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| Édouard Vuillard Les Couturières 1890 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Caroline Walker Pressing 2019 oil on board private collection |
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| Nataliya Dan'ko Woman Worker embroidering a Banner designed 1919, manufactured 1923 porcelain Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Guido Reni Erigone ca. 1630 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour Woman Sewing 1857 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jacob Toorenvliet Girl with a Basket 1677 oil on copper Kunsthaus Zürich |
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| Edmund Charles Tarbell Mercie cutting Flowers (the artist's daughter) 1912 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire |
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| Alice Burr Portrait of a Woman ca. 1910 autochrome Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Félix Vallotton La Liseuse 1922 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Bernardino Mei St Catherine of Siena 1641 oil on canvas Pinacoteca della Certosa, Florence |
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| Childe Hassam The Sonata 1893 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Benedetto Luti Apostle Reading 1712 pastel on paper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Auguste Toulmouche Dans la Bibliothèque 1872 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Pietro della Vecchia Old Women with a Skull before 1687 oil on canvas Galleria Estense, Modena |
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| Carlo Saraceni Penitent Magdalen ca. 1614 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Jacques Villon Les Cartes 1903 color aquatint private collection |
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| Richard Bosman Bar Talk 1983 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
from Atalanta in Calydon
For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
The full streams feed on flower of rushes,
Ripe grasses trammel a travelling foot,
The faint fresh flame of the young year flushes
From leaf to flower and flower to fruit;
And fruit and leaf are as gold and fire,
And the oat is heard above the lyre,
And the hoofèd heel of a satyr crushes
The chestnut-husk at the chestnut-root.
– Algernon Charles Swinburne (1865)