Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Raking Light (from the Left) - IV

Pierre Goudréaux
Lovers as Pilgrims to the Island of Cythera
ca. 1727
oil on canvas
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

Gaspare Traversi
Old Man and Child
ca. 1760
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Simon Vouet
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1615-18
oil on canvas
(painted in Rome)
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Isaac de Joudreville
Portrait of a Young Woman
ca, 1630-35
oil on panel
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Pietro Paolini (il Lucchese)
Head of a Young Man
ca. 1628-30
oil on canvas
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha

attributed to Giovanni Battista della Rovere (il Fiammenghino)
Youth Looking Down from Platform
ca. 1610
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Nicolai Abildgaard
Seated Model Bending Forward
ca. 1780
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Chrétien Dubois
Académie
1790
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Wybrand Hendriks
Académie
1773
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Girolamo Macchietti
Figure Study
ca. 1570-72
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Giovanni Battista Buoncuore
Card Players
ca. 1675
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Ludolf de Jongh
Hunters at an Inn
ca. 1650
oil on panel
Kunstmuseum Basel

Alessandro Magnasco
Figures in a Grotto
ca. 1720
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Bartholomeus van Bassen
Interior of a Church
1639
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Johann Heinrich Schönfeld
Travelers setting out from an Inn
1650-51
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Johann Ulrich Mayr
Youth with Sword
1654
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Leander still cald Neptune, that now rent
His brackish curles, and tore his wrinckled face 
Where teares in billowes did each other chace,
And (burst with ruth) he hurled his marble Mace
At the sterne Fates: it wounded Lachesis
That drew Leanders thread, and could not misse
The thread it selfe, as it her hand did hit,
But smote it full and quite did sunder it.
The more kinde Neptune rag'd, the more he raste
His loves lives fort, and kild as he embraste.

– Christopher Marlowe, from Hero and Leander (published 1598)