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| Anonymous French Artist Head of a Youth 17th century drawing, with colored chalks Musée du Louvre |
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| Giacomo Cavedone Head of a Woman ca. 1640 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| attributed to Francesco Curradi Head of a Woman ca. 1610 drawing, with colored chalks Musée du Louvre |
Infanta Marina
Her terrace was the sand
And the palms and the twilight.
She made of the motions of her wrist
The grandiose gestures
Of her thought.
The rumpling of the plumes
Of this creature of the evening
Came to be sleights of sails
Over the sea.
And thus she roamed
In the roamings of her fan,
Partaking of the sea,
And of the evening,
As they flowed around
And uttered their subsiding sound.
– Wallace Stevens (1921)
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Head of a Woman ca. 1620-25 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Head of a Woman ca. 1620-25 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Salvator Rosa Head of a Man before 1673 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Jan de Bray Portrait of a Youth 1659 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Carlo Dolci after Michelangelo Portrait of a Youth before 1686 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Jacob Jordaens Portrait of an Old Man ca. 1637 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Jacob Jordaens Portrait of an Old Woman ca. 1637 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Nicolas Lagneau Portrait of a Woman ca. 1600-1610 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Nicolas Lagneau Portrait of a Man ca. 1600-1610 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Claude Mellan Portrait of painter Simon Vouet ca. 1626 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Jürgen Ovens Portrait Study of a Woman before 1678 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Rembrandt Portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo ca. 1640-41 drawing (modello for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Philippe de Champaigne Portrait Study of Louis XIV (age six) 1644 drawing Musée du Louvre |
Infant and Gravity
Gravity, that conquered surely
The falling apple and the loosened plum
Looks now confounded on
This moving dust,
This lifted pall.
"It will fall, it will clatter downward,
"It will fall, it will clatter downward,
As a plumb-line at my call."
Ah no, dear Gravity,
Flesh conquers all.
Flesh that conquered Gravity
When flesh was young
Shall know conclusively
A stronger hand
Out of the dust uplifting.
In that hour
Dear Gravity, you shall be
Avenged of ancient slight
Most utterly.
– Kathryn Worth (1935)