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A work made of tempera on panel.

The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1495

Raffaello Botticini

A work made of gelatin silver print.

11-81-C-3A #3, 1954/81

Robert Rauschenberg

A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Antiochus VII Euergetes Sidetes, 138-129 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Ptolemy I, Ptolemaic Period (53–52 BCE), issued by King Ptolemy XII Auletes, Reign of Ptolemy XII Auletes (80–51 BCE)

Ancient Greek

Wooden sculpture of seated king surrounded by family.

Veranda Post (Òpó Ògògá), 1910-14

Olowe of Ise

A work made of silver.

Drachm (Coin) Portraying King Gotarzes II, 40-51

Iranian

A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Ptolemy VIII Euergetes, 146-145 BCE, Reign of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes (146–116 BCE)

Ancient Greek

A fragment of stone shows a figure drawn in black. He stands with his body facing the viewer, his head turned to the side, in elaborate attire—a headdress, necklace, arm bands, and a garment on his lower half, He holds a staff topped with a ram's head.

Ostracon with a Drawing of a King, New Kingdom, mid-Dynasty 19–Dynasty 20, about 1213–1069 BCE

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Antiochus III The Great, 223-187 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of silver.

Coin Portraying King Sapor II, 309-379

Iranian

A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Ptolemy I, 253-252 BCE, reign of Ptolemy II (285–247 BCE)

Ancient Greek

A work made of earthenware with three color (sancai) lead glazes and traces of pigments.

Armored Guardian King (Tianwang) Trampling Demon, Tang dynasty (618–907 A.D.), first half of 8th century

A work made of engraving in black on ivory laid paper.

Saint Eligius and King Dagobert, 1520/30

Jean de Gourmont

A work made of lithograph on paper.

The Sick King, 1914

John Copley

A work made of engraving on paper.

A King Receiving a Present, n.d.

Jean Duvet

Two paintings on one panel. The upper features a figure in blue clothes with gold trim holding a lance. Demons on horses climb a mountain. The lower image features a figure wearing blue clothes with gold trim standing next to knights in front of a castle. Two men, one in blue and in red, stand in opposition.

Saint Christopher Meets Satan; Saint Christopher before the King of Lycia, 1480/85

Martin de Soria

A work made of steatite.

Statuette of Osiris, Late Period, Dynasty 26 (664–525 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Antiochus I Soter, 281-261 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; appliquéd with silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin and plain weaves; painted; embroidered with silk, silk 2:2 twill oblique interlaced tapes, gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and gilt- and silvered-metal strips, coils, wires and paillettes in satin, single satin, raised stem and a variety of buttonhole stitches; laid work and couching; feathers; glass beads and seed pearls.

Picture Depicting the Queen of Sheba before King Solomon, 1601/50

Loose black lines form two men, possibly vagrants, in baggy, layered clothing. At left, one with tiny round glasses on his forehead and straggly hair leans on a fence. The other, with a round nose and full cheeks, snoozes on the ground at right.

Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque: His Majesty the King of beasts, 1852

Paul Gavarni

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