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| Jacques-Louis David Empress Josephine kneeling at her Coronation (study for painting) 1806 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Andrea Appiani Figure of Temperance (study for fresco) 1808 drawing British Museum |
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| Simon Andreas Krausz Study of Draped Arm before 1825 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Study for the figure of Stratonice ca. 1834-40 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville Seated Man Reading before 1849 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
To Any Reader
As from the house your mother sees
You playing round the garden trees,
So you may see, if you will look
Through the windows of this book,
Another child, far, far away,
And in another garden, play.
But do not think you can at all,
By knocking on the window, call
That child to hear you. He intent
Is all on his play-business bent.
He does not hear; he will not look,
Nor yet be lured out of this book.
For, long ago, the truth to say,
He has grown up and gone away,
And it is but a child of air
That lingers in the garden there.
– Robert Louis Stevenson (1885)
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| Pietro Fancelli Drapery Study of Reclining Woman before 1850 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry Roman Soldier (study for mural) 1851-52 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Edgar Degas Studies of Draped Figure 1857-58 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Winter - Study of Flying Drapery 1866-67 drawing Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (West Midlands) |
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| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Woman writing at a Table before 1875 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Théodore Valério Studies of Draped Woman before 1879 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Henri Lehmann Draped Lamenting Figure before 1882 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Louis-Georges Brillouin Drapery Study before 1893 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Man reclining on steps reading (study for Boston Public Library mural) ca. 1895 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |