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| Eugène Delacroix Wild Horse 1828 lithograph Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Honoré Daumier Lower the curtain, the farce is ended 1834 lithograph Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Gustave Courbet Young ladies of the village 1867 etching Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Édouard Manet Civil War 1871 lithograph Cantor Center, Stanford University |
PAN'S MUSIC
Dwell, awful silence, on the shady hills
Among the bleating flocks, and purling rills,
When Pan the reed doth to his lips apply,
Inspiring it with sacred harmony.
Hydriads, and Hamadryads at that sound
In a well order'd measure beat the ground.
– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Thomas Stanley (1625-1678)
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| Edgar Degas Dancers in the wings ca. 1877 etching, aquatint, drypoint National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Samuel Palmer The Bellman 1879 etching Yale Center for British Art |
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| Mary Cassatt In the Omnibus 1890-91 drypoint, aquatint National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Englishman at the Moulin-Rouge 1892 lithograph Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Félix Vallotton La Paresse (Indolence) 1896 woodcut Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
LIFE IS FLEETING
Ah Posthumus! our years hence fly,
And leave no sound; nor piety,
Or prayers, or vow
Can keep the wrinkle from the brow:
But we must on,
As Fate does lead or draw us; none,
None, Posthumus, could ere decline
The doom of cruel Prosperine.
* * *
We've seen the past-best times, and these
Will ne'er return; we see the seas
And moon to wane,
But they fill up their ebbs again;
But vanished man,
Like to a lily lost, ne'er can,
Ne'er can repullulate, or bring
His days to see a second spring.
– from an Ode of Horace, translated by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
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| Paul Cézanne Bathers ca. 1896-98 lithograph Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Édouard Vuillard La Patisserie 1899 lithograph National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour The Embroiderers before 1904 lithograph Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Brücke Exhibition Poster 1910 color woodcut Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden |
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| Anonymous Russian designer Brigada Khudozhnikov nº 2 1932 color-printed book-cover Institut Valencià d'Art Modern |