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Jean-Léon Gérôme

On May 10, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, may 11

Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter, May 11, 1824 – January 10, 1904

Jean-Léon Gérôme, photograph by Nadar, c 1910

Young Greeks Attending a Cock Fight, 1846

Oil on canvas, 56.2 x 80.3 in //

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Portrait of Armand Gérôme, 1848

Oil on canvas, 19.7 x 17.2 in //

National Gallery of Art, London

Portrait of a Woman, 1848

Oil on canvas, 36.4 x 29 in //

Art Institute of Chicago

Recreation in a Russian Camp, 1855

Oil on canvas, 23.2 x 39.7 in //

Private collection

Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert, 1857

Oil on panel, 24.4 x 41.7 in //

Private collection

Thumbs Down, 1872

Oil on canvas, 37.9 x 58.7 in //

Phoenix Art Museum

Diogenes, 1860

Oil on canvas, 29.3 x 39.7 in //

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Phryne Before the Areopagus, 1861

Oil on canvas, 31.4 × 50.3 in //

Hamburger Kunsthalle

Jerusalem,1867

Oil on canvas, 32 × 56.9 in //

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Éminence Grise, 1873

Oil on canvas, 27 x 39.7 in //

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Pain, 1891

Bronze

Vesoul, France

Truth Emerging from Her Well, 1896

Oil on canvas, 35.8 x 28.3 in //

Musée Anne de Beaujeu, Moulins, France

Paul Nash

On May 8, 2026 - 20th Century, English, may 11

Paul Nash, British painter May 11, 1889 – July 11, 1946

Self-Portrait, 1923
Woodcut

Paul Nash, 1922

Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917

Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in //

Imperial War Museum, London

Sunrise, Inverness Copse, 1918

Ink on paper, 10 x 14 in //

Imperial War Museum, London

The Ypres Salient at Night, 1918

Oil on panel, 28.1 x 36.2 in //

Imperial War Museum, London

We Are Making a New World, 1918

Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 in //

Imperial War Museum, London

Wire, 1918-19

Watercolor, chalk, and ink on paper, 19.1 x 25 in //

Imperial War Museum, London

The Mule Track, 1918

Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in //

Imperial War Museum, London

The Menin Road, 1919

Oil on canvas, 71.9 x 10.4 ft //

Imperial War Museum, London

Month of March, 1929

Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 33.1 in //

Tate Gallery, London

Cover of the Radio Times Christmas Number for 1930

Pillar and Moon, 1932–42

Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 in //

Tate Gallery, London

Landscape of Bleached Objects, 1934, oil on canvas - Auckland Art Gallery - Auckland, NZ

Landscape of Bleached Objects, 1934
Oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery, NZ

Battle of Britain, 1941

Oil on canvas, 48.3 x 72.2 in //

Imperial War Museum, London

Landscape of the Moon's Last Phase, 1944

Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in //

Tate Gallery, London

Léon Bakst

On May 7, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, may 10, Russian

Léon Bakst, Russian painter and stage designer, May 10, 1866-December 28, 1924

Self Portrait, 1893

Oil on canvas

Imaginary Portrait of Uriel da Costa, 1893

Carnival in Paris in Honour of the Russian Navy, 20th century

Set Design for the 1909 Ballets Russes Production of Cleopatra

Original Costume Design for "The Firebird," 1910

Watercolor on paper, 9.8 x 7 in //

Private Collection

Costume Design for "The Blue God" (Nijinsky), 1911

Vaslav Nijinsky, Poster for the Ballet "Afternoon of a Faun," 1912

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Set design for Act I from Daphnis and Chloe, 1912

Watercolor on paper, 7.5 x 10.6 in //

Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library

The Port of Famagusta, set design for "The Pisanella, or La Morte Parfumée," 1913

Watercolor and gouache on cardboard, 9.4 by 15.4 in //

Private collection

The Princess and the Court Fall Asleep for a Hundred Years, Illustration from "The Sleeping Beauty," 1913

National Trust, Waddesdon Manor, UK

Set Design for "Scheherazade," by Rimsky-Korsakov, before 1917

Design for Scene 4 of "The Sleeping Beauty," 1921

Pencil and watercolor, 18.9 x 26.3 in //

Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Lugano, Switzerland

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

On May 7, 2026 - 19th Century, French, may 11

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter, May 11, 1827 – October 12, 1875

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1875

Louis Maximilien Beauvois, Notary in Valenciennes, 1862

Bronze

Portrait of the Artist Pierre-François-Eugène Giraud, 1862

Bronze on red marble base, 19 1/4 x 11 13/16 x 10 in //

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Smoker, 1863

Detroit Institute of Arts

Ugolino and His Sons, 1865 – 67

Marble, 77 3/4 × 59 × 43 1/2 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Triumph of Flora, 1866

South façade of the Pavillon de Flore, Louvre, Paris

Bust of a Black Woman, 1868

Bronze, 25 in //

National Museum in Warsaw

The Dance, 1869

Palais Garnier/Paris Opera

Chinese Man, 1872

Bronze

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Laughing Woman, 1873

Marble

Museum of Fine Arts, Str

Napoleon III, 1873

Plaster

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

Bust of Charles Gounod, 1873

Fountain of the Four Parts of the World, 1874

Luxembourg Gardens, Paris

Bust of Alexandre Dumas the Younger, 1874

Terracotta cast

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, UK

Sir Jacob Epstein

On May 4, 2026 - 20th Century, American, november 10

Sir Jacob Epstein, American and British artist, November 10, 1880 - August 21, 1959

George Charles Beresford, 1921
Jacob Epstein

Bromide print

National Portrait Gallery, London

Madonna and Child, 1927

Bronze

Riverside Church, Morningside Heights, New York

Portrait of Paul Robeson, 1927

Bronze

York Art Gallery, UK

Jacob and the Angel, 1940 - 41,

Alabaster

Tate Britain, London

Trades Union Congress War Memorial, 1955

London

The Rush of Green or The Pan Statue, 1959

Edinburgh Gate in Hyde Park, London

Kathlene

Bronze

City Art Gallery, Bristol, UK

A Russian Girl Student, lllustration from The Spirit of the Ghetto; Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York, 1902

Library of Congress, Washington DC

A Type of a Laboring Man, Illustration from The Spirit of the Ghetto; Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York, 1902

Library of Congress, Washington DC

"Submerged scholars," Illustration from The Spirit of the Ghetto; Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York, 1902

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Sir Jacob Epstein, The Push-Carts of Hester Street and Their Guard at Night, lllustration from The Spirit of the Ghetto; Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York, 1902 Library of Congress, Washington DC

The Push-Carts of Hester Street and Their Guard at Night, lllustration from The Spirit of the Ghetto; Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York, 1902

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Sir Jacob Epstein, The Rabbi Can Tell Whether or Not It Is Kosher, Illustration from The Spirit of the Ghetto; Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York, 1902 Library of Congress, Washington DC

The Rabbi Can Tell Whether or Not It Is Kosher, Illustration from The Spirit of the Ghetto; Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York, 1902

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Untitled, lllustration from The Spirit of the Ghetto; Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York, 1902

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Untitled, lllustration from The Spirit of the Ghetto; Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York, 1902

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Cecilia Beaux

On May 3, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, may 1

Cecilia Beaux, American artist, May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942

Cecilia Beaux, 1888

A Little Girl by Cecilia Beaux, 1887

Oil on canvas, 36 x 29 3/16 in //

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

A Breton Woman and Other Studies, 1888

Oil on canvas, 15 x 10 5/8 in //

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Twilight Confidences, 1888

Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 28 in //

Georgia Museum of Art, Athens

Landscape with Farm Building, Concarneau, France, 1888

Oil on canvas, 11 1/16 x 14 3/16 in //

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Beach Haven, New Jersey, 1889 - 1890

Oil on canvas, 6 1/16 x 8 9/16 in //

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Ernesta/Child with Nurse, 1894

Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 38 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

New England Woman, 1895

Oil on canvas, 43 x 24 1/4 in //

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Dorothea and Francesca/The Dancing Lesson, 1898

Oil on canvas, 80.1 x 45.9 in //

Art Institute of Chicago

Sita and Sarita, 1896

Oil on canvas, 37 x 25 in //

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Mrs Robert Chapin and Daughter Christina, 1902

Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 in //

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY

A Young Woman, 1909

Oil on canvas, 29 9/16 x 22 1/16 in //

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Georges Clemenceau, 1920

Oil on canvas, 46 7⁄8 x 36 3⁄4 in //

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

The Green Cloak, 1925

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt

On May 3, 2026 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Dutch, may 1

Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Dutch artist, May 1, 1566 - June 27, 1641

Willem Jacobsz Delff, after Anthony van Dyck

Portrait of Michiel Jansz. Mierevelt, 1610 and 1625

Engraving, 10.3 x 7.7 in //

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Portrait of Philip William, Prince of Orange, 1608

Oil on canvas, 48.1 x 42.6 in //

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Portrait of Ambrogio Spinola, 1609

Oil on canvas, 46.8 x 34.4 in //

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Portrait of a Lady in a Black Dress and White Lace Collar, 1612

Oil on canvas, 24.4 x 24.6 in //

Private collection

Portrait of Frederick V of the Palatinate, 1613

Oil on copper, 10.9 x 9 in //

Mauritshuis, The Hague

Portrait of a lady of the van Beijeren van Schagen Family, 1620

Oil on canvas, 24.8 x 20 in //

Museo del Prado, Madrid

Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia and Electress Palatine, c 1623

Oil on canvas, 27.5 x 23.5 in //

National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau, Prince of Orange-Nassau, 1620- 1624

Oil on panel, 43.9 x 33.4 in //

Prinsenhof, Delft

Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 1625 - 1626

Oil on panel, 2.7 x 2.2 in //

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Self-Portrait Painting His Grandson, 1640 - 1641

Oil on panel, 34.2 x 26.1 in //

Prinsenhof, Delft

Portrait of an Unknown Man

The Georgium, Dessau, Germany

Portrait of a Lady with a Lace Collar and Pearls, before 1641

Oil on panel, 27.5 x 22.7 in //

Private collection

Portrait of Louise de Coligny

Oil on copper, 11 x 9 in //

Mauritshuis, The Hague

Romaine Brooks

On May 2, 2026 - 20th Century, American, may 1

Romaine Brooks, American painter, May 1, 1874 – December 7, 1970

The Charwoman, 1904

Oil on canvas, 30 3/8 x 40 1/2 in //

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

The Green Silk Jacket, 1907

Oil on canvas, 63 7/8 x 45 1/8 in //

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lady in Mourning, c 1910

Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 24 1/8 in //

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

White Azaleas, 1910

Oil on canvas, 59 1/2 x 107 in //

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Gabriele d'Annunzio, the Poet in Exile, 1912

Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 37.4 in //

National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Jean Cocteau at the time of the Ferris Wheel, 1912

Oil on canvas, 98.4 x 52.4 in //

National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

The Cross of France, 1914

Oil on canvas, 45 3⁄4 x 33 1⁄2 in //

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

At the Seaside (Self-Portrait), 1914

Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 26.8 in //

National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

The White Goat (Portrait of Elsie de Wolfe, c 1915

Oil on canvas, 27.2 x 23.2 in //Romaine Brooks,

National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Renata Borgatti, at the Piano, 1920

Oil on canvas, 55 7/8 x 74 1/4 in //

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Self-Portrait, 1923

Oil on canvas, 46 1/4 x 26 7/8 in //

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Peter (A Young English Girl), 1923 - 1924

Oil on canvas, 36 1⁄8 x 24 1⁄2 in //

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Duke Uberto Strozzi, 1961

Oil on canvas, 45 3/8 x 39 1/4 in //

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Adriaen Coorte

On April 29, 2026 - 17th Century, 18th Century, Dutch

Adriaen Coorte, Dutch painter, c 1665 – after 1707

Still Life with Herring, Bread, and Glass of Beer, 1697

Oil on canvas, 14.4 × 16.8 in //

Private collection

Pelican and Ducks in a Mountain Landscape, 1683

Oil on canvas, 15.3 x 18.8 in //

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Shells, 1698

Oil on panel, 6.6 x 8.8 in //

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Still Life with Asparagus, 1697

Oil on paper mounted on panel, 9.8 x 8 in //

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Still Life with Hazel-nuts, 1696

Oil on paper mounted on panel, 6.2 x 7.8 in //

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Still Life with Wild Strawberries, 1705

Oil on paper mounted on panel, 6.4 x 5.5 in //

Mauritshuis, The Hague

Still Life With Three Peaches on a Stone Ledge and a Butterfly, 1693 - 1695

Oil on paper mounted on board, 12.3 x 9.1 in //

Private collection

Two Peaches, 1696

Oil on paper mounted on panel, 10.9 x 8.9 in //

Private collection

Vanitas Still Life in a Niche, 1688

Oil on paper mounted on panel, 30.5 in //

Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, The Netherlands

Vanitas Still Life, 1686

Oil on canvas, 19.7 x 16.2 in //

Private collection

Still Life With Asparagus, a Spray of Gooseberries and a Bowl of Strawberries, 1698

Oil painting, 14.5 x 17.3 in //

Dordrechts Museum, The Netherlands

Still Life with Shells, 1697

Oil on paper mounted on panel, 6.7 x 8.7 in //

Private collection

Francesco Primaticcio

On April 28, 2026 - 16th Century, april 30, Italian

Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect and sculptor, April 30, 1504 – 1570

The Rape of Helen, c 1530 – 1539

Oil on canvas, 61 x 74 in //

Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, UK

The Holy Family with Saints Elisabeth and John the Baptist, 1541 - 1543

Oil on slate, 17.1 x 12.2 in //

Hermitage Museum

Ulysses and Penelope, c 1545

Oil on canvas

Toledo Museum of Art

Alexander Tames Bucephalus, Mid-16th century

Fresco

Château of Fontainebleau

King Francis I of France and his Sister Marguerite de Navarre Receive Statues and Paintings Brought Back From Italy

Château of Fontainebleau

Portrait of a Nobleman as Saint George, 16th century

Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 47 in

Unidentified location

Ulysses and the Sirens

Oil on canvas

Private collection

The Three Graces, 18th century

Oil on panel, 29.4 x 22.4 in //

Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, UK

Euterpe, c 1540 – 45

Etching, 9 x 6 5/16 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Nile, 1540s

Black chalk, pen and brown ink

Beaux-Arts de Paris

Dance of the Hours and Three Putti With Cornucopiae, 1548

Red chalk, red wash, heightened with white, on red prepared paper, 14.1 x 13.2 in //

Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Ulysses and His Companions Fighting, 1555 – 60

Red chalk highlighted with white gouache, on red-washed paper, 9 1/2 x 12 9/16 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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