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| Carlo Innocenzo Carlone Portrait of the artist's brother Diego Francesco Carlone ca. 1710 oil on canvas Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Bernard Picart Académie 1732 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi Académie ca. 1752-55 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Hugues Taraval Académie before 1785 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Alexis Louis Charles Arthur Gouin Model in Costume ca. 1855 hand-colored daguerreotype (stereograph) Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Frederick Sandys Study of Fanny Eaton (professional model popular among London artists) ca. 1860 drawing British Museum |
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| Edward Poynter Study for The Painter's Inspiration 1863 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Woman reading in the Studio 1868 oil on board, mounted on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Julio González Woman Dressing ca. 1905 drawing Tate Modern, London |
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| Heinrich Kühn Model Study ca. 1905 gum bichromate print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Harold Gilman Portrait of the artist's Mother writing in bed ca. 1910 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Gwen John Girl with Bare Shoulders ca. 1910 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Milton Bellin Académie 1933 drawing Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| George Hoyningen Huene Model wearing Golden Gown ca. 1945 chromogenic transparency Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jess (Jess Collins) Model in Studio 15 #2 1950 oil on canvas San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Elizabeth Peyton Nick (Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles) 2002 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Kyle Dunn Studio Still Life 2024 acrylic on panel Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
from Fragment on Evil
"I know it is the common opinion that evil prevails very much above good, even amongst mankind, who are the most favoured by nature of all sensible creatures; but still some think they have reason to dispute this popular opinion. What one may safely pronounce on this head is that if we compare pains and pleasures in their degrees, the former are infinitely superior; there being many pains, and even durable ones, extremely acute; and no pleasure that is at the same time very intense and very durable. Love betwixt the sexes is, I believe, the only one that has any pretensions to the character of an exquisite and intense pleasure, whether we consider the bodily enjoyment which it affords, or the tenderness and elegance of that friendship which it inspires. Perhaps men of strong genius may find as high pleasure in study and contemplation. But what is all this in comparison of those many cruel distempers and violent sorrows to which human life is subject?"
– David Hume (ca. 1740)