Preparatory

Edme Bouchardon
La Marne
ca. 1740
terracotta modello for marble sculpture
Musée du Louvre

Johan Tobias Sergel
Le Spartiate Othryades expirant
ca. 1777
terracotta modello for lost plaster (Salon of 1779)
Musée du Louvre

Antonio Canova
Monument to Titian
ca. 1792
painted wood and wax modello
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Antonio Canova
Funeral Stele of Giovanni Falier
ca. 1805-1808
plaster modello for marble relief
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Antonio Canova
Creugas
ca. 1796-1801
plaster modello for marble statue
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Antonio Canova
Socrates rejecting his Family
ca.1793-94
plaster modello for marble relief
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Antonio Canova
Madame Letizia Bonaparte
ca. 1804-1807
plaster modello for marble statue
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Antonio Canova
Allegory of Hope
ca. 1806-1808
plaster modello for marble relief
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Jacob Jordaens
The Ferry
ca. 1630-40
watercolor and gouache on paper (modello for tapestry)
British Museum

Jacob Jordaens
The Falconer
ca. 1630
watercolor and gouache on paper (modello for tapestry)
British Museum

Pierre Julien
Portrait of painter Nicolas Poussin
ca. 1787-88
terracotta modello for marble sculpture
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Jacques Sarazin
Caryatids in Pairs
ca. 1639
terracotta modelli for marble sculptures 
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume
L'art couronnant la beauté
1857
plaster modello for stone relief surrounding window
Musée du Louvre

François Rude
Le Génie de la patrie, dit la Marseillaise
1834
plaster modello for head of marble statue
Musée du Louvre

Francesco Mosca
Diana and Actaeon
ca. 1550-75
terracotta modello for marble relief
Musée du Louvre

Michelangelo Buonnaroti
River God
ca. 1526-27
wood, clay, wool, tow
(modello for unexecuted Medici tomb sculpture)
Accademia delle Arte del Disegno, Florence

Michelangelo Buonnaroti
River God
ca. 1526-27
wood, clay, wool, tow
(modello for unexecuted Medici tomb sculpture)
Accademia delle Arte del Disegno, Florence

Lines

(written in a blank leaf of the Prometheus Unbound)

Write it in gold – a Spirit of the sun,

An Intellect ablaze with heavenly thoughts,

A Soul with all the dews of pathos shining,

Odorous with love, and sweet to silent woe

With the dark glories of concentrate song,

Was sphered in mortal earth.  Angelic sounds

Alive with panting thoughts sunned the dim world. 

The bright creation of an human heart

Wrought magic in the bosom of mankind.

A flooding summer burst in Poetry;

Of which the crowning sun, the night of beauty,

The dancing showers, the birds whose anthems wild

Note after note unbind the enchanted leaves

Of breaking buds, eve, and the flow of dawn,

Were centred and condensed in his own name

As in a providence – and that was Shelley.

– Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1822)