Sunday, September 4, 2022

Unassigned Italian Figure Drawings at the Louvre - IX

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre


Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
(highlights have oxidized)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

from Tiny Figures in Snow

Locked in her room
With yellow flowers on the wallpaper
That wove and welled around her like the snow
Until she almost disappeared in them,
Rapuntzel in her cone let down the string the whole world 
     could have climbed to save her.
"Oh, don't save me right away," Rapuntzel said, "just visit me."
But only dead ones listened to her.
Only the dead could ever visit us this way; locked in a word,
Locked in a world that we can only exorcise, but not convey. 

– John Koethe (1972)