Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Hand-Held

Anonymous French Painter
Man with Glass of Wine
ca. 1450-75
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre


Joos van Wassenhove
Ancient Greek lawgiver Solon
(painted for Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino)
ca. 1475
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous German Painter
Portrait of a Woman Courtier
wearing the Order of the Swan

ca. 1490
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Anonymous German Painter
Mary Magdalen
ca. 1515-30
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Anonymous English Painter
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I
ca. 1588
oil on panel
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio

Diego Velázquez
An Old Woman Cooking Eggs
1618
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

François Verwilt
Portrait of a Young Woman as the Virgin Mary
ca. 1660
oil on canvas
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun
La Paix ramenant l'Abondance
1780
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Antoine Vestier
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1785
oil on canvas
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
Portrait of cartographer Josef Jüttner and his Wife
1824
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Nicola Vianelli
Shepherds playing Bagpipes and Haut Bois
ca. 1836
watercolor and graphite on paper
British Museum

Anonymous English Photographer
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1850
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Frederick Walker
The Old Cottage Garden
ca. 1865-75
watercolor and gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anders Zorn
Portrait of art collector Hugo Reisinger
1907
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

William Passenham Caton Woodville
Leisure Hour
1914
oil on canvas
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Tadanori Yokoo
This is America 
1968
offset-lithograph
(poster for series of Japanese newspaper stories)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jonas Wood
Robin with Phoebe
2008
gouache and colored pencil on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

"Four kinds of atheists according to Cudworth, the Democritic or atomical, the Anaximandrian or hylopathian, the Stratonic or hylozoic, the Stoic or cosmo-plastic.  To which he might have added the Pyrrhonian or sceptic.  And the Spinozist or metaphysical.  One might perhaps add the Anaxagorian or chymical."

– David Hume, from Memoranda (ca. 1737)