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Franz Marc

On January 29, 2026 - 20th Century, february 8, German

Franz Marc, German artist, February 8, 1880-March 4, 1916

Franz Marc, 1910

Dog Lying in the Snow, 1911 Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 25 in // Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

Young Boy with a Lamb/The Good Shepherd, 1911 Oil on canvas, 34.6 × 32.9 in // Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

The Little Blue Horses, 1911 Oil on canvas, 24.2 x 39.7 in // Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Red Bull, 1912 Gouache on paper, 13.3 x 16.9 in // Pushkin Museum, Moscow

The Foxes, 1913 Oil on canvas, 34.6 x 26 in // Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

The Tiger, 1912 Color woodcut print on paper, 43.9 × 40 in // Lenbachhaus, Munich

Franz Marc, The Tower of the Blue Horses, Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 51.1 in Shown in the "Degenerate Art" Exhibition in Munich, July to November 1937; Missing since 1945

The Tower of the Blue Horses, Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 51.1 in // Shown in the "Degenerate Art" Exhibition in Munich, July to November 1937; Missing since 1945

The Fate of the Animals, 1913 Color on canvas, 77.1 x 104.7 in // Kunstmuseum Basel

Dreaming Horses, 1913 Watercolor, gouache, ink, and graphite on paper, 15.5 x 18.4 in // Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Animal Legend, unknown date Woodcut

Two Cats, before 1910 Lenbachhaus, Munich

The Panther, 1908 Bronze, 3.8 x 4.7 in; thickness: 3.9 in // Lenbachhaus, Munich

Guercino

On January 28, 2026 - 17th Century, february 8, Italian

Guercino, Italian Painter, February 8, 1591 – December 9, 1666

Self-Portrait with a Palette, c 1624-6 Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 24.4 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Persian Sibyl, 1647 - 1648 Oil on canvas, 46.1 in x 37.8 in // Capitoline Museum, Rome

Samson and Delilah, 1654 Oil on canvas, 69.2 x 87.7 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, France

Martyrdom of St Catherine, 1653 Oil on canvas, 87.5 x 62.5 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

King David, 1651 Oil on canvas, 87.9 x 67 in // National Gallery, London

Personification of Astrology, between 1650 and 1655 Oil on canvas, 31.7 x 25.7 in // Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Laundry Women at a Dilapidated Gate University Libraries Leiden, The Netherlands

Flying Putto Holding a Basket With Flowers, between 1606 and 1666 Black chalk and stumping, 6.2 x 7.6 in // Private collection

St Peter and the Angel, early 1650s Red chalk on paper, 0.82 x 1.18 in // Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

The Triumph of David, 1636 - 1637 Pen, brown ink, brown wash on paper, 9.25 x 12.44 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Bearded Man with a Hat, in Profile to Left Drawing, 6.4 x 4.8 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

A Seated Female Nude/Bathsheba, 17th century Ink on paper pen and brown ink, red chalk, 9.13 x 7.32 in // Private collection

Carel Pietersz. Fabritius

On January 28, 2026 - 17th Century, Dutch, february 27

Carel Pietersz. Fabritius, Dutch painter, February 27, 1622 – October 12, 1654

Self-portrait, circa 1645 Oil on panel, 24.5 x 20.1 in // Alte Pinakothek, Munich

The Sentry, 1654 Oil on canvas, 26.7 x 22.8 in // Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany

A View of Delft, 1652 Oil on canvas mounted on walnut wood, 6.1 x 12.4 in // National Gallery, London

Raising of Lazarus, 1640s Oil on canvas, 82.6 x 55.1 in // National Museum in Warsaw

Hagar and the Angel, 1645 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 53.5 in // Leiden Collection, Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Austria

Mercury and Aglauros, between c 1645 and c 1647 Oil on canvas, 28.5 x 35.8 in // Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Portrait of Abraham de Potter, 1649 Oil on canvas, 26.9 x 22.4 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Portrait of a Lady in Profile, 1654 Oil on canvas, 26.1 x 22.6 in // Landesmuseum Hannover, Germany

Portrait of an Aged Man Oil on canvas Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France

Head of an Old Man, 1640s Oil on canvas, 15.1 x 12.2 in Groninger Museum, The Netherlands

Mercury and Argus, between c 1645 and c 1647 Oil on canvas, 28.9 x 40.9 in // Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Carel Pietersz. Fabritius, Jesus among the Doctors, 1640s Pen and brush, brown ink, heightened with white gouache, 8.66 x 11.61 in Museum collection Am Römerholz, Winterthur, Switzerland

Jesus among the Doctors, 1640s Pen and brush, brown ink, heightened with white gouache, 8.66 x 11.61 in // Museum collection Am Römerholz, Winterthur, Switzerland

The Beheading of John the Baptist, 1648-50 Oil on canvas, 58.7 x 47.6 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

On January 10, 2026 - 18th Century, Austrian, february 6

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Austrian sculptor, February 6, 1736 – August 19, 1783

The Yawner: Character Head #5, 1775

The Beaked: Character Head #6, 1770

A Haggard Old Man with Aching Eyes: Character Head #15

A Grievously Wounded Man: Character Head #19

Simplicity of the Highest Degree: Character Head #9

Emotions IV

The Vexed Man: Character Head #21

The Noble-Minded Man: Character Head #22

The Strong Odor: Character Head #23

Maudlin Old Man: Character Head #24

The Satirist: Character Head #26

Afflicted with Constipation: Character Head #30

Alessandro Magnasco

On January 10, 2026 - 17th Century, 18th Century, february 4, Italian

Alessandro Magnasco, Italian painter, February 4, 1667 - March 12, 1749

Self-portrait, 17th century or 18th century Oil on canvas, 25 x 19 in // Private collection

Joseph Interpreting Dreams, 1700s Oil on canvas, 52.7 x 69.6 in // Private collection

Hermit in the Desert, 1700/1740 Oil on canvas, 13.4 x 16.1 in // Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid

The Tame Magpie, c 1707 and c 1778 Oil on canvas, 25 x 29.4 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Interrogations in Jail, between c 1710 and c 1720 Oil on canvas, 17.5 x 32.4 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Banditti at Rest, 1710s Oil on canvas, 44 x 63.7 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Garden Party in Albaro, c 1740 Oil on canvas, 33.9 x 77.9 in // Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa

Dissipation and Ignorance Destroy the Arts and Sciences, between 1735 and 1740 Oil on canvas, 24.5 x 36 in // Private collection

Workshop of Nuns, c 1725-1730 Oil on canvas, 16.1 x 12.9 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg

Jewish Funerals, c 1720 Oil on canvas, 34.2 x 46 in // Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris

The Exorcism of the Waves, c 1735 Oil on canvas, 33 x 51 in // Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

The Painter’s Workshop, between 1722 and 1723 Oil on canvas, 23.8 x 16.7 in Private collection

Sébastien Bourdon

On January 8, 2026 - 17th Century, february 2, French

Sébastien Bourdon, French painter and engraver, February 2, 1616-May 8, 1671

A Brawl in a Guard-Room, circa 1640 Oil on canvas, 29.48 x 23.85 in // Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

Solomon Sacrificing to the Idols, between 1646 and 1647 Oil on canvas, 61.4 x 57 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Christ and the Samaritan Woman Oil on canvas, 56.8 x 78.3 in // Museum of Fine Arts Boston

The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew, c 1645 Oil on canvas, 10 ft x 102.3 in // Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France

Christ Receiving the Children, c 1655 Oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago

Death of Dido, between 1637 and 1640 Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 53.9 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Self-Portrait, 1652–1658 Oil on canvas, 27.5 x 22 in // Palace of Versailles

The Baptism of Christ, c 1650 Oil on canvas, 59.1 x 45.5 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Finding of Moses, c 1655/1660 Oil on canvas, 47 1/16 x 68 1/16 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Bathsheba Guiding Solomon to the Throne, c 1643 Oil on canvas, 16.9 x 11.8 in // Musée du Grand Siècle, Saint-Cloud, France

The Departure of Jacob, Unknown date Oil on canvas, 38.9 x 54.3 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Laban Searching the Belongings of Jacob Oil on canvas, 19.3 x 26.2 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Jacob van Campen

On January 8, 2026 - 17th Century, Dutch, february 2

Jacob van Campen, Dutch painter and architect, February 2, 1596 - September 13, 1657

Jacob van Campen in his book Images of the City Hall of Amsterdam in 30 engravings, 1665

Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1640

Kasteel Oldenaller, 1655-1665 Putten, The Netherlands

Coymanshuis is a canal house on the Keizersgracht 177, Amsterdam. The double wide house was designed and built in 1625

New Church, Haarlem, 1645-1649

Noordeinde Palace, 1640 The Hague

Palace Huis ten Bosch, 1645 The Hague

Jacob van Campen, Double Portrait of Constantijn Huygens, c 1635 Oil on canvas, 37.4 x 30.9 in Mauritshuis, The Hague

Double Portrait of Constantijn Huygens and his wife Susanna van Baerle, c 1635 Oil on canvas, 37.4 x 30.9 in // Mauritshuis, The Hague

Woman Making Her Toilet, 1650 - 1655 Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 26.4 in // Museum Bredius, The Hague

Argus, Mercury and Io, 1630s Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 75.9 in // Mauritshuis, The Hague

Lenaert Nicasius, c 1651 Museum Flehite, Amersfoort, Netherlands

Koepelkerk, 1639-1641 Renswoude, Netherlands

Vanitas Still Life with a Book and a Skull, c 1645-1650 Oil on panel, 34 x 33.8 in // Museum Flehite, Amersfoort, Netherlands

Hans Weiditz the Younger

On January 7, 2026 - 16th Century, German

Hans Weiditz the Younger, German artist, 1495 – c 1537 Bern

Voyeurism, before 1544 Woodcut

Nymphaea alba, or European White Waterlily, from "Herbarium Vivae Eicones," 1530

Master's Graduation, 16th century Woodcut Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Emperor Maximilian Listening to the Mass, 1518 Woodcut, 11.3 × 8.4 in

Hobbyhorse Rider

Gossip Sisters and the Devil

Doctor and Servant

Dancer and his Doxy

Prayer on the Mount of Olives

Drinker and his Wife, 1521

Cheese Farmer and his Wife, 1521

The Rooster as a Quack Doctor, 16th century Woodcut

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