Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Drawings by Unknowns

Anonymous Artist
Académie
18th century
drawing
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Anonymous Artist
Ecce Homo
19th century
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous Artist
Head of Youth
17th century
drawing
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Anonymous Artist
Abraham and the Three Angels
ca. 1600
drawing
(design for stained-glass window)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Anonymous Artist
Capriccio of Egyptian Architecture
ca. 1750-1800
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Anonymous Artist
Head Studies
18th century
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Anonymous Artist
Man climbing Tree
17th century
drawing
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Anonymous Artist
Study for Triton
18th century
drawing
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Anonymous Artist
Birthplace of poet Theodor Körner in Dresden
1891
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Anonymous Artist
Drapery Study
17th century
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Anonymous Artist
Landscape with Small Bridge
17th century
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Anonymous Artist
Portrait Study of Man
ca. 1520-40
drawing (colored chalks)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Anonymous Artist
Portrait Study of Young Man
ca. 1830
drawing, with added watercolor
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous Artist
Beggars appealing to Passersby
ca. 1600-1650
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous Artist
Study of Tree Trunk and Foliage
ca. 1620
drawing
British Museum

Anonymous Artist
Warrior with Open Helmet
ca. 1550-70
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

from A Parable

On the palace roof, King David stares across
the shining city of Jerusalem
into the face of Bathsheba and perceives
his own amplified desire. At heart, he feels nothing.
She is like a flower in a tub of water. Above his head,
the clouds move. And it comes to him he has attained
all he is capable of dreaming.

– Louise Glück (1985)