The Play-Within-A-Play

Hamlet: Hamlet Commands the Actors to do a Scene from the Poisoning of his Father

Eugène Delacroix

Hamlet Makes the Players Enact the Poisoning of His Father, plate 7 from Hamlet

Eugène Delacroix

Boucher présenté à Madame de Pompadour (Boucher presented to Madame de Pompadour), from "Le Monde Illustré"

Henry Linton, After Edouard Gérard, François Boucher, Madame de Pompadour

Marguerite at the Church, from Faust

Eugène Delacroix

Isabelle Plays Guitar for Pierrot and Scaramouche

Claude Gillot, Engraved by Jacques Gabriel Huquier

Bayard Refusing the Presents of His Hostess, in Brescia

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson

Le monstre au même instant tire un coutelas...

Horace Vernet

Le Mari Confesseur, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795"

Jean-Baptiste Tilliard, After Jean Honoré Fragonard, Jean de La Fontaine, Pierre Didot l'ainé

Christening of Edward VII

John Hayter

Sabina van Beieren smeekt de hertog van Alva om het leven van haar echtgenoot, de graaf van Egmond

Samuel de Vletter

The Bride Taken Home (La Mariée reconduite chez elle)

Abraham Bosse, Published by Jean I Leblond

The Meeting, a man bows before a seated woman at center, while couples wearing masks converse in the background

Charles Joseph Flipart, After Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca), Joseph Wagner