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| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Italian Woman ca. 1870 oil on canvas National Gallery, London (this work recently acquired from the estate of painter Lucian Freud) |
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| Carolus-Duran Portrait of M. Berton 1870 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jean-François Millet Goose Girl at Gruchy ca. 1854-56 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff (Wales) |
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| Ernest Meissonier A Musketeer in the Time of Louis XIII 1856 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Eugène Isabey The Preacher 1863 oil on panel Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Night Heron Maybe
I woke to more rain, and felt in the dark
for how wet the sill was, then rolled back
to my radio, and a midnight preacher
in my earphone teaching about sin.
I learned that punishment would come
like lightning that surprises an innocent shore.
Thunder would follow me all my days,
stern reminder and sharp rebuke.
That long, sleek, and pointed call
that rose, as if in response, out of the estuary
of night and storm, said it knew well
what the given world gave, and wanted more.
– Fred Marchant (2009)
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| Rosa Bonheur A Wagon and a Team of Horses 1852 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Gustave Moreau St George and the Dragon ca. 1889-90 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour Still Life - Pink, White and Yellow Roses 1894 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour L'amour vainqueur ca. 1871-74 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña Forest at Fontainebleau 1870 oil on canvas Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| Alphonse Legros St Jerome 1881 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Carolus-Duran The Flower Girl 1880 oil on canvas McManus Gallery, Dundee, Scotland |
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| Anonymous French Artist Apple Blossom early 19th century oil on panel National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey |
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| Sarah Bernhardt Self Portrait 1896 oil on panel Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Léon-Albert Hayon Young Woman at her Window 1874 oil on canvas Glasgow Museums, Scotland |