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| Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Portrait of Countess Golenishcheva-Kutuzova 1797 oil on canvas Pushkin Museum, Moscow |
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| August Sander My Daughter Sigrid ca. 1927 gelatin silver print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Antonio Puccinelli La Signora Morrocchi 1859 oil on canvas Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1530 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anna Rosina Lisiewska (Anna Rosina de Gasc) Portrait of Maria Antonia Pessina 1770 oil on canvas Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Gertrude Käsebier Portrait of Miss Minnie Ashley 1905 photogravure Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Auguste Herbin Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1907 oil on cardboard Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| John Greenhill Portrait of the Countess of Gainsborough 1669 drawing Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino |
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| Adolf Erbslöh Portrait of Saima Neovi 1909 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Ezekiel Davidson Portrait of Elisabeth Hendrika Vroutje Sautijn Kluit 1817 oil on panel Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
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| Juan Carreño de Miranda Portrait of a Woman ca. 1650-70 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Cecilia Beaux Portrait of Sarah E. Doyle ca. 1902 oil on canvas Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Anonymous French Artist Portrait of a Woman ca. 1825 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Lawrence Alma-Tadema Portrait of Sientje Tadema 1860 oil on panel National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| attributed to Alessandro Allori Portrait of Isabella de' Medici ca. 1570-74 oil on panel, transferred to canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Johann Erdmann Hummel Portrait of Luise Mila ca. 1810-15 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Anxiety
Something had made a killing.
A few small bones by the wall
were sticky with dark blood
but no parts of wing or skull
survived to tell me what it was.
What was it? By afternoon
the petrol-coloured rain had come
were sticky with dark blood
but no parts of wing or skull
survived to tell me what it was.
What was it? By afternoon
the petrol-coloured rain had come
and washed it down the drain.
So I wondered if a bird
So I wondered if a bird
had ever been killed in a corner
by a wall, and moved off slow
like those pompous burghers
by a wall, and moved off slow
like those pompous burghers
of Oslo do, in Anxiety.
But something had made a killing
and the corner worried me
with everything I had, not noticing,
killed. Like those sickish faces
underneath their stovepipe hats,
and the corner worried me
with everything I had, not noticing,
killed. Like those sickish faces
underneath their stovepipe hats,
a yellow shriek of sky behind them
and beyond. It was like that.
– Caitríona O'Reilly, The Nowhere Birds (2001)