Rendering Textiles - I

Johann Adalbert Angermayer
Still Life with Jewelry Chest
1708
oil on copper
Národní Galerie, Prague

Philipp Otto Runge
The Effect of the Comic Mask and the Tragic Mask
ca. 1800
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Roman Empire
Draped Female Figure
AD 180-190 (body)
AD 270-275 (head)
composite marble statue
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Philippe de Champaigne
Portrait of Jean de Thévenot à la Turque
ca. 1660
oil on canvas
Huntington Library and Art Museum,
San Marino, California

Carl Friedrich Lessing
Study of Draped Figure
1836
drawing
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Giovanni della Robbia
St Anthony
ca. 1510
glazed terracotta
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Pablo Picasso
Buveuse Assoupie
1902
oil on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Albrecht Dürer
Drapery Study
1521
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Claus de Werve
Mourner from Tomb of Philip the Bold,
Duke of Burgundy
ca. 1404-1410
alabaster
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Peter Danckerts de Rij
Portrait of a Young Man as a Hunter
1635
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Baldassare Franceschini (il Volterrano)
Standing Draped Figure
ca. 1650
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous Italian Artist
Ecce Homo
ca. 1650-1700
gilt bronze
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Mary Beale after Peter Lely
Miniature Portrait of Elizabeth Percy,
Countess of Ogle and Duchess of Somerset
ca. 1676
watercolor and gouache on vellum
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Abraham Bloemaert
Drapery Study for St Gregory the Great
ca. 1595
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Agathon Léonard
La Cothurne
1895
ivory, set into silvered and gilt copper alloy
Art Institute of Chicago

On Those that hated 'The Playboy of the Western World,' 1907

Once, when midnight smote the air,
Eunuchs ran through Hell and met 
On every crowded street to stare
Upon great Juan riding by
Even like these to rail and sweat
Staring upon his sinewy thigh.

– W.B. Yeats (1914)

Sorolla - Rubens - Picasso - Riessen

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Kissing the Relic
1893
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Clotilde García del Castillo
contemplating the Venus de Milo
ca. 1897-98
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Eighteenth-century Figures cavorting near a Fountain
ca. 1900
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Académie
1884
oil on canvas
(painted in Rome)
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Peter Paul Rubens after Michelangelo
Leda and the Swan
1601
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Peter Paul Rubens
Bath of Diana
ca. 1635-40
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Peter Paul Rubens
The Entombment
ca. 1600-1608
drawing
(study for lost painting)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Peter Paul Rubens
St Teresa of Avila - the Vision of the Dove
ca. 1612-14
oil on panel
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Pablo Picasso
Picasso, his Work, and his Audience
1968
etching
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Pablo Picasso
Still Life with Glass under Lamp
1962
linocut
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Pablo Picasso
Portrait of Jacqueline
1962
linocut
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Pablo Picasso
Head of Faun
1962
linocut
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Wouter van Riessen
Self Portrait
1997
Lambda-print on aluminum
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Wouter van Riessen
Self Portrait
1998
Lambda-print on aluminum
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Wouter van Riessen
Self Portrait
2000
Lambda-print on aluminum
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Wouter van Riessen
Self Portrait
1998
Lambda-print on aluminum
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Brooding Likeness 

I was born in the month of the bull,
the month of heaviness,
or of the lowered, the destructive head,
or of purposeful blindness. So I know, beyond the shadowed
patch of grass, the stubborn one, the one who doesn't look up,
still senses the rejected world. It is
a stadium, a well of dust. And you who watch him
looking down in the face of death, what do you know
of commitment? If the bull lives
one controlled act of revenge, be satisfied
that in the sky, like you, he is always moving,
not of his own accord but through the black field
like grit caught on a wheel, like shining freight.

– Louise Glück (1985)

Designs for the Printmaker

Antoine-Denis Chaudet
The Transformation
(scene from The Golden Ass of Apuleius)
ca. 1795
drawing (print study)
Morgan Library, New York

Stefano della Bella
Head of a Young Woman
ca. 1645
drawing (print study)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)
Design for Frontispiece
1660
drawing (print study)
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Luigi Sabatelli
Half-Length Figure Study
ca. 1800-1810
drawing (print study)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Luigi Ademollo
Joseph interpreting Dreams in Prison
ca. 1820-30
drawing (print study)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Luigi Ademollo
Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery
ca. 1790-1800
drawing (print study)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Henri Goussé
Woman with a Muff
ca. 1900
gouache on cardboard (print study)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Maarten van Heemskerck
Clothing the Naked
(from the Seven Acts of Mercy) 
1552
drawing (print study)
Morgan Library, New York

Maarten van Heemskerck
Pope Clement VII besieged in Castel Sant'Angelo during the 1527 Sack of Rome
1554
drawing (print study)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Maarten van Heemskerck
The Devil fills the Human Heart
with Lust for Power, Riches and Pleasure
ca. 1548-50
drawing (print study)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Giovanni Paolo Melchiori
Blessed Pope Celestine in Meditation
ca. 1729
drawing (print study)
Morgan Library, New York

Albert Meyering
Italianate Landscape with Fountain
ca. 1695
drawing (print study)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Richard Cosway
The Genius of Painting
(Minerva with Putti)
1802
drawing
(print study for memorial to Robert Udney)
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Pietro Antonio Novelli
Alexander the Great in the Studio of Apelles
ca. 1775
drawing (print study)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Félicien Rops
Priestly Love
ca. 1880
drawing (print study)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Carlo Raimondi after Correggio
St Philip and St Thaddeus
(figures from the cupola of Parma Cathedral)
1841
watercolor (print study)
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Paudeen

Indignant at the fumbling wit, the obscure spite
Of our old Paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind

Among the stones and thorn-trees, under morning light;

Until a curlew cried and in the luminous wind
A curlew answered; and suddenly thereupon I thought
That on the lonely height where all are in God's eye,
There cannot be, confusion of our sound forgot,

A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry.

– W.B. Yeats (1914)

Forties (Vernacular)

Jack Delano
Second-Hand Plumbing Store, Brockton, Mass.
1940
dye transfer print
San Diego Museum of Art

Jack Delano
Barker at Vermont State Fair, Rutland
1941
dye transfer print
San Diego Museum of Art

Dorrit Black
The Wool Quilt Makers
1940-41
color linocut
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Emmy Lou Packard
Frida's Dresser in Coyoacán
My Face reflected on Mirror
1941
platinum print
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

Olive Cotton
City Rooftops
1942
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

John Perceval
Shearer shearing
1942
drawing
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Henry Koerner
Save Waste Fats for Explosives
1943
lithograph (poster)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Fred Leist
1943
painted in 1943
oil on board
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Harry Mayerovitch
I was a victim of Careless Talk
1943
offset print (poster)
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Harry Mayerovitch
1944 - Year of Decision
1944
offset print (poster)
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

James Bingham
Next! - Japan - 6th War Loan
1944
lithograph (poster)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Keith Vaughan
A Worker
1945
drawing
Beaverbrook Art Gallery,
Fredericton, New Brunswick

Ruth Bernhard
Eighth Street Movie Theater, New York
Frederick Kiesler, Architect
1946
gelatin silver print
San Jose Museum of Art, California

Wolfgang Sievers
French Fashion Models
at Geiger's Shop, Collins Street, Melbourne
1946
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Noel Rooke
Flowers of Marsh and Stream
by Iolo Williams
1946
offset print and letterpress
(Penguin book cover)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Peter Blake
Conversation
1948
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Swans 

You were both quiet, looking out over the water.
It was not now; it was years ago,
before you were married.
The sky above the sea had turned
the odd pale peach color of early evening
from which the sea withdrew, bearing
its carved boats: your bodies were like that.
But her face was raised to you,
against the dull waves, simplified
by passion. Then you raised your hand
and from beyond the frame of the dream
swans came to settle on the scaled water.
The sea lay mild as a pool. At its edge,
you faced her, saying
These are yours to keep. The horizon burned,
releasing its withheld light.
And then I woke. But for days
when I tried to imagine you leaving your wife
I saw her motionless before your gift:
always the swans glide unmenacing across
the rigid blue of the Pacific Ocean, then rise
in a single wave, pure white and devouring.

– Louise Glück (1980)