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| Meissen Manufactory, Dresden Lovers at the Sewing Table 19th century porcelain Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island |
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| Meissen Manufactory, Dresden Cupid with Crown of Roses 19th century porcelain Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island |
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| Meissen Manufactory, Dresden Cupid with Severed Head 19th century porcelain Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island |
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| Meissen Manufactory, Dresden Coppersmith ca. 1750 porcelain Harvard Art Museums |
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| Luis Meléndez Still Life with Bread, Jug and Napkin before 1780 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Luis Meléndez Still Life with Grapes, Figs and Copper Pot ca. 1770 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Luis Meléndez Still Life with Fruit and Jug 1773 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao |
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| Luis Meléndez Still Life ca. 1765-75 oil on canvas Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid |
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| Henri Matisse Dishes and Melon 1906-1907 oil on canvas Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| Henri Matisse Blue Still Life 1907 oil on canvas Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| Henri Matisse Le Bonheur de Vivre 1905-1906 oil on cardboard (sketch) Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| Henri Matisse Le Bonheur de Vivre 1905-1906 oil on canvas (formerly owned by Gertrude Stein) Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| Édouard Manet At the Prado ca. 1865 etching and aquatint National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Édouard Manet The Gypsies 1874 etching National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Édouard Manet Still Life with Fish and Shrimp 1864 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Édouard Manet Plums 1880 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
from Part Three of The Age of Anxiety
Rosetta returns, more slowly than she left. Emble asks:
Well, how was it? What did you see?
Rosetta answers:
Opera glasses on the ormolu table,
Frock-coated father framed on the wall
In a bath-chair facing a big bow window,
With valley and village invitingly spread.
I got what is going on.
At the head of the Bourne where the brambles grow thickest
Major Mott joins Millicent Rusk;
Discreetly the kingfisher keeps his distance
But an old cob swan looks on as they
Commit the sanguine sin.
Heavy the orchards; there's Alison pinching
Her baby brother, Bobby and Dick
Frying a frog with their father's reading-glass,
Conrad and Kay in the carpentry shed
Where they've no business to be.
Cold are the clays of Kibroth-Hattaavah,
Babel's urbanities buried in sand,
Red the geraniums in the rectory garden
Where the present incumbent reads Plato in French
And has lost his belief in Hell.
From the gravel-pits in Groaning Hollow
To the monkey-puzzle on Murderer's Hill,
From the Wellington Arms to the white steam laundry,
The significant note is nature's cry
Of long-divided love.
I have watched through a window a World that is fallen,
The mating and malice of men and beasts,
The corporate greed of quiet vegetation,
And the homesick little obstinate sobs
Of things thrown into being.
I would gladly forget; let us go quickly.
To the monkey-puzzle on Murderer's Hill,
From the Wellington Arms to the white steam laundry,
The significant note is nature's cry
Of long-divided love.
I have watched through a window a World that is fallen,
The mating and malice of men and beasts,
The corporate greed of quiet vegetation,
And the homesick little obstinate sobs
Of things thrown into being.
I would gladly forget; let us go quickly.
– W.H. Auden (1944-46)