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| Anonymous French Artist Portrait Study of a Woman ca. 1827-34 drawing Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Annibale Carracci St Francis of Assisi adoring the Crucifix 1585 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome |
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| Elizabeth Peyton Dalí 1990 oil on panel Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Michael Willmann Study of an Old Man ca. 1680 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| John William Waterhouse Study for Circe Invidiosa ca. 1890 drawing private collection |
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| Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet Narcissus 1817 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Gaspare Traversi Penitent Magdalen before 1770 oil on copper private collection |
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| Jens Ferdinand Willumsen Boy Diving 1909 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Agnolo Bronzino Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1555-60 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Nicolas Régnier Penitent Magdalen ca. 1640-50 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Simon de Mailly after Andrea Solario Mater Dolorosa 1543 oil on panel Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French) George Tooker 1947 gelatin silver print Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts |
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| Euan Uglow Summer Picture 1971-72 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Dorothea Tanning Portrait of Muriel Levy 1943 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Hans Thoma Einsamkeit 1896 oil on canvas private collection |
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| William Kentridge Seated Couple 1998 charcoal on book pages Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Dan Weiner El Morocco 1955 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
from The City of Dreadful Night
They often murmur to themselves, they speak
To one another seldom, for their woe
Broods maddening inwardly, and scorns to wreak
Itself abroad; and if at whiles it grow
To frenzy which must rave, none heeds the clamour,
Unless there waits some victim of like glamour,
To rave in turn, who lends attentive show.
The City is of Night, but not of Sleep;
There sweet sleep is not for the weary brain;
The pitiless hours like years and ages creep,
A night seems termless hell. This dreadful strain
Of thought and consciousness which never ceases
Or which some moments' stupor but increases,
This, worse than woe, makes wretches there insane.
– James Thomson (1880)