Utagawa Toyoharu artwork

A Winter Party
by Utagawa Toyoharu (1735 - 1814)
Color and gold on silk, 20.83" x 38.03"
Toyoharu was a Japanese artist of the ukiyo-e style, he was born in Toyooka.

Léon de Wailly artwork

Great Panther, quarter of the size
by Léon de Wailly (French, active 1801-1824)
1812
Ink, watercolour, and bodycolor on vellum, 14 3/16" x 20 7/8"

Benjamin West painting

Eagle Bringing cup to Psyche
by Benjamin West (1738–1820)
circa 1802, Oil on wooden panel, 11 3/4" x 16 3/4"
West was an American artist; he was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania.

James Ward painting

Gordale Scar (A View of Gordale, in the Manor of East Malham in Craven, Yorkshire, the Property of Lord Ribblesdale)
by James Ward (1769–1859)
circa 1812, oil on canvas, 131" x 166"
Ward was a Romantic painter; he was born in London, England.

Adolf Gustav Schweitzer painting

Fjord Landscape
by Adolf Gustav Schweitzer (1847-1914)
1888, oil on canvas, 26" x 39.8"

Meindert Hobbema painting

Wooded landscape with a Water-mill
by Meindert Hobbema (1638–1709)
oil on panel, 24.37" x 33.62"
Hobbema was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

Painting attributed to Jan Tilens

Rocky Landscape with Travelers
attributed to Jan Tilens (1589–1630)
Oil on Canvas, 41.3" × 54.1"

Antonietta Brandeis painting

Porta della Carta
by Antonietta Brandeis (1849–1910)
1886, oil on cardboard, 13.6" × 9.4"

Literature Pick #103

The New Catacomb
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A masterful short story, first published in 1898, and included here in the 1922 short story collection, Tales of Terror and Mystery.

Michele Marieschi painting

Rialto Bridge in Venice
by Michele Marieschi (1710-1744)
1740s, oil on canvas transferred from wood, 51.2" x 77.2"
Marieschi was born in Venice

Friedrich Nerly painting

Piazzetta San Marco in the Moonlight
by Friedrich Nerly (1807–1878)
Oil on cardboard, 20" x 17"
Nerly was a German painter of the Romantic era; he was born in Erfurt, Germany.

Dominic M. Serres painting

Figures on a Bridge
by Dominic M. Serres (1761-after 1804)
1798, watercolor, 15" × 22.2"

Franz Niklaus König painting

View of Lake Lungern, from the Northeast
by Franz Niklaus König (1765–1832)
Between 1800 and 1810
König was a Swiss painter.

Michael Zeno Diemer painting

The Ahırkapı Lighthouse
by Michael Zeno Diemer (1867–1939)
oil on canvas, 32.48" x 43.31"
Zeno Diemer was born in Munich, Germany.

George Caleb Bingham painting

Landscape; rural scene
by George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879)
1845, oil on canvas, 29" × 36"
Bingham was an American artist, he was born in Augusta County, Virginia.