1840s

Édouard Boubat, Paris, 1955 “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,we must carry it with us, or...

Auguste de Châtillon, Portrait of Léopoldine Hugo,1836 "At dawn tomorrow, when the plains grow bright,I'll go. You wait for me:...

Bruno Barbey, Paris, 1988 “He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is atrue poet, though he has never...

Frederick Carl Frieseke, Bird in a Cage, 1937 “I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird...

Leo Gestel, The flirtation (An Gestel and the violonist Dirk Gootjes), 1910 “Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without...

Edvard Munch, Moonlight on the Shore, 1892 . Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,...

Lola Alvarez Bravo, Lya Cardoza, 1950 . The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed;— The...

A sketch of Anne Brontë by her sister Charlotte,1834 ...

Franz Fiedler, Untitled, 1920s . "There were days when my heart was volcanic." Edgar Allan Poe, Ulalume, 1847

A man dressed as the king of billiards and his two sons dressed as the cue ball and 8 ball,1886...