Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Level - III

Félix Vallotton
Portrait of Stéphane Nathanson
1897
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Nicolas de Largillière
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1715
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes

Lié-Louis Périn
Portrait of Madame Périn-Lenfumé
1804
(after a miniature of 1749)
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret
Portrait of Johannes de Stuers
1897
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Rosalba Carriera
Portrait of poet Giambattista Recanati
ca. 1720
pastel on paper
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Erich Dummer
Portrait of Hildegard Heise
ca. 1925
oil on canvas
Museum Behnhaus, Lübeck

Joseph de Saint-Michel
Portrait of Marquis Henri Bernard Catherine de Sape
1764
(later guillotined)
pastel on paper
Musée Paul Dupuy, Toulouse

Wilhelm Dachauer
Portrait of architect Alexander Popp
1943
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Heinrich Grahn
Portrait of a Bridegroom
1832
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Johann Appelius
Woman with Mask
1753
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
Portrait of Catharina von Koudelka
ca. 1821-22
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

George Bellows
Portrait of Florence Sittenham Davey
(Mrs Randall Davey)

1914
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anton Räderscheidt
Portrait of Dr Hans Schmitt-Rost
1950
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Pieter de Jode the Younger
after Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of scholar Theodore van Tulden
ca. 1630-40
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Nicolas van Haften
Democritus
(the Laughing Philosopher)
1702
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Leopold Kupelwieser
Portrait of a Woman
1827
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

On a Statue of Hermes – The place where I dwell is steep and desert, traveller; it is no fault of mine, but of Archelochus who set me up.  For Hermes, Sir, is no lover of the mountains, no dweller on the hill-tops, but rather takes delight in roads; but Archelochus, being himself a lover of solitude and without neighbours, settled me, O passer-by, beside him, making me even as he is. 

On a Statue of Pan – In the fane of Dictynna, where blaze the altar fires, did the Cretan erect me such as you see me in bronze, goat-footed Pan.  I wear a skin and carry two hare-staves, and from the cave in the rock gaze with both eyes at the hill.

On the Statue of Pan on the Athenian Acropolis – On the citadel of Pallas did the Athenians set me up, trophy-bearing Pan wrought of Parian marble. 

On Statues of Pan, the Nymphs and Danae – Goat-footed Pan with the wine-skin on his shoulder, and the Nymphs, and lovely Danae are all by Praxiteles.  They are all of marble, and the hands that wrought them were supremely skilled.  Momus himself will cry out, "Father Zeus, this was perfect skill."

On a Statue of Priapus – If I, Priapus, see you stepping near the kale, you thief, I will uncover your nakedness by the kale-bed itself.  You will say that this is a shameful duty for a god to have.  I know myself that it is shameful, but I would have you know that for this purpose I was set up.  

On a Statue of Priapus – I, Priapus, stand as a guardian at the meeting of the roads, my club standing straight out from my thighs.  For Theocritus set me up to serve him faithfully.  But keep your distance, Sir thief, lest you weep, receiving this full part of me.   

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