Hope

Winslow Homer
After the Hunt
1892
watercolor and gouache on paper
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Jean-Antoine Watteau
Head of a Boy
ca. 1717-21
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Giorgio Vasari
Allegory of Hope
ca. 1563-64
oil on panel
(installed in Vasari's family chapel)
Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie, Arezzo

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger
Vertumnus and Pomona
1760
marble statue group
Musée du Louvre

Domenico Campagnola
Stag Hunt
before 1564
drawing
British Museum

Jean-Antoine Watteau
Standing Man with Staff
ca. 1715-16
drawing
British Museum

Giorgio Vasari
Holy Family with St Elizabeth
and young St John the Baptist
ca. 1546
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger
Portrait of Madame Adélaïde
(Marie-Adélaïde de France, daughter of Louis XV)
1768
marble bust
Musée du Louvre

Paolo Uccello
Hunt in the Forest
ca. 1470
tempera and oil on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Jean-Antoine Watteau
Study of Woman with Raised Arm
ca. 1714
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Giorgio Vasari
St Luke
ca. 1570-71
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Elder
Death of Hippolytus
1715
marble statuette
Musée du Louvre

Denys van Alsloot
Landscape with Tervuren Castle and Hunting Party
1608
oil on panel
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

Jean-Antoine Watteau
Standing Woman and Seated Musician
ca. 1714-16
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Giorgio Vasari
St Mark
ca. 1570-71
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger
Portrait of painter Noël-Nicolas Coypel
1730
terracotta bust
Musée du Louvre

Jean Pénicaud III
Lion Hunt
ca. 1560
enamel on copper (Limoges)
Musée du Louvre

This wingtip feather from a hook-beaked eagle,

    lacquered with purple dye, cut sharp with steel –

good for picking gently at any morsel

    that might lurk in your teeth after a meal –

dear Lucius, from your friend, Krinagoras:

    a little token of how much I feel.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Alistair Elliot