The Prisoner - Nikolai Yaroshenko (1878) (upload.wikimedia.org)
The Chess Players - Honoré Daumier (c.1863-67) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Woodland Pond - Henri Biva (1848-1929) (upload.wikimedia.org)
I like this image because of the stillness and warmth. No humans, emotions or strife, past or present - just a calm nicely observed moment of nature. Places like this have brought me peace in times of difficulty.
Old House in Normandy - Eilif Petersson (1896) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Bad Recipe - Periclès Pantazis (1849-1884) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Girl With House of Cards - Emma Ekwall-Scheutz (1838-1925) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Jeanne Hébuterne with Hat and Necklace - Amedeo Modigliani (1907-20) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Rest - Anna Nordgren (1847-1916) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Nordic Summer Evening - Gothenburg - Richard Bergh (1899-1900) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Great Auk (upload.wikimedia.org)
Became extinct in the 1850s, sadly.
Trolls with an abducted princess - John Bauer (1915) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Autumn Beeches - John Fabian Carlson (1915) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Still life of fish, oysters and crayfish with a cat - Clara Peters (1615) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Two Boys Blowing Up a Bladder - Joseph Wright of Derby (1769-70) (upload.wikimedia.org)
"Though wonder is doubtless the energy that pulses through the brush of every committed painter, in truth, only a rare few have managed successfully to capture its essence as a palpable property in their work. The recent rediscovery in 2019 of a work by the British Enlightenment artist Joseph Wright of Derby that was hitherto...
Les Regrets - Claude-Marie Dubufe (1826-27) (upload.wikimedia.org)
The Love Letter - Adolf Hölzel (19th century) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Camões and the Tágides - Columbano (1894) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Nightingale Balcony - José Malhoa (1914) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Shin-Kobe Ropeway (upload.wikimedia.org)
Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale I) - Charles Willson Peale (1795) (upload.wikimedia.org)
An oil painting - Rob Møhlmann (1990) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Put Down Your Whip - Xu Beihong (1939) (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Sarbani Bose - Rajasekharan (2020) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Portrait of Vsyevolod Meyerhold - Boris Grigoriev (1916) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Orangutan eating strawberrys - Tethart Philip Christian Haag (1776) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Don’t pry mate.
