Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Hand-Held

Bernhard Strigel
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1515
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna


Jan Swart van Groningen
Allegorical Figure of Temperance
before 1553
drawing
British Museum

Pelegrino Tibaldi and Giovanni Pietro Gnocchi
St Paul
(executed by Gnocchi after cartoon by Tibaldi)
1585
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Niccolò Tornioli
Prophets Jeremiah and Baruch
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Justus Sustermans
Domenica delle Cascine, la Cecca di Pratolino
and Pietro Moro (Medici Servants)

ca. 1634
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Bernardo Strozzi
St Jerome
ca. 1640
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

David Teniers the Younger
Tavern Scene with Self Portrait
1646
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Michiel Sweerts
Woman Spinning
ca. 1656
oil on canvas
Museum Gouda, Netherlands

Abraham van den Tempel
Family Portrait
1672
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Pietro della Vecchia
Vaso di Pandora
before 1678
oil on canvas
Museo del Settecento Veneziano,
Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Lady with a Dog
1891
oil on cardboard
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Alfred Swieykowski
Man with Basket
1895
oil on canvas
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Janet Turner
The Older Student
ca. 1956
etching and aquatint
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Arthur Tress
Bystanders at Demonstration, San Francisco
1964
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation)

Shomei Tomatsu
Untitled
1966
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Larry Sultan
Film Still from the Sultan Family Home Movies
ca. 1970
C-print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Akiyoshi Taniguchi
Picnic in Central Park in Manhattan, New York
1983
inkjet print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

"The remedy of every inconvenience would become a new one.  No solution.  Comparison from a work planned with genius, where chance strikes out beauties."

– David Hume, from Memoranda (ca. 1737)