Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Baroque Figure Drawings of Unknown Authorship

Anonymous artist
Flying angel
ca. 1600-1700
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Anonymous artist
Flying putto carrying a wreath
ca. 1600-1700
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Anonymous artist
Flying figure and two putti with garlands
ca. 1600-1700
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

from Mind Flying Afar

What a moment of strange dreaming!  Quickly
All my vision girdled earth, and showed me
Temples in far India, tombs in Persia,
Down the Appian Way; and over Florence,
Home of Dante, wandering-place of Browning.
And how strange, how prying was this vision! –
For the coffin of old Landor opened;
Showed me what was left of that imperious
Proud and lonely singer of stern beauty.
There he lay, gone down to bits of nothing –
Just a few stray hairs, a piece of shoulder;
Nothing else of him who wrote these verses:
"Proud word you never spoke, but in some future
Day you shall not keep from speaking these words –
Over my open volume you will linger;
You will say in reading: 'This man loved me.' "

– Edgar Lee Masters (1924)

Anonymous artist
Two figures in a landscape
ca. 1600-1700
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Anonymous artist
Youth holding a dove
ca. 1600-1700
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Anonymous artist
Draped figure from the back
ca. 1600-1700
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Anonymous artist
Figures from Michelangelo's Last Judgement
ca. 1550-1600
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Anonymous artist
Figures composing a sculptural support structure
ca. 1600-1700
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous artist
Académie
ca. 1600-1620
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Anonymous artist
Académie
ca. 1600-1700
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Anonymous artist
Académie
ca. 1700-1800
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Anonymous artist
Académie
ca. 1600-1700
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous artist
Angel
ca. 1600-1700
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous artist
Studies of heads and hands
ca. 1600-1700
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous artist
Head of a nun (profile perdu)
ca. 1600-1700
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland