Saturday, September 12, 2026

Hand-Held

Master of the Holy Kinship (German painter)
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1490-95
oil on panel
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio


Michelangelo Buonarroti
Draped Philosopher
ca. 1495-1505
drawing
British Museum

Master of the Brandon Portraits (Netherlandish painter)
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1510-15
oil on panel
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Polidoro da Caravaggio
Draped Woman carrying Vessel
1524-25
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Quinten Metsys
Portrait of a Canon
ca. 1525-30
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Paolo Pino
Portrait of a Man
1534
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Callisto Piazza
St Catherine of Alexandria
ca. 1540
oil on panel
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Matthys Naiveu
Portrait of a Young Woman
1628
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Adriaen van Ostade
Peasant cutting up a Pig
ca. 1670
ink and watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anna Piattoli
Self Portrait
1776
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Jean-Jacques François Monanteuil
The Old Soldier
1852
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Henri Meunier
Pollet et Vittet - Chocolaterie de Pepinster
ca. 1896
lithograph (poster)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Willard LeRoy Metcalf
The Convalescent
1904
oil on canvas
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Nickolas Muray
Frida Kahlo with Olmec Figure
1939
tri-color carbro print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation)

Pablo Picasso
The Painter
1964
hand-colored lithograph
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Arnold Mesches
The Three Chandeliers
1987
acrylic on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Aliza Nisenbaum
Susanna Paints
2022
oil on canvas
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

from The Lady of Shalott

In the stormy east-wind straining,
The pale yellow woods were waning,
The broad stream in his banks complaining,
Heavily the low sky raining
        Over towered Camelot;
Down she came and found a boat
Beneath a willow left afloat,
And round about the prow she wrote
        The Lady of Shalott.

And down the river's dim expanse
Like some bold seer in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance 
With a glassy countenance
        Did she look to Camelot.
And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
        The Lady of Shalott. 

– Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1832)