François Lemoyne Figure Studies for Hercules and Cacus (figures of Hercules and Cacus) 1717 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Study for Hercules and Cacus (figure of Hercules) 1717 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Study for Tancred surrendering Arms to Clorinda (supplementary figure) ca. 1722 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Study for Tancred surrendering Arms to Clorinda (supplementary figure) ca. 1722 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Study for Apollo and Daphne (figure of Apollo) ca. 1725 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Study for The Continence of Scipio (supplementary figure) ca. 1727 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Study for The Continence of Scipio (supplementary figure) ca. 1727 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Study for Vow of St Louis (figure of St Louis) ca. 1727 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Studies for Ulysses bending his Bow (figures of Penelope's Suitors) ca. 1729 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Study for The Assumption (figure of Angel) ca. 1731 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Study for The Assumption (figure of St Sulpice) ca. 1731 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Study for The Apotheosis of Hercules (figure of Apollo) ca. 1733-36 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Study for The Apotheosis of Hercules (figure of Neptune) ca. 1733-36 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Study for Healing of the Blind Man (figure of Blind Man) ca. 1735 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
François Lemoyne Figure Study for Healing of the Blind Man (figure of Christ) ca. 1735 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
Blind Joy
Crude seeing's all our joy: could we discern
The cold dark infinite vast where atoms burn
– Lone suns – in flesh, our treasure and our play,
Who'd dare to breathe this fern-thick bird-rich day?
– John Frederick Nims (1968)