MASTERPIECE #2288 Edgar Degas, French The Cover of This Month’s Issue of “Bassoon Aficionado,” ca. 1870 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #2279 Hugo Boettinger, Czech How Playboy Playmates Used To Compete for the Cover, 1921 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #2263 Émile Friant, French People Magazine’s Sexiest Painter Alive 1898: Edgar Degas-sling, 1905 Oil on panel
MASTERPIECE #2228 Rosa Bonheur, French “I Still Don’t Know Why You Insisted on Eating That Nature Photographer. Haven’t You Ever Heard the Phrase ‘Any Press Is Good Press?,'” 1885 Watercolor with white heightening on heavyweight cream wove paper
MASTERPIECE #2162 William Powell Frith, English “And Now, By the Power Vested in Me By an Ad in the Back of Rolling Stone Magazine, I Hereby Pronounce You Man and Wife,” 1865 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #2117 Antonio Mancini, Italian Cover of This Month’s “Modern Hoarder” Magazine (Special Collector’s Edition!), 1877 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #1807 Lajos Bruck, Hungarian Cover Shoot For This Month’s Issue of “Modern Street Urchin” Magazine, 1870 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #1781 Thomas Baines, English “Honey, Don’t You Think You Should Put a Top On? The Photographer From National Geographic Is Going To Be Here Any Minute,” 1848 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #1662 John Trumbull, American Alexander Hamilton’s Controversial GQ Cover (Before and After Airbrushing), 1806 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #1394 James Tissot, French#FlashbackFriday: Classic “Vanity Fair” Cover: “12 Robber Barons to Watch in 1894,” 1868 Oil on canvas