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| Frans van Mieris Pictura (Allegory of Painting) 1659-60 oil on copper Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| circle of Frans Hals Portrait of a man with a lute 1630s oil on silvered copper Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Balthasar Denner Portrait of an old woman ca. 1720-40 oil on copper Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Sketch in October
The tugboat is freckled with rust. What is it doing so far inland?
It's a heavy burnt-out lamp, tipped over in the cold.
But the trees still carry colors – wild signals to the other shore as if
someone wanted to be fetched home.
On the way back, I see mushrooms pushing up through the grass.
Stretching for help, these white fingers
belong to someone who sobs down there in the darkness.
We belong to the earth.
– by Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015), translated from Swedish by Robin Robertson
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| Jan Verkolje Portrait of Johanna Anthonetta Blonk 1693 oil on copper private collection |
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| Jan Verkolje Portrait of Abraham van Bleyswijck-Guilliaamszn. 1693 oil on copper private collection |
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| Anonymous Dutch painter St Catherine 18th century oil on copper Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Cornelis de Baellieur Madonna and Child Enthroned before 1671 oil on copper private collection |
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| Adam Elsheimer Jacob's Dream before 1610 oil on copper Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt |
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| Antoine Le Nain The young musicians ca. 1640 oil on copper Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Sébastien Bourdon The Smoker ca. 1637-40 oil on copper Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Nicolas Lancret Nicaise : a fable of La Fontaine 1738 oil on copper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Nicolas Lancret Two Friends : a fable of La Fontaine 1738 oil on copper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Jean-Baptiste Lallemand View of the Roman Forum 1750s oil on copper Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Willem van Nieulandt the Younger View of the Roman Forum before 1635 oil on copper private collection |