Sunday, November 3, 2019

Preparatory Drawings for 19th-century Pictures

Washington Allston
Three Men Talking
(study for Jason returning to demand his Father's Kingdom)

ca. 1807-1808
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

Louis-Georges Brillouin
Standing Draped Youth
before 1893
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Pietro Fancelli
Study for St John the Baptist Preaching
before 1850
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Paul-Emile Detouche
Figure Study
before 1874
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Jules-Élie Delaunay
Standing Draped Figure
ca. 1850-60
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Eugène Delacroix after Paolo Veronese
Studies after the painting, Allegory of Love - Infidelity
before 1863
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Sonnet

Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!
Faithless am I save to love's self alone.
Were you not lovely I would leave you now:
After the feet of beauty fly my own.
Were you not still my hunger's rarest food,
And water ever to my wildest thirst,
I would desert you – think not but I would! –
And seek another as I sought you first.
But you are mobile as the veering air,
And all your charms more changeful than the tide,
Wherefore to be inconstant is no care:
I have but to continue at your side.
So wanton, light and false, my love, are you,
I am most faithless when I most am true.

– Edna St. Vincent Millay (1922)

Eugène Delacroix after Peter Paul Rubens
 Studies after the painting, The Crucifixion
ca. 1850
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Figure Study
1843
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Anne-Louis Girodet
Comedy and Tragedy
1814
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Edward Burne-Jones
Drapery Studies for The Mirror of Venus
ca. 1873-77
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Burne-Jones
Drapery Study for The Mirror of Venus
ca. 1873-77
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Burne-Jones
Paris with Golden Apple
(study for Troy Triptych)

ca. 1873-77
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Burne-Jones
Figure Study
ca. 1873-77
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Gustav Klimt
Figure Study
1879
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago