Literature Pick #92

Strange Adventures of a Million Dollars
by Ingersoll Lockwood
From the 1891 short story collection Eleven Possible Cases.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder painting

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
circa 1558, oil on canvas mounted on wood, 28.9" × 44.1"
Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker from Brabant.

Carl Buntzen painting

Seascape with Sailing Ships off a Coast
by Carl Buntzen (1835-1901)
1875, Oil on Canvas, 11" x 15"

Paintings by Louis Gauffier

Late 18th century paintings of the Arno Valley and the Vallombrosa Abbey, by the French artist Louis Gauffier (1762-1801).

Albrecht Dürer painting

Saint Jerome
A depiction of St. Jerome in the wilderness.
by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
Circa 1495, Oil on Pearwood, 9.1" x 6.9"

German artist of the Northern Renaissance, he was born in Nuremberg.

Literature Pick #91

The Return
by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)
Originally published in The Eye-Witness, Vol. 1 No. 1 on June 22, 1911, and then included in Pan's Garden, A Volume of Nature Stories from 1912. Here it is part of the 1920 short story collection The Best Psychic Stories.

Walter Osborne painting

Feeding the Chickens
by Walter Frederick Osborne (1859-1903)
1885, Oil on Canvas, 35.8" x 28.1"
The artist was born in Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland

Additional Paintings of Jean-Baptiste Juppin & Emond Plumier

Mary Visits Her Cousin Elizabeth
by Jean-Baptiste Juppin & Emond Plumier

The Flight to Egypt
by Jean-Baptiste Juppin & Emond Plumier

The Preaching of Maternus in Tongeren
by Jean-Baptiste Juppin & Emond Plumier

Body of Maternus Drifts in a Boat
by Jean-Baptiste Juppin & Emond Plumier

Jean-Baptiste Juppin & Emond Plumier painting

Saint Peter sending Maternus, Eucherius and Valerius to Tongres
by Jean-Baptiste Juppin & Emond Plumier
1722

Piero della Francesca painting

The Resurrection
by Piero della Francesca (1420-1492)
between 1463 and 1465, Mural in fresco and tempera, 88.6" x 78.7"
Early Renaissance painter and mathematician; born in Borgo Santo Sepolcro in Tuscany.

Matthias Grünewald paintings

Annunciation and Resurrection
by Matthias Grünewald
From the Isenheim Altarpiece
Circa 1515, Oil on Panel, 105.9" x 55.5" each
German Renaissance painter

Alfred Wahlberg painting

Herdsmaiden's Moment of Rest
by Alfred Wahlberg (1834-1906)
1875-1878, Oil on Canvas, 48.4" × 70.9"
Swedish landscape painter from Stockholm

William Mulready painting

An Old Gable
by William Mulready (1786-1863)
1830, Oil on Panel, 16.73" x 13.11"
The artist was born in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland

James Arthur O'Connor paintings

A Wooded River Landscape with Fishermen
James Arthur O'Connor (1792 - 1841)
Circa 1830, Oil on Canvas, 16.93" x 20.94"

A Wooded River Landscape with Mother and Child
James Arthur O'Connor (born in Dublin, Ireland)
1830, Oil on Canvas, 16.93" x 20.94"

Anton Doll painting

On the Way Home from Sunday Mass
by Anton Doll (1826–1887)
Oil on Canvas, 28.1" x 32.7"
German landscape painter from Munich