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| Camille Pissarro L'Hermitage, Pontoise 1876 oil on canvas Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen |
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| Camille Pissarro Poultry Market, Pontoise 1882 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Camille Pissarro Peasant Woman carrying Bundles 1883 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Camille Pissarro Self Portrait ca. 1898 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Henry Raeburn Portrait of David Cowan ca. 1823 oil on canvas Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
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| Henry Raeburn Portrait of Sir Brooke Boothby ca. 1790-1800 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Henry Raeburn Portrait of Henry David Erskine, 12th Earl of Buchan ca. 1805 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Henry Raeburn Portrait of Anne Hart ca. 1810 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| John Singer Sargent after Peter Paul Rubens Figure from The Triumph of Marie de' Medici 1877 oil on canvas Portland Art Museum, Oregon |
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| John Singer Sargent after Peter Paul Rubens Two of the Three Graces 1879 oil on canvas Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| John Singer Sargent The Terrace at La Granja ca. 1903-1904 watercolor on paper Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
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| John Singer Sargent San Giuseppe di Castello, Venice ca. 1903 watercolor on paper Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
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| Johann Georg Straub Hebe ca. 1772 lindenwood statue (painted to imitate stone) Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich |
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| Johann Georg Straub Sibyl ca. 1772 lindenwood statue (painted to imitate stone) Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich |
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| Johann Georg Straub Mars ca. 1772 terracotta bozzetto for statue Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich |
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| Johann Georg Straub Mars ca. 1772 lindenwood statue (painted to imitate stone) Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich |
from Part Four of The Age of Anxiety
In the high heavens,
The ageless places,
The gods are wringing their great worn hands
For their watchman is away, their world-engine
Creaking and cracking. Conjured no more
By his master music to wed
Their truths to times, the Eternal Objects
Drift about in a daze:
By his master music to wed
Their truths to times, the Eternal Objects
Drift about in a daze:
O the lepers are loose in Lombard Street,
The rents are rising in the river basins,
The insects are angry. Who will dust
The cobwebbed kingdoms now?
For our lawgiver lies below his people,
Bigger bones of a better kind,
Unwrapped by their weight, as white limestone
Under green grass,
The rents are rising in the river basins,
The insects are angry. Who will dust
The cobwebbed kingdoms now?
For our lawgiver lies below his people,
Bigger bones of a better kind,
Unwrapped by their weight, as white limestone
Under green grass,
The grass that fades.
But now the cab stopped at Rosetta's apartment house. As they went up in the elevator, they were silent but each was making a secret resolve to banish such gloomy reflection and become, or at least appear, carefree and cheerful.
– W.H. Auden (1944-46)