Copper

Jean Fouquet
Self Portrait
ca. 1452-55
enamel on copper
Musée du Louvre

Master K.I.P. (French enameller)
Sacrifice of Noah
ca. 1550
enamel on copper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Lorenzo Sabatini
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1555
oil on copper
Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, Rome

attributed to Pierre Pénicaud
Animals entering Noah's Ark
ca. 1580
enamel on copper
Musée du Louvre

Plautilla Nelli
St Catherine of Siena
before 1589
oil on copper
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Palma il Giovane
St Sebastian
ca. 1590
oil on copper
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Adam Elsheimer
Landscape with St Jerome and an Angel
ca. 1598-1610
oil on copper
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Annibale Carracci and Innocenzo Tacconi
Pietà with Saints
ca. 1603
oil on copper
(portable altarpiece commissioned by Cardinal Farnese)
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Cigoli (Lodovico Cardi)
The Flight into Egypt
ca. 1608-10
oil on copper
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Joachim Wtewael
The Tribute Money
1616
oil on copper
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Jobst Harrich
Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery
1617
oil on copper
Musée du Louvre

Jan Brueghel the Elder
San Pietro Celestino
before 1625
oil on copper
Palazzo Colonna, Rome

Mastelletta (Giovanni Andrea Donducci)
The Deposition
ca. 1630
oil on copper
private collection

Anonymous Lombard Painter after Bernardino Luini
Tobias healing his Father's Blindness
ca. 1630
oil on copper
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Antoine Le Nain
Portraits in an Interior
1647
oil on copper
Musée du Louvre

Balthasar Denner
Head of Veiled Woman
1724
oil on copper
Musée du Louvre

William Grimaldi after Joseph Nollekens
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
1816
enamel on copper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

from Ode to the West Wind

If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;

        If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;

A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share

        The impulse of thy strength, only less free

Than thou, O uncontrollable! if even

        I were as in my boyhood, and could be

The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven,

        As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed

Scarce seemed a vision – I would ne'er have striven

        As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.

– Percy Bysshe Shelley (1819)