Genoux - I

Aimée Brune
Young Woman
1839
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Art d'Orléans

Edward Burne-Jones
Kneeling Woman
ca. 1898
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Domenico Gargiulo
Kneeling Shepherd with Sheep
ca. 1645
drawing (sketch)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

workshop of Pietro da Cortona
Allegorical Scene with Jupiter and Minerva
ca. 1660
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci)
Kneeling Youth
ca. 1513
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, 
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Fleury Richard
Charles VII writing his Farewells to Agnès Sorel
ca. 1805
oil on canvas
Château de Malmaison

attributed to Anthony van Dyck
Marsyas with the Flute
ca. 1615-18
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Národní Galerie, Prague

Peter Paul Rubens
Figure Study
ca. 1609-1610
drawing
(study for painting, Adoration of the Magi)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Johann Kenckel after Johann Martin Schuster
Académie
ca. 1710-20
mezzotint
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Jean-Baptiste Descamps
Académie
1777
drawing
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Timoteo Viti
Kneeling Figure
before 1523
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Carl Rahl
Allegorical Figure Group
ca. 1840-50
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous Printmaker
Figure Study
ca. 1550-75
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Victor Müller
Figure Study
ca. 1860
drawing
(study for painting, Daniel in the Lions' Den)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Grete Weisgerber-Pohl
Figure Study
1930
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

George Minne
Kneeling Youth
ca. 1898-1906
plaster
(modello for fountain figure)
Clemens-Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany

The war between the Athenians and the Peloponnesians beginneth now from the time they had no longer commerce one with another without a herald, and that having once begun it they warred without intermission.  And it is written in order by summers and winters according as from time to time the several matters came to pass.

The peace, which after the winning of Euboea was concluded for thirty years, lasted fourteen years.  But in the fifteenth year, being the forty-eighth of the priesthood of Chrysis in Argos, Aenesias being then ephor at Sparta and Pythadorus, archon of Athens, having then two months of his government to come, in the sixth month after the battle at Potidaea and in the beginning of the spring, three hundred and odd Thebans led by Pythangelus the son of Phyleides and Diemporus the son of Onetoridas, Boeotian rulers, about the first watch of the night entered with their arms into Plataea, a city of Boeotia and confederate of the Athenians.  They were brought in and the gates opened unto them by Naucleides and his accomplices, men of Plataea that for their own private ambition intended both the destruction of such citizens as were their enemies and the putting of the whole city under the subjection of the Thebans.  This they negotiated with one Eurymachus the son of Leontiadas, one of the most potent men of Thebes.  For the Thebans, foreseeing the war, desired to preoccupy Plataea, which was always at variance with them, whilst there was yet peace and the war not openly on foot.  By which means they more easily entered undiscovered, there being no order taken before for a watch.  And making a stand in their arms in the market place, they did not, as they that gave them entrance would have had them, fall presently to the business and enter the houses of their adversaries, but resolved rather to make favourable proclamation and to induce the city to composition and friendship.  And the herald proclaimed, "that if any man, according to the ancient custom of all the Boeotians, would enter into the same league of war with them, he should come and bring his arms to theirs," supposing the city by this means would easily be drawn to their side. 

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)