Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Headgear

Pierre Dumonstier
Young Man in a Polish Cap
ca. 1580
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna


Louise Hersent
Portrait of Madame de Fumel
1816
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

George Perfect Harding after Anonymous Master
Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford (1362-1392)
before 1853
watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Joseph Théodore Deck
Landsknecht
ca. 1880
glazed earthenware plate
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

Hubert von Herkomer
Invitation to Private View at Goupil Galleries, London
1881
etching
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Karl Gussow
Portrait of a Young Woman
1881
oil on panel
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Charles Noel Flagg
The Poke Bonnet
1883
oil on canvas
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Frederick Warren Freer
Honeysuckle
1887
etching and drypoint, printed on silk
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Emanuel Phillips Fox
Sunlight Effect
ca. 1889
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Rudolf Eickemeyer
Mrs Peter Martin, San Francisco
1904
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Frank Duveneck
Lady with a Red Hat
ca. 1904
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Gerhardt Frankl
Portrait of art historian Heinrich Benesch
ca. 1924
oil on canvas
Leopold Museum, Vienna

Arthur William Heintzelman
Clown
ca. 1935
etching
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Grigory Gluckmann
The Confidantes
1948
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Sidney Goodman
Bride Profile
1962
charcoal on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Larry Fink
Woman on Fifth Avenue
1990
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Tim Gardner
Tobi on the Red River
2006
pastel on paper, mounted on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

from The Teare

                Such a Pearle as this is,
            (Slipt from Aurora's dewy breast)
                The Rose buds sweet lip kisses;
            And such the Rose its selfe when vext
With ungentle flame, does shed,
Sweating in too warme a Bed.

                Such the Maiden Gemme
            By the wanton Spring put on,
                Peeps from her Parent stemme,
            And blushes on the manly Sun:
This watry Blossome of thy Eyne
Ripe, will make the richer Wine.

                Faire Drop, why quak'st thou so?
            'Cause thou streight must lay thy Head
                In the Dust? ô no; 
            The Dust shall never bee thy Bed:
A pillow for thee will I bring,
Stuft with Downe of Angels wing.

                Thus carryed up on high,
            (For to Heaven thou must goe)
                Sweetly shalt thou lye,
            And in soft slumbers bath thy woe;
Till the singing Orbes awake thee,
And one of their bright Chorus make thee.

                There thy selfe shalt bee
            An eye, but not a weeping one,
                Yet I doubt of thee,
            Whither th' hadst rather there have shone
An eye of Heaven; or still shine here
In th' Heaven of Mary's eye, a Teare.

– Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (1648)