Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Elegy

Paris Bordone
Flora
1540
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre


John Dugdale
Sheep
1993
platinum print (gift of Maurice Sendak)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Charlotte Bosanquet
Hall at Vinters, Maidstone, Kent
1843
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish Republic #1
1948
ink on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Paris Bordone
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1530-35
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

John Dugdale
Untitled
1993
platinum print (gift of Maurice Sendak)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Charlotte Bosanquet
Lady Cullam's Morning Room
1842
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish Republic #54
1957-61
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Paris Bordone
Mythological Scene
ca. 1530-40
oil on panel
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, West Midlands

John Dugdale
Untitled
1993
platinum print (gift of Maurice Sendak)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Charlotte Bosanquet
Paneled Drawing Room at Foscourt
1849
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish Republic #57
1957-61
oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Paris Bordone
Salvator Mundi
ca. 1540-50
oil on canvas
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

John Dugdale
Untitled
1993
platinum print (gift of Maurice Sendak)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Charlotte Bosanquet
Staircase at Beaurepaire
1843
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish Republic #108
1965-67
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Paris Bordone
Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and St George
ca. 1530
oil on canvas
Pushkin Museum, Moscow

Orpheus

What does the song hope for? And the moved hands
A little way from the birds, the shy, the delightful?
            To be bewildered and happy,
            Or most of all the knowledge of life?

But the beautiful are content with the sharp notes of the air;
The warmth is enough. O if winter really,
            Oppose, if the weak snowflake,
            What will the wish, what will the dance do? 

– W.H. Auden (1937)