Today’s painting is *Cabinet*, a walnut with gilt, incised, and ebonized marquetry work by Bruce James Talbert (England, 1838–1881) dated circa 1867. The piece arrived at the museum through the following gift: Museum purchase, 1985.99a-i. This is placeholder copy. Set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and re-run `python scripts/generate_daily.py` to replace every essay with a freshly generated, curator-grade meditation on this specific work, drawing only on the cataloged metadata above. The feature rotates through 22,000 works in production, with a permalink for every calendar day so subscribers can collect favorites and share them.