Lying Collection

Venus of Urbino, 1538. Artist: Titian
Venus of Urbino, 1538. Titian (1488-1576). Found in the collection of the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt, 1876. Creator: Georges Jules Victor Clairin
Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt, 1876

Roma - Basilica of St. Caecilia. - Statue of the Saint by Maderno, 1910. Artist: Carlo Maderno
Roma - Basilica of St. Caecilia. - Statue of the Saint by Maderno, 1910. From Cento Vedute Classiche di Roma. [Enrico Verdesi, Rome, 1910]

The Lamentation over the dead Christ, 1500. Creator: Juan de Flandes, the Elder
The Lamentation over the dead Christ, 1500.

Nude Girl with Arms Outstretched, 1911. Creator: Egon Schiele
Nude Girl with Arms Outstretched, 1911. Egon Schiele never conformed to the canons of beauty in his portrayal of the human body, which he showed in uninhibited poses imbued with eroticism

The Crucifixion, 1390. Creator: Agnolo Gaddi
The Crucifixion, 1390.

Woman on a Divan, 1914. Creator: August Macke
Woman on a Divan, 1914.

Saint John the Evangelist in Patmos, 1470. Creator: Cosmè Tura
Saint John the Evangelist in Patmos, 1470.

Saint Roch as Patron of Plague Victims, 1623. Creator: Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens
Saint Roch as Patron of Plague Victims, 1623.

The Pietà, 1633. Creator: Jusepe de Ribera
The Pieta, 1633.

The Meeting of Tamar and Judah, 1555. Creator: Jacopo Tintoretto
The Meeting of Tamar and Judah, 1555.

The Death of Hyacinthus, 1752. Creators: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Ovid
The Death of Hyacinthus, 1752.

Lot and His Daughters, 1621. Creator: Workshop of Orazio Gentileschi
Lot and His Daughters, 1621. This incestuous biblical episode is to be found in Genesis. It narrates how Lot and his daughters left the city of Zoar

Young Woman Reading, 1875. Creator: Lucius Rossi
Young Woman Reading, 1875. Within this extravagantly decorated interior--which includes a painted ceiling and Asian-inspired upholstery, fire screen

Asleep in Battery Park on hot day, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Asleep in Battery Park on hot day, between c1910 and c1915.

Baseball deadheads, Cleveland, c1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Baseball deadheads, Cleveland, c1911.

S.L. Clemens reclining in porch chair, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
S.L. Clemens reclining in porch chair, 1910.

The Nymph at the Fountain, 1530. Creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder
The Nymph at the Fountain, 1530.

Galatea, 1896. Creator: Gustave Moreau
Galatea, 1896. From the myth of Polyphemus and Galathea. The scene recreates the theme of beauty and the beast, a symbol of woman as the embodiment of a beauty that is beyond man's reach.

Eaux-Fortes Modernes. Plate 197. Arabes d'Oran (Arabs of Oran), 1833. Creator: Eugene Delacroix
Eaux-Fortes Modernes. Plate 197. Arabes d'Oran (Arabs of Oran), 1833. Shows an outdoor setting with two men, one reclining and facing the viewer

Joseph's coat brought to Jacob, c.1633. Creator: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Joseph's coat brought to Jacob, c.1633. The tragic consequences, when Joseph's brothers turned against him, are described in Genesis 37:12-35

The Kiss, 1816. Creator: Theodore Gericault
The Kiss, 1816.

Fishing Party on Long Island Sound Off New Rochelle, 1847. Creator: James Goodwyn Clonney
Fishing Party on Long Island Sound Off New Rochelle, 1847.

The hilltop, c.1908. Creator: Frances Hodgkins
The hilltop, c.1908.

Une Après-Midi À La Plage, c1880s. Creator: Jean-François Raffaëlli
Une Apres-Midi A La Plage, c1880s.

The Fisherman, 1908. Creator: William Strang
The Fisherman, 1908. The Fisherman is a fine example of Strang's allegorical works. Central to it is the classical nude group

Prince Peter of Mont. and staff, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Prince Peter of Mont. and staff, between c1910 and c1915. Shows (front and right) Prince Petar Petrovic Njegos (1889-1932) of Montenegro.

Moeris And Galatea, From Virgil's Eclogues, 1884. Creator: Samuel Palmer
Moeris And Galatea, From Virgil's Eclogues, 1884.

Saint Sebastian, Martyr, c1865. Creator: Theodule Ribot
Saint Sebastian, Martyr, c1865. Two cloaked figures tend to the wounds of Saint Sebastian, a Roman soldier shot with arrows as punishment for his Christian beliefs.

Tiger At Rest, c1850-70. Creator: Antoine-Louis Barye
Tiger At Rest, c1850-70.

Dutch Treat Club - [cover drawing?], between c1910 and c1915. Creators: Bain News Service, James Montgomery Flagg
Dutch Treat Club - [cover drawing?], between c1910 and c1915. Shows an illustration by artist James Montgomery Flagg for the Dutch Treat Club, a society of illustrators

Wounded American, Neuilly, 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Wounded American, Neuilly, 1918 or 1919. A wounded American soldier in hospital bed, Neuilly, France, during or shortly after World War I

German prisoners lined up for examination, 8 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
German prisoners lined up for examination, 8 Jun 1917. German prisoners taken during the Battle of Messines, June 8, 1917 during World War I

Tommy writing home after battle, 11 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Tommy writing home after battle, 11 Jun 1917. A British officer, lying on the ground in a captured German trench in Oostaverne Wood, Belgium, writing a letter

German prisoners, Messines Ridge, 8 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
German prisoners, Messines Ridge, 8 Jun 1917. German prisoners of war captured by British forces at the Battle of Messines in West Flanders, Belgium during World War I

Austrians in captured Russian Trench, Galicia, 29 June 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Austrians in captured Russian Trench, Galicia, 29 June 1915 (date created or published later). Austrian soldiers in a trench in Galicia (Eastern Europe) during World War I

Russian Service in Suwalki Hospital, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Russian Service in Suwalki Hospital, between 1914 and c1915. A priest holding a Russian Orthodox service in a hospital in Suwalki, Russia (now Poland) during World War I

Germans at Berry-Au-Bac, Sept 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Germans at Berry-Au-Bac, Sept 1914 (date created or published later). German soldiers at Berry-Au-Bac, France during World War I

Piglets, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Piglets, 1912

"Boy Asleep", sculpture, by Alexander Munro, in the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1864. Creator: Unknown
"Boy Asleep", sculpture, by Alexander Munro, in the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1864. This most charming, but at the same time most difficult

Study near the Kivach waterfall, Suna River, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Study near the Kivach waterfall, Suna River, 1915. Prokudin-Gorskii, reclined on boulders, near rapids

Ia. M. Serebriakov's Tobacco Factory, Omsk. His Own Shops in Omsk and Tomsk, 1900-1914. Creator: Unknown
Ia. M. Serebriakov's Tobacco Factory, Omsk. His Own Shops in Omsk and Tomsk, 1900-1914. This collection includes tsarist-era advertisements

Cripple learning designing, [France], between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Cripple learning designing, [France], between c1915 and 1918. A disabled veteran, probably from World War I

Recruits, Aldershot, H.A.C. Fargo Camp. 1914, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Recruits, Aldershot, H.A.C. Fargo Camp. 1914, 1914 (date created or published later). Recruits at Aldershot army camp, England during World War I

French Dragoons entrenched, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
French Dragoons entrenched, between c1914 and c1915. French dragoon cavalry soldiers during World War I

Neufmentier [i.e. Chauconin-Neufmontiers], French & German wounded... between c1910 and c1915
Neufmentier [i.e. Chauconin-Neufmontiers], French & German wounded in church, between c1910 and c1915. French and German wounded soldiers in a church, in Chauconin-Neufmontiers

An Ostyak resting in the forest near a fire, Selkups, 1920. Creator: A. G. Vargin
An Ostyak resting in the forest near a fire, Selkups, 1920. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

A child in a birch bark cradle, Selkups, 1920. Creator: A. G. Vargin
A child in a birch bark cradle, Selkups, 1920. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

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