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| Philip Reinagle Cupid inspiring the plants with love before 1805 oil on canvas (for engraved book illustration) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Jean-Victor Bertin Landscape with sheep and a woman sewing ca. 1805 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
Landscape
1
A Personage is seen
Leaning upon a cushion
Printed with cornflowers.
A Child appears
Holding up a pencil.
"This is a picture
(Says the Child to the Personage)
Of the vortex."
"Draw it your own way,"
Says the Personage.
(Music is heard
Pure in the island windows.
Sea-music on the Child's
Interminable shore, his coral home.)
Behind a blue mountain
Covered with chickenfoot trees,
The molten sun appears,
A heavy, painted flower.
A Personage is seen
A Personage is seen
Leaning upon the mountain
With the sun in one hand
And a pencil in the other.
"This is a picture
(Says the Personage to the Child)
Of the beginning of the world."
"Or of its end!" cries the child
Hiding himself in the cushions.
2
A Woman appears
Leaning upon the Child's shoulder.
He looks up again.
"This is my Mother
(Says the Child to the Personage)
Older than the moon."
(Grecian horses are heard
Returning from the foam
Of the pure island's windows,
And the Child's horizons.)
"My Mother is a world
(Says the Child to the Personage)
Printed with gillyflowers."
"Paint her your own way"
(Says the Personage to the Child).
And, lifting up his pencil,
He crosses out the sun.
– Thomas Merton (1957)
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| Jacques-Laurent Agasse The Mail Guard ca. 1818 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| William Etty Two male nude studies ca. 1818-20 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Louis-Auguste Gérard Landscape with a bridge ca. 1820 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| James Stephanoff Coronation of George IV ca. 1821 watercolor British Museum |
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| Vicente López y Portaña Portrait of Maria Isabel du Bourbón, Queen of the Two Sicilies 1829-30 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| William James Müller Landscape with cottage before 1845 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Clarkson Stanfield Coast scene near Genoa 1846 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Antoine Chintreuil Landscape with an ash tree ca. 1850-57 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Frederic Leighton Miss Laing 1853 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Franz Xaver Winterhalter Portrait of Sophia Frederika Mathilda, Princess of Württemberg ca. 1863-73 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Cornelis Springer Zuiderhavendijk, Enkhuizen 1868 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Richard Roland Holst Corner of a garden with nasturtiums 1891 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |