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| Adolph Menzel In a Railway Carriage (after a Night's Journey) 1851 gouache and pastel Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Charles Martin Mother holding Charles Carew Hunt Martin as an Infant 1857 watercolor Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Franz Hanfstaengl after Padovanino Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1850 lithograph Wellcome Collection, London |
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| Henri-Charles Guérard Portrait of Manet ca. 1880-84 etching and drypoint Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour Portrait of Édouard Manet ca. 1867 drawing for press reproduction, after Fantin-Latour's painted portrait Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour A Piece by Schumann 1864 etching Art Institute of Chicago |
from Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us; visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower;
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance
Each human heart and countenance;
Like hues and harmonies of evening,
Like clouds in starlight widely spread,
Like memory of music fled,
Like aught that for its grace may be
Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.
Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate
With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon
Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?
Why dost thou pass away and leave our state,
This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate?
Ask why the sunlight not for ever
Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river,
Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown,
Why fear and dream and death and birth
Cast on the daylight of this earth
Such gloom, why man has such a scope
For love and hate, despondency and hope?
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Love, Hope, and Self-esteem, like clouds depart
And come, for some uncertain moments lent.
Man were immortal and omnipotent,
Didst thou, unknown and awful as thou art,
Keep with thy glorious train firm state within his heart.
Thou messenger of sympathies,
That wax and wane in lovers' eyes;
Thou, that to human thought art nourishment,
Like darkness to a dying flame!
Depart not as thy shadow came,
Depart not – lest the grave should be,
Like life and fear, a dark reality.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley (1816)
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| Jean-Baptiste Isabey Duchesse d'Angoulème, Madame la Dauphine 1824 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Camille Pissarro Young Peasant having her Coffee 1881 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Paul Cézanne Figure Studies around an Engraving of an Ornamental Vase ca. 1870-72 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Paul Cézanne Bather viewed from the back ca. 1879-82 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean-Baptiste Isabey Portrait of Napoleon as Emperor 1810 gouache on ivory Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jean-Baptiste Isabey Portrait of Marie Louise as Empress 1810 gouache on ivory Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| National Art Training School (London) Student Work in Clay Modelling 1888 photograph Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Edward Burne-Jones (designer) Pomona designed in 1882, woven in 1906 cotton, wool and silk tapestry Merton Abbey Workshop (William Morris & Company) Art Institute of Chicago |