To Dust You Shall Return

Curator of the beautiful and the macabre.

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George Jones

Studies of Royal House Artillery Uniforms for The Battle of Waterloo, 1815

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Thomas Stothard - Prospero, Miranda and Ariel (ca. 1799)

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Axel Fridell (1894-1935)

Gobelängen (Ingrid och gobelängen), 1927-28, drypoint

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Gerhard Henning (1880-1967)

Princess, watercolor & gouache

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Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494)

Portrait of an Old Man, silver point

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Adamo Ghisi (1530 - 1585) Grotesque Masks, series of engravings

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Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen

Detail of Saint Catherine and Ursula, from the Saint Jerome Altarpiece, 1511

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Vladimir Nemukhin (b. 1925)

The Queen of Clubs, 1973

Tempera, gouache and playing cards on paper

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LÉON BAKST (1866-1924)

Color lithograph from L’Oeuvre de Léon Bakst pour La Belle au Bois Dormant, 1922

Costume design for the Ballet Russe version of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty

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James Ensor

At the Conservatory, 1902, detail

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Serge Ivanoff (1893-1983)

The Artist In His Studio

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Marcus Gheeraerts A Woman Called Lady Elizabeth Knightley, 1591

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Eustache Le Sueur Detail from Marine Gods Paying Homage to Love, 1636

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Pierre Mignard

Detail from Maria Theresa of Spain, Queen of France, and the Dauphin, 1663

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Louis-Auguste Brun Detail from Marie-Antoinette Hunting with Dogs, followed by Louis XVI, 1783-85

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Savely Sorine

Portrait of Prince Obolensky, 1929

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Francesco Hayez

Countess Luigia Negroni Prati Morosini as a Child, 1867