Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Hand-Held

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
Jan Gerritsz Egmond van den Nijenburg
ca. 1518-20
oil on panel
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Jacob Bunel
Flute Player
1591
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Bernardo Cavallino
St Catherine of Alexandria
ca. 1645-50
oil on canvas
Barber Institute of Fine Arts,
University of Birmingham, West Midlands

Emanuel de Critz
Portrait of painter Oliver de Critz
ca. 1646
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Antoine Coysevox
The Seine
1706
marble
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin
Young Draughtsman
1737
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Alexandre Cabanel
St Augustine
1845
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Walter Crane
Mrs Ingram Bywater
1872
gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Mary Cassatt
Woman with a Fan
ca. 1878-79
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

André Derain
Harlequin
1919
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Harry Burton
Preparing Statue for Transport (Tomb of Tutankhamun)
1923
gelatin silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

James Cowie
The Yellow Glove
1928
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Imogen Cunningham
Haru Asawa
1966
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

John Byrne
Self Portrait
ca. 1971-73
oil on board
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Joan Brown
The Bicentennial Champion
1976
oil and enamel on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Igor
1987
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

John Currin
The Gardeners
2001
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Against Hypocrisy

As are those apples, pleasant to the eye,
But full of smoke within, which use to grow
Near that strange lake, where God poured from the sky
Huge showers of flames, worse flames to overthrow:
Such are their works that with a glaring show
Of humble holiness, in virtue's dye
Would colour mischief, while within they glow
With coals of sin, though none the smoke decry. 
Ill is that angel which erst fell from Heaven,
But not more ill than he nor in worse case
Who hides a trait'rous mind with smiling face
And with a dove's white feathers masks a raven:
        Each sin some colour hath it to adorn,
        Hypocrisy almighty God doth scorn.

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (1623)