Museum Monday 2026/35

 

from the 2022 exhibit Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy at the Legion of Honor

Museum Monday 2026/33

 

detail of a sixteenth-century Italian majolica gourd flask with stopper, now at the Legion of Honor

Museum Monday 2026/30

 

detail of Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur, now at the Legion of Honor

Museum Monday 2026/29

 

detail of A Crowned Virgin Martyr (Saint Catherine of Alexandria?) by Bernardo Daddi, now at the Legion of Honor

Museum Monday 2026/28

 

detail of Snowy Morning from the series Among Snow, Moon, and Flowers by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, seen at the Legion of Honor as part of the special exhibit Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World

Museum Monday 2026/27

 

detail of Tiepolo's Punchinello Collapses at the Walls of a Villa, #83 in his series Divertimento per gli ragazzi (Entertainment for Children), seen at the Legion of Honor as part of the special exhibit Drawn to Venice

Museum Monday 2026/25

 

detail of an Etruscan bronze sculpture of Veiovis (Jupiter), seen at the Legion of Honor as part of the special exhibit The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy

Museum Monday 2026/24

 

detail of a plate attributed to the Rosoni Painter, active circa 580 - 550 BCE, seen at the Legion of Honor as part of the special exhibit The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy

Museum Monday 2026/23

 

detail of the Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children by Lavinia Fontana, now at the Legion of Honor

Museum Monday 2026/20

 

detail of a Roman Four Seasons sarcophagus, now at the Legion of Honor

Museum Monday 2026/16

 

detail of Lover Asleep by Jean Cocteau, seen at the Legion of Honor as part of the exhibit Drawing the Line: Michelangelo to Asawa,

Museum Monday 2026/14

 

detail of a 1786 cup & saucer (gobelet litron et soucoupe) with orange ground, decorated by Charles-Nicolas Buteux fils at the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, now at the Legion of Honor

Museum Monday 2026/9

 

detail of Five Sibyls in Niches: The Persian, Libyan, Delphic, Cimmerian, and Erythraean by Botticelli (this is the Persian); normally this resides at Christ Church, Oxford, but I saw it at the Legion of Honor as part of the special exhibit Botticelli Drawings

Museum Monday 2026/8

 

detail of Woman Sewing by Berthe Morisot, seen at the Legion of Honor as part of the special exhibit Manet & Morisot

Museum Monday 2026/6

 

detail of Two Women by Natalia Goncharova, which I saw at the Legion of Honor as part of the special exhibit Drawing the Line: Michelangelo to Asawa

(this is not actually a portrait of Gertrude Stein & Alice B Toklas, but every time I see it I'm reminded of them: that's the vibe I'm getting from it)

Museum Monday 2025/48

 

detail of Saint John the Baptist by Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco), now at the Legion of Honor

Museum Monday 2025/42

 

detail of Landscape at Beaulieu by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, now at the Legion of Honor

Museum Monday 2025/41

 

detail of Landscape with Pan and Syrinx by Paul Bril, now at the Legion of Honor

Museum Monday 2025/39

 

detail of Bacchus & Ariadne by Corneille Van Clève, an early eighteenth-century French bronze now in the Legion of Honor

Museum Monday 2025/34

 

detail of The Crowning of Mirtillo by Ferdinand Bol, now in the Legion of Honor

Mirtillo is a young shepherd disguised as a woman so he can be near his beloved Amarillis; he has won the kissing contest she suggested & she is crowning him/her victor