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| Gustave Caillebotte Young Man at his Window 1876 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jacob Vrel Woman looking out a Window 1654 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Georg Eisler In the Studio 1980 oil on canvas Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Pierre Bonnard The Full-Length Mirror 1910 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Helen Levitt New York 1982 gelatin silver print Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Berthe Morisot Young Woman watering a Shrub 1876 oil on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond |
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| Floris Arntzenius Beach View at Scheveningen ca. 1900 oil on canvas Museum Gouda |
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| Paul Delvaux Landscape with Street Lamps 1958 oil on board Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Karel Dujardin Standing Model ca. 1660 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Albert Marquet Standing Model ca. 1904-1907 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Henry Fuseli Woman with a Fan 1791 drawing Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
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| Sigismondo Caula Kneeling Youth ca. 1670 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo Prophet ca. 1565-70 drawing (study for dome fresco) Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Jean-Blaise Villemsens Study for Saved from the Flood 1827 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Johann Peter Pichler Académie 1780 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Auguste Rodin Centaur abducting a Young Man ca. 1878-81 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
from The Wanderings of Oisin
And my gaze was thronged with the sleepers; no, not since the world began,
In realms where the handsome were many, not in glamours by demons flung,
Have faces alive with such beauty been known to the salt eye of man,
Have faces alive with such beauty been known to the salt eye of man,
Yet weary with passions that faded when the sevenfold seas were young.
* * *
Ah me! to be shaken with coughing and broken with old age and pain,
Without laughter, a show unto children, alone with remembrance and fear;
All emptied of purple hours as a beggar's cloak in the rain,
As a hay-cock out on the flood, or a wolf sucked under a weir.
As a hay-cock out on the flood, or a wolf sucked under a weir.
– W.B. Yeats (1889)