Thursday, June 12, 2025

Side View - VI

Carl Fredrik Sundt-Hansen
Man with Pipe
1900
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Ralph Aulie Styker
Portrait of a Man
1956
oil on canvas
Valdres Folkmuseum, Fagernes, Norway

Rembrandt
Study of a Woman in a White Cap
(Head of Servant Woman)

ca. 1640
oil on panel
Leiden Collection, New York

Pablo Picasso
Bust of a Man
1905
etching
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Henri Martin
Young Woman
1904
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Anonymous Italian Artist
Virgin and Child
ca. 1430-50
terracotta relief
Bode Museum, Berlin

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1797
drawing
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Ancient Greek Culture
Grave Stele of Athlete
550-540 BC
marble relief
(excavated in Athens)
National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Halfdan Egedius
Classical Bust
1892
drawing
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Gustave Courbet
Portrait of the artist's sister Juliette
ca. 1843
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Portrait of diplomat Franciszek Czacki
1773
drawing
National Museum, Warsaw

Joseph Chinard
Portrait of Dominique Vivant-Denon
1805
terracotta relief
Bode Museum, Berlin

Philippe de Champaigne
Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu
1642
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg

Julia Margaret Cameron
Mother of Salome
1870
albumen silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Adam Camerarius
Apollo
ca. 1660
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Jacques-Raymond Brascassat
Roman Woman
ca. 1829
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Now the fruit season was at its height, and the grapes were ripe for harvesting.  Everyone was working in the fields: some were getting winepresses ready for use; some were cleaning out wine jars; some were plaiting wicker baskets.  One man was attending to a small reaphook for cutting the bunches of grapes; another to a stone for squeezing the juice out of the grapes; another to a dry willow twig that had been battered into shreds to make a torch so that the sweet new wine could be drawn off at night.  Daphnis and Chloe too stopped looking after their goats and sheep and gave the others a helping hand.  He carried bunches of grapes in baskets, put them in the winepresses and trod them, and drew off the wine into the jars.  She prepared food for the grape pickers, poured out drinks of mature wine for them, and picked the grapes off the vines that were nearer the ground.  In Lesbos all the vines are low; they do not grow up high and are not trained on trees, but they let their shoots hang down and are spread out like ivy.   

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