MASTERPIECE #2263 Émile Friant, French People Magazine’s Sexiest Painter Alive 1898: Edgar Degas-sling, 1905 Oil on panel
MASTERPIECE #2123 Axel Törneman, Swedish “Wait — You’re NOT Vincent Van Gogh? So I Just Stood Here For Three Hours To Be In An AXEL TÖRNEMAN Painting?!!,” 1905 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #2111 Cesare Maccari, Italian Though He Knew They Were the Only Way To Get His Subject To Smile, the Improv Troupe Was Really Starting To Get on Leonardo’s Nerves, 1863 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #2061 Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian M.C. Escher Flummoxed By How He Could Be Seeing Himself Being Flummoxed in Today’s “That Is Priceless” Strip, 1887 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #1960 Fernand Khnopff, Belgian Woman Making Good on Her Boast: “I Could Pose For a Belgian Symbolist Painter With One Arm Tied Behind My Back!,” 1887 Oil paint, canvas, marouflage
MASTERPIECE #1785 William Powell Frith, English The Artist, Wondering If Maybe His Story About Seeing Monet At His Gym Wasn’t As Fascinating As He Thought It Was, 1853 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #1752 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French Raphael, Forced To Admit To Himself That Jeanine’s Visits Were Becoming a Distraction, 1840 Oil on canvas