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| Gaspar van der Hagen Sacrifice to Hercules ca. 1766 marble Yale Center for British Art |
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| Pierre-François Berruer Louis XV protecting the Académie Royale 1770 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Clodion (Claude Michel) Bacchic Scene, or, Faun Family 1773 terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist Bacchus and Venus ca. 1750-75 marble Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Theodore Xavery Mercury and Argus, with Io in the Background 1775 ivory Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Gaspare Capparoni Zeus as Eagle drinking from a Cup held by Hebe ca. 1775-1800 onyx cameo Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Caspar Bernhard Hardy Artemisia mourning her Husband's Remains ca. 1775-1800 colored wax Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Thomas Banks Thetis and her Nymphs rising from the Sea to console Achilles for the loss of Patroclus 1778-79 marble Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
from Consolation
Though he, that ever kind and true,
Kept stoutly step by step with you,
Your whole long, gusty lifetime through,
Be gone a while before,
Be now a moment gone before,
Yet, doubt not, soon the seasons shall restore
Your friend to you.
* * *
He is not dead, this friend – not dead,
But in the path we mortals tread
Got some few, trifling steps ahead
And nearer to the end;
So that you too, once past the bend,
Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend
You fancy dead.
– Robert Louis Stevenson (published 1899)
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| Samuel Percy Dead Christ ca. 1780-90 colored wax and linen Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Nathaniel Marchant Achilles mourning Patroclus late 18th century plaster cast of sard intaglio lost in the London Blitz, 1941 British Museum |
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| Louis-Simon Boizot The Elements paying Tribute to Friendship ca. 1783 marble Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| John Deare Allegory of Lust (Venus reclining on Goat-Headed Sea Monster, attended by Cupid and Putto) 1785-87 marble Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Charles and William Brown Catherine the Great instructing her Grandsons 1789-91 agate cameo Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Sèvres Manufactory Six Draped Huntresses ca. 1790 porcelain plaque Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Philipp Jakob Scheffauer Artemisia mourning her Husband's Remains 1794 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |