Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Level - II

Jean-Raymond-Hippolyte Lazerges
Reverie
1883
oil on canvas
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne

Roman Egypt
Mummy Portrait of Woman
AD 125-150
encaustic on wood
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Adam von Bartsch
Self Portrait
1785
etching
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg

Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Portrait of Franziska, Prinzessin Biron von Kurland
1850
oil on canvas
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

Marie Bracquemond
Self Portrait
cga. 1870
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen

Antonio Pazzi after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia
Portrait of artist Christian Seybold
ca. 1730
engraving
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Fernand Cormon
Portrait of Mademoiselle Rochefort de Woogt
ca. 1900
oil on canvas
Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Portrait of Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just
1793
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Claude Mellan
Self Portrait
ca. 1642
engraving
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg

Jules-Emmanuel Valadon
Portrait of Émile-Joseph Rignault
1894
oil on canvas
Musée Calvet, Avignon

Wilhelm Schadow
Portrait of Wilhelmine Luise, Princess of Prussia
ca. 1840
oil on canvas
Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau

Wenceslaus Hollar
Portrait of a Woman
1636
etching
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Ottavio Leoni
Self Portrait
1625
etching and engraving
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Giovanni Battista Betti after Ignazio Enrico Hugford
Portrait of artist Jacopo da Empoli
ca. 1775
engraving
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome

Dirck Dircksz Santvoort
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1635-40
oil on panel
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Anders Zorn
Portrait of arts patron Pontus Fürstenberg
1898
oil on canvas
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden

On a Picture of Pan – This, our dearest one, is the issue of the loins of Zeus himself and the cloud over his head testifies to it.  For Zeus the cloud-gatherer begot Hermes the King, and Hermes begot Pan the goat-herd. 

On the Statue of Pan created by Miltiades – Miltiades erected me, goat-footed Pan, the Arcadian, the foe of the Medes, the friend of the Athenians. 

On the Statue of Pan created by Miltiades – The walker in the woods, the lover of the trees, the spouse of Echo who dwells on the hills, I, Pan, the scout, the keeper of the horned flock of sheep, Pan with the shaggy legs, the fruitful god, I who, leaving my home, ran to meet the warlike Assyrians in battle, fellow-soldier and pursuer of the Persians, in return for my unsummoned succour.  Let others stand on citadels, but Marathon, which slew the Medes, is the common portion of myself and the men who fought at Marathon. 

On a Statue of Pan – I am the country-folk's god.  Why do you shed for me offerings from cups of gold, and pour me out strong Italian wine, and bind to the stone the curved necks of bulls?  Spare your pains; I take no pleasure in such sacrifices.  I, Pan, the dweller on the mountains, carved from a tree-trunk, am a feaster on mutton, and drink my must from a bowl of clay. 

On a Picture of unarmed Artemis A. "Artemis, where are thy bow and the quiver that hung from thy neck? Where are thy Cretan hunting-boots and the buckle wrought of gold that gathers up thy purple robe as high as thy knee?"  B. "That is the armour I don for the chase, but to my sacrifices I go as I am, to meet the holy incense cloud."

On a Statue of Hermes by the Roadside – Men who pass by me have heaped up a pile of stones sacred to Hermes, and I, in return for their small kindness, give them no great thanks, but only say that it is seven stadia more to Goat Fountain.

– from Book XVI (Epigrams of the Planudean Anthology) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1918)