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| Alfred George Stevens Head of a Woman ca. 1863 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Head of a Woman ca. 1865 drawing Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti Head of a Young Woman ca. 1870 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Alphonse Legros Head of a Woman 1879 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Frederick Sandys Head of a Woman ca. 1880 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| John Singer Sargent Head of a Young Woman ca. 1880 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Head of a Woman 1889 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Théophile Alexandre Steinlen Head of a Woman ca. 1890 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Jean-Jacques Henner Head of a Woman 1901 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Joan González Face of a Woman ca. 1902 drawing Tate Gallery |
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| Joseph Southall Head of a Woman 1904 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Augustus John Head of a Woman ca. 1905 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Pablo Picasso Head of a Woman (Fernande Olivier) 1906-1907 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Head of a Woman ca. 1910 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Henry Lamb Portrait of Violet Holloway ca. 1910 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| James Havard Thomas Head of Alma Wertheimer ca. 1910 drawing Tate Gallery |
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| Edmund Joseph Sullivan The Sibyl ca. 1914 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| James Cowie Head of a Woman ca. 1930 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
For Eurydice: A Song of Ascent
The songs I sang in Hell
Recalled for each his fate,
Not metaphysical freight
But the mechanical –
Beginning, middle and end
Of each eternal chore –
Till every shade deplore
Recalled for each his fate,
Not metaphysical freight
But the mechanical –
Beginning, middle and end
Of each eternal chore –
Till every shade deplore
Having to recontend.
So fierce those cries for change
That Hades ordered us
To leave his realm, and thus
We now approach the strange
That Hades ordered us
To leave his realm, and thus
We now approach the strange
World of the living, where
All seek stability
Through blind activity,
And comfort through despair.
All seek stability
Through blind activity,
And comfort through despair.
– David Galler (1974)