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Selected Works Smiles

Smile! From the enigmatic Mona Lisa to medieval sculptures, the smile has been a major iconographic attribute throughout the ages. Embark on a discovery of the most beautiful or most disconcerting smiles from antiquity to the nineteenth century!

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Near Eastern Antiquities

A grimacing mask

Late 7th century-early 6th century BC

Carthage, Tunisia
Egyptian Antiquities

Amenophis IV

New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, reign of Amenophis...

Temple of Karnak, east precinct, Luxor, Egypt
Sculptures

Attributed to Évrard d'ORLÉANS (Known from 1292 until...

An Angel Carrying Two Cruets

c. 1340

Part of the high-altar retable from the...
Paintings

Frans HALS

Buffoon with a Lute
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Rampin Master

Head of a horseman, known as the...

Circa 550 BC

Acropolis at Athens, Greece; found in 1877
Paintings

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, known as LEONARDO DA...

Mona Lisa – Portrait of Lisa...

c. 1503–06
Paintings

Domenico GHIRLANDAIO

Old Man with a Young Boy

c. 1490
Prints and Drawings

Mathis Gothart Nithart, known as Mathias Grünewald...

Portrait of a smiling woman

c. 1512-15?
Prints and Drawings

Hans Holbein the younger (Augsburg, 1497/1498-London,...

Portrait of a young woman smiling

Before 1522
Egyptian Antiquities

Statue of the god Bes

30th Dynasty, reign of Nectanebo II (358-341 BC)

Saqqara, Serapeum, court of the temple of...