Affinities

Geoffrey James
Villa Borghese, Rome
1971
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Geoffrey James
Loggia, Villa Medici, Rome
1984
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Marie Laurencin
Mandolin
1935
oil on canvas
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Marie Laurencin
Two Women with Musical Instruments
1935
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Alexander Keirincx (landscape)
and Cornelis van Poelenburgh (figures)
Wooded Landscape
1629
oil on panel
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Alexander Keirincx
Forest Scene with Lake
1620
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Abraham Janssens
The Good and Bad Thieves on Calvary
1611
oil on canvas
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands

Abraham Janssens
St Sebastian
ca. 1609
oil on panel
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder
Portrait of sculptor Antonio Canova
ca. 1805-1806
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder
Portrait of Paweł Grabowski
ca. 1788-89
oil on canvas
National Museum, Warsaw

Isaac Israëls
Donkeys on the Beach
ca. 1894-98
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Isaac Israëls
Young Women on an English Street
ca. 1920
watercolor on paper
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Alexander Young Jackson
Street on Murray Bay
ca. 1929
oil on panel
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Alexander Young Jackson
Laurentian Country, Winter
ca. 1926
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Angelica Kauffmann
Portrait of Ferdinand IV, King of Naples with his Family
ca. 1782-83
oil on canvas (modello)
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Angelica Kauffmann
Woman in Turkish Dress
ca. 1771-74
oil on canvas
Saint Louis Art Museum

from The Embrace

She taught him the gods. Was it teaching? He went on

hating them, but in the long evenings of obsessive talk,

as he listened, they became real. Not that they changed.

– Louise Glück (1985)