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Eva Gonzalès Box at the Théâtre des Italiens (detail) 1874 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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Tim Gardner Untitled (S, Sto and Mitch, Daytona) 2001 watercolor on paper, mounted on panel Dallas Museum of Art |
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Jules-Adolphe Goupil Portrait of Thérèse Girard at age three 1882 oil on canvas private collection |
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Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici at age twelve 1531 oil on panel (child-size head on adult-size body) Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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Dirck Halstead Princess Caroline of Monaco 1985 C-print (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Edward Heaton Rev. George Heaton, M.A. ca. 1824-25 watercolor on board Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Giovanni Battista Gaulli (il Baciccio) Portrait of Giuseppe Renato Imperiali ca. 1686 oil on canvas Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee |
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Bartholomeus van der Helst Portrait of a Man before 1670 drawing British Museum |
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Karl Gussow Sound of the Sea 1879 oil on canvas (sold at Christie's London, 2006) private collection |
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Lambertus Johannes Hansen Portrait of Cornelia Helena Anna Christiani, wife of the artist ca. 1840 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli) Youth with Arrow ca. 1505 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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Friedrich Carl Gröger Self Portrait 1812 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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Jules-Adolphe Goupil Portrait of a Woman ca. 1880 oil on canvas Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, Lancashire |
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Robert Henri The Fisherman's Son, Thomas Cafferty 1925 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Paul-César Helleu Madame Helleu 1900 etching Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona |
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George Giusti Ralph Nader 1969 acrylic paint, ink and collage on board (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Rosalind Krauss 1982 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
from The Achilleid
[Thetis hides Achilles]
This Land,where quarrels no disturbance wrought,
The much distracted Thetis safest thought:
Like a poor Bird, with wavering phansies prest,That dares not choose a branch to build her nest
Lest it her brood, should unto storms, or, snakes
Or men expose; at length she likes and takes.
*
A woman's dresse, doth now the youth enclose,
And his strong arms, he learns how to compose.
His hair's not now neglected as before:
And on his neck she hangs the chain she wore.
Within rich robes, his steps confined now
Move in a gentler pace; and he's taught how
To speak with a reserved modesty.
Thus changing Wax, which nimble fingers plie,
First rendered soft by active heat, inclines
Unto that form the workman's hand designes.
So Thetis to another shape convey'd her son.
– Statius (AD 45-96), translated by Sir Robert Howard (1660)