Fours

James Nevay after Guercino
Four Head Studies
1764
etchings (after drawings)
British Museum

Joel Meyerowitz
Mothers and Daughters
1987
C-print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Anonymous Photographer
Family Group - Newport, Rhode Island
ca. 1880
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

François Aubert
Emperor Maximilian in his Coffin
1867
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Joseph von Führich
The Virgin as the new Eve
1856
oil on panel
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Aniello Falcone
Virgin and Child with St Elizabeth
and young St John the Baptist
ca. 1640
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Meyer Isaac de Haan
Talmudic Anatomy
1880
oil on canvas
Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

Jonas Umbach
Old Man driving away Treasure-Seekers among Classical Ruins
ca. 1690
etching
British Museum

Anonymous Italian Sculptor
Group of Men
ca. 1300-1350
marble relief (tomb element)
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Guillaume Lethière
Dramatic Classical Scene
ca. 1795
drawing
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Monogrammist H.H.R.
Query - A Cracked or Base Sovereign
(satire against William IV [at right] as unworthy to be King)
1830
hand-colored etching
British Museum

Ferdinand Kobell
Études d'après nature
ca. 1770-75
etchings
British Museum

Sol LeWitt
Color Bands
2000
linocut
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Jean-Baptiste Regnault
The Deluge
1780
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Palma il Vecchio
Virgin and Child with St Roch and St Aurea
ca. 1515
oil on panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Jean-Baptiste Oscar Mallitte
Group Portrait at the Governor-General's Camp
ca. 1858-61
albumen silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacques Lowe
Children's Table
ca. 1960
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

This place is the Cyprian's for she has ever the fancy

To be looking out across the bright sea,

Therefore the sailors are cheered, and the waves

Keep small with reverence, beholding her image. 

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Ezra Pound