Creation

The 20 most looked-at works by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

1. 1 Oscar Wilde at Work 5.9%
2. 2 The Return of Tannhäuser to the Venusberg 4.4%
3. 3 Cover design to 'The Pierrot of the Minute', 1897 2.9%
4. 4 The Burial of Salome 2.9%
5. 5 Front Cover and spine of Le Morte Darthur 2.9%
6. 6 Incipit Vita Nova 2.9%
7. 7 Merlin and Nimue, 1894 2.9%
8. 8 Publicity poster for 'The Yellow Book' 2.9%
9. 9 Frontispiece for 'The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly', 1894 2.9%
10. 10 Creation this painting 2.9%
11. 11 How King Mark and Sir Dinadan Heard Sir Palomides II 2.9%
12. 12 The Black Cape, 1894 1.5%
13. 13 The cover of The Yellow Book, 1894 1.5%
14. 14 Vol .III, 1894 1.5%
15. 15 Advertisement for Children's Books, 1894 1.5%
16. 16 Chopin 1.5%
17. 17 A Nocturne of Chopin 1.5%
18. 18 Albert in search of his ideals, 1897 1.5%
19. 19 Sir Launcelot and the Witch Hellawes 1.5%
20. 20 The Mysterious Rose Garden, 1895 1.5%

Together these works take 49.9% of all the attention this artist's paintings received over the last twelve months. The catalogue holds 239 works by this artist, of which 54 were looked at at least once. This painting ranks 10 of them, with 2.9% of that attention. The same counts, month by month

Bars measure attention, not quality. Pick the work at the top and this one: name one thing that might make a painting famous beyond how well it is painted.