Sketches and Studies - III

Hippolyte Flandrin
Moses commanding the Waters to cover the Egyptian Host
1858
oil on cardboard
(modello for painting, Saint-Germain des Près, Paris)
Princeton University Art Museum

Camillo Rusconi
Monument to Pope Gregory XIII
1716-17
terracotta modello
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Franz Anton Maulbertsch
The Holy Trinity
ca. 1780-90
oil on canvas
(modello for altarpiece)
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Federico Zuccaro
The Calumny of Apelles
ca. 1569
drawing
(modello for painting)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Francisque Duret (François-Joseph Duret)
Chactas with the corpse of Atala
(protagonists of Chateaubriand's novella, Atala)
ca. 1835
terracotta modello
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Lorenzo Bartolini
Countess Marina Dmitrievna Gur'eva
1821
plaster modello for marble statue
Palazzo Pretorio, Prato

Jean-Baptiste Corneille
Mythological Scene
before 1695
drawing
(study for ceiling painting, Hôtel de Sagonne)
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Corrado Giaquinto
The Annunciation
ca. 1750
oil on canvas
(sketch)
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Moritz von Schwind
Scenes from Goethe's Faust
ca. 1850
drawing
(modello for painting)
Milwaukee Art Museum

Louis-Claude Vassé
Study for Sleeping Shepherd
ca. 1745
terracotta modello
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Peter Paul Rubens
Martyrdom of St Livinus
ca. 1633-35
oil on panel
(modello for altarpiece)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Daniel Neuberger
Scene of Abduction
1670
watercolor
(modello for wax relief)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Nicolas-André Monsiaux
Death of the painter Raphael
1804
drawing
(modello for now-lost painting)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Joseph Mages
Conversion of St Augustine
ca. 1760
oil on canvas
(modello for now-lost fresco)
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

François Rude
Bust of Hebe
ca. 1848-50
terracotta modello for marble sculpture
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Joseph Chinard
Bust Portrait of Juliette Récamier
ca. 1801-1802
terracotta modello for marble sculpture
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

What is this portent? What does it shadow forth?
Have Heaven and Earth in dreadful marriage lain?
What shall the allotted season bring to birth?

This blind old ragged, rambling beggar-man
Calls curses upon cities, upon the great,
And scatters at his pleasure rich estate.

Thunder has stirred the hair upon my head.
What horror comes to birth? What shall be found,

That travail finished, on the lowly bed?
Never in vain the dreadful thunder sounds,

Nor can the living lightning flash in vain;

Heaven has borne a child and shrieks from pain.

Once more that dreadful sound! God pity us
When all is finished on the bed of earth,
Nor hold us all unclean for Oedipus.

Whatever fate maternal sky bring forth,
Pity Colonna, nor lay us under ban
Because of Oedipus the beggar-man.

Come, King of Athens, father of the land –
Whether at Poseidon's altars and the still
Unfinished sacrifice, or close at hand –
A blind old beggar-man proclaims God's will,
Proclaims a blessing on the land and us;
Come, King of Athens, come, King Theseus.

– Sophocles, chorus from Oedipus at Colonus (405 BC), translated by W.B. Yeats (1934)