Working Models - I

François-Xavier Fabre
Académie, as the Death of Abel
1790
oil on canvas
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Jean Benner
The Wreck, or, The Italian
1879
oil on canvas
Musée Petiet de Limoux

Jacques-Louis David
Académie, as the Corpse of Hector
1778
oil on canvas
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Reclining Model with Mirror
ca. 1909-10
oil on canvas
Brücke Museum, Berlin

Isaac Israëls
Resting Model
1917
oil on canvas
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

František Tkadlík
Académie
1815
drawing
Národní Galerie, Prague

Max Beckmann
Art Academy
1944
oil on canvas
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

Alexandre-Jacques Chantron
Model Resting
1889
pastel on paper
Musée d'Art Moderne André Malraux,
Le Havre

Lovis Corinth
Study of Model
1913
oil on canvas
Landesmuseum Mainz

Henry Moore
Seated Figure
1932
drawing
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Bernard Picart
Seated Model
1720
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Joseph-Auguste Rousselin
Model posed as the Prodigal Son
1883
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau

Christoph Wetzel
After the Mission
1973
mixed media on panel
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Luigi Pellegrino Scaramuccia
Figure Study
ca. 1640
drawing
National Museum, Warsaw

Arthur Bowen Davies
Figure Study
ca. 1890
drawing
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Anonymous Artist working in Padua
Figure Study
ca. 1430-40
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

 
Chorus of Furies:  Lady Athena, what abode do you say I am to have?

Athena:  One that is free from all pain and distress. Please accept it. 

Chorus:  Suppose I do accept it: what privilege awaits me?

Athena:  That no house will prosper without your aid.

Chorus:  You will bring that about, so as to give me such great power?

Athena:  Yes, I will uphold the fortunes of these who revere you.

Chorus:  And you will guarantee me this for all future time?

Athena:  Yes, I am free not to promise what I will not fulfill.

Chorus:  I think you are going to charm me, and I am moving away from my anger.

Athena:  That means that you are going to stay in this land and gain new friends.

– Aeschylus, from Eumenides (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)