"...Give us more to see" - aka Randomly XXII

 

(Note: This post, its title taken from my beloved "Sunday in the Park with George", was finished and scheduled well before Sondheim's death... a strange and poignant coincidence.)

Ruth St. Denis, Autochrome by Franklin Price Knott, circa 1915 (or later).

A Summer's Day on the River, by Doris Zinkeisen, circa mid-twentieth century.

Spider, by Jan Augustin van der Goes, circa 1690-1700.

From Les chansons de Bilitis, by Pierre Louÿs, illustration by George Barbier, 1922.

La Dame en rose (portrait of Claude Gompel-Audouin), by Hubert-Denis Etcheverry, 1928.

Neptune and Amphitrite, by Cornelis van Haarlem, circa 1616.

"A school teacher lashing a boy student over a desk, Menomonie, Wisconsin, 1905."

Two Carthusian monks singing, by Aurèle Robert, 1865.

 The Dolly Sisters, photograph by Waléry, circa 1920s.

Mary Emma Jones, by Emma Sandys, 1874.

Same as above.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, circa 1910-15.

St. John the Baptist (self-portrait), by Carel Willink, 1938.

Terracotta figure of St. John the Baptist, attributed to the Master of the David and St. John Statuettes, circa first quarter of the sixteenth century.

Portrait of a Lady, by François Brunery, 1889.

Count Nikolai Sergeievich Stroganov, by Sergei Zaryanko, 1858.

Charlotte, Lady Milnes, by George Romney, circa 1788-92.

Matilde de Aguilera y Gamboa, señora de Fontagud, by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1875.

The artist's sister Alvilde, by Constantin Hansen, 1825.

 Wounded Gladiator or Suicide of Cato, by Giovanni Gaibazzi, 1837.

Figure study, by Joseph-Fortunet Layraud, 1861.

The comtesse de Castiglione, by Pierre-Louis Pierson, 1856.

Sara Forbes Bonetta, by Camille Silvy, 1862.

Flowers, shells, and insects on a stone ledge, by Balthasar van der Ast, circa 1635.

Emilia Papafava Boromeo, by Tiberio Tinelli, 1635.

 Arcadia, by Thomas Eakins, circa 1883.

Felling Trees at Rag, Galhampton, Somerset, by E.O. Hoppé, circa 1940.

 Paul Méras, 1918.

Capture d’un géant, by Charles-Gustave Housez, 1870.

Marie-Thérèse de Savoie, comtesse d'Artois, Joseph Ducreux, 1775.

Young woman at a table in candlelight, by Johannes Rosierse, circa 1850s.

Metabus and Camilla, by Leon Cogniet, 1821.

Two preparatory studies, British, circa 1920s (?).

Woman with Three Children, attributed to Wallerant Vaillant, circa 1650.

The Performer, by Arthur Kampf, 1907.

 Penelope, by Glyn Philpot, 1929.

Study for the above, circa 1922-23.

 Edmonde Guy, by Umberto Brunelleschi, 1928.

Lady with Red Scarf ("Speedy with the Moon"), by Rudolf Schlichter, 1933.

1926.

Stillleben mit Herrenkleidung, by Martin Mendgen, 1932.

Madonna (portrait of Lydia Lopokova), by Dame Laura Knight, 1923.

Study of a head, by William Holman Hunt, 1884.

Wandering Thoughts, by John Everett Millais, circa 1855.

Les Dames Goldsmith au bois de Boulogne en 1897 sur une voiturette, by Julius LeBlanc Stewart, 1901.

Reunion of Odysseus and Telemachus, by Henri-Lucien Doucet, circa 1880.

Portrait of a lady, by Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, circa 1791.

Oliver Madox Brown, the artist’s eldest son, at the age of 5, by Ford Madox Brown, 1860.

 Still Life of Dead Sunflowers, by Gerald Cooper, circa mid-twentieth century.