Franz Anton Maulbertsch. Allegory of the Continent of Asia, ca. 1750 (National Gallery, London).

 

Oil on canvas: 43 x 48 cm.

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Ditlev/ Detlev Conrad Blunck. Allegory of Sunday (‘Allegorie des Sonntags’), 1841 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 121 x 100 cm. Auctioned at Ketterer Kunst Munich, June 2021. Acquired by Nationalmuseum Stockholm.

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Gerard de Lairesse. Praise of Peace (‘Louange de la Paix’/ ‘Lof op de Vrede’), 1671 (Musée de Picardie, Amiens).

Oil on canvas: 169 x 183 cm.

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Adriaen van de Venne. Fishing for Souls (‘De zielenvisserij’), 1614 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Oil on wood: 97 x 186.7 cm. That catholic tree does not look healthy.

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Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo). An Allegory of Venus and Cupid, ca. 1545 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on wood: 146.1 x 116.2 cm.

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Cornelis Saftleven. Satire on the Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church (‘Satire op de uittocht van de geestelijkheid uit 's-Hertogenbosch’), 1629 (Het Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch).

Oil on wood: 40.3 x 55.6 cm.

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Jan Havicksz Steen. The Effects of Intemperance, ca. 1664 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on wood: 76 x 107 cm.

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Eugène Delacroix. July 28: Liberty leading the People (‘Le 28 Juillet: La Liberté guidant le peuple’), 1830 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 260 x 325 cm(!).

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Frans Snyders. The Bird’s Concert, ca. 1640 (State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg).

Oil on canvas: 136.5 x 240 cm.

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Johannes Vermeer. The Art of Painting (‘Die Malkunst’), ca. 1667 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on canvas: 120 x 100 cm.

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Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri). Personification of Astrology, ca. 1650 (Blanton Museum of Art, Austin).

Oil on canvas: 80.6 x 65.4 cm.

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Cornelis Saftleven. Allegory of human Folly, 1629 (Fondation Custodia/ Collection Frits Lugt, Paris).

Oil on wood: 48 x 62 cm.

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Jan Havicks Steen. As the Old sing, so pipe the Young (‘Soo voer gesongen, soo na gepepen’), 1670 (Mauritshuis, The Hague).

Oil on canvas: 133.7 x 162.5 cm.

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Jan Brueghel the elder (w. Hendrick van Balen). Ceres and the four Elements (‘Ceres und die vier Elemente’). 1604 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on copper: 41.8 x 70.5 cm.

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Frans Snyders. Concert of the Birds (‘Concierto de aves’), ca. 1635 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

Oil on canvas: 79 x 151 cm.

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Paolo Veronese. Happy Union, ca. 1575 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on canvas: 187.4 x 186.7 cm. One of four paintings concerning the trials and rewards of love. The titles were only given to the paintings in 1727.

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Ilya Repin (Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин). Barge Haulers on the Volga, ca. 1873 (State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg).

Oil on canvas: 131.5 x 281 cm(!).

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Jheronimus/ Hieronymus Bosch. The Ship of Fools (‘Het Narrenschip’/ ‘La Nef des fous’), ca. 1500 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Oil on oak: 58.1 x 32.8 cm. This panel, with ‘Allegory of Gluttony and Lust’ (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven), constituted the inside of a triptych that, when closed, revealed the ‘Wayfarer’ (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam). Restored in 2014-2015 by Agnès Malpel (Département des Peintures du musée du Louvre/ Bosch Research and Conservation Project). The panel had been subjected to overpainting, probably when it was presented as an autonomous painting. The foliage of the branch tied to the mast was considerably enlarged, and the water on which the vessel floats was significantly overpainted. A mountain that closed off the image on the right edge also proved to be a later addition.

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Gustav Klimt. Allegory of Sculpture (‘Allegorie der Skulptur’), 1889 (Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna).

Graphite pencil and watercolour on board: 43.5 x 30 cm.

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Pieter Bruegel the elder. The Blind leading the Blind, ca. 1568 (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples).

Distemper on linen: 86 x 154 cm. Also known as ‘Parable of the Blind’. The museum has a good-quality copy by an unidentified late 16th-century Flemish painter (formerly attributed to Bruegel’s son Pieter Brueghel the younger). Another copy by another unidentified painter is at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels.

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