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Frans Snyders

On September 25, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Flemish, november 11

Frans Snyders, Flemish painter, November 11, 1579 – August 19, 1657

Still-Life With a Bitch and Her Litter, 1620-30 Oil on canvas Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden

Porcupines and Vipers, c 1579-1657 Oil on canvas, 67.3 x 76.7 in // Cerralbo Museum, Madrid

Frans Snyders, The Christ Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels, between c 1615 and c 1618 Oil on canvas, 77.9 x 104.7 in Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Christ Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels, between c 1615 and c 1618 Oil on canvas, 77.9 x 104.7 in // Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Two Monkeys Raiding a Fruit Basket, between 1630 and 1640 Oil on canvas, 33 x 46.8 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Boar Hunt, circa 1650 Oil on canvas, 67.71 x 94.09 in Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Two Young Lions Chasing a Roe, 1620-1625 Oil on canvas, 64.1 x 94.4 in // Alte Pinakothek, Munich

An Eagle, c 1610 Drawing with pen and brown ink, 11 x 8 in // British Museum, London

Frans Snyders, Fox With Two Herons, circa 1630–40 Pen and brown ink and brown wash, traces of black chalk, 7 5/16 x 10 15/16 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Fox With Two Herons, circa 1630–40 Pen and brown ink and brown wash, traces of black chalk, 7 5/16 x 10 15/16 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Study of a Stag at Bay, between 1630 and 1639 Drawing, 10.3 x 15.7 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Head of a Dead Nun Chalk, 12.2 x 9.8 in // Städel Museum, Frankfurt

A Sleeping Dog Black and white chalk on light brown tinted paper, 4 x 8 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

A Sitting Dog and the Head of a Dog Black and white chalk on light brown tinted paper, 7.6 x 5.9 in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Giovanni Battista Caracciolo

On September 24, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, december 7, Italian

Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Italian artist, December 7, 1578 – December 23, 1635

The Liberation of Saint Peter, 1615 Oil on canvas, 10.1 ft x 81.4 in // Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples

Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Immaculate Conception with Saints Dominic and Francis of Paola, 1607 Oil on canvas, 10.9 ft x ?? Santa Maria della Stella, Naples

Immaculate Conception with Saints Dominic and Francis of Paola, 1607 Oil on canvas, 10.9 ft x ?? // Santa Maria della Stella, Naples

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, 1618 Oil on canvas, 46.6 × 46.6 in // Collection Rau for UNICEF

Christ and Caiaphas, between 1611 and 1620 Oil on canvas, 28.7 x 40.5 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Madonna of the Purification of the Soul with Saints Francis and Clare Oil on canvas, 118.1 in x ??? Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Madonna of the Purification of the Soul with Saints Francis and Clare Oil on canvas, 118.1 in x ??? // Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Two Youths With Grapes, from 1605 until 1610 Oil on poplar panel, 23.03 x 27.75 in Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Two Youths With Grapes, from 1605 until 1610 Oil on poplar panel, 23.03 x 27.75 in // Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Christ on the Mount of Olives, between 1615 and 1617 Oil on canvas, 58.26 x 48.81 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Sacrifice of Abraham Oil on canvas, 82 x 60.6 in // Dundee Art Galleries and Museums, Scotland

Baby, between 1610 and 1619 Drawing, 3.1 x 3.8 in Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Head of a Boy in Profile Drawing, 5.4 x 6.1 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Paulus Bor

On September 24, 2025 - 17th Century, Dutch, nbd

Paulus Bor, Dutch painter, c. 1601 – August 10, 1669

The Annunciation of the Virgin's Death, first half of 17th century Oil on canvas, 80 x 62 in // National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Travel Pouch and Documents on a Table, 1630 Oil on canvas, 22 x 29.9 in // Private collection

The Magdalen, circa 1635 Oil on panel, 25.8 x 23.9 in // Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Allegory of Avarice, 17th century Oil on canvas, 48 x 39 3/8 in // Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida

Seated Nude Bathing by a Stove Oil on canvas, 27.2 x 21.7 in // Private collection

Scene from The Spanish Pagan, Oil on canvas, 48.7 × 58.2 in Centraal Museum Utrecht

The Flower Vendor, 1640 Oil on oak wood, 56.2 x 68.7 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Allegorical Figure, circa 1635 Oil on canvas, 32.1 x 27.5 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen

Cydippe with Acontius's Apple, c. 1640 Oil on canvas, 59.4 x 44.9 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Disillusioned Medea/The Enchantress, c. 1640 Oil on canvas, 61.4 x 44.1 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jesus among the Doctors, 1630-35 Oil on canvas, 45.3 x 38.2 in Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Bacchus, 1630-35 Oil on canvas, 58.7 x 41.7 in // Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan

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Adam Pynacker

On September 14, 2025 - 17th Century, Dutch, nbd

Adam Pynacker, Dutch painter, 1620/1622–1673

View of a Harbour in Schiedam, between 1650 and 1653 Oil on canvas, 22 x 18.1 in // Los Angeles County Museum of Art

An Italianate Landscape with Two Donkeys Crossing a Collapsing Bridge, 1660s Oil on canvas, 17.5 x 20 in // Private collection

Peasant Playing with His Dog While Resting at the Margin of a Wood, circa 1653 Oil on canvas, 25.9 x 29.7 in // Private collection

The Annunciation to the Shepherds, circa 1650 Oil on panel, 7.4 x 9 in // Private collection

Bridge in an Italian Landscape, circa 1653 Oil on panel, 17.24 x 20.74 in // Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

The Ferryboat, circa 1657 Oil on canvas, 25.5 x 29.8 in // Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Landscape with Sportsmen and Game, circa 1665 Oil on canvas, 54.25 x 78.22 in // Dulwich Picture Gallery

Landscape With Enraged Ox, from 1665 until 1670 Oil on canvas, 46.18 x 41.41 in // Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Study of a Tree, Black chalk, wash on gray paper, 12 x 8 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Landscape with Two Tree Trunks in Foreground Black chalk, gray and brown wash on gray paper, 8.3 x11.8 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

House in a Southern Landscape, 1632 - 1646 Grey wash over graphite on paper, 6.7 x 11.5 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Adam Pynacker, A House on a Hillside in a Southern Landscape Black chalk, grey wash. Framing line in pen and brown ink, 7 5/8 x 12 3/16 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A House on a Hillside in a Southern Landscape Black chalk, grey wash. Framing line in pen and brown ink, 7 5/8 x 12 3/16 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mountainous landscape, 17th centuryontent Library of Leiden University, Belgium

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Gillis van Coninxloo

On September 6, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Flemish, january 24

Gillis van Coninxloo, Flemish painter, January 24, 1544 - January 1607

Portrait of Gillis van Coninxloo by Andries Jacobsz Stock, published by Hendrik Hondius I in 1610

Forest Landscape, 1598 Oil on panel, 16.5 x 24 in // Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Landscape Oil on copper, 9.4 x 7.5 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Landscape with Leto and Peasants of Lykia Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 80.3 in // The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Gillis van Coninxloo, Mountain Landscape with River Valley and the Prophet Hosea Watercolour on parchment, 7.7 x 11.3 in Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Mountain Landscape with River Valley and the Prophet Hosea Watercolour on parchment, 7.7 x 11.3 in // Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Landscape with Venus and Adonis, 1580s Oil on canvas, 14.8 x 21.1 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Woodland with Saint Jerome, between 1560 and 1607 Oil on panel, 19.6 x 32.9 in // Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

Wooded Landscape, circa 1600 Oil on panel, 22 x 33.4 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Gillis van Coninxloo with Karel van Mander the Elder, Landscape with the Judgment of Paris, End of the 16th century - early 17th century) Oil on panel, 50 x 72.83 in National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

with Karel van Mander the Elder, Landscape with the Judgment of Paris, End of the 16th century - early 17th century Oil on panel, 50 x 72.83 in // National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Mountainous Landscape, between 1595 and 1605 Oil on copper, 8.6 x 11.2 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

The Finding of Moses, between 1600 and 1607 Oil on canvas Kulturhistorisches Museum Rostock, Germany

Forest landscape with Cephale and Procris Oil on canvas, 20.4 x 33.4 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai, France

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

Bernardo Cavallino

On July 21, 2025 - 17th Century, Italian, nbd

Bernardo Cavallino, Italian painter, 1616–1656

The Incredulity of St Thomas, circa 1640 Oil on canvas, 18.8 x 14.1 in // Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples

Saint Lawrence, between 1640 and 1645 Oil on canvas, 25.7 x 21 in // Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid

Adoration of the Magi, 1640 Oil on canvas, 39.96 x 50 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Saint Bartholomew, about 1640-1645 Oil on canvas, 69 x 49.2 in // National Gallery, London

Saint Ursula c 1640
Oil on canvas 42.3 × 31.5 in
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Bernardo Cavallino, Meeting of Anne and Joachim at the Golden Gate in Jerusalem, c 1640–45 Oil on canvas 49.6 × 36.2 in National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Meeting of Anne and Joachim at the Golden Gate in Jerusalem, c 1640–45 Oil on canvas 49.6 × 36.2 in National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Clavichord Player, first half of 17th century Oil on canvas, 31.4 x 25.5 in // Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, France

The Singer, between 1645 and 1650 Oil on canvas, 29.5 x 24.8 in // Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

The Spirit of Samuel Invoked by Saul, c 1650 - 1656

Oil on copper, 24 x 34 in //

J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

The Triumph of Galatea, circa 1650 Oil on canvas, 59.8 x 80.7 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Bernardo Cavallino, Saint Catherine of Alexandria Oil on canvas, 48.5 x 38.25 in Private collection

Saint Catherine of Alexandria Oil on canvas, 48.5 x 38.3 in // Private collection

The Immaculate Virgin, c 1645

Oil on canvas 84.6 × 59.1 in //

Museo del Prado, Madrid

David Playing Before Saul, c 1645

Oil on canvas, 51.6 × 70.9 in

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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Hendrick Goltzius

On July 15, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Dutch

Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch artist, February 1558 - January 1, 1617

Hendrik Goltzius, Self-Portrait, c. 1593-1594 Black and colored chalk, pen and gray ink, watercolors, heightened with white, 16.9 x 12.7 in Albertina, Vienna

Self-Portrait, c. 1593-1594 Black and colored chalk, pen and gray ink, watercolors, heightened with white, 16.9 x 12.7 in // Albertina, Vienna

Goltzius's Right Hand, 1588 Pen and brown ink, 9 x 12 5/8 in // Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Divine Mother of God, and of All Things, 1589 Pen and black ink on laid paper

Lot and his Daughters, 1616 Oil on canvas, 55.1 x 80.3 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Fall of Man, 1616 Oil on canvas, 41.1 x 54.4 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Hendrik Goltzius, Portrait of the Harlem Shell Collector, Jan Govertsz. van der Aer, 1603 Oil on canvas, 42.3 x 32.5 in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Portrait of the Harlem Shell Collector, Jan Govertsz. van der Aer, 1603 Oil on canvas, 42.3 x 32.5 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Hercules Killing Cacus, 1588 Woodcut Honolulu Museum of Art

Farnese Hercules, 1592 Copper engraving, 16.4 x 11.8 in // Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany

An Allegorical Representation of Work and Diligence, 1582 Ghent University Library

Francisco de Zurbarán

On July 12, 2025 - 17th Century, november 7, Spanish

Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter, November 7, 1598 - August 27, 1664

Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Luke as a Painter Before Christ on the Cross, Probable Self-Portrait, c. 1635-1640 Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 48 in Museo del Prado, Madrid

Saint Luke as a Painter Before Christ on the Cross, Probable Self-Portrait, c. 1635-1640 Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 48 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Portrait of Francisco Zumel, 1633 Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 48 in // Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid

The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion, 1628 Oil on canvas, 47.2 × 40.5 in // Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Hercules Fighting with the Lernaean Hydra , 1634 Oil on canvas, 53.5 x 65.7 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Saint Francis in Meditation, between 1635 and 1639 Oil on canvas, 59.8 x 38.9 in // National Gallery, London

Still-life with Lemons, Oranges and Rose, 1633 Oil on canvas, 23.6 x 42.1 in // Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Agnus Dei, between 1635 and 1640 Edit this at Wikidata Oil on canvas, 14.6 x 24.4 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Saint Casilda, between 1630 and 1635 Oil on canvas, 67.3 x 42.1 in Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Saint Margaret of Antioch, between 1630 and 1634 Oil on canvas, 76.3 in x 44 in // National Gallery, London

Defence of Cadiz against the English, between 1634 and 1635 Oil on canvas, 118.8 x 10.5 ft // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Saint Elizabeth of Portugal, circa 1635 Oil on canvas, 72.4 x 38.5 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria at age 58, 1642 Oil on canvas Private collection

St Hugh in the Refectory, circa 1655 Oil on canvas, 103.1 x 10 ft // Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla

St Anthony Abbot, after 1640 Oil on canvas, 69.7 x 46.1 in // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The Holy Family, 1659 Oil on canvas, 47.8 x 38.2 in // Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

Portrait of the Duke of Medinaceli Oil on canvas Hospital of Tavera, Toledo

Domenichino

On July 9, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Italian, october 21

Domenichino, Italian painter, October 21, 1581 - April 15, 1641

Saint Agnes, circa 1620 Oil on canvas, 83.7 x 60 in // Royal Collection, Windsor Castle

Apparition of the Virgin and Child and San Gennaro at the Miraculous Oil Lamp, 1637–38 Oil on canvas Cathedral of Naples

The Way to Calvary, about 1610 Oil on copper, 21.14 x 26.61 in // Getty Center, Los Angeles

Virgin and Unicorn, c 1602 Fresco Palazzo Farnese, Rome

Diana and her Nymphs, between 1616 and 1617 Oil on canvas, 88.5 x 10.4 ft // Galleria Borghese, Rome

Saint Cecilia Playing the Viol, between 1623 and 1633 Oil on canvas, 62.9 x 47.2 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, 1626 Oil on canvas, 48 x 67 3/4 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Rinaldo and Armida, 1610s Oil on canvas, 47.6 x 66.1 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Two Studies of a Foot, 1591 - 1641 Red and white chalk on paper, 7.6 x 10.7 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Domenichino, Head of a Bearded Man, 1620–30 Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue-gray paper partly faded light brown, 13-3/8 x 9-9/16 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Head of a Bearded Man, 1620–30 Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue-gray paper partly faded light brown, 13-3/8 x 9-9/16 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Venus, between c 1603 and c 1641 Oil on canvas, 47.9 x 66.4 in // York Art Gallery, UK

Cumaean Sibyl, c 1622 Oil on canvas, 48.4 x 37 in // Capitoline Museums, Rome

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