EditorialSelf-Portrait, ca. 1893, Oil on canvas, 16 1/4 x 12 7/8 in. (41.3 x 32.7 cm), Paintings, Eug?ne Carri?re (French, Gournay 1849?1906 Paris), In 1887 Carri?re painted the first of at least ten self-portraits, all executed in the artist's characteristic m...
EditorialFive clerics chanting. St Omer Psalter. England [Mulbarton, co. Norfolk?]; circa 1325-1330. [Whole folio] End of Psalm 96; Psalm 97, beginning with initial 'C', five clerics chanting from a volume open on a lectern. Borders with six medallions filled w...
EditorialCoronation of David. St Omer Psalter. England [Mulbarton, co. Norfolk?]; circa 1325-1330. [Whole folio] End of Psalm 25, Psalm 26. Saul annointing David, and coronation of David as King of Israel. Borders with eight medallions filled with large monochr...
EditorialSelf-Portrait, ca. 1893, Oil on canvas, 16 1/4 x 12 7/8 in. (41.3 x 32.7 cm), Paintings, Eug?ne Carri?re (French, Gournay 1849?1906 Paris), In 1887 Carri?re painted the first of at least ten self-portraits, all executed in the artist's characteristic m...
EditorialTable snuffbox, ca. 1750, German, Meissen, Hard-paste porcelain, copper gilt, H. 4 in. (10.2 cm.); W. 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm.); D. 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.), Ceramics-Porcelain, A snuffbox of this size was placed on a table for use by a party of smokers, as ill...
EditorialA Shipwreck in a Storm, 1782, Pastel on gessoed canvas, 24 3/4 x 36 in. (62.9 x 91.4 cm), Pastels & Oil Sketches on Paper, Jean Pillement (French, Lyons 1728?1808 Lyons), This pastel, large in scale for Pillement, persuasively suggests the dark, threat...
EditorialNarasimha Kills the Demon-King Hiranyakashipu, 1875?80, Eastern India, Kolkata, West Bengal, Lithograph, Image: 9 3/4 in. ? 8 in. (24.8 ? 20.3 cm), Prints, This monochromatic lithograph was printed in one of the first printing workshops in Kolkata (Cal...