Sunday, November 25, 2018

Flaxman and Cassatt (at either end of the 19th century)

John Flaxman
Seated model
before 1826
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Flaxman
Head of youth, after Medusa
before 1826
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Flaxman
Portrait of seated man
before 1826
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Flaxman
St Peter with crowing cock
before 1826
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Flaxman
Angel rolling away the stone of Christ's sepulchre
before 1826
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Flaxman
Seated model bending forward
before 1826
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Flaxman
Funeral of Hector, from The Iliad of Homer
1805
engraving
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

from Ode on Indolence

They faded, and forsooth! I wanted wings:
     O folly! What is love? and where is it?
And for that poor Ambition – it springs
     From a man's little heart's short fever-fit;
For Poesy! – no, – she has not a joy, –
     At least for me, – so sweet as drowsy noons,
          And evenings steep'd in honied indolence;
O, for an age so shelter'd from annoy,
     That I may never know how change the moons,
          Or hear the voice of busy common-sense!

– John Keats (1819)

Mary Cassatt
Afternoon Tea Party
ca. 1891
drypoint and color aquatint
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Mary Cassatt
Gathering Fruit 
ca. 1893
drypoint and color aquatint
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Mary Cassatt
The Bath
ca. 1891
drypoint and color aquatint
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Mary Cassatt
The Coiffure
ca. 1891
drypoint and color aquatint
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Mary Cassatt
The Lamp
ca. 1891
drypoint and color aquatint
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Mary Cassatt
The Letter
ca. 1890-91
drypoint and color aquatint
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Mary Cassatt
Head of a young girl
ca. 1874
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston