Friday, June 13, 2025

Side View - VII

Anonymous French Artist
Portrait of Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon
ca. 1580
oil on panel
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

attributed to Sandro Botticelli
Portrait of a Young Woman
ca. 1475-80
tempera on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Thomas Couture
Head of a Woman
ca. 1855-60
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Johann Christoph Erhard
Portrait of Georg Ernst Harzen
(art collector and dealer)
1820
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Henry Goodwin
Portrait of film star Anders de Wahl
1919
photogravure
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola
Stella
1899
watercolor and gouache on paper
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Anonymous Florentine Artist
Profile Portrait of a Young Woman
ca. 1450-1500
sandstone relief
Bode Museum, Berlin

Carl Lohse
Portrait of a Child
ca. 1920
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Aristide Maillol
Peasant Girl
1891
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Johann Ulrich Mayr
Woman with Basket of Fruit
ca. 1663-70
oil on canvas
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Monogrammist IW
Portrait of a Young Man
1524
oil on panel
National Museum, Warsaw

Julius Oldach
Portrait of sculptor Otto Sigismund Runge
ca. 1829
oil on panel
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Piero della Francesca
Portrait of Sigismondo Malatesta
ca. 1450-51
tempera and oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Piero del Pollaiuolo
Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1465
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Christine Schlegel
Penthesilea
1984
oil on panel
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Oskar Schlemmer
H.K. 1926
1926
watercolor on paper
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

A few days later, the vines were harvested, the sweet new wine was in jars, and there was no longer any need for many hands.  Daphnis and Chloe drove their flocks down to the plain and, in a happy mood, worshipped the Nymphs, bringing them bunches of grapes still on the shoots as firstfruits of the grape harvest.  Not that they ever went past them and neglected them before; they always visited them when they went to pasture and worshiped them when they left the pasture and without fail brought them some kind of offering, a flower or a fruit or some green leaves or a libation of milk.  For this, they received a reward from the goddesses later on.  But at that time, as people say, "The dogs were let off the lead": they jumped, played the pipes, sang, and wrestled with their goats and sheep.  

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