Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Louvre - Unassigned French Figure Studies - 17th Century

Anonymous French Artist
Laocoön
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
(after Nicolas Poussin)
Nymph
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
River God
17th century
drawing
(fresco cartoon)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Personification of Time
ca. 1600-1650
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Study of Antique Torso
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Study of Draped Model offering Fruit
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Annotated écorché Figure
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Meeting of Neptune and Venus on the Water
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Cain slaying Abel
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Two Heads of Bearded Man
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Study Nature

I do.
     Victim.
     Sales
     Met
     Wipe
     Her
     Less.
     Was a disappointment
     We say it.
                         Study nature.

     Or
     Who
     Towering.
     Mispronounced
     Spelling.
     She 
     Was
     Astonishing
     To
     No
     One
     For
     Fun
                         Study from nature.

     I
     Am
     Pleased
     Thoroughly        
     I
     Am
     Thoroughly
     Pleased.
     By.
     It.
     It is very likely.
                         They said so.

     Oh.
     I want.
     To do.
     What
     Is
     Later
     To
     Be
     Refined.
     By
     Turning.
     Of turning around.
                         I will wait.

– Gertrude Stein (1914)