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Gabriele Münter

On February 10, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, february 19, German

Gabriele Münter, German painter, February 19, 1877 – May 19, 1962

Wassily Kandinsky,

Portrait of Gabriele Münter, 1905

Oil on canvas, 17.7 x 17.7 in

Lenbachhaus, Munich

Sunset over Staffelsee 1908-1911

Portrait of Marianne von Werefkin 1909

Still Life, 1908

Self-portrait, c 1909-1910

Oil on Cardboard, 19.3 x 13.2 in

View from Her Brother´s House in Bonn, 1908

Oil on Cardboard, 18.6 x 13.2 in //

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

School House, Murnau, 1908

Oil on Cardboard, 16 x 12.9 in //

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Murnau on May, 1924

Oil on canvas, 20 x 15 in //

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Portrait of Anna Roslund, 1917

Oil on canvas, 37 3/16 × 26 15/16 in //

Leicester Museums, UK

The Blue Lake, 1954

Oil on canvas, 19 11/16 × 25 9/16 in //

Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria

Still Life, Red, 1909

Oil on board, 20 7/8 × 15 3/8 in //

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Still Life on the Tram/After Shopping, c 1909–12

Painting on board, 19 3/4 × 13 1/2 in //

The Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, Munich

Breakfast of the Birds, 1934

Oil on board, 18 × 21 3/4 in //

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC

Max Klinger

On February 8, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, february 19, German

Max Klinger, German artist, February 18, 1857 – July 5, 1920

The Blue Hour, 1890

Oil on canvas, 75.3 × 69.2 in //

Museum of Fine Art, Leipzig, Germany

Portrait of Cornelia Paczka-Wagner, 1892

Oil on canvas

Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany

From the Cycle "A Glove": Abduction (Opus VI: Plate 9/10), 1893

Etching on paper, 4.5 x 10.3 in //

Albertina, Vienna

Cupid, Death, and the Beyond, from the series Intermezzi, Opus IV, no. 12, 1881

Etching and aquatint, 6.2 × 16 in //

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Max Klinger by Nicola Perscheid, circa 1900

Landscape at the Unstrut, 1912

Oil on canvas, 75.5 x 49.6 in //

Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Germany

Nemi, c 1890

Oil on canvas, 77.2 × 39.4 in //

Art Museum Moritzburg, Halle, German

Study of a Female Head

Painting, 11 x 8 in

Belvedere, Vienna

Beethoven, 1902

Marble

Leipzig

A Delegation

Oil on panel

Museum of Fine Art, Leipzig, Germany

First Future, from the series "Eva the Future, Opus III, #2", 1879–80)

Etching with aquatint, 14.2 x 9.3 in //

Saint Louis Art Museum

Male Portrait

Painting, 14.7 x 12.6 in //

Belvedere, Vienna

The Colosseum in Rome, 1888

Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 40.2 in //

Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden

Charles-François Daubigny

On February 3, 2026 - 19th Century, february 15, French

Charles-François Daubigny, French painter, February 15, 1817 –February 19, 1878

Nadar, Daubigny

The Apple Orchard Oil on canvas, 6.4 x 13.4 in // Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee

The Farm, 1855 Oil on canvas, 20.2 x 32 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The Hamlet of Optevoz, c 1852 Oil on canvas, 22.7 x 36.4 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Moonlight, Champigny, 1867 Oil on panel, 8.6 x 17.7 in // Private collection

Field of Poppies, 1872 Oil on panel, 14.9 x 26.1 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

The Cascade of Mahoura, Cauterets, 1872 Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 44 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Sunset by a River Oil on canvas, 19.3 x35.5 in // Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Before and After the Vote Oil on panel Manchester Art Gallery, UK

Tripleval on the Seine, 1875 Oil on canvas, 15.3 x 26.3 in // Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki

Ferry at Bonnières Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig

Laundresses in Bezon Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig

Marie Bridge, 19th century Oil on canvas, 9.45 x 11.4 in // National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Low Tide near Villerville, 1870 Oil on canvas, 17.7 x 32.2 in Private collection

Eugène Atget

On January 30, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, february 12, French

Eugène Atget, French Photographer, February 12, 1857 – August 4, 1927

Portrait of Atget, c 1890

Organ-Grinder, Paris, 1898–99, printed 1956 Gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A Shopwindow on Avenue des Gobelins in Paris, 1925 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ragpicker, 1899 - 1901 Albumen silver print, 8.74 x 7.12 in Getty Center, Los Angeles

Eugène Atget, People Watching an Eclipse, Embankment of the Place de la Bastille towards Rue Saint-Antoine, 1912 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

People Watching an Eclipse, Embankment of the Place de la Bastille towards Rue Saint-Antoine, 1912 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"La Villette," a Prostitute, 19th Arrondissement, Paris, 1921 Private collection

Saint-Cloud, 1924 Gold chloride toned print, 8.6 x 6.9 in Yale University Art Gallery

Artichokes, before 1900 Museum of Modern Art, New York

Female Nude Viewed From Behind Lying on Bed, 1925 Getty Center, Los Angeles

Artichoke Seller, place Saint-Médard, 5th Arrondissement, Paris, 1899 Print on albumin paper, 8.5 x 6.7 in // Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Basket Seller, 1899-1900 Museum of Modern Art, New York

Atget_-_Heurtoir,_Hotel_de_Conflans,_24_Rue_de_l’Universite,_2008.111.37

Eugène Atget, Door Knocker, Hotel de Conflans, 24 Rue de l'Université

John Ruskin

On January 11, 2026 - 19th Century, English, february 8

John Ruskin, English art critic and artist, February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900

William Downey

John Ruskin, 1863
Albumen carte-de-visite photograph, 3 1/2 x 2 1/8 in //

National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Rose La Touche, 1860Pencil, watercolour, in oval mount, 15.5 x 14.4 in

Study of Gneiss Rock, Glenfinlass, 1853
Pen, brown ink, ink wash (lamp-back) and bodycolour, 18.8 x 12.9 in //

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England

View of Amalfi, 1844

Rouen: River Seine and its Islands from Canteleu, 1880

Watercolor, bodycolor and ink wash, 11.6 x 16.4 in

Rocks in Unrest: Study of the Foreground of Turner's The Pass of St Gotthard, Near Faido, between c 1845 and c 1855

Pencil, watercolor, with some scratching out, 7.3 x 12.1 in

Fribourg, Suisse, between c 1854 and c 1857

Pencil, ink, watercolor and bodycolor, 8.9 x 11.3 in

Zermatt, 1844

Naples, c 1841

Watercolor, 13 3/4 x 17 1/2 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Aiguille Blaitiere, c 1856

Drawing with wash

Lauffenbourg, c 1863

Kingfisher, c 1870-1871

Pencil, ink, watercolor and gouache, 10.1 x 8.5 in //

Tate Britain, London

Henry Fuseli

On January 11, 2026 - 18th Century, 19th Century, English, february 7

Henry Fuseli, Swiss-English Artist, February 7, 1741 - April 17, 1825

Henry Fuseli (aged 63) by Edward Hodges Baily, 1824. National Gallery, London

Thor's Fight Against the Midgard Serpent, 1788 Oil on canvas, 51.5 x 35.8 in // Royal Academy of Arts, London

The Nightmare, c 1781 Oil on canvas, 40 × 50 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Antique Fragments, between 1778 and 1779 Red chalk on sepia wash, 16.33 x 13.97 in // Kunsthaus Zürich

Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers, 1812 Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 in // Tate Britain, London

Henry Fuseli, Ariel, From Act V, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, c 1800–1810 Oil on canvas, 36.4 x 28.1 in Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

Ariel, From Act V, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, c 1800–1810 Oil on canvas, 36.4 x 28.1 in // Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

Falstaff in the Laundry Basket, 1792 Oil on canvas, 53.9 x 66.9 in // Kunsthaus Zürich

Titania and Bottom, c 1790 Oil on canvas, 85.5 x 108.5 in // Tate Britain, London

Henry Fuseli, The Two Murderers of the Duke of Clarence, From Act I, Scene 4 of William Shakespeare's Richard III, between 1780 and 1782 Oil on canvas, 27 x 20.9 in Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

The Two Murderers of the Duke of Clarence, From Act I, Scene 4 of William Shakespeare's Richard III, between 1780 and 1782 Oil on canvas, 27 x 20.9 in // Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

Portrait of Anna Magdalene Schweizer, née Hess, 1779 Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Thetis Mourning the Death of Achilles, 1780 Tempera on cardboard, 16.4 x 21.9 in // Art Institute of Chicago

The Creation of Eve, 1793 Oil on canvas, 10 ft x 81.4 in // Kunsthalle Hamburg

Henry Fuseli, Macbeth Consulting the Vision of the Armed Head, From Act IV, Scene 1 of Macbeth, 1793 Oil on canvas, 66 x 52.8 in Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

Macbeth Consulting the Vision of the Armed Head, From Act IV, Scene 1 of Macbeth, 1793 Oil on canvas, 66 x 52.8 in // Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

Arkhip Kuindzhi

On January 6, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, january 27, Ukrainian

Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ukrainian Painter, January 27, 1842(?) – July 24, 1910

Viktor Vasnetsov Portrait of artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, 1869 Oil on canvas, 46 x 36 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Lake Ladoga, 1871 Oil on canvas, 31.2 x 24.6 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Chumaks' Path in Mariupol, 1875 Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Evening in Ukraine, 1878 Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 64.1 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

After a Rain, 1879 Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 63.3 // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

A Birch Grove, 1879 Oil on canvas Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Dnieper in the Morning, 1881 Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 65.7 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Night on the Dniepr, 1882 Oil on canvas, 40.9 x 56.2 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Sea. Crimea, 1890s Oil on canvas, 15.7 x 21.2 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Rainbow, 1900–1905 Oil on canvas, 43.3 x 67.3 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Moon Spots in the Forest, Winter, between 1898 and 1908 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 15.3 x 21 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Nighttime Horses Grazing, c 1905—1908 Oil on canvas, 42.1 x 66.5 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Red Sunset on the Dnieper, 1905 Oil on canvas, 52.9 x 74 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Valentin Serov

On January 2, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, january 19, Russian

Valentin Serov, Russian artist, January 19, 1865 - December 5, 1911

Valentin Serov, between 1901 and 1902

Portrait of Maria Yermolova, 1905 Oil on canvas, 88.1 x 47.2 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of Maria Akimova, 1908 Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 24.4 in // National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan

Odysseus and Nausicaa, 1910 Gouache on cardboard, 32.8 × 39.9 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Valentin Serov, Portrait of Dancer and Choreographer Ida Rubinstein, 1910 Tempera and charcoal on canvas, 57.8 x 91.7 in Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Portrait of Dancer and Choreographer Ida Rubinstein, 1910 Tempera and charcoal on canvas, 57.8 x 91.7 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Rape of Europa, 1910 Oil on canvas, 27.9 x 38.8 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of Ivan Morozov, 1910 Tempera on board, 11.6 x 9 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of Henriette Girshman, 1907 Oil on canvas, 55.1 x 55.1 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Sasha and Yura Serov, 1899 Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Girl With Peaches, 1887 Oil on canvas, 35.8 × 33.4 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Iphigenia in Tauris, presumably 1893 Oil on canvas, 37 x 52.7 in // Tatarstan State Museum of Fine Arts, Kazan

Portrait of the Composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, 1898 Oil on canvas, 37 x 43.7 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Bathing of a Horse, 1905 Oil on canvas, 28.3 x 38.9 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Eugène Carrière

On December 31, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, january 17

Eugène Carrière, French painter, January 17, 1849 - March 27, 1906

Self-Portrait, c 1893 Oil on canvas, 16.2 x 12.8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Little d'Artagnan, between c 1880 and c 1885 Oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Winding Wool, 1887 Oil on canvas, 39.1 x 34.4 in // Tate Gallery, London

Woman from Behind, Undressing, c 1890–95 Oil on canvas, 18.3 x 15.2 in // Unknown Collection

The Theater of Belleville, 1895 Oil on canvas, 86.6 x 192.9 in // Musée Rodin, Paris

Portrait of a Boy, 1886 Oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago

Paul Verlaine, 1890 Oil on canvas, 59 x 48 in // Louvre, Paris

Portrait of Paul Gauguin, 1891 Oil on canvas Yale University Art Gallery

Woman Leaning on a Table, c 1893 Oil on canvas, 25.5 x 21.3 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Poster: Literary, Artistic, Social Aurore, 1898 Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Rodin, 1897 Lithograph National Gallery of Art , Washington DC

Arsène Carriere, 1899/1900 Oil on canvas, 21 7/8 × 18 1/4 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston

On December 31, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, january 15

Frances Benjamin Johnston, American Photographer, January 15, 1864 – May 16, 1952

Self-portrait by Johnston, Dressed as a Man, Sporting a Fake Mustache and Holding a Bicycle, c 1890

Self-Portrait as "The New Woman," 1896

Frances Benjamin Johnston, With Mattie, With a Painted Backdrop of the Cliff House in San Francisco, California, 1903

Frances Benjamin Johnston Seated at a Desk in Her Studio, 1895

Portrait of Daniel Coit Gilman, c 1890

Booker T Washington, c 1895

George Washington Carver (Front Row, Center) With Fellow Staff Members at the Tuskegee Institute, 1902

Alice Roosevelt Longworth's Wedding Gown, 1906

Natalie Clifford Barney, between c 1890 and c 1910

Signing of the Peace Protocol of the Spanish-American War, August 12, 1898

Ava Astor, between 1900 and 1910

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, c 1903

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