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| Jacques Blanchard Charity (fragment with Two Infants) 1637 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Mathieu Le Nain A Quarrel ca. 1640 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| Charles Le Brun Hercules Vanquishing Diomedes ca. 1638-42 oil on canvas Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery |
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| François Perrier Beheading of St John the Baptist ca. 1640 oil on canvas National Trust, Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire |
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| Lubin Baugin Holy Family with young St John the Baptist, St Elizabeth and Angels ca. 1642 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Jacques Linard Still Life - Plums, Melons, Peaches 1642 oil on panel Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
from Sheltered Garden
For this beauty,
beauty without strength,
chokes out life.
I want wind to break,
scatter these pink-stalks,
snap off their spiced heads,
fling them about with dead leaves –
spread the paths with twigs,
limbs broken off,
trail great pine branches,
hurled from some far wood
right across the melon-patch,
break pear and quince –
leave half-trees, torn, twisted
but showing the fight was valiant.
O to blot out this garden
to forget, to find a new beauty
in some terrible
wind-tortured place.
– H.D. (1916)
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| Philippe de Champaigne The Annunciation ca. 1648 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Philippe de Champaigne Marriage of the Virgin ca. 1644 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Georges de La Tour The Choirboy ca. 1645 oil on canvas New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester |
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| Jean Nocret and workshop Portrait of Henriette Anne, Duchess of Orléans (daughter of Charles I of England) ca. 1660-70 oil on canvas National Trust, Plas Newydd, Wales |
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| Gérard de Lairesse Anointing of Solomon ca. 1665 oil on canvas Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire |
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| attributed to Pierre Mignard Portrait of Louise de la Vallière (mistress of Louis XIV) ca. 1665 oil on canvas National Trust, Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
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| Henri Gascars Portrait of James, Duke of York, as the god Mars (later King James II) 1672-73 oil on canvas National Maritime Museum, London |
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| François de Troy Portrait of Lady Mary Herbert, Viscountess Montagu, as the goddess Diana ca. 1688 oil on canvas National Trust, Coughton Court, Warwickshire |
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| Charles de La Fosse St Paul commanding St Luke to accompany him to Rome ca. 1692 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |