Kawanabe Kyōsai

On May 19, 2026 - 19th Century, Japanese, may 18

Kawanabe Kyōsai, Japanese painter, May 18, 1831 - April 26, 1889

Photograph of Kawanabe Kyōsai, c 1880s
Albumen print, dimensions unknown
Private Collection

Never Seen Before: True Picture of a Live Wild Tiger, c 1863
Woodblock print, 14 x 10 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Hiei-zan, from the series Famous Places on the Tōkaidō, c 1863
Woodblock print, 14 x 9 in
National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan

Kawanabe Kyōsai, Historic Spots at Urashima, Kanagawa, from the series Famous Places on the Tōkaidō, c 1863 Woodblock print, 14 x 9 in Brooklyn Museum, New York

Historic Spots at Urashima, Kanagawa, from the series Famous Places on the Tōkaidō, c 1863
Woodblock print, 14 x 9 in
Brooklyn Museum, New York

Full Moon with Crow on Plum Branch, c 1870
Hanging scroll, ink on silk, 43 x 22 in
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Demon in Priest’s Robes, c 1860s
Woodblock print, 14 x 10 in
Private Collection

Beauty Before King Enma’s Mirror, c 1870
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 67 x 37 in
Private Collection

Urashima Tarō Riding a Turtle, c 1870
Fan print, color woodblock print, 9 x 10 in
Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Frolicking Animals, Nekomata and Tanuki Badger, c 1870
Ink and color on paper, 50 x 36 in
British Museum, London, UK

Izanagi and Izanami Giving Birth to Japan, c 1870
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 48 x 34 in
Private Collection

Kawanabe Kyōsai, Flowers and Birds, c 1870s Pair of six-panel folding screens, ink, color and gold on paper, 67 x 148 in Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum, Saitama, Japan

Flowers and Birds, c 1870s
Pair of six-panel folding screens, ink, color and gold on paper, 67 x 148 in
Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum, Saitama, Japan

Hell Courtesan, c 1870s
Woodblock print, 14 x 10 in
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Renshishi, c 1880
Woodblock print, 10 x 15 in
Private Collection

Daruma, c 1887
Hanging scroll, ink on paper, 50 x 31 in
Private Collection

Spencer Gore

On May 17, 2026 - 20th Century, English, may 26

Spencer Gore, English painter, May 26, 1878 – March 27, 1914

Spencer Gore, Self Portrait, c 1906 Oil on canvas, 15.0 x 11.8 in Private Collection

Self Portrait, c 1906
Oil on canvas, 15 x 11.8 in
Private Collection

Spencer Gore, Hartington Square, c 1908 Oil on canvas, 20.0 x 24.0 in Private Collection

Hartington Square, c 1908
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in //
Private Collection

An Extensive Landscape in Yorkshire, 1908
Oil on canvas, 20.1 x 24.1 in //
Tate Britain, London

Spencer Gore, Ballet Scene from “On the Sands”, c 1910, Oil on canvas, 25.0 x 30.0 in Southampton City Art Gallery, UK

Ballet Scene from “On the Sands”, c 1910
Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in
Southampton City Art Gallery, UK

Spencer Gore, Blue and Green Bottles and Oranges, c 1911, Oil on canvas, 24.0 x 20.0 in Tate Britain, London, UK

Blue and Green Bottles and Oranges, c 1911
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in //
Tate Britain, London

Spencer Gore, Cambrian Road, Richmond, 1911 Oil on canvas, 24.0 x 30.0 in Tate Britain, London

Cambrian Road, Richmond, 1911
Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in //
Tate Britain, London

Design for Deer Hunting Mural in the Cabaret Theatre Club, 1912
Oil on canvas, 29.9 x 40 in
Tate Britain, London

Tennis at Hertingfordbury, 1912
Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

Autumn, Sussex, 1912
Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in //
Tate Britain, London, UK

The Icknield Way, c 1912
Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in //
Tate Britain, London, UK

The Green Dress, c 1912–13
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in //
Private Collection

From a Canal Bridge, Chalk Farm Road, 1913
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in //
York Art Gallery, UK

North London Girl, 1914
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in //
Tate Britain, London, UK

Henri Rousseau

On May 16, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, may 21

Henri Rousseau, French painter, May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910

Myself: Portrait-Landscape, 1890
Oil on canvas, 57.5 × 76.0 in
National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic

Carnival Evening, 1886
Oil on canvas, 44.9 × 59.1 in
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

Eiffel Tower, 1898
Oil on canvas, 63.8 × 51.2 in
The Phillips Collection, DC

The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope, 1905
Oil on canvas, 78.7 × 118.1 in
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland

Portrait of Monsieur X (Pierre Loti), c 1906
Oil on canvas, 25.8 × 21.3 in
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

The Flamingoes, 1907
Oil on canvas, 44.9 × 63.8 in
Private collection

The Football Players, 1908
Oil on canvas, 39.4 × 31.9 in
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY

In a Tropical Forest: Struggle Between Tiger and Bull, 1908
Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 63.8 in
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH

View of the Bridge at Sèvres, 1908
Oil on canvas, 23.6 × 31.9 in
Saint Louis Art Museum, MO

The Muse Inspiring the Poet, 1909
Oil on canvas, 51.2 × 38.2 in
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Bouquet of Flowers, c 1910
Oil on canvas, 31.9 × 24.0 in
Tate, London, United Kingdom

Jaguar Attacking a Horse, 1910
Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 35.4 in
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

Kawase Hasui

On May 16, 2026 - 20th Century, may 18

Hasui Kawase, Japanese artist, May 18, 1883 - November 7, 1957

Photograph of the artist, 1939

Misty Moonlight at Matsue in Izumo Province , 1924

Color woodblock print, 14 3/8 × 9 1/2 in //

Art Institute of Chicago

Cave at Dogashima, Izu, c 1925 Color woodblock print 15.0 × 10.1 in //
National Diet Library Tokyo Japan

Snow over Zojoji Temple, Shiba, 1929
Color woodblock print 15.2 × 10.3 in //
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

The Pond at Benten Shrine in Shiba, 1929
Color woodblock print, 10.3 × 15.1 in //
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Zojoji Temple in Snow c 1929
Color woodblock print, 15.0 × 10.1 in //
National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan

Moon at Magome, 1930
Color woodblock print, 15.0 × 10.1 in
National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan

Nikko Highway, 1930
Color woodblock print, 15.2 × 10.3 in
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Snow in Mukojima, 1931
Color woodblock print, 15.0 × 10.1 in
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1931
Color woodblock print 15.0 × 10.1 in //
Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Lake Towada at Sunset, 1932
Color woodblock print, 15.0 × 10.1 in
National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan

Bamboo Yard, Shiobara, c 1933
Color woodblock print, 10.3 × 15.2 in //
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Konjikido in Snow, Hiraizumi, 1933
Color woodblock print, 15.1 × 10.2 in
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

John Sell Cotman

On May 15, 2026 - 19th Century, may 16

John Sell Cotman, English painter, May 16, 1782 – July 24, 1842

John Joseph Cotman

Portrait of John Sell Cotman, 1841

Chalk on paper, 18.4 x 14.0 in

National Portrait Gallery, London

House at St Stephen's Road, Norwich, 1794

Pen and grey ink with grey, blue and red wash on paper, 5.1 x 6.8 in //

British Museum, London

Mountainous Landscape, North Wales, c 1802

Watercolor and gum over graphite on medium slightly textured cream wove paper, 8.50 x 12.63 in //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

Greta Bridge, c 1805

Watercolor, 9 x 12.9 in //

British Museum, London

Mousehold Heath, 1810

Drawing on paper, 11.7 x 17.1 in //

British Museum, London

Caverns Excavated in the Rock within the Castle of Chateau Gaillard, near Andelys, Normandy, 1822

Graphite and brown wash on medium smooth cream wove paper, 12.2 x 17.8 in //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

Abbatial House of the Abbey of St Ouen at Rouen, 1825

Watercolor on paper, 16.6 x 22.5 in //

Norfolk Museums Collections

Boats off the Coast, Storm Approaching, 1830

Watercolor over traces of graphite, with gouache, scratching out, stopping out, and gum arabic, 18 9/16 × 25 11/16 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Drainage Mills in the Fens, Croyland, Lincolnshire, c 1835

Oil on canvas, 21.7 x 36.1 in //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

A Castle in Normandy

Graphite on paper, 7 5/16 x 10 1/2 in //

Cleveland Museum of Art

Windmill, Norfolk

Watercolor, 3.9 x 4.9 in //

Private collection

The Mouth of the Yare

Oil on canvas

Private collection

Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk, 19th century

Watercolor over graphite on medium moderately textured beige wove paper, 13.38 x 9.48 in

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

Edward Lear

On May 10, 2026 - 19th Century, English, may 12

Edward Lear, English artist and illustrator, May 12, 1812 – January 29, 1888

Edward Lear, 1866

A Weasel, 1832

Watercolor with pen in brown ink, with gouache and gum over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, 7.4 x 11 in //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

Greater Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo, 1832

Lithograph on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, 22 x 15.1 in //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

Head of a Chimpanzee, 1835

Watercolor painting over graphite drawing

Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Landscape with Goatherd, c 1842

Oil on canvas, 10.5 x 14.5 in //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

A Young Lady of Hull, from A Book of Nonsense, 1846

Shkodra: Albanians Smoking by the River Drin, 1851

Howakte 10.45 AM, 1867

Watercolor with pen in brown ink and gouache over graphite on wove paper, 3 1/8

x 5 1/4 inches //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

Masada on the Dead Sea, 1858

Oil on canvas, 18 3/4 x 30 in //

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Cover for A Book of Nonsense, 1862

Dwejra, 1886

The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Greece, c 1870:

Pencil and watercolor heightened with white, on buff paper, 3 7/8 × 7 5/8 in

J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Edward Lear, The Artist Playing the Piano

Edward Lear Playing the Piano

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

Daniel Lieberman's Imaginary Museum

"A work of art is a transformation of something in order to transform someone." — Paul Valéry

Kawanabe Kyōsai

Spencer Gore

Henri Rousseau

Kawase Hasui

John Sell Cotman

Edward Lear

Jean-Léon Gérôme

Paul Nash

Léon Bakst

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux