Four Seasons
Musée du Louvre

Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Caryatids for the Albright-Knox Gallery
1905-1906
marble
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Jannis Kounellis
Untitled
1960
tempera and acrylic on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

François-Joseph Navez
Musical Family
1821
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Winslow Homer
Undertow
1886
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Anonymous Italian Artist
Dead Christ mourned by personified Theological Virtues
ca. 1450-1500
hardwood relief
Musée du Louvre

Joan Mitchell
Salut, Tom!
1979
oil paint on four joined canvases
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC