Monday, October 14, 2024

Cardin - Hopfer - Abbéma - Willink

Pierre Cardin for Saks Fifth Avenue
Dress
ca. 1967
wool knit with vinyl trim
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Pierre Cardin
Evening Gown
1983
printed silk organza
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Pierre Cardin
Evening Gown
1987
silk taffeta
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Pierre Cardin
Evening Gown
1989
plain-weave silk
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Daniel Hopfer
Kunz von der Rosen, jester to Maximilian I
ca. 1518
etching
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Daniel Hopfer
Kunz von der Rosen, jester to Maximilian I
ca. 1518
etching
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Daniel Hopfer
Portrait of Girolamo da Siena
ca. 1505
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Daniel Hopfer
Church of the Dominican Convent of St Katherine at Augsburg
ca. 1525-35
drawing
British Museum

Louise Abbéma
Portrait of Blanche Baretta,
sociétaire de la Comédie Française
1883
oil on panel
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Louise Abbéma
 Portrait of Madeleine Brohan,
sociétaire de la Comédie Française
ca. 1885
oil on panel
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Louise Abbéma
Portrait of Pauline Granger,
sociétaire de la Comédie Française
1883
oil on panel
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Louise Abbéma
Portrait of Renée Delmas de Pont-Jest,
sociétaire de la Comédie Française
1883
oil on panel
private collection

Carel Willink
Untitled
1936
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Carel Willink
Self Portrait with Brush and White Cloth
1936
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Carel Willink
View of a Bay
1935
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Carel Willink
Late Visitors to Pompeii
1931
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Song

Seen when nights are silent,
The bean-shaped island,
And our ugly comic servant,
Who was observant.

O the veranda and the fruit,
The tiny steamer on the bay
Startling summer with its hoot –
You have gone away.

– W.H. Auden (1933)