Jean-Étienne Liotard Madame François Tronchin née Anne-Marie Fromaget 1758 pastel on vellum Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève |
Jean-Marc Nattier Portrait of Anna Elisabeth Leerse 1749 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
Joseph de Saint-Michel Portrait of a Gentleman 1771 pastel and gouache on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
Alexis-Simon Belle Portrait of Antoine Crozat ca. 1715 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Portrait of the Baronne de Crussol 1785 oil on panel Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
Jean-François Colson François Véron de Forbonnais 1760 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon |
Louis Tocqué Denis-Jean de la Villguevray ca. 1750-55 oil on canvas Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
Antoine Coysevox Portrait of Madame du Vaucel 1712 marble Saint Louis Art Museum |
Jean-Antoine Houdon Élisabeth Suzanne de Jaucourt, comtesse du Cayla 1777 marble Frick Collection, New York |
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger Jules-David Cromot, Baron du Bourg ca. 1757 marble National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Maurice-Quentin de La Tour Mademoiselle Ferrand meditating on Newton ca. 1752 pastel on paper Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
Nicolas de Largillière Anne-Louis Goislard de Montsabert, comte de Richbourg-le-Toureil 1734 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Jacques-Louis David Portrait of Madame François Buron 1767 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
Jean-Honoré Fragonard Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1772 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Portrait of Madame Élisabeth de France 1788 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |
Francesco Bartolozzi Portrait of Pierre-Noël Violet 1776 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
The earth went off hir hinges; And the Alpes
Shooke the old snow from off their trembling laps.
The Ocean swell'd, as high as Spanish Calpe,
Or Atlas head; their saints and houshold gods
Sweate teares to shew the travailes of their citty.
Crownes fell from holy statues, ominous birds
Defil'd the day, and wilde beastes were seene,
Leaving the woods, lodge in the streetes of Rome.
Cattell were seene that muttered humane speech:
Prodigious birthes with more and ugly jointes
Then nature gives, whose sight appauls the mother,
Then nature gives, whose sight appauls the mother,
And dismall Prophesies were spread abroad:
And they whom fierce Bellonaes fury moves
To wound their armes, sing vengeance, Sibils priests,
Curling their bloudy lockes, howle dreadfull things,
Soules quiet and appeas'd sigh'd from their graves,
Clashing of armes was heard, in untrod woods
Shrill voices schright, and ghoasts incounter men.
And they whom fierce Bellonaes fury moves
To wound their armes, sing vengeance, Sibils priests,
Curling their bloudy lockes, howle dreadfull things,
Soules quiet and appeas'd sigh'd from their graves,
Clashing of armes was heard, in untrod woods
Shrill voices schright, and ghoasts incounter men.
– from the First Book of Lucan, translated by Christopher Marlowe (published 1600)