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| attributed to Alessandro Merli Giovanni Battista Vitturi, Councillor of Venice, swearing an oath before St Mark, with the Virgin and Child looking on ca. 1600-1625 manuscript leaf Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Gerard Seghers Portrait of Godfried Chodkiewicz before 1651 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Paulus Pontius after Anthony van Dyck Portrait of artist Gerard Seghers before 1658 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully after Jacques-François-Joseph Saly Portrait of Louis-Joseph le Lorrain ca. 1754 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pietro Antonio Novelli (designer) Portrait of George III set into an Imaginary Monument Dactyliotheca Smithiana (Title-page to the catalogue of Counsel Joseph Smith's engraved gems, a collection purchased by George III) 1767 engraving Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Raphael Morghen Bust of Stanislaus Augustus, King of Poland (after a sculpture by Domenico Cardelli) 1786 engraving British Museum |
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| Augustin de Saint-Aubin Profile Portrait of a Lady in a Bonnet ca. 1780 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Augustin de Saint-Aubin Portrait of Louise-Émilie, Baronne de * * * 1779 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Augustin de Saint-Aubin Portrait of Jean Racine 1800 etching and engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
from Andromache
Orestes to Hermione –
J'ai mendié la mort chez des peuples cruels
Qui n'apaisaient leurs dieux que du sang des mortels:
Ils m'ont fermé leur temple; et ces peuples barbares
De mon sang prodigué sont devenus avares.
Enfin je viens à vous, et je me vois réduit
A chercher dans vos yeux une mort qui me fuit.
I've begged for death where cruel tribes appease
With human blood their brutal deities:
They barred me from their altars, and would not spend
The blood I should have been content to lend.
At last I've come to seek within your eyes
The death I chase, and which forever flies.
– Jean Racine (1667), translated by Richard Wilbur (1980)
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| Augustin de Saint-Aubin after Jean-Baptiste Greuze Portrait of Denis Diderot 1766 engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Augustin de Saint-Aubin Portrait of Marie de Rabutin (Mme. de Sévigné) 1802 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Edwin Landseer Portrait of Mancini, Landseer's servant before 1873 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Edgar Degas Portraits at the Stock Exchange ca. 1878-79 pastel on paper, mounted on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Édouard Vuillard Family at Table 1893 oil on cardboard Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |