Painting of an elegantly dressed woman seated at a table holding out her champagne glass in a toast. Caption reads: Happy new cheers

Happy new cheers

John Singer Sargent, Madame Gautreau (Virginie Amélie Gautreau) Drinking a Toast, 1882-1883, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum #ArtHistoryPun #HappyNewYear

Illustrated Christmas postcard of a winter snowy landscape where a Gnome family is on a sleigh being pulled by pigs. In front of them is another gnome riding a pig as if on horseback. Caption reads: As the sleighing goes

As the sleighing goes

Jenny Nystrøm, Pig-drawn Sled Merry Christmas postcard (cropped), ca. 1895-1899, National Library of Norway #ArtHistoryPun

Genre painting from the 1870s depicting two women, one seated and one standing. The standing woman is dressed in a red silk gown, black fur jacket and a matching hat as if she is going out or just arrived. She is holding out a necklace and the seated woman. The seated lady makes no move to take the necklace, but intead looks at the other woman with a uneasy, hesitant expression. Caption reads: Provinde miss givings

Provide miss givings

Frans Verhas, The unexpected gift, 1872, private collection #ArtHistoryPun

17th century still life painting with a squirrel and some nuts, grapes on a silver tazza, pears and apples in wicker basket and crayfish on a silver plate. Caption reads: Joy to the squirrel

Joy to the squirrel

Clara Peeters, Still-life with grapes on a tazza, a basket of fruit, two crayfish on a plate and a squirrel, 1613, private collection #ArtHistoryPun #WomenArtists

Portrait painting of a nun wearing a voluminous habit. It's really rather large. Well, wide. Past her shoulders wide. Caption reads: It's such a bad habit

It’s such a bad habit

Marta Aronson-Danzig, Portrait of a nun, 19th century, private collection #ArtHistoryPun #WomenArtists

Genre painting from the 1870's featuring a priest and two women. The clergyman is seated at a desk while an onder woman with a black shawl is explaining something to him about the young woman. He is reeling back with a shocked look on his face. Caption reads: Repression expression

Repression expression

Eugene de Blaas, In the Sacristy, 1877, private collection #ArtHistoryPun

Painting of a group of attendees at a church sermon. Most are listening attentively, but two women are distracted. One is asleep and the other stares at her judgingly. Caption reads: No fun intended

No fun intended

Gari Melchers, The Sermon, 1886, Smithsonian American Art Museum #ArtHistoryPun

A painting from 1876 that depicts two ladies in fashionable clothing and a young naval lieutenant standing on the quarter gallery at the stern of a Royal Navy warship. The man is flirting with one of the women, and the other other is leaning on the railing nearby with a fan opened to hide her face from the pair. Caption reads: Discourse correct

Discourse correct

James Tissot, The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth), circa 1876, Tate Britain #ArtHistoryPun

A self portrait painting from 1793 showing the painter grinning and pointing at the viewer with a comical gaze. Caption reads: An amuse douche

An amuse douche

Joseph Ducreux, Self-Portrait in a Mocking Pose, circa 1793, Louvre Museum #ArtHistoryPun

Pastel portrait of a young woman, highly influenced by the interest in Japanese art and fashions popular in Europe the late 19th century. She wears a kimono, holds a large paper fan and her blonde hair is styled with two gold hair sticks. Caption reads: My biggest fan

My biggest fan

Thérèse Schwartze, Portrait of Maria Catharina Ursula (Mia) Cuypers, 1886, private collection #ArtHistoryPun #WomenArtists

Posthumous portrait of a girl with primordial dwarfism from the early 19th century. She is featured in two views, on seated in profile and on standing looking forward. Caption reads: Height before your eyes

Height before your eyes

John James Chalon, Caroline Crachami (Posthumous Portrait), 1826, Hunterian Museum #ArtHistoryPun

Still life with flowers on a stone plinth. Bouquet of roses, tulips, daffodils, irises, sweet sweet and cuckoo flowers. Between the flowers also some butterflies, on the right a book. Caption reads: Going from hear to there

Going from hear to there

Eelke Jelles Eelkema, Still Life with Flowers, between 1815 and 1839, Rijksmuseum #ArtHistoryPun

A coloured caricature etching from 1787 of the King, Queen and Prince of Wales seated at a table outside of the treasury, voraciously spooning gold coins into their mouths. Charlotte is featured as a hag, the King as a peasant woman and the Prince wears a fool's cap. Caption reads: Tie the old greed bag on

Tie the old greed bag on

James Gillray, Monstrous craws, at a new coalition feast, 1787, Library of Congress #ArtHistorypun

17th century still life painting of a cabbage and a whole plucked turkey. The bird has its feet in the air and its head dangling off the table. Caption reads: Run fowl of the claw

Run fowl of the claw

Carel Hardy, Still life with a turkey, a green cabbage and sausages on a tablecloth, between 1635 and 1656, Private collection  #ArtHistoryPun 🤢

A painting from the very late 19th century of a woman gracefully walking down the steps outside her residence, with a man standing at the open door of the adjoining townhouse. She is fashionably dressed, is holding a small black black dog and looks very self-assured, looking out towards the viewer. The man's focus is completely on her, looking gobsmacked. He is much more formally dressed and is holding a scroll, but has stopped whatever he is doing to stare at her. Caption reads: The radical left

The radical left

Edmund Leighton, My Next-Door Neighbour, 1894, Private collection #ArtHistoryPun

Illustration of the 1762 Cherokee delegation to the UK. They were described as, “The hair of their head is shaved, tho' many of the old people have it plucked out by the roots, except a patch on the hinder part of the head, about twice the bigness of a crown-piece, which is ornamented with beads, feathers, wampum, stained deer hair, and such like baubles. The ears are slit and stretched to an enormous size, putting the person who undergoes the operation to incredible pain...They that can afford it wear a collar of wampum, which are beads cut out of clam-shells, a silver breast-plate, and bracelets on their arms and wrists of the same metal, a bit of cloth over their private parts, a shirt of the English make, a sort of cloth-boots, and mockasons, which are shoes of a make peculiar to the Americans, ornamented with porcupine-quills; a large mantle or match-coat thrown over all complete their dress at home.” Caption reads: Peace and desist

Peace and desist

Artist Unknown, The Three Cherokees Came Over from the Head of the River Savanna to London, 1762, Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art #ArtHistoryPun

Drawing of an Army soldier being knocked off a horse by a First Nations warrior during the American Indian Wars. Caption reads: Get blown off horse

Get blown off horse

Possibly Cheyenne, Ledger Book Drawing Depicting the Indian Wars, ca. 1890, Brooklyn Museum #ArtHistoryPun

Early 20th century painting of an old woman is seated at a plain, elegant table in a sun-bathed room. Leaning on her forearms and pinching her eyebrows into a deep frown, she writes meticulously in the notebook in front of her. Aside from the open inkwell and other writing utensils, we see a bible and a luxuriant bouquet of flowers on the mirror-smooth tabletop. Caption reads: Write about everything

Write about everything

Anna Ancher, Ane Hedvig Brøndum at her table, 1910, Museum Kunst der Westküste #ArtHistoryPun #WomenArtists

A print or lithograph of a black cat perched on a branch of a large, leafless tree. The full moon shines in the sky beyond. Caption reads: Creature of the fright

Creature of the fright

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Cat in the moonlight, c. 1900 #ArtHistoryPun #Halloween

A Victorian era painting based on a poem by Tennyson. It depicts a servant rowing a young womans body to King Arthur’s palace at Camelot. Her skin is ghostly white, he long blonde hair is draped over her coffin. She clutches flowers in her hands and her body is draped in embroiderd gold fabric. The boatman holds an oar in on hand and his his head with the other in sadness. Caption reads: For the bury last time

For the bury last time

Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Elaine, 1870, Walker Art Gallery #ArtHistoryPun #WomenArtists

A Baroque era vanitas still life painting of a skull on the right hand side of a dressing table, turned to face the mirror. It is stacked on some books, and there are more books laid on a red velvet piece of material on the left side. Caption reads: I've got serious skull

I’ve got serious skull

Madeleine Boullogne, Vanity, before 1710, Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse #ArtHistoryPun #WomenArtists

A Baroque painting of a woman by the light of a waxing moon. Her hands in the air, horrified and beginning to scream at the sight of a burning skull and whatever this spell has drawn up in the darkness out of our view. Caption reads: Going straight to spell

Going straight to spell

Angelo Caroselli, Scene of Sorcery, between 1620 and 1630, Private collection #ArtHistoryPun #PunkForADayDay #BePunkEveryday

A painting from 1900 of a young woman who has been frightened awake. She is sitting upright in her bed, cowering away from whatever she sees through a doorway opposite. The room is bathed in an orange glow, which along with the painting title suggests that the house is on fire. Caption reads: In intensive scare.

In intensive scare

John Collier, Fire, c. 1900, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum #ArtHistoryPun

A 19th century illustration of two men and a woman standing in the graveyard of a church at night. One man is holding a torch, the other holds a book and pointing stick and are standing in the centre of a sigil. The woman is wearing a ruffled cap and night gown, and liiks gaunt and somewhat skeletal. Caption reads: The powers that zombie

The powers that zombie

After Ebenezer Sibly, Edward Kelly, a Magician, in the Act of invoking the Spirit of a Deceased Person, after 1807, Wellcome Collection #ArtHistoryPun #zombie

A Baroque style painting of two homeless boys eating fruit. They are both dressed in rags, are shoeless and have dirty feet and hands. The boys are seated, one on the ground and one on a low bench and are eating grapes and a honeydew melon greedily. Caption reads: Feed on their greed.

Feed on their greed

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Boys Eating Grapes and Melon, 1650, Alte Pinakothek #ArtHistoryPun #EatTheRich

A portrait painting of an older woman from 1900. She is seated and looking directly at the viewer, her expression is flat and weary. She wears a black coat and hat, and simple jewellery, as is typical of mourning attire from the time. Caption reads: Make a Baroness of things.

Make a Baroness of things

Sofia Martins de Souza, Portrait of the Baroness of Nova Sintra, c. 1900, Museum of the Misericórdia of Porto #ArtHistoryPun #WomenArtists

Medieval illuminated manuscript painting of frogs coming out of the mouth of a man, a snake, and a lion-ish creature. What fun. The three of them look pretty shocked, but the frogs seem ok about it. Caption reads: Standing there all a frog. I know agog is not a commonly used word, but trust me, they are agog and a frog.

Standing there all a frog

Saint Beatus of Liébana, Unclean spirits, Commentary on the Apocalypse, Beatus of Santo Domingo de Silos, 1091-1109, British Library #ArtHistoryPun #MedievalArt #Agog

A portrait painting from the Colonial South American era. The young Isidora, aged about ten to twelve years old, stands, clutching her dog to her side. A doll, a reminder of her still tender age, is posed on the table to her left. She is dressed in high class attire, a high-waisted white dress trimmed with gold fridge, over which she wears a red jacket. Her hair is also fashionably dressed with a crown of flowers. Caprion reads: the balance of flower

The balance of flower

Artist Unknown, Portrait of Doña Isidora Navarro, 1810, Private Collection #ArtHistoryPun

Late Renaissance Spanish Court painting of the 6 year old daughter of the King of Spain and Portugal. As with court portraits of children at the time, her dress and pose are that of an adult. She is finely dressed with gold embroidery and lace cuffs and ruff. She holds a crucifix and has piercing dark eyes. Caption reads: In the blink of her compromise

In the blink of her compromise

Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Infanta Ana Mauricia, 1607, Baltimore Museum of Art #ArtHistoryPun