Monday, June 9, 2025

Side View - III

Carle von Aegeri
Standing Woman
ca. 1530
drawing, with added watercolor
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel

Anonymous Netherlandish Artist
Mourner Weeping
ca. 1500
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Anonymous Photographer
Offering before a Sacred Image, Japan
ca. 1885
hand-colored albumen print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Jacques-Charles Bordier du Bignon
Gros s'élançant dans l'éternité
(painter Antoine-Jean Gros
throwing himself into the Seine)
ca. 1835-40
oil on canvas
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Ferdinand Erfmann
Acrobats
1950
oil on canvas
Dordrechts Museum

Alf Rolfsen
Woodsman
ca. 1935
oil on panel
Stortingets Kunstsamling, Oslo

Henri Rousseau
Eve in Paradise
ca. 1906-1907
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Helene Schjerfbeck
Study of a Girl
ca. 1916
oil on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Anders Zorn
Tornsnåret (Snagged by a Thorn)
1886
watercolor on paper
Zornmuseet, Mora, Sweden

Richard Bergh
After the Sitting
1884
oil on canvas
Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden

Louis-Marin Bonnet after Edme Bouchardon
Académie
1793
engraving
National Museum, Warsaw

Jacques-Louis David
Drapery Study for the figure of Sabina
ca. 1784
drawing
(study for painting, Oath of the Horatii)
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Kristina Elander
Self Portrait in front of Easel
1977
oil on panel
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden

Stig Karlsson
Rafting on the Lilla Lule River
1957
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder
Académie
1781
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Eilif Peterssen
The Artist's Wife
1888
oil on canvas
Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway

The priest stepped forward.  He was by no means an incompetent speaker, an emulator in particular of Aristophanic comedy.  He began to speak in the urbane style of comedy, attacking the sexual integrity of Thersandros.  "To insult the goddess by such an uncontrolled harangue against her clean-living servants is the work of an impure mouth.  Not only here but everywhere he goes, this man's tongue is coated with rank insolence.  As a youth he was on intimate terms with many well-endowed men, spending his youthful beauty all on them.  His looks excluded piety; he acted the role of chastity, pretending a very hot desire to be cultivated.  When he found men who would exercise him to this end, he would kneel at their feet and bend over double to please them.  He left his father's house and rented a little bedroom where he set up shop, specializing in the old Greek lays (Homer, I mean), and was receptive to all who might serve him and give him what he wanted.  He was supposed to be developing his mind, but this was just a cover for a dissolute life.  In the gymnasiums we couldn't help but notice how he oiled his body, that special way he shinnied up the pole, and how in wrestling with the boys he always clung more tightly to the ones who were more manly."

– Achilles Tatius, from Leucippe and Clitophon (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by John J. Winkler (1989)