Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Figure Studies (Drawings and Prints)

Giovanni da Udine
Satyr and Two Nymphs
before 1564
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Jacob Matham after Cornelis van Haarlem
Apollo as Helios
ca. 1589-93
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

attributed to Peter Paul Rubens
Hermaphrodite
before 1640
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Crisóstomo Martínez
Plate for unpublished Anatomical Atlas
ca. 1680-94
etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Carlo Carlone
Académie
ca. 1725-75
etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Felice Giani
Figure Studies with Proportional Diagrams
ca. 1800-1820
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Sing Me a Song of a Lad that is Gone

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone,
Say, could that lad be I?
Merry of soul he sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye.

Mull was astern, Rum on the port,
Eigg on the starboard bow;
Glory of youth glowed in his soul;
Where is that glory now?

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone,
Say, could that lad be I?
Merry of soul he sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye.

Give me again all that was there,
Give me the sun that shone!
Give me the eyes, give me the soul,
Give me the lad that's gone!

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone,
Say, could that lad be I?
Merry of soul he sailed on a day
Over the sea to Skye.

Billow and breeze, islands and seas,
Mountains of rain and sun,
All that was good, all that was fair,
All that was me is gone.

– Robert Louis Stevenson (1896)

John James Masquerier
Académie
ca. 1800-1810
drawing
Wellcome Collection, London

John James Masquerier
Académie
ca. 1800-1810
drawing
Wellcome Collection, London

John James Masquerier
Académie
ca. 1800-1810
drawing
Wellcome Collection, London

George Danson
Académie
ca. 1820
drawing
Wellcome Collection, London

George Danson
Académie
ca. 1820
drawing
Wellcome Collection, London

Anonymous British Artist
Académie
ca. 1890
drawing
Wellcome Collection, London

Anonymous British Artist
Académie
ca. 1890
drawing
Wellcome Collection, London

Adolphe Valette
Académie
1911
drawing
Manchester Art Gallery

Duncan Grant
Reclining Figure (Study of Paul Roche)
ca. 1950-60
drawing
St Peter's College, Oxford