Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Side View - V

Bacchiacca (Francesco Ubertini)
Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1525
oil on panel
Dallas Museum of Art

Cecil Beaton
Portrait of Nancy Beaton
ca. 1925
gelatin silver print
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Jan Boeckhorst
Ceres
ca. 1635
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches, Museum Vienna

Louis-Léopold Boilly
Figures
1807
drawing
(study for painting)
Morgan Library, New York

Arvid Fougstedt
Erik painting with watercolors
1933
gouache on paper
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Hans Lindenstaedt
Hagedorn Cigarren
1909
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Lotte Konow Lund
Fear and Freedom
2005
C-print
KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo

Charlotte Mannheimer
Boy at a Window
1892
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis
Portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza
ca. 1493
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Lady at the Piano, Wolverhampton
1860
albumen print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Laurits Andersen Ring
The artist's son Ole with view of Roskilde
1925
oil on canvas
Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen

Gjert Rognli
The Spiritual Kiss
2004
digital print
KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo

Harald Sallberg
Sorrow
ca. 1932
etching
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Joakim Skovgaard
Swedish Peasant Girl
1882
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Portrait Study of a Woman
1890
pastel and gouache on paper
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Hugo Zuhr
Portrait of sculptor Astrid Noack
1930
oil on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

They did everything together, grazing their flocks near each other.  Often Daphnis rounded up those of her sheep that wandered off, and often Chloe drove the more adventurous of his goats down from the crags.  Sometimes one of them looked after both the flocks, while the other was absorbed in some toy.  Their toys were of a pastoral and childish type.  She picked stalks of asphodel from here and there and wove a trap for grasshoppers, and while she was working on this, she paid no attention to her sheep.  He cut slender reeds, pierced them at their joints, fastened them together with soft wax, and practiced piping until nightfall.  They also shared their drink of milk or wine, and they divided whatever food they brought from home.  You would have been more likely to see the sheep and the goats separated from each other than Chloe and Daphnis. 

– Longus, from Daphnis and Chloe (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by Christopher Gill (1989)