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Great writers, single works

21 works held in 17 museums

Works from the Great writers timeline whose painter has no page on Useum.

Portrait of the Writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ossip Braz

Portrait of the Writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1898.

Портрет писателя Антона Павловича Чехова (museum title)

Ossip Braz, oil on canvas

Tretyakov Gallery, Russia

Portrait of Alexandre Dumas, William Henry Powell

Portrait of Alexandre Dumas, 1855.

William Henry Powell, oil on canvas

Smithsonian American Art Museum, United States

Portrait of Honoré de Balzac, Louis Boulanger

Portrait of Honoré de Balzac, 1836.

Portrait d'Honoré de Balzac (museum title)

Louis Boulanger, oil on canvas

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France

Jean de La Fontaine, Henri Millot

Jean de La Fontaine, 1699.

Henri Millot, oil on canvas

Finnish National Gallery, Finland

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio, from the cycle of Famous Men and Women of the Villa Carducci, Andrea del Castagno

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio, from the cycle of Famous Men and Women of the Villa Carducci, c. 1449–1450.

ritratto di Giovanni Boccaccio (museum title)

Andrea del Castagno, fresco

Uffizi Gallery, Italy

Mark Twain, Charles Noel Flagg

Mark Twain, 1890.

Charles Noel Flagg, oil on canvas

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Li Bai Drunk, Su Liupeng

Li Bai Drunk, 1844.

太白醉酒图轴 (museum title)

Su Liupeng, ink and color on paper

Shanghai Museum, China

Portrait of Adam Mickiewicz on the Rock of Judah, Walenty Wańkowicz

Portrait of Adam Mickiewicz on the Rock of Judah, 1827–1828.

Walenty Wańkowicz, oil on canvas

National Museum in Warsaw, Poland

Portrait of Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), playwright, François Sicre

Portrait of Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), playwright, c. 1680.

Portrait de Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), poète dramatique (museum title)

François Sicre, oil on canvas

Musée Carnavalet, France

Dante and Beatrice, Henry Holiday

Dante and Beatrice, 1882–1884.

Henry Holiday, oil on canvas

Walker Art Gallery, United Kingdom

Marie-Henri Beyle, known as Stendhal (1783-1842), Olof Johan Södermark

Marie-Henri Beyle, known as Stendhal (1783-1842), 1840.

Marie-Henri Beyle, dit Stendhal (1783-1842) (museum title)

Olof Johan Södermark, oil on canvas

Palace of Versailles, France

Racine Reading Athalie before Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon, Julie Philipault

Racine Reading Athalie before Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon, 1819.

Racine lisant Athalie devant Louis XIV et Madame de… (museum title)

Julie Philipault, oil on canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696), Claude Lefèbvre

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696), c. 1665.

Claude Lefèbvre, oil on canvas

Musée Carnavalet, France

Portrait of Adam Mickiewicz, Tytus Maleszewski

Portrait of Adam Mickiewicz, 1882.

Tytus Maleszewski, oil on canvas

National Museum in Kraków, Poland

Portrait of Nikolai Gogol, Fiodor Moller

Portrait of Nikolai Gogol, 1840s.

Портрет Н.В. Гоголя (museum title)

Fiodor Moller, oil on canvas

Tretyakov Gallery, Russia

Reading of Voltaire's Tragedy The Orphan of China in the Salon of Madame Geoffrin, Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier

Reading of Voltaire's Tragedy The Orphan of China in the Salon of Madame Geoffrin, 1812.

Lecture de la tragédie de l'Orphelin de la Chine de… (museum title)

Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier, oil on canvas

Château de Malmaison, France

Portrait of Ronsard, Benjamin Foulon

Portrait of Ronsard, c. 1566.

Портрет Ронсара (museum title)

Benjamin Foulon, black chalk and red chalk on paper

Hermitage Museum, Russia

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), Eugène Giraud

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), 1867.

Eugène Giraud, oil on canvas

Palace of Versailles, France

Torquato Tasso and the Two Leonoras, Karl Ferdinand Sohn

Torquato Tasso and the Two Leonoras, 1839.

Karl Ferdinand Sohn, oil on canvas

Museum Kunstpalast, Germany

Voltaire at the Chess Table, Jean Huber

Voltaire at the Chess Table, 1750–1775.

Вольтер за шахматным столом (museum title)

Jean Huber, oil on canvas

Hermitage Museum, Russia

Firdausi and the Three Poets of Ghazna, folio from the Shahnameh (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, attribué à Âqâ Mîrak

Firdausi and the Three Poets of Ghazna, folio from the Shahnameh (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, c. 1532.

attribué à Âqâ Mîrak, opaque watercolour, gold, silver and ink on paper

Aga Khan Museum, Canada

Works from the Great writers timeline whose painter has no page on Useum. Each is in the public domain and linked to its record in the museum that holds it, or to its entry in a public catalogue (POP, the catalogue of the French Ministry of Culture; the general catalogue of cultural heritage in Italy); the origin of each photograph is given on the page of the work.