Young Man In Blue Suit

By Alice Kent Stoddard, Circa 1930

Detail of Van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece

Campanian Lebes Gamikos with lid
Eros

~ THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES FROM THE CABINET OF THE HONOURABLE  SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON

by Sir William Hamilton, 1730-1803;  Pierre d'Hancarville, 1719-1805

Bronzino - Saint Matthew. 1525

Dugald Stewart Walker

The Golden Porch (1925).

Mosaic in the Church of St. Saviour
 Istanbul, Turkey

Otto Greiner

(1869-1916) German 

“Male Nude”

~ William Etty

c. 1840 A life-room sketch, rather than intended to illustrate a specific subject, this epitomises the freshness and immediacy of the nude studies Etty painted at the Royal Academy throughout his career, long after he was a student there. Millboard was the artist's favoured support for such life studies, and the way he frequently allows the extremities of his models’ limbs to be cut by the edge of the support, as here, may be regarded as a signature feature. After Etty's death the vast number of life-room studies remaining in his studio were sold at Christie's over seven days, 6-13 May 1850, and the present work appears to have been one of their number.

Livre Comœdia illustré : numéro exceptionnel sur L'après-Midi d'un Faune.

Ramon Gazhang

Corinthian Capital from the Temple of Jupiter (detail)
Rome, 1822.
G. L. Taylor. British/Canadian 1788-1873. chalk lithograph.

maximien

“Gymnasion,” ca. 1912 

Colored art print by Sascha Schneider

A ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF AN ATHLETE

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

This Over-lifesized, standing in contrapposto, well modelled Roman marble torso of an Athlete, Circa 1st - end Century A.D. has often be quipped as the Yves Saint-Laurent Athlete. Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008), acquired it prior to 1974 and held it until it was sold as lot 680 from the Collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé; Christie’s, Paris, 25 February 2009, catalogue.

Bacchus relief In the Italian style. Giovanni Tacca Lozzi carved the Roman god of wine, Bacchus, on the chimneypiece of the Drawing Room, Alnwick Castle.

After the ideal head of a warrior. Count of Canossa. c. 1550-80. chalk.

Michelangelo. Italian.1475-1564. British Museum. UK.

Life Study by unknown artist

Portrait of Franz Liszt, by Henri Lehmann, 1839

“I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.”  

— Franz Liszt

Attributed to Pellegrino Tibaldi, Studies of Two Ignudi Flanking a Cartouche, c. 1543-9

Shah Abbas I of Persia, embracing his wine boy. The poem reads “May life grant all that you desire from three lips, those of your lover, the river, and the cup.” (1571-1629)