Intemporal beauty

A detail from the painting <n>Leda and the Swan</n> by artist <n>Gustave Moreau</n>.

Detail from <n>Jacques-Louis David</n>'s <n>Portrait of a Young Woman in White</n>, the cover of <n>Ottessa Moshfegh</n>'s novel.

Portrait of <n>Maria Anna of Bavaria</n>, Queen of Saxony, by <n>Joseph Karl Stieler</n>, c. 1830.

<n>Narcissus</n> (1912) by <n>John William Waterhouse</n>.

Detail from <n>Leopold Schmutzler</n>'s 1905 painting, <n>Lili Marberg as Salome</n>.

Detail from <n>Portrait of a Woman, Possibly Madame Claude Lambert de Thorigny</n> (1696) by <n>Nicolas de Largillière</n>.

A detail from <n>Summer is icumen in</n>, an oil painting by <n>Herbert Arnould Olivier</n> from 1908.

Detail from <n>Cupid and Psyche in the Nuptial Bower</n> by <n>Hugh Douglas Hamilton</n>, c. 1792-93.

<n>After the Ball</n> by <n>Conrad Kiesel</n>.

<n>A Thorn Amidst the Roses</n> (1887) by <n>James Sant</n>.

<n>Eve</n>, an 1885 oil painting by artist <n>Anna Lea Merritt</n>.

<n>The Sorceress</n> (1887) by <n>Georges Merle</n>.

<n>Hands</n> (2017), an oil painting by <n>He Lihuai</n>.

Detail from <n>The Pearl-necklace</n> (1870) by <n>Charles Joshua Chaplin</n>.

Detail from <n>A Lady in Her Bath</n> (c. 1571) by the <n>School of Fontainebleau</n>.

<n>Ophelia</n>, a painting by artist <n>Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser</n>.

<n>L'Inverno</n> by <n>Édouard Bisson</n>.

Detail from <n>Vicente López Portaña</n>'s painting, <n>Doña Gertrudis de Compte y de Bruga</n>, c. 1815.

<n>L'Aurore</n> (1881) by <n>William-Adolphe Bouguereau</n>.

Portrait of <n>Wilhelmine Begas</n> by <n>Carl Joseph Begas</n>, 1828.

<n>The Pearl</n>, c. 1868, by <n>Frederick Sandys</n>.

<n>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</n>'s <n>Pre-Raphaelite</n> painting <n>A Vision of Fiammetta</n>, 1878.

Detail from <n>Anton Raphael Mengs</n>'s 1765 painting, <n>María Luisa of Parma, Princess of Asturias</n>.

<n>Girl Guesses on Camomile</n> (1856) by artist <n>Charles Landelle</n>.

<n>L'Aurore</n>, a painting by <n>William-Adolphe Bouguereau</n>, 1881.

Detail from the painting <n>Madame de Pompadour</n> by <n>Francois-Hubert Drouais</n>.

Detail from <n>The Virgin and Child with Saint John and an Angel</n> (c. 1490) by <n>Sandro Botticelli</n>.

Detail from <n>Master with the Parrot</n>'s <n>The Suicide of Lucretia</n>, used as album art by <n>If I Could Kill Myself</n>.

A detail from <n>Eglon Hendrik van der Neer</n>'s 1678 painting, <n>Judith</n>.