Sakanoshita, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 · c. 1806
Mosaique: The Imperial Court of Napoleon III
André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, 1819–1889) · c. 1866
Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh · 1887
Portrait of Agostino Barbarigo
Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588) · after c. 1571
Roses in a Vase
Georges Seurat · 1881/83
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635
The Child's Bath
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926) · 1893
Cloudy Mountains
Mi Youren (Chinese, 1072–1151) · 1130
Landscape
Jean Charles Cazin (French, 1841–1901) · c. 1895
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
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Interior of the Pantheon, Rome
Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, 1691–1765) · 1747
Cranes on snow-covered pine
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 · c. 1834
Portrait of Tieleman Roosterman
Frans Hals (Dutch, c. 1581–1666) · 1634
Fragment
Europe · 1601/25
Entrance to the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai
Captain Linnaeus Tripe (British, 1822–1902) · 1858
Panel (Furnishing Fabric)
Printed at Bannister Hall Print Works (English, active 1799-1840) · c. 1815
Pine Wind from Myriad Villages
Wu Li (Chinese, 1632–1718) · late 1600s–1718
Sleepy Nicolle
Mary Cassatt · c. 1900
Moon Viewing, from The Tale of Heike
Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716–1783) · 1700s
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653
Panel
France · c. 1724/27
The Age of Bronze
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) · 1875–76
Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834, October 2, 1834, plate 24 from L’Association mensuelle
Honoré Victorin Daumier · October 2, 1834
Darjeeling. Kinchinjunga and the Snows from Beechwood Park
Photoglob Co. (Zurich, active c. 1890–1910) · 1890
Village Among the Trees
Unknown artist · c. 1560
View of Ste-Adrese Beach with the Dumont Baths
Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1884) · 1856
The Print Collector
Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808–1879) · c. 1860
Fifth Print from A Low Tide Pentaptych
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861) · c. 1830
Panel (Furnishing Fabric)
Printed at Bannister Hall Print Works (English, active 1799-1840) · c. 1815
Flower Pyramid
Adrianus Kocx (Dutch, active 1686–1701) · c. 1690
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz · 1919/21
Interior Drawer for Cabinet
André-Charles Boulle (French, 1642–1732) · c. 1690
Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn)
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1890–91
Interior with Pink Wallpaper II
Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940) · 1899
Mother's Goodnight Kiss
Mary Cassatt · 1888
Garden for Solitary Enjoyment
Qiu Ying (Chinese, 1494–1552) · 1515–52
Shower Below the Summit (Sanka hakuu), from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 · c. 1830/33
Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · c. 1915–26
Seated Woman with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte)
Georges Seurat · 1884/85
Flower Study of a Lowbush Cranberry or Lingonberry
House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918) · c. 1885–1915
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz · 1918
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Water Container with Peonies
Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914) · 1900–1914
Woman Walking with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte)
Georges Seurat · 1884
The d’Orléans Family during a Fête Champêtre at Orléans House
Camille Silvy (French, 1834–1910) · 1864
Portrait of an Artist
Follower of Frans Hals (Dutch, 1582–1666) · 1644
Interior with Pink Wallpaper I
Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940) · 1899
Portrait of a Man with Gray Hair
Henry Raeburn (Scottish, 1756–1823) · 1810–20
Portrait of Mary Wise
Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788) · c. 1774
At Mouquin's
William Glackens (American, 1870–1938) · 1905
Landscape with Fishermen
Yi Bul-hae (Korean, active 1500s) · 1600s
Portrait of Edouard Molé
Robert Nanteuil · 1653
Virgin and Child in a Landscape
Jan Gossaert (Flemish, c. 1475/78–1532) · 1531
Hara, from the series ""Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)""
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 · c. 1806
Dovizia (Plenty)
Giovanni della Robbia (Italian, 1469–1529/30) · c. 1520–29
Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La berceuse)
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) · 1889
"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
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
Allegory of the Planets and Continents
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752
Portrait of John D. Rockefeller
William C. North (American, 1814–1890) · 1857–58
Landscape with Figures
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña (French, 1807–1876) · c. 1870
Shepherds in a Landscape
Giulio Campagnola (Italian, 1482–1515) · c. 1517
New England Scenery
Thomas Cole (American, born England, 1801–1848) · 1839
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835
Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist)
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1897
Portrait of a Man, Possibly Girolamo Rosati
Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, 1480–1556) · 1533–34
Samuel Slater, The Father of American Manufacturers (Handkerchief)
Engraved by James Provan & Son's (American, active 1890s) after a portrait by James Sullivan Lincoln (American, 1811–1888) · 1890
Flower Study of a Pansy
House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918) · c. 1885–1915
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz · 1918
Portrait of Renoir
Frédéric Bazille (French, 1841–1870) · 1867
A Burgher of Calais (Jean d'Aire)
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) · Modeled 1889
Paintings after Ancient Masters: Laozi Riding an Ox
Chen Hongshou (Chinese, 1598/99–1652) · 1598–1652
After the Bullfight
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926) · 1873
Claude Monet
Paul Paulin (French, 1852–1937) · late 1800s-early 1900s
Panel
Printed at Bannister Hall Print Works (English, active 1799-1840) · c. 1815
Saint Peter of Alcántara
Pedro de Mena (Spanish, 1628–1688) · c. 1663–70
Paintings after Ancient Masters
Chen Hongshou (Chinese, 1598/99–1652) · 1598–1652
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34
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
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.
Jane Austen
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze · 1851
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s
Portrait of a Girl
Sampson Towgood Roch · ca. 1790
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
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
Seneca
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.
Marcus Aurelius
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
Irises
Vincent van Gogh · 1890
Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787