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| Frans van Mieris the Elder Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1670 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Diana Hill Miniature Portrait of a Lady ca. 1786-88 watercolor on ivory Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Agnolo Bronzino Portrait of a Youth in Antique Garb ca. 1545 oil on panel Landesmuseum, Hannover |
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| François Gérard Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1800-1810 oil on canvas Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris |
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| Crispijn de Passe the Elder Self Portrait ca. 1590 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| François-Hubert Drouais Portrait of Madame de Narbonne 1769 oil on canvas Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (California Palace of the Legion of Honor) |
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| Samson Towgood Roch Miniature Portrait of an Artisan 1788 watercolor on ivory Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Jean-Marc Nattier Portrait of the Marquise de Dreux Brézé 1749 oil on canvas Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai |
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| Andrew Pilmer Miniature Portrait of Lady Affleck and her Daughters ca. 1795 watercolor on ivory Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino, California |
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| Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Portrait of Nicolas Perchet 1795 pastel Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Gedeon Romandon Portrait of a Lady before 1697 oil on canvas Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam |
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| Johann Melchior Wyrsch Portrait of a Lady ca. 1770-80 oil on copper Pushkin Museum, Moscow |
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| Frans Hals Portrait of Pieter Dircksz Tjarck ca. 1635-38 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Lovis Corinth Rococo 1909 oil on canvas Landesmuseum, Hannover |
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| Cornelis van Dalen the Younger Self Portrait ca. 1655 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Anonymous British Artist Eye of Miss Peggy Hawthorne 1793 watercolor miniature on ivory Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
The Fairy Doctor
The fairy doctor comes our way
Over the sorrel-covered wold –
Now sadly, now unearthly gay,
Over the sorrel-covered wold –
Now sadly, now unearthly gay,
A little withered man, and old.
He knows by signs of secret wit
The man whose hour of death draws nigh,
And who will moan in the under pit,
And who foregather in the sky.
And who foregather in the sky.
He sees the fairy hosting move
By heath or hollow or rushy mere,
And then his heart fills full of love,
And then his heart fills full of love,
And full his eyes of fairy cheer.
Cures he hath for cow or goat
With fairy-smitten udders dry –
Cures for calves with 'plaining throat,
Cures for calves with 'plaining throat,
That sickening near their mothers lie;
And many a herb and many a spell
For hurts and ails and lover's moan –
For hurts and ails and lover's moan –
For all save him who pining fell,
Glamoured by fairies for their own.
Now be courteous, now be kind,
Lest he may some glamour fold
Closely round us, body and mind –
The little withered man, and old.
The little withered man, and old.
– W.B. Yeats (1887)