 |
| William-Adolphe Bouguereau Death as the Great Equalizer (detail) 1848 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
 |
| William-Adolphe Bouguereau Death as the Great Equalizer 1848 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
 |
| Merry-Joseph Blondel Venus healing Aeneas ca. 1820 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
 |
| Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé Seacoast Scene with Centaurs battling Lions (detail) ca. 1830 oil on canvas Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice |
 |
| Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé Seacoast Scene with Centaurs battling Lions ca. 1830 oil on canvas Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice |
 |
| Auguste Couder Death of General Moreau (detail) 1814 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest |
 |
| Auguste Couder Death of Masaccio ca. 1817 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
 |
| Eugène Delacroix Tiger Hunt 1854 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
 |
| Théodore Géricault Horse attacked by a Lion ca. 1821 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
 |
| Alexandre Cabanel Absalom comforting Tamar and swearing Vengeance on Amnon 1875 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
 |
| Alexandre Cabanel Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta (scene from Dante's Inferno) 1870 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
 |
| Théodore Chassériau Andromeda chained to the Rock by the Nereids 1840 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
 |
| Théodore Chassériau Esther preparing to appear before Ahasuerus 1841 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
 |
| Théodore Chassériau The Tepidarium 1853 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
 |
| Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes Study of Clouds ca. 1817 oil on paper Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago |
Some Clouds
I have arrived in the neutral country
Because it is beautiful and painless
To be here and not look into
The habit of my genuine destiny.
They continue to pass without notice;
The repetition of something after
It has given itself up. Or again
The anxiety to become attentive.
Always I am obtaining more
Without ever rising from my seat
In my actions that forget themselves
More like the pain more like the sun.
– Gerard Malanga (1964)