Unknown Painters (France)

Anonymous Artist
François III de Valois, duc de Bretagne
ca. 1536
oil on panel
(after a painting by Corneille de Lyon)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Anonymous Artist
Last Supper
1542
enamel on copper
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1525
oil on panel
Detroit Institute of Arts

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of a Young Nobleman
ca. 1500-1550
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of Louise de Lorraine,
consort of Henri III, King of France
ca. 1575
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of Henri de Lorraine, duc de Guise
(called Le Balafré)
ca. 1585
oil on panel
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1690
oil on canvas
Harvard Art Museums

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
ca. 1760
oil on canvas
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

Anonymous Artist
Interior of Dye Works
1760
oil on canvas
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily
ca. 1792
oil on canvas
(after a painting by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun)
Musée Condé, Chantilly

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1800
watercolor miniature on ivory
Saint Louis Art Museum

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of Madame la marquise de Choiseul
ca. 1813
watercolor miniature on ivory
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of a Young Woman with a Jade Necklace
ca. 1815
oil on canvas
Musée Magnin, Dijon

Anonymous Artist
Portrait of a Woman
19th century
pastel and gouache on paper
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Anonymous Artist
Sketch for a Scene of Justice
ca. 1842
oil on canvas
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Anonymous Artist
 Leonardo and Michelangelo as Aristotle and Plato
(pastiche of Raphael's School of Athens fresco)
19th century
oil on canvas
private collection

Clear Morning

I've watched you long enough,
I can speak to you any way I like –

I've submitted to your preferences, observing patiently

the things you love, speaking

through vehicles only, in

details of earth, as you prefer,

tendrils

of blue clematis, light

of early evening –

you would never accept

a voice like mine, indifferent

to the objects you busily name,

your mouths

small circles of awe –

And all this time

I indulged your limitation, thinking

you would cast it aside yourselves sooner or later,

thinking matter could not absorb your gaze forever –

I cannot go on

restricting myself to images

because you think it is your right

to dispute my meaning:

I am prepared now to force

clarity upon you.

– Louise Glück (1992)