MASTERPIECE #2140

Leopold Loeffler, Polish-Russian

Though His Family Loved It, Cliff's Ventriloquist Act Somehow Failed To Find a Larger Audience, 1853

Oil on canvas

MASTERPIECE #2111

Cesare Maccari, Italian

Though He Knew They Were the Only Way To Get His Subject To Smile, the Improv Troupe Was Really Starting To Get on Leonardo's Nerves, 1863

Oil on canvas

MASTERPIECE #2052

Julius Monien, German

Henry Was Oblivious To the 8-Point Buck Behind Him Because He Was Busy Making the Pheasant He'd Just Shot Disappear, 1886

Oil on canvas

MASTERPIECE #2016

Lord Frederick Leighton, English

The Amazing Jeanine, the World's Lamest Escape Artist, 1878

Oil on canvas

MASTERPIECE #1930

Wincenty Wodzinowski, Polish

He Asked Yet a Third Time, But the Amazing Scythio Still Couldn't Get a Volunteer For His "Sawing a Peasant In Half" Trick, 1890

Oil on canvas

MASTERPIECE #1889

Édouard Joseph Dantan, French

Opera-Goers Trying To Find the Smartass With the Air Horn, 1886

Oil on canvas

MASTERPIECE #1730

Constantin Hansen, Danish

The Amazing Dmitri, X-Rated Ventriloquist, 1845

Oil on canvas

MASTERPIECE #1600

John William Godward, British

Sock Puppetry Before Socks, 1898

Oil on canvas