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| Denton Welch Harvest ca. 1940 oil on panel Tate Britain |
DAYS OF MY YOUTH
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.
– W.B. Yeats (1910)
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| Pompeo Batoni Time directing Old Age to destroy Beauty ca. 1746 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Leonardo da Vinci Seated old man and studies of moving water ca. 1510 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Parmigianino Seated youth and two old men ca. 1524-40 etching British Museum |
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| Camillo Procaccini Old man and youth ca. 1585 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Ubaldo Gandolfi Old men and child before 1781 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Anonymous Florentine printmaker after Sofonisba Anguissola Young woman laughing at old woman studying the alphabet ca. 1580 engraving Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Rembrandt Old man shading his eyes ca. 1639 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Guercino Youths singing watched by old man ca. 1625-35 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Head of an old man before 1770 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Balthasar Denner Portrait of an old woman ca. 1720-40 oil on copper Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Salvator Rosa Three young men supplicating an old man ca. 1640-60 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Hans Memling Old woman at prayer, with St Anne 1470 tempera on panel Morgan Library, New York |
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| Le Nain Brothers Peasant interior with an old flute player ca. 1642 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |