Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Masked

Anonymous French Sculptor
Mask of Satyr
17th century
marble
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts


Henri Matisse
Open Window, Collioure
1905
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Franz Antoine
Family Group in a Garden
ca. 1860
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Joe Zucker
Octopus 2
1981
acrylic and resin on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Anonymous French Sculptor
Head of a King
ca. 1225-50
limestone
(detached from statue during the French-Revolution)
Musée du Louvre

Henri Matisse
Pot of Geraniums
1912
oil on linen
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Franz Antoine
Hermine and Marie Antoine
ca. 1862
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Larry Zox
Decorah (Single Gemini Series)
1968
acrylic on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous French Sculptor
Head of St Peter
ca. 1130-60
stone
(detached from lost statue)
Musée du Louvre

Henri Matisse
Reader on Black Ground
1939
oil on canvas
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

Franz Antoine
Hofrat Raymond
ca. 1855
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Thornton Willis
Sharon's Dream
1980
oilstick on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Anonymous French Sculptor
Head of a Knight
ca. 1300
limestone
(detached-from tomb figure by Protestant rioters)
Musée du Louvre

Henri Matisse
Romanian Blouse
1937
oil on canvas
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Franz Antoine
Mathias Häusermann
ca. 1860
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jack Youngerman
Delfina
1961
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Anonymous French Sculptor
Ornamental Mask
ca. 1580
painted terracotta
(fragment from chimneypiece)
Musée du Louvre

On the Lady Mary Villiers

The Lady Mary Villiers lies
Under this stone; with weeping eyes
The parents that first gave her birth,
And their sad friends, laid her in earth.
If any of them, Reader, were
Known unto thee, shed a tear;
Of if thyself possess a gem
As dear to thee, as this to them,
Though a stranger to this place,
Bewail in theirs thine own hard case:
        For thou perhaps at thy return
        Mayst find thy Darling in an urn. 

– Thomas Carew (1595-1640)