Wassily Kandinsky

On August 17, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, december 4, Russian

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky, Russian painter, December 4, 1866-December 13, 1944

Adolf Elnain, Vassily Kandinsky, 1925

The Rider (Lyrical), 1911 Oil on canvas, 37 x 51.1 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky, Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913 Watercolor, gouache and crayon on paper, 9.4 x 12.4 in Lenbachhaus, Munich

Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913 Watercolor, gouache and crayon on paper, 9.4 x 12.4 in // Lenbachhaus, Munich

Yellow-Red-Blue, 1925 Oil on canvas, 50.3 x 79.3 in // National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Small Worlds I, 1922 Lithograph, 9 3/4 x 8 9/16 in // National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen

On White II, 1923 Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 38.5 in // National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Circles in a Circle, 1923 Oil on canvas, 38.8 x 37.6 in // Philadelphia Art Museum

Several Circles Oil on canvas, 55.1 x 55.1 in // Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Inner Alliance, 1929 Oil on canvas, 29.9 x 25.9 in // Albertina, Vienna

Brown with Supplement, 1935 Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 39.3 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Composition 9, 1936 Oil on canvas, 44.6 x 76.7 in // National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Composition X, 1939 Oil on canvas, 51.1 x 76.7 in // Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Various Actions, 1941 Oil and enamel on canvas, 35 1/8 x 45 3/4 in // Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Small Dream In Red, 1925 Oil on cardboard, 14 × 16.2 in // Bern Kunstmuseum

Untitled, 1941 Gouache, 18.9 × 12.3 in // The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

In Grey, 1919 Oil on canvas, 50.8 × 69.3 in // Musee National Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Composition VIII, 1923 Oil on canvas, 55.1 × 79.1 in // The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Study for "Circles on Black," 1921 Watercolor on paper, 10 x 10 in

Succession, 1935 Oil on canvas, 31 7/8 x 39 3/8 in // Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Small worlds II, 1922 Four-color lithograph, 14 x 11 inches // Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

Blue segment, 1921 Oil on canvas Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Painting with White Border, 1913 Oil on canvas Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Composition VII, 1913 Oil on canvas, 78.7 × 118.1 in // The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Moonlight Night, 1907 Colour lithograph, 8.4 × 7.5 in // The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

A Floating Figure, 1942 Oil on wood, 10.2 x 7.9 in Musée Zervos (Maison Romain Rolland), Vézelay, France

Gilbert Stuart

On August 12, 2025 - 18th Century, 19th Century, American, december 3

Gilbert Stuart, American painter, December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828

Self-portrait, circa 1778 Oil on canvas, 16.7 x 12.7 in // Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island

Horatio Gates, ca. 1793–94 Oil on canvas, 44 1/4 x 35 7/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1784 Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in // National Gallery of Art, London

Colonel Isaac Barré, 1785 Oil on canvas, 35 13/16 x 27 3/4 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

Portrait of Joseph Brant, 1785 Oil on canvas, 31.6 x 27.6 in // British Museum, London

Sarah Siddons, 1787 Oil on canvas, 29.4 x 24.4 in // National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Robert Livingston, 1793-1794 Oil on canvas, 35.9 x 28.2 in // Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown, New York

Catherine Brass Yates, 1793 Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 25.1 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Portrait of John Jay, 1794 Oil on canvas, 51.5 x 40.1 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

William Bayard, 1794 Oil on canvas, 35.4 x 27.1 in // Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Colonel James Swan, 1795 Oil on canvas, 29 x 24 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Abigail Smith Adams, between 1810 and 1815 Oil on canvas, 28.8 x 23.5 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

John Adams, circa 1800/1815 Oil on canvas, 29 x 24 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Major-General Henry Dearborn, 1812 Oil on panel, 28.1 x 22.4 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Otto Dix

On August 11, 2025 - 20th Century, december 2, German

Otto Dix, German painter, December 2, 1891-July 25, 1969

Hugo Erfurth, Otto Dix with a Brush, 1929 Oil pigment print

Sunrise, 1913 Oil on canvas, 20 x 26 in

Three Prostitutes On The Street, 1925 Oil on canvas Private collection

Prager Street, 1920 Oil and collage on canvas Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany

Stormtroopers Advance Under a Gas Attack, from The War, 1924 Drypoint and aquatint etching

The Skull, from The War, 1924

Lens Being Bombed, from The War, 1924

Martha Dix, 1928 Oil on canvas

Mother with Child, 1921 Oil on canvas, 31.9 x 47.2 in // Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany

The Artist's Parents, 1921 Oil on canvas, 44.5 × 39 in // Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia Von Harden, 1926 Oil and tempera on wood, 35 x 47.6 in // Georges Pompidou Center, Paris

Engraving from "The War," 1924

Andrea Palladio

On August 10, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, november 30

Andrea Palladio, Italian architect, November 30, 1508-August 19, 1580

Portrait of Andrea Palladio

Chiesa del Redentore/Church of the Redeemer, c 1592 Venice

Villa La Rotonda, 1591 Vicenza, Italy

Villa Godi, 1542 Lugo di Vicenza, Italy

Andrea Palladio, Basilica Palladiana Facade on Piazza dei Signori, begun 1546 Vicenza, Italy

Basilica Palladiana (Vicenza) - facade on Piazza dei signori

Palazzo Chiericati, begun 1550 Vicenza

Palazzo del Capitanio in Vicenza, 1565

Villa Cornaro at Piombino Dese, begun 1553

Villa Barbaro in Maser, from 1554 until 1560 Province of Treviso, Italy

Villa Foscari, also called La Malcontenta, mid 1550s Vicenza, Italy

Villa Badoer in Fratta Polesine, 1556-1563 Province of Rovigo, Italy,

Villa Valmarana, 1560s Bolzano Vicentino, Italy

Villa Saraceno, 1540s Agugliaro, Italy

Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, begun 1561 Venice

Giampietrino

On August 8, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, nbd

Giampietrino, Italian painter, active 1495–1549

Death of Cleopatra, from 1500 Edit this at Wikidata Oil and wood, 28.7 x 22.4 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Lucrezia Romana, c. 1500-1540 Oil on wood panel Chazen Museum of Art , Madison, Wisconsin

Mary Magdalene in Prayer

Ecce Homo Oil on panel, 24.4 x 19.7 in // Private collection

Leda With Her Children, between 1520s and late 1530s Oil on panel, 50.3 x 41.5 in Hessen Kassel Heritage, Germany

Repentant Mary Magdalene Oil on panel, 19.3 x 15.4 in // The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Michael, 1530s Oil on panel, 24 x 29.1 in // Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

Madonna with Child, 1520s Oil on canvas, 22.8 x 19.3 in // The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Diana the Huntress, after 1526 Oil on panel, 44.8 x 23.2 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Christ Carrying the Cross Oil on panel, 23.2 x 29.1 in // Museo Diocesano Milano

Salome, between circa 1510 and circa 1530 Oil on poplar wood, 27 x 22.5 in // National Gallery, London

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William Blake

On August 7, 2025 - 18th Century, 19th Century, English, november 28

William Blake, English artist, November 28, 1757-August 12, 1827

The Ancient of Days, 1794 Colour relief etching and white-line etching in blue, black, red and yellow; with added hand colouring

The Inscription over the Gate, 1824–7 Graphite, ink and watercolour on paper, 20.7 x 14.7 in // Tate Gallery, London

William Blake, The Angel Michael Binding Satan, c 1805 Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on off-white wove paper, 14 1/8 x 12 13/16 in Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum

The Angel Michael Binding Satan, c 1805 Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on off-white wove paper, 14 1/8 x 12 13/16 in // Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum

The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve, circa 1826 Tempera, gold and mahogany wood, 17 x 12.7 in // Tate Gallery, London

Watercolor Illustration to Milton's Paradise Lost, 1807

William Blake, Antaeus setting down Dante and Virgil in the Last Circle of Hell, between 1824 and 1827 Pen, ink and watercolor, 20.70 x 14.72 in National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

Antaeus Setting Down Dante and Virgil in the Last Circle of Hell, between 1824 and 1827 Pen, ink and watercolor, 20.70 x 14.72 in // National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

William Blake, When the Morning Stars Sang Together, 1804/1807 Pen and black ink, watercolor, over traces of graphite, 7 x 11 in The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

When the Morning Stars Sang Together, 1804/1807 Pen and black ink, watercolor, over traces of graphite, 7 x 11 in // The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea, 1805 Pen and watercolor, 15.7 × 14 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

William Blake, The Youthful Poet's Dream, Illustration to Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, between 1816 and 1820 Watercolor The Morgan Library, New York

The Youthful Poet's Dream, Illustration to Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, between 1816 and 1820 Watercolor The Morgan Library, New York

The Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun, circa 1803 Watercolor, ink and graphite on paper, 17.2 x 13.7 in // Brooklyn Museum

Mirth, Illustration to Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, between 1816 and 1820 Watercolor The Morgan Library, New York

William Blake, Let the Day Perish Wherein I Was Born (The Book of Job), 1821 Watercolor, black ink and graphite on cream laid paper, 8 7/8 x 10 5/8 in Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Let the Day Perish Wherein I Was Born (The Book of Job), 1821 Watercolor, black ink and graphite on cream laid paper, 8 7/8 x 10 5/8 in // Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

William Blake, Dante and Virgil Approaching the Angel Who Guards the Entrance of Purgatory, 1824–7 Graphite, ink and watercolour on paper, 20.7 x 14.7 in Tate Gallery, London

Dante and Virgil Approaching the Angel Who Guards the Entrance of Purgatory, 1824–7 Graphite, ink and watercolour on paper, 20.7 x 14.7 in // Tate Gallery, London

William Blake, The Stygian Lake, with the Ireful Sinners Fighting, 1824 - 1827 Pen, ink and watercolour over pencil National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

The Stygian Lake, with the Ireful Sinners Fighting, 1824 - 1827 Pen, ink and watercolour over pencil National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

Job's Comforters, 1805 Pen and black ink, gray wash, and watercolour, over traces of graphite The Morgan Library, New York

David Delivered out of Many Waters, c.1805 Ink and watercolour on paper, 16.3 x 13.7 in // Tate Gallery

Cerberus, Part of Illustrations to Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ Graphite, ink and watercolour on paper, 14.6 x 20.8 in // Tate Gallery, London

William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Tyger, 1795 Relief and white-line etching with hand coloring, 7.7 x 5.4 in The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, Pasadena

Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Tyger, 1795 Relief and white-line etching with hand coloring, 7.7 x 5.4 in // The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, Pasadena

Jacob's Ladder, 1805 Pen and ink and water color, 14.5 x 11.4 in // British Museum, London

Newton, circa 1804-05 Monotype print, 18.1 x 23.6 in // Tate Britain, London

The Last Trumpet, 1780–85 Pen and ink, 8 1/16 x 8 3/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

William Blake, The Lovers' Whirlwind, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, between 1824 and 1827 Pen, ink and watercolor Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK

The Lovers' Whirlwind, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, between 1824 and 1827 Pen, ink and watercolor Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK

William Blake, ‘A Rolling Stone is ever Bare of Moss,' Illustrations to Robert John Thornton, ‘The Pastorals of Virgil’ Wood engraving on paper, 1.3 x 3 in Tate Gallery, London

‘A Rolling Stone is ever Bare of Moss,' Illustrations to Robert John Thornton, ‘The Pastorals of Virgil’ Wood engraving on paper, 1.3 x 3 in // Tate Gallery, London

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The Canterbury Pilgrims, c 1810-1820 Etching and engraving, 13.9 x 37 in British Museum, London

William Blake, Jerusalem, Plate 51, between 1804 and 1820 Relief etching printed in black with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, 8.85 x 6.37 in Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Jerusalem, Plate 51, between 1804 and 1820 Relief etching printed in black with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, 8.85 x 6.37 in // Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

William Blake, Jerusalem, Plate 1, Frontispiece, 1804 to 1820 Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink, watercolor, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, 8.77 x 6.37 in Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Jerusalem, Plate 1, Frontispiece, 1804 to 1820 Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink, watercolor, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, 8.77 x 6.37 in // Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

William Blake, The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 67, "The Fatal Sisters," between 1797 and 1798 Watercolor, pen, black ink and graphite on cream-colored paper, 16.49 x 12.75 in Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 67, "The Fatal Sisters," between 1797 and 1798 Watercolor, pen, black ink and graphite on cream-colored paper, 16.49 x 12.75 in // Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Pierre Subleyras

On August 6, 2025 - 18th Century, French, november 25

Pierre Subleyras, French painter, November 25, 1699 – May 28, 1749

Self-portrait at the Easel, circa 1746 Oil on canvas, 49 x 39 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Charon Ferrying the Shades, 1735-40 Oil on canvas, 53.1 x 32.7 in // Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Pack Saddle, 1732 Oil on canvas, 12.2 x 9.4 in // Private collection

The Crucifixion of St Peter Oil on canvas, 53.7 x 31.5 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig

The Marriage of St Catherine, between 1740 and 1745 Oil on canvas Uffizi, Florence

Portrait of a Woman, circa 1740 Oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Portrait of Marco Foscarini, from 1725 until 1749 Oil on canvas, 34.6 x 26.7 in // Museum of 18th-century Venice

Portrait of Father Giovanni Felice Ramelli, 1738 Oil on canvas, 48.8 x 36.6 in // Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Portrait of Pope Benedict XIV, circa 1745 Oil on canvas, 49.2 x 38.5 in // Condé Museum, Château de Chantilly, France

Don Cesare Benvenuti, 1742 Oil on canvas, 54.3 x 39.8 in // Musée du Louvre, Paris

Portrait of a Man, c. 1745 Oil on canvas, 29.1 x 26.4 in // Musée du Louvre, Paris

Paulus Potter

On August 3, 2025 - 17th Century, Dutch, november 20

Paulus Potter, Dutch artist, November 20, 1625 - buried on January 17,1654

Portrait of Paulus Potter, 1654 Oil on canvas, 38.9 x 31.4 in // Mauritshuis, The Hague

Punishment of a Hunter, circa 1647 Oil on panel, 33.2 x 47.2 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

The Piebald Horse, c 1650–1654 Oil on canvas, 19 3/4 × 17 3/4 in // J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Wolf-Hound, between 1650 and 1652 Oil on canvas, 38.1 x 51.9 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

The Bull, 1647 Oil on canvas, 92.7 in x 11.1 ft // Mauritshuis, The Hague

Two Pigs in a Sty, 1649 Oil on canvas, 12.75 x 17.75 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Diederik Tulp, 1653 Oil on canvas Collection Six, Amsterdam

Landscape with Shepherdess and Shepherd Playing Flute, c. 1643 Oil on panel, 26.4 x 45.3 in // Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

A Husbandman with His Herd, 1648 Oil on oak, 19.7 x 29.5 in // Staatliche Museen, Kassel

Driving the Cattle to Pasture in the Morning, 1647 Oil on oak, 15.4 x 19.7 in // Residenzgalerie, Salzburg

Cattle and Sheep in a Stormy Landscape, 1647 Oil on panel, 18.9 x 15 in // National Gallery, London

A Herdsman's Hut, 1645 Oil on panel, 9.7 x 12.5 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Deer in the Wood, 1647 Black chalk, 9.4 x 12.5 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Horsemen near a Barn, 1646 Black and white chalk on buff-coloured paper, 6.7 x 5.1 in // Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

Giorgio Vasari

On July 30, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, july 30

Giorgio Vasari, Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer, July 30, 1511 – June 27, 1574

Portrait of Giorgio Vasari, from 1571 until 1574 Oil and wood, 39.5 x 31.4 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Six Tuscan Poets, 1544 Oil on panel, 52.2 × 51.6 in // Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Garden of Gethsemane, c. 1570? Oil on panel, 56.49 x 50 in // National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Pietà, circa 1550 Oil on panel, 68.5 x 51.1 in // Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai, France

The Bird Catchers Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 40.2 in // Private collection

Temptations of St Jerome, 1541 Oil on panel, 66.5 x 48.4 in // Palazzo Pitti, Florence

St Luke Painting the Virgin, after 1565 Fresco Santissima Annunziata, Florence

Justice, 1542 Oil on panel, 31.1 x 74 in) Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Allegory of Justice and Truth, 1543 Oil on panel, 11.5 ft x 99.2 in // Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Giorgio Vasari, Studies of a Male Nude, a Drapery, and a Hand, c 1555 - 65 Red chalk, laid onto a piece of card, 14 3/16 × 9 9/16 in Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades, California

Studies of a Male Nude, a Drapery, and a Hand, c 1555 - 65 Red chalk, laid onto a piece of card, 14 3/16 × 9 9/16 in // Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades, California

Sacrifice of Isaac, 1545-1546 Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

The Uffizi Loggia, Florence, 1560

Allegory of Patience, 1542 Oil on canvas, 30 x 66.5 in // Galleria dell'Academia, Venice

Allegory of Patience, 1552 Oil on canvas, 77.9 x 42.8 in // The Klesch Collection, London

Suicide of Judas, 1542 Oil on canvas Casa Vasari Museum, Arezzo

Michel Sittow

On July 27, 2025 - 15th Century, 16th Century, Estonian, nbd

Michel Sittow, Estonian painter, c. 1469 - 1525

Portrait of a Man, 1510 Oil on panel, 14 x 10 in Mauritshuis, The Hague

Portrait of Diego de Guevara, circa 1515-1518 Oil on oak wood, 13.2 x 9.3 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Mary Tudor or Catherine of Aragon, circa 1514 Oil on panel, 11.2 x 8.2 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

A Young Man in a Red Cap, circa 1512 Oil on oak panel, 6.4 x 5.1 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

Portrait of the Danish King Christian II, 1514 / 1515 Oil on panel, 12.2 x 8.6 in // Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

The Portrait of a Man with the Pearl, between c 1515 and c 1517 Oil on panel, 8.6 x 7 in Royal Palace of Madrid

Saint James the Great and the Virgin and Child, c. 1520 Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn.

Saint Adrian and Saint Anthony, 1520 Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia

Virgin and Child, c. 1515 Oil on panel, 12.6 x 9.8 in // Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Catholic,late 15th century / early 16th century Oil on panel, 11.4 x 8.7 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Michel Sittow, A Woman, traditionally identified as Isabela la Católica of Castile, between 1492 and 1497 Oil on panel, 13 1/8 × 9 1/4 in Yale University Art Gallery

A Woman, traditionally identified as Isabela la Católica of Castile, between 1492 and 1497 Oil on panel, 13 1/8 × 9 1/4 in // Yale University Art Gallery

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