A Dance to the Music of Time by Nicolas Poussin shows the progression of life, starting with poverty and ending with luxury and pleasure.

Time plays the lyre, the dancers represent the stages, and in the chariot are the hours and months represented.

It is a complicated painting that is open to different interpretations and is on display in the Wallace Collection.

 A Dance to the Music of Time by Nicolas Poussin shows the

Artists like Fragonard, Renoir, and Kandinsky usually put me in a good mood!

This is The Swing by Fragonard in the Wallace Collection.

 What artists make you happy? Artists like Fragonard

What is going on in the mind of The Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals?

He is definitely not laughing. Maybe he tries to contain his laugh? It definitely is an intriguing portrait!

 What is going on in the mind of The Laughing Cavalier by

Many list The Swing by Fragonard among their favorites. A naughty painting showing how a young man hiding in the bushes tries to peek under the skirt of his lover on the swing.

 Many list The Swing by Fragonard among their favorites. A

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) painted this already at age 18. The Musical Contest is such a typical Rococo work of art. Very colorful and joyous. Not surprisingly, Fragonard would become the best-known Rococo painter.

It is on display in the Wallace Collection.

 Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) painted this already at

Joshua Reynolds first played games with this girl to gain her trust, and only then painted this wonderful portrait of Miss Jane Bowles and her pet spaniel.

Joshua Reynolds was the finest 18-century English portrait painter and this portrait is part of the Wallace Collection in London.