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| Pierre-Louis Pierson Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione 1895 albumen silver print from glass negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Cedric Morris Portrait of Gladys Hynes 1936 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| Willem Witsen Portrait of Lise Jordan ca. 1890-95 gelatin silver print Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Odilon Redon Profil de Lumière 1886 lithograph British Museum |
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| Antonio Corradini Dama Velata (Allegory of Purity) 1722 marble Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
from The Marble Veil
as one passing through Ca' Rezzonico
Museo del Settecento – the city in decline
already, the great dream
turning lucid, eyelids trembling, the lagoon
picking up natural light – may pause
before Dama Velata:
Antonio Corradini's
marble bust of Purity
depicted
according to convention
as a young woman
but (this is new) with her face covered,
the veil a device
to show the artist's skill
at rendering fluency in stone –
urge to touch & try its
I want to say ductility;
ductile: might have meant easily led
but doesn't – so it appears to stream
down her forehead & nose,
sweeping to gather
at her right shoulder, hang more loose
upon her left, edges embroidered
with a homely button pattern drawn
across her breast
al cielo e al tempo . . .
A marble veil. Corradini's specialty.
– Paul Batchelor (2019)
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| Louis Anquetin Woman on the Champs Élysées by Night ca. 1889-93 oil on canvas Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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| Honoré Daumier "O mon Victor idolatré, il me vient une idée poétique!" 1844 lithograph (cartoon printed in Le Charivari) Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| August Allebé Medea ca. 1860 lithograph Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anders Zorn In Mourning 1880 watercolor on paper Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Lisette Model Woman with Veil, San Francisco 1949 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar Woman with Veil (from fashion-plate series Ornatus) 1639 etching British Museum |
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| Wyndham Lewis Miss Close 1939 oil on canvas Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales |
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| Auguste Renoir Young Woman with Veil ca. 1870 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Day & Co. Madame Lafarge (on trial for poisoning her husband) 1841 lithograph British Museum |
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| Oscar Gustav Rejlander Study for The Two Ways of Life ca. 1857 gelatin silver print from glass negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |