Tight-Rope Walker
Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931) · c. 1885
Dovizia (Plenty)
Giovanni della Robbia (Italian, 1469–1529/30) · c. 1520–29
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890
The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1867
Julius Caesar
Mino da Fiesole (Italian, c. 1430–1484) · c. 1455–60
Portrait of a Girl
Sampson Towgood Roch · ca. 1790
Portrait of a Man with Gray Hair
Henry Raeburn (Scottish, 1756–1823) · 1810–20
The Flirtatious Type, from Ten Types in the Physiognomy of Women
Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806) · c. 1793
Irises
Vincent van Gogh · 1890
Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières)
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1887
Flower Study of a Violet
House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918) · c. 1885–1915
Cranes on snow-covered pine
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 · c. 1834
Willow-and-Moon Kannon (Yōryū Kannon)
Gakuō Zōkyū (Japanese, active about 1482–1514) · c. 1500
Woman Bathing
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926) · 1890–91
Vue générale prise à l'angle sud-ouest, Philoe
Maxime Du Camp (French, 1822–1894) · 1849–50
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34
Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist)
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1897
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Fourth Print from A Low Tide Pentaptych
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861) · c. 1830
Flower Clouds
Odilon Redon · c. 1903
South Wind, Clear Sky, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849) · early 1830s
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz · 1918
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95
Panel
France · c. 1724/27
Fata Morgana
Giambologna (Flemish, active Italy, 1529–1608) · c. 1572
Bust of Anne-Marie-Louise Thomas de Domangeville de Sérilly, Comtesse de Pange
Jean Antoine Houdon (French, 1741–1828) · 1780
Portrait of Mary Wise
Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788) · c. 1774
Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh · 1887
Two Border Fragments
Spain · Late 16th/early 17th century
Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir
Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788) · c. 1782–1783
Mountain Brook
Albert Bierstadt (American, born Solingen, Prussia, now Germany, 1830–1902) · 1863
River Village: Fisherman's Joy
Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254–1322) · c. 1302–3
The Bedroom
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1889
Portrait of a Man, Possibly Girolamo Rosati
Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, 1480–1556) · 1533–34
A Burgher of Calais (Jean d'Aire)
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) · Modeled 1889
Spring Flowers
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1864
Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water
James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) · 1872
The Red Kerchief
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · c. 1868–73
Kohada Koheiji, from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)"
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 (Japanese, 1760-1849) · 1831-32
Portrait of a Woman
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) · 1635 or earlier
Portrait of an Artist
Follower of Frans Hals (Dutch, 1582–1666) · 1644
First Print from A Low Tide Pentaptych
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861) · c. 1830
Madame de Pastoret and Her Son
Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825) · 1791–92
Interior of the Pantheon, Rome
Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, 1691–1765) · 1747
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz · 1918
Paintings after Ancient Masters: Laozi Riding an Ox
Chen Hongshou (Chinese, 1598/99–1652) · 1598–1652
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Luca Giordano (Italian, 1632–1705) · c. 1675
Portrait of John D. Rockefeller
William C. North (American, 1814–1890) · 1857–58
Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands and Thimble
Alfred Stieglitz · 1919
Interior
Gwen John (British, 1876–1939) · 1915
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.
Marcus Aurelius
Third Print from A Low Tide Pentaptych
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861) · c. 1830
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz · 1933
Flower Study of an Anemone
Henrik Wigström (Russian, 1862–1923) · c. 1905–15
On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1868
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Panel (Furnishing Fabric)
Printed at Bannister Hall Print Works (English, active 1799-1840) · c. 1815
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835
Second Print from A Low Tide Pentaptych
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861) · c. 1830
Woman with a Muff
Georges Seurat · c. 1884
Pine Wind from Myriad Villages
Wu Li (Chinese, 1632–1718) · late 1600s–1718
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.
Jane Austen
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz · 1918
Interior of a Synagogue
Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667–1749) · c. 1725–35
Fragments
France, Lyon · c. 1725
Water Container with Peonies
Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914) · 1900–1914
Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Claude Monet
Paul Paulin (French, 1852–1937) · late 1800s-early 1900s
A Marine
George Inness (American, 1825–1894) · c. 1874–75
Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe, 1882
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1882
Portrait of Edouard Molé
Robert Nanteuil · 1653
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
Seneca
Portrait of Renoir
Frédéric Bazille (French, 1841–1870) · 1867
Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La berceuse)
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1889
Gardener's House at Antibes
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1888
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635
Village Among the Trees
Unknown artist · c. 1560
Driving Rain at Shōno, from Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaidō
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858) · 1833
Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn)
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1890–91
Landscape with Fishermen
Yi Bul-hae (Korean, active 1500s) · 1600s
Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s
Prater Landscape
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793–1865) · c. 1831
After a Summer Shower
George Inness (American, 1825–1894) · 1894
Mosaique: The Imperial Court of Napoleon III
André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, 1819–1889) · c. 1866
Capture of the Tripoli by the Enterprise
Thomas Birch · 1806–12
Study for The Blessed Alessandro Sauli
Pierre Puget (French, 1620–1694) · 1663–1668
Final Study for "Bathers at Asnières"
Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891) · 1883
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze · 1851
Allegory of the Planets and Continents
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye:
William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874
"Hope" is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all,
Emily Dickinson, Hope is the thing with feathers
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson