Saturday, January 16, 2021

European and British Study-Drawings - Nineteenth Century

Gustav Friedrich Hetsch
Loggia of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, Rome
ca. 1820
wash drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Gustav Friedrich Hetsch
Loggia in Rome
ca. 1820
wash drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Felice Giani after Dosso Dossi
St George
ca. 1821-22
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Felice Giani after Sebastiano del Piombo
The Flagellation
ca. 1810-15
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Fortunato Duranti
Falsehood is the Cause of All Evil
ca. 1835-45
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Fortunato Duranti
Allegory of Truth and Falsehood
ca. 1835-45
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Fortunato Duranti
Kneeling Angel with Two Putti
ca. 1820-25
drawing
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Till Death – is narrow Loving –
The scantest Heart extant
Will hold you till your privilege
Of Finiteness – be spent –

But He whose loss procures you
Such Destitution that
Your Life too abject for itself
Thenceforward imitate –

Until – Resemblance perfect –
Yourself, for His pursuit
Delight of Nature – abdicate –
Exhibit Love – somewhat –

– Emily Dickinson (1864)

David Wilkie
Guess Who?
1821
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Elizabeth Siddall reading
ca. 1856
drawing
Tate Britain

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Fanny Cornforth
1859
drawing
Tate Britain

François Bonvin
Boy with a Book
ca. 1861
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Odilon Redon
False Glory
ca. 1880-90
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Burne-Jones
Study for The Beggar Maid
ca. 1883-84
drawing
Tate Britain

Fernand Khnopff
The Departure
1893
drawing
Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels

Auguste Rodin
Figure Study
ca. 1898
drawing, with watercolor
private collection