Effortless Win
Triumph with breathing room — lone victors and big moments on calm, open canvases.
The Death of Socrates
Jacques-Louis David · 1787
The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)
Michelangelo · ca. 1510–11
Lucretia
Raphael · 1508–10
Samson Captured by the Philistines
Guercino · 1619
Christ Asleep during the Tempest
Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1853
The Smokers
Adriaen Brouwer · ca. 1636
The Sacrifice of Polyxena
Charles Le Brun · 1647
After the Hunt
Gustave Courbet · ca. 1859
Leonidas at Thermopylae
Jacques-Louis David · ca. 1812–13
Andromache and Astyanax
Pierre Paul Prud'hon · Charles Pompée Le Boulanger de Boisfrémont · ?1813–17; 1823–24?
Bacchus and Ariadne
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1740
Bellona
Rembrandt · 1633
Alcibiades Interrupting the Symposium; verso: Sketches of the Baptism of Christ and of a Man
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1601–02 (recto); ca. 1601 (verso)
Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld
Jan Brueghel the Younger · 1630s
Pilate Washing His Hands
Mattia Preti · 1663
Untitled
Katsushika Hokusai · 18th–19th century
Orpheus and Eurydice
Niccolo Pussino
The Agony in the Garden
Niccolo Pussino · 1626–27
Sketches for a Wall Tomb with Skeletons
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1630–40
Flying Figure Holding a Crown, Reclining River God
Jacques-Louis David · n.d.
Untitled
Katsushika Hokusai · 1846
Study for an Inkstand
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1740–45
Seated River God, Nymph with an Oar, and Putto
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770
Study of a Nude Man Holding Bottles
Jean-Antoine Watteau · ca. 1715–16
Study for a Monument to a Princely Figure
François Boucher
Bearded, bare-chested male figure, study for "The Horse Fair"
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–53
Studies of a Seated Youth in Armor
Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1505
Modern Grace; - or the Operatical Finale to the Ballet of Alonzo e Caro
James Gillray · Hannah Humphrey · Madame Rose Didelot · Rose Parisot · Charles-Louis Didelot · May 5, 1796
The Devonshire, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes
Thomas Rowlandson · Elizabeth Darchery · Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire · April 12, 1784
Great Cry and Little Wool
Thomas Rowlandson · William Humphrey · Charles James Fox · December 22, 1783
Britannia Roused, or the Coalition Monsters Destroyed
Thomas Rowlandson · Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford · Charles James Fox · February 3, 1784
Studies for The Allegories of Love
Paolo Veronese · 1570–75
Dying Stag
Edwin Landseer · ca. 1830
Start of the Race of the Barberi Horses, Rome
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1860
Saint Sebastian (recto); sketches of a male head and a standing figure in a short cape; a copy of the figure on the recto (verso)
Il Sodoma · early–mid-16th century
Turkish Lancer and Onlookers Approaching a Town
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1760–70
Untitled
Suzuki Harunobu · probably 1766
Studies for a Scourging Soldier and the Head of Christ
Jacopo Bassano · ca. 1565
Study of a Nude Man
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin · ca. 1810–20
Classical Battle Scene; Verso: Peter and John Heal a Cripple at the Gate of the Temple
Bartholomeus Spranger · ca. 1590
Prometheus, naked, chained to a rock, looking up at an eagle standing over him
Michelangelo Buonarroti · Francesco Bartolozzi · 1795
Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
Jacques-Louis David · ca. 1788
Diana, Viscountess Crosbie
Joshua Reynolds · after 1779
Study of a Woman and Two Children
Joshua Reynolds · 18th century
The London Omnibus
Nadar · ca. 1852-1863
Presentation Drawing of “The Statue of Liberty Illuminating the World"
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi · 1875
Anteros Victorious
Annibale Carracci · 1560–1609
Crawling Male Figure (Study for Cacus)
Annibale Carracci · 1593
Nude Study
Antonio Canova · Anonymous, Italian, early 19th century · early 19th century
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