Modesty & Monocles

Nickolas Boris • Silhouette, 1930

Louis Mante • Cléo de Mérode, 1895

Photos by Peter Borsari

Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari • Elizaveta Nicolska at the Acropolis, 1929

Eve dans l'Eden (Eve in Eden) (n/d) by Gustave Surand (French, 1860 – 1937), signed, inscribed and dated 'A Eugène Bucquoi Mon beau Fils affectionné Gve Surand/14 Juillet 1932' (lower right), oil on canvas, 25½ x 19¾ in. (64.8 x 50.2 cm.), Private Collection

The Penitent Mary Magdalene in the Cave, (Detail), (1890), by Edouard Kasparides (Austrian, 1858 – 1926), oil on canvas, 45.5" x 67", Private Collection

Reclining Naiad, (Detail), (1819-1824), by Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757 – 1822), Carrara marble, 35 × 75 × 32 1/2 in., 2558 lb. (88.9 × 190.5 × 82.6 cm, 1160.3 kg, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Au Bord du Lac (By the Lake) (1928) by Antony Troncet (French, 1879 – 1939), signed lower left ‘ANTONY TRONCET’, crayon on paper, 85 x 120 cm., 33½ x 47¼ in., Private Collection

Young woman reading (also known as A Young Girl Reading) (19th century) by Victor-Gabriel Gilbert (French, 1847 – 1933), oil on canvas, 54.5 × 65.5 cm (21.5 x 25.8 in), Private Collection

Elegant Lady with a Bouquet of Rose, (detail), (1910-1919) by Émile Vernon (1872 – 1920), oil on canvas, 59.7 x 49.5 cm (23.5 x 19.5 in), Private Collection

Barn owl, Life on Earth, David Attenborough, 1979

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833), (detail), by Paul Delaroche (French, 1797-1856), oil on canvas, 246 cm × 297 cm, The National Gallery, London

Skylark (1882) by Pál Szinyei Merse (Hungarian, 1845 – 1920), oil on canvas, 163 cm (64.1 in) x 128 cm (50.3 in), Hungarian National Gallery,Budapest

Portrait d'une jeune femme (Portrait of a young woman), (Detail), (1869), by Pierre Auguste Cot (French, 1837 – 1883), oil on canvas, 65.4 cm (25.7 in) x 54.9 cm (21.6 in), Private Collection