Roman portraits.

Text signed: Gisela M. A. Richter.

[al-Qurʼān, late 8th century?].

Fragment from an early ʻAbbāsid Qurʼān on parchment dyed orange-red (compare cat.11, p.58 in Déroche, The Abbasid tradition, Nasser D. Khalili collection of Islamic art, v.1 and Metropolitan Museum of Art accession nos. 40.164.1a and 40.164.1b) carrying Sūrat Hūd (11) verses 88 through 103 (11:88-11:103).

Kouros, front view

Sculpture, Greek, Archaic; 6 ft. 4 39/64 in.x 1 ft. 8 5/16 in. (without plinth); Naxian marble

Krater with Prothesis Scene, Charioteers and Horses

Hirschfeld Workshop, attributed to; 3 ft. 6 41/64 in.x 2 ft. 4 1/2 in.; terracotta

Krater with Prothesis Scene, Charioteers and Horses: detail

Hirschfeld Workshop, attributed to; terracotta

Villa Agrippa Posthumus, cubiculum nocturnum, north wall, center panel, Aedicula with a small landscape

Boscotrecase, Italy; fresco on black ground

Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (Sunlight)

Claude Monet; 3 ft. 3 1/4 in. x 2 ft. 1 55/64 in.; oil on canvas

The Four Horsemen, from the Apocalypse series

Albrecht Dürer; 1 ft. 3 9/32 in.x 11 29/64 in.; woodcut

Studiesd for the Libyan Sibyl (recto)

Michelangelo Buonarrati; 11-3/8 x 8-3/8 in.; red chalk, with small accents of white chalk on the left shoulder of the figure in the main study

James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot

Edgar Degas; 4 ft. 11 39/64 in. x 3 ft. 10 1/2 in.; oil on canvas

Bather Stepping into a Tub

Edgar Degas; 1 ft. 10 1/64 in.x 1 ft. 6 47/64 in.; pastel and charcoal on blue laid paper, mounted at perimeter on backing board

Venus and Adonis

Peter Paul Rubens; 6 ft. 5 3/4 in.x 7 ft. 11 5/8 in.; oil on canvas

Courtesan Placing a Hairpin in Her Hair

Kaigetsudo Anchi; 1 ft. 10 3/4 in.x 1 ft. 51/64 in.; woodcut, ink and color on paper

The Smoker

Frans Hals; 1 ft. 6 25/64 in. x 1 ft. 7 31/64 in.; oil on wood

A Maid Asleep

Johannes Vermeer; 2 ft. 10 31/64 in.x 2 ft. 6 1/8 in.; oil on canvas