George Frederic Watts — The Minotaur, 1885

oil on canvas

1941

Maxfield Parrish, Ecstasy, 1929

Willy Ronis, Courrières-les-Lens, 1951

~ Toastmaster, 1940 via Vintage Ads Livejournal "The toaster makes the party”

George Frederic Watts (and assistants), Hope, 1886, oil on canvas, 142.2 x 111.8 cm, Tate Britain, London. Source

Philip Jones Griffiths, Boy destroying a piano, Wales, Great Britan, 1961

Dante Gabriel Rossetti bought a number of exotic animals after the death of his wife Lizzie Siddal in 1862, including two wombats. The artist was so distraught at the passing of his first wombat that he asked to have the creature stuffed and placed in the entrance hall at his Chelsea home. Weirdly adorable.