Zwingli

Carl Herman Pfeiffer Hans Asper

Bahramgur hunting with Fitna (painting recto; text verso), Illustrated folio from a manuscript of Haft Paykar by Nizami.

The Nativity

Unidentified Artist

Bhairavi Ragini, Illustration from a Ragamala (Garden of Melodies) Series

Unknown Artist

You so honest and simple!

Paul Gavarni

The Archbishopric, July 29

Denis-Auguste-Marie Raffet

Folio with an illuminated roundel (blank recto; illumination verso of folio 2), from a manuscript of the Kulliyat of Sa‘di

Three or four wretched pints : that changes the look of things!

Paul Gavarni

Troubles of a Chorus Singer/Cover of sheet music

Frédéric Bouchot

Well! People say that a certain Colonel is marrying . . .

Paul Gavarni

King Cyrus and the Priests Show Baal to Daniel (Dan.14:5-9)

Philips Galle Maarten van Heemskerck

What is the show that you prefer, Mr. Prudhomme?

Paul Gavarni

Caspar Netscher and His Wife

Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger Caspar Netscher

Jephthah sacrificing his daughter to the lord

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Refusal of tax (in housekeeping)

Paul Gavarni

A Jewish Merchant

Moritz Kellerhoven Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

But she is therefore the wife . . .

Paul Gavarni

The Dream of Constantine, after Agnolo Gaddi

Samuel Pendleton Cowardin III Agnolo Gaddi

Naaman, a leper who dipped himself 7 times in the River Jordan and became clean

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Printer's Mark of Johann Friedrich Gleditsch. Leipzig, 1755

Anonymous Germany

Nobleman Crossing a Bridge, from the Kōrin gafu (Kōrin Picture Album)

Nakamura Hōchū 中村芳中 Ômiya Yohei Matsuda Shinsuke

Andromeda (?)

Johann Heinrich Lips

What are virtues in a husband that one loves are faults in a husband one does not love.

Paul Gavarni

Beggar

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Mary with the Child

Anton Heinrich Riedel Anthony van Dyck

Mercury and Argus

Abraham Bloemaert

My aunt Amelia says you're really nice; it's too bad you're so silly.

Paul Gavarni

Travelling Musicians

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Frontispiece: "Hand it over, or you shall not pass."

Denis-Auguste-Marie Raffet

Bust of a Man

Barthholomäus Ignaz Weiss

Scene from Ovid's Metamorphosis

Gerard de Jode

Here's Mr. Granger bringing Madame's sword

Paul Gavarni

Noah Guiding Birds onto the Ark, after an early Italian painting

Joseph Lindon Smith

So this is what you call ready?

Paul Gavarni

Departure for the Ball

Paul Gavarni

Sir Thomas Smith, Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth

Barnet Reading Arnold Houbraken

Christ causing his enemies to Fall

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

You're very silly, Toinon, to come every morning like this. . .

Paul Gavarni

But if a man had been for me . . .

Paul Gavarni

My dear Sir, Caroline charged me to remember you . . .

Paul Gavarni

(In front of the notary) It has to do with a transfer, then . . .

Paul Gavarni

Vignettes of Devotees Worshipping Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva

Death of Atilius Regulus (detail)

Jeremias Wolff Salvator Rosa

Letters to the Hebrews

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Repose in Egypt

Robert van Auden-Aerd Carlo Maratti

Illustrated Manuscript of Layla and Majnun by Nizami

Military Column at the Carmentalis Gate

Giacomo Lauro

Sleeping Cat

Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Müller

William Jacob van's Gravesande

Jacobus Houbraken Jan Wandelaar

Johann Friedrich von Mayer

Johann Carl Barth

Text folio with an illuminated heading (text recto; text with an illuminated heading verso of folio 191), from a manuscript of the Kulliyat of Sa‘di”.

Verde di rabbia

Joseph Beuys Edizioni Factotum-Art, Verona

The Rich Man - Scene from the Story of Jehosophat and Barlaam

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Fortuned, that's not true . . .

Paul Gavarni

Prevailed, my good neighbor, be suspicious . . .

Paul Gavarni

Léon Gatayes

Paul Gavarni

Peter Healing the Sick with his Shadow [Acts 5:15-16]

Philips Galle Maarten van Heemskerck

Reinier Pauw

Jacobus Houbraken Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn

Ch. 9. On obligatory renunciation and self-examination

Anonymous Italy (Ferrara) 1497

The Fates

Pieter Jalhea Furnius Jan van der Straet

Abraham about to Sacrifice Isaac

Anton Heinrich Riedel Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

See, my dear, when a lover begins to become dangerous

Paul Gavarni

Viens voir P'ospèr!

Paul Gavarni

Title-Page of "Missale ad usum ecclesie Sarisburiesis"

Anonymous France (Paris) 1528

Have Pity for an Old Soldier

Denis-Auguste-Marie Raffet

Ulricus Grundherr

Andreas Khol Georg Strauch

St. Sepulchre's Church, Cambridge

John Byrne William Alexander

Rembrandt

Carl Ernst Christoph Hess Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Landscape with Large Tree

Johann Caspar Ulinger

Innocent XIII

Johann Gottfried Pfautz

Betrayal

Anonymous Germany (Augsburg) 1476

Friedrich Josias, Prince of Coburg

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Müller

The Term

Denis-Auguste-Marie Raffet

William, Count of Nassau, Prince of Orange

Christoffel van Sichem I Hendrick Goltzius Karel van Sichem

Three Muslim Women

Rodolphe Bresdin

Group of Men and Horse

Adriaen van de Venne

Beggar

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

A Man Sitting Next to a Road Sign

Joseph Fussell

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel George van der Myn

Pratap Singh of Ghanerao with Courtiers

Geese Amidst Reeds

Yi Su-min

Sketch of Dog with Puppies

John Singer Sargent

Bear and Dogs

Marcus de Bye Paulus Potter

Flute-player

Albert Meyeringh

Tecmessa, Her Son, and Teucer Lamenting the Death of Ajax

Carl Russ

Shepherd with Sheep

Rodolphe Bresdin

Boy Holding an Egg

François Boucher

Dandelions and Flowers, from the Kōrin gafu (Kōrin Picture Album)

Nakamura Hōchū 中村芳中 Ômiya Yohei Matsuda Shinsuke

Life 2

Noriko Saitō

Death and the Youth, from the portfolio "Dance of Death"

Lovis Corinth