Soft Mischief

Gentle fun in quiet colour.

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Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguérite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Émile-Charles (1875–1895)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1878

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

Thomas Gainsborough · 1787

Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada

Édouard Manet · 1862

Young Man and Woman in an Inn

Frans Hals · 1623

Boy with a Lute

Frans Hals · ca. 1625

The Storm

Pierre Auguste Cot · 1880

Curiosity

Gerard ter Borch · ca. 1660–62

The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre

Henri Rousseau · ca. 1908–09

The Silver Tureen

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin · ca. 1728–30

Creation I from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio III: German Artists" [Schöpfungsgeschichte I from the portfolio Neue Europäische Graphik III: Deutsche Künstler]

Franz Marc · 1914 (posthumously printed in 1921 and published in 1922)

Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub

Edgar Degas · 1885

The Rehearsal Onstage

Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

The Child and the Bulldog

Jean Honoré Fragonard · Marguerite Gérard · 1778

Monsieur Boileau at the Café

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1893

Young Woman (possibly a Sex Worker) with a Man (recto); Young Woman Wringing Her Hands over a Man's Naked Body (verso)

Francisco Goya · 1796–97

Dancing Sailors

Charles Henry Buckius Demuth · 1917

Scene in a New Pantomime to be Performed at the Theatre Royal Paris

Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · April 12, 1815

A Young Lady with a Parrot

Rosalba Carriera · c. 1730

Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin

Edgar Degas · ca. 1879

The Board of Censors Moves Out

Eugène Delacroix · Charles Motte · 1822

Théâtre Italien

Eugène Delacroix · Charles Motte · 1821

The Bruiser

William Hogarth · Dent · ca. 1800

Girl on a swing, a man with his arms raised; folio 21 (recto) from the Madrid Album 'B'

Francisco Goya · 1795–97

Celebrrrre Jury de Peinture..., published in Le Charivari, March 16, 1840

Honoré Daumier · Aubert et Cie · Aubert et Cie · March 16, 1840

Un Coup de Vent non Prédit par Mathieu (de la Drôme), Plate 1 of Croquis d'Hiver, published in le Petit Journal pour rire

Honoré Daumier · Petit Journal pour rire · December 3, 1864

The Dispatch of the Messenger

François Boucher · 1765

Jupiter, in the Guise of Diana, and Callisto

François Boucher · 1763

The Proposal

William-Adolphe Bouguereau · 1872

Great Cry and Little Wool

Thomas Rowlandson · William Humphrey · Charles James Fox · December 22, 1783

Great Cry and Little Wool

Thomas Rowlandson · William Humphrey · Charles James Fox · December 22, 1783

Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard playing at Football

Thomas Rowlandson · William Humphrey · William Pitt · Charles James Fox · February 7, 1784

All for Love or A Scene at Weymouth, An Unexpected Meeting

Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany · Thomas Rowlandson · Thomas Tegg · February 26, 1809

Valentine

Kate Greenaway · 1874

Valentine

Kate Greenaway · ca. 1880

Valentine

Kate Greenaway · 1876

Two Boys Blowing a Bladder by Candle-light

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · Peter Perez Burdett · 1773

The Brawl

Adriaen Brouwer

Tavern Scene

Gabriel Metsu

The Poll

Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood · Thomas Rowlandson · Charles James Fox · William Humphrey · Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire · Sir Cecil Wray · April 12, 1784