Friday, April 5, 2024

Neoclassical Heads

Anonymous French Artist
Study of Model
1810
drawing
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Daniel Berger
Head in Antique Style
ca. 1790
etching
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Benjamin Robert Haydon
Study of Head
ca. 1812-14
drawing
(study for painting, The Judgment of Solomon)
Tate Gallery

Prince Hoare
Idealized Head
ca. 1790
drawing
Tate Gallery

Anonymous Artist
Head of a Cast from the Antique
18th century
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

John Flaxman
Antique Bearded Head
ca. 1790
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

William Nicholson
Head of the Apollo Belvedere
ca. 1820
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Daniel Huntington
Head of a Classical Cast
1840
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

William Theed
Bust of Achilles
1856
colossal marble copy of antique sculpture
(commissioned by Prince Albert)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Anonymous Italian Artist
Head derived from the Niobe Group
19th century
plaster
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Antonio Canova
Bust of Helen of Troy
ca. 1815
marble
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
Head with Diadem
ca. 1801-1805
terracotta
(bozzetto for tomb figure)
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

Angelica Kauffmann
Classical Head
ca. 1795
drawing
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Christoph Heinrich Kniep
Relief Tondo with Head of Athena
1783
drawing
(made in Rome)
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

Horatio Greenough
Study of Antique Head
ca. 1835
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Richard Cooper
Study of Antique Head
ca. 1770
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

"The sky overhead was big and black and billowy and heavily draped with sagging clouds; and there were no stars, just the beady red and white lights of aircraft moving in and out of the horizon, stitching their paths over the billowing purple and black; and the wind bore the sound of them to their ears, and the steady distant roar of the ring road came in great looping waves and reports. There was the smell of cooking from the houses, and of the pavement still damp in the darkness from the day's rain, and of diesel from the road ahead, and a green veiled smell from the park beyond that. Through a gap in the houses Maisie caught a glimpse of a little perspective that opened out, with barely perceptible drama, down the gentle slope on the other side of Roderick Road. It showed another row of houses, and another, and another, until just the roofs of the last line were visible, bristling with aerials and satellite dishes. She looked at the sky and then she looked at her shoes, at the ground they were making, the little gains they made together, one after the other in their merry servitude."

– Rachel Cusk, from the novel Arlington Park (2006)