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| Louis Boullogne the Younger Académie 1708 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Louis Boullogne the Younger Académie 1708 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Académie ca. 1710 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Académie ca. 1720 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Edme Bouchardon Académie ca. 1723-32 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Edme Bouchardon Académie ca. 1738 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Jean-Baptiste Van Loo Académie before 1745 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Pierre Subleyras Académie before 1749 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| attributed to Pierre Subleyras Académie before 1749 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Carle Vanloo Académie before 1765 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Carle Vanloo Académie before 1765 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Carle Vanloo Académie before 1765 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Carle Vanloo Académie before 1765 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Jean-Baptiste Greuze Académie ca. 1767 drawing Musée Bonnat, Bayonne |
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| Anne-Louis Girodet Figure Study for Virgil's Georgics ca. 1798 drawing (study for book illustration) Musée du Louvre |
from The Kingfishers
I am no Greek, hath not th'advantage.
And of course, no Roman:
he can take no risk that matters,
the risk of beauty least of all.
But I have my kin, if for no other reason than
(as he said, next of kin) I commit myself, and,
given my freedom, I'd be a cad
if I didn't. Which is most true.
It works out this way, despite the disadvantage.
I offer, in explanation, a quote:
si j'ai du goût, ce n'est guères
que pour la terre et les pierres.
Despite the discrepancy (an ocean courage age)
this is also true: if I have any taste
it is only because I have interested myself
in what was slain in the sun . . .
– Charles Olson (1949)