Saturday, February 24, 2024

Visual Relics (1880-1890)

Pieter de Josselin de Jong
Iron Worker
ca. 1880
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Luke Fildes
Study of River Bank
ca. 1880
watercolor
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Jean-Louis Forain
Behind the Scenes
ca. 1880
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Gaetano Previati
The Crucifixion
1881
oil on canvas
Fondazione Cavallini-Sgarbi, Ferrara

Emilio Sánchez Perrier
Drawing Class
ca. 1882
wash drawing
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Félix Bracquemond
Portrait of Edmond de Goncourt
1882
etching on vellum
Milwaukee Art Museum

Jules Chéret
La Danse
ca. 1885
lithograph
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Jules Chéret
Une Jeune Marquise
1889
lithograph (poster)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Adolph Menzel
Study of a Woman
1886
drawing
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Rupert Bunny
Comte Melchior de Polignac
ca. 1888
drawing
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Charles Courtney Curran
An Alcove in the Art Students' League, New York
1888
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Edgar Degas
Four Jockeys
ca. 1889
oil on board
(from the artist's posthumous studio sale)
Yale University Art Gallery

Lovis Corinth
Anatomical Studies for Drawing Manual
ca. 1890
drawing
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Frank Duveneck
Portrait of the artist's sister Molly
1890
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Charles Fairfax Murray
Dancers in a Landscape
ca. 1890
watercolor
Princeton University Art Museum

Peder Severin Krøyer
Copenhagen Roofs under Snow
ca. 1890
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Meanwhile Aurora rose; she left the Ocean.
Aeneas – anxious though he is to give 
his comrades rapid burial, and though
his mind is much distressed by Pallas' death –
first pays the gods a victor's vows beneath
the morning star. He hacks the branches off
a massive oak, around all sides, then plants it
upon a mound of earth; this tree he dresses
in glittering arms, the spoils of chief Mezentius –
a trophy meant for you, great God of War.
To this Aeneas fastens helmet crests
dripping with blood, the warrior's shattered shafts,
the breastplate smashed and pierced through twice-six times;
upon the left he ties the shield of brass
and hangs the ivory scabbard from the neck.

– Aeneas performs a barbarous ritual, from Book XI of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)