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The Purchase of a Clock Painting - The Inexpressible Delight of the Bourgeois Who Hears Noon Strike with the Tolling of a Bell

The Purchase of a Clock Painting - The Inexpressible Delight of the Bourgeois Who Hears Noon Strike with the Tolling of a Bell, 1808-1879

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Krishna and Balarama in the Clutches of Kamsa's Wrestler (painting, recto), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series

Krishna and Balarama in the Clutches of Kamsa's Wrestler (painting, recto), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series

Indian

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (sketches of paintings, right page)

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (sketches of paintings, right page), 1928 - 2014

Otto Piene

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (sketch of painting, right page)

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (sketch of painting, right page), 1928 - 2014

Otto Piene

Rectangular Pillow with Decoration of a Lion Playing with a Ribbon and Ball

Rectangular Pillow with Decoration of a Lion Playing with a Ribbon and Ball

Chinese

Illustrated Manuscript of the Rawda al-Ushshaq (Garden of Lovers) of Arifi

Illustrated Manuscript of the Rawda al-Ushshaq (Garden of Lovers) of Arifi

Ottoman

The painter whose painting was refused - Sir, don't you find this painting horrible..., and do you understand that the jury has accepted one just as bad?... The gentleman - But I think the person who did it is very talented! It's charming! The painter - I see this gentleman is a friend of the painter, he would even have posed for the painting

The painter whose painting was refused - Sir, don't you find this painting horrible..., and do you understand that the jury has accepted one just as bad?... The gentleman - But I think the person who did it is very talented! It's charming! The painter - I see this gentleman is a friend of the painter, he would even have posed for the painting, 1808-1879

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Stembowl with Decoration of Blossoming Chrysanthemum on the Interior and Stylized Lotus Arabesque on the Exterior

Stembowl with Decoration of Blossoming Chrysanthemum on the Interior and Stylized Lotus Arabesque on the Exterior

Chinese

Bowl with image of bird and spiral designs

Small Bowl with Peacock

A circular lusterware dish that has seven smaller circular cups within it. It is colored mustard yellow with many painted white details within the smaller cups.

Sweetmeat Dish

Persian

On a narrow vessel, a figure gestures over another who lays in bed.

Lekythos (oil flask): Laying Out the Body

Attributed to The Woman Painter

Head of a Youth

Head of a Youth

Egyptian

Canvas fragment

Canvas fragment, 1905 - 1970

Barnett Newman

Dish

Dish

Cypriot

X-radiograph(s) of "Night Landscape"

X-radiograph(s) of "Night Landscape", 1796 - 1875

Artist of original: (?) Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

X-radiograph(s) of "Feke"

X-radiograph(s) of "Feke", c. 1707 - c. 1752

Artist of original: Robert Feke

Untitled (Four Figures with Umbrellas during Monsoon)

Untitled (Four Figures with Umbrellas during Monsoon), 1882 - 1966

Nandalal Bose

Pen Box with Flowers, Birds, and Butterflies in Grisaille Technique

Pen Box with Flowers, Birds, and Butterflies in Grisaille Technique

Small paintbrush

Small paintbrush

American

An opaque watercolor painting depicting two standing women who are dressed in pale, long dresses and veils behind their heads. The woman standing in the center is looking down at two round, grey birds. Behind her are some trees and in front of her is a pond with lily pads. The piece is framed with a thin, floral frame.

Abhisarika Nayika Entering a Forest

Indian

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