Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Forthright

Eva Gonzalès
Box at the Théâtre des Italiens (detail)
1874
oil on canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris


Tim Gardner
Untitled (S, Sto and Mitch, Daytona)
2001
watercolor on paper, mounted on panel
Dallas Museum of Art

Jules-Adolphe Goupil
Portrait of Thérèse Girard at age three
1882
oil on canvas
private collection

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

Dirck Halstead
Princess Caroline of Monaco
1985
C-print
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Edward Heaton
Rev. George Heaton, M.A.
ca. 1824-25
watercolor on board
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (il Baciccio)
Portrait of Giuseppe Renato Imperiali
ca. 1686
oil on canvas
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee

Bartholomeus van der Helst
Portrait of a Man
before 1670
drawing
British Museum

Karl Gussow
Sound of the Sea
1879
oil on canvas
(sold at Christie's London, 2006)
private collection

Lambertus Johannes Hansen
Portrait of Cornelia Helena Anna Christiani,
wife of the artist

ca. 1840
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli)
Youth with Arrow
ca. 1505
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Friedrich Carl Gröger
Self Portrait
1812
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Jules-Adolphe Goupil
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1880
oil on canvas
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, Lancashire

Robert Henri
The Fisherman's Son, Thomas Cafferty
1925
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Paul-César Helleu
Madame Helleu
1900
etching
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

George Giusti
Ralph Nader
1969
acrylic paint, ink and collage on board
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

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)