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| Jean-Antoine Watteau Return from the Hunt ca. 1711-13 drawing private collection |
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| Jean-Antoine Watteau Study of Woman with Veil ca. 1717 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| François Boucher Study of a Woman 1752 drawing Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt |
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| Gabriel de Saint-Aubin Promenade ca. 1760 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Fête Galante in an Ancient Park ca. 1760-70 drawing Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Intimate Conversation ca. 1778-80 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Rotterdam |
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| Jacques-Louis David Figure Study for Roman Soldier ca. 1785 drawing Museo Diocesano, Milan |
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| Théodore Géricault Académie ca. 1810 drawing Museo Diocesano, Milan |
Le Dompteur de lions se souvient
regarde-moi et sois couleur
plus tard
ton rire mange soleil pour lièvres pour caméléons
serre mon corps entre deux lignes larges que la famine soit lumière
dors dors vois-tu nous sommes lourds antilope bleue sur glacier oreille dans les
pierres belles frontières – entends la pierre
vieux pêcheur froid grand sur lettre nouvelle apprendre les filles en fil de fer et
sucre tournent longtemps les flacons sont grands comme les parasols blancs
entends roule roule rouge
aux colonies
souvenir senteur de propre pharmacie vieille servante
cheval vert et céréales
corne crie
flûte
bagages ménageries obscures
mords scie veux-tu
horizontale voir
– Tristan Tzara (1896-1963)
The Lion-Tamer Remembers
look at me and be color
later
your laugh eats sun for hares for chameleons
squeeze my body between two thick lines let famine be light
sleep sleep do you see we are heavy blue antelope on a glacier ear in the stones
lovely frontiers – hear the stone
old fisherman cold tall on new letter learn the girls in iron wire and sugar turn a
long time the bottles are tall like white parasols listen roll roll red
in the colonies
memory odor of a clean pharmacy old servant
green horse and cereals
horn cry
flute
baggage obscure menageries
bite saw do you want
horizontal to see
– translated by Mary Ann Caws (1995)
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| Théodore Géricault Study for The Raft of the Medusa ca. 1818 drawing Museo Diocesano, Milan |
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| François-Marius Granet Monks ascending the Staircase at the Villa di Mecenate at Tivoli 1826 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Venus disarming Cupid ca. 1857 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| François-Nicolas Chifflart Rider in the Air ca. 1860-70 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Honoré Daumier The Print Collector ca. 1860-65 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Rotterdam |
Un cœur tendre qui hait le néant vaste et noir,
Du passé lumineux recueille tout vestige!
– Charles Baudelaire, from Harmonie du Soir (1857)
A tender heart unnerved by nothingness
hoards every fragment of the radiant past.
– translated by Richard Howard (1982)
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| Camille Pissarro Young Peasant Woman with Coffee ca. 1879-80 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Edgar Degas Dancer with Foot on Cello ca. 1880 drawing (with red studio stamp from posthumous sale) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Rotterdam |