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| Stefano della Bella Head of a Young Man ca. 1650 etching National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pietro da Cortona Study for Head of St Michael 1633 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Head of an Old Man ca. 1600-1608 drawing (made in Rome) Morgan Library, New York |
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| Anthony van Dyck Study Head of an Old Man ca. 1618-20 oil on paper, mounted on panel Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Anthony van Dyck Study Head of a Young Man ca. 1617-18 oil on paper, mounted on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Study Head of an Old Man ca. 1610 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Gérard de Lairesse Head of Minerva ca. 1670 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Caspar Gras Head of Archduke Ferdinand Charles ca. 1625-50 bronze Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Bartolomeo Gennari Head of a Bearded Man ca. 1640 drawing Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Inigo Jones Head of a Boy ca. 1625 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Jacob Matham Head of Hippocrates 1607 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Guido Reni Head of a Man (possibly Nicholas Lanier) ca. 1625-30 drawing Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous French Artist Head of a Girl 17th century drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Anonymous Dutch Artist Head of a Young Man ca. 1650 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Prince Rupert, Count Palatine Head of the Executioner of St John the Baptist 1658 mezzotint National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pieter Claesz Soutman Head of a Man ca. 1630 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
The Realists
Hope that you may understand.
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but wake the hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?
– William Butler Yeats (1912)