Showing posts with label couples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label couples. Show all posts

Sunday, March 8, 2026

Duos

Hendrik van der Borcht the Younger after Correggio
Women passing Basin
ca. 1637-38
etching
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

 
Domenico Maria Muratori
Sisters Mary and Martha
ca. 1695
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

D.W. Kellogg & Co. (Hartford, Connecticut)
The Bride and Bride's-Maid
ca. 1835
hand-colored lithograph
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Charles Nègre
Arlésiennes dans le Cloître de Saint-Trophime
ca. 1852-54
salted paper print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

John Murray
Miss Anson and Mrs Anson
1856
albumen silver print
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Eva Gonzalès
La Fenêtre
ca. 1865-70
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum, Colorado

Joseph Rodefer De Camp
Pear Pickers
ca. 1895
oil on canvas
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Anonymous American Printmaker
Visiting Toilettes
1898
lithographic fashion plate
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Frank von der Lancken
The Sisters
1903
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Edvard Munch
Girls and Apple Tree
1905
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Edmund Diederich
Two Women
ca. 1912
modern digital print from glass-plate negative
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

William Lee-Hankey
The Quiet Hour
1919
drypoint
British Museum

Susan Meiselas
Curtain Call, Essex Junction, Vermont
1973
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Leonie Reisberg
G. and Me
ca. 1978
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Raphael Soyer
Annunciation
1980
oil on linen
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Alan Feltus
August 1983
1983
oil on linen
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Annie Leibovitz
Serena and Venus Williams
1998
pigment print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

On the Frontispiece of Isaacsons Chronologie explained.

    Let hoary Time's vast Bowels be the Grave
To what his Bowels birth and being gave;
Let Nature die, if (Phœnix-like) from death
Revived Nature take a second breath;
If on Times right hand, sit faire Historie;
If, from the seed of empty Ruine, she
Can raise so faire an Harvest, let her be
Ne're so farre distant, yet Chronologie
(Sharpe sighted as the Eagles eye, that can
Out-stare the broad-beam'd Dayes Meridian)
Will have a Perspecill* to find her out,
And, through the Night of error and dark doubt,
Discerne the Dawne of Truth's eternall ray,
As when the rosie Morne budds into Day. 
    Now that Time's Empire might be amply fill'd, 
Babels bold Artists strive (below) to build
Ruine a Temple; on whose fruitfull fall
History reares her Pyramids more tall
Than were th' Ægyptian (by the life these give,
Th' Ægyptian Pyramids themselves must live):
On these she lifts the World; and on their base
Shewes the two termes and limits of Time's race:
That, the Creation is; the Judgement, this;
That, the World's Morning, this her Midnight is. 

– Richard Crashaw, The Delights of the Muses (1646)

*telescope

Saturday, March 7, 2026

Duos

Cristofano Robetta
Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel
(adult figures based on antique sculpture fragments)
ca. 1490
engraving
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna


Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Adam and Eve after the Fall
ca. 1545
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Cornelis van Haarlem
Adam and Eve
1622
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Jacob Gole
The Duet
ca. 1680
mezzotint
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Claude-Marie Dubufe
Sketch for Adam and Eve
1827
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

Claude-Marie Dubufe
Adam and Eve
1827
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

Antoine-Jean Gros
Acis and Galatea
1833
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Lothar von Seebach
Adam and Eve
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg

Arthur Crisp
Adam and Eve
ca. 1918
oil on board
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Marguerite Zorach
Edith Halpert in her Downtown Gallery
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

George Torrie
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
1939
tricolor carbro print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mytrice Snead West
Adam and Eve
ca. 1950
oil and acrylic on canvas
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

John Buckland Wright
Adam and Eve naming the Animals
1951
wood-engraving
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Victor Joseph Gatto
Adam and Eve
before 1965
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Angela Palladino
The Terrace
1970
oil on panel
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Roger Ballen
Man and Woman in Boarding House, Western Transvaal
1992
inkjet print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Peter Churcher
A Strange Hot Night
1997
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Loves Horoscope.

Love, brave vertues younger Brother,
Erst hath made my Heart a Mother,
Shee consults the conscious Spheares,
To calculate her young sons yeares.
Shee askes if sad, or saving powers,
Gave Omen to his infant howers,
Shee askes each starre that then stood by,
If poore Love shall live or dye. 

Ah, my Heart, is that the way?
Are these the Beames that rule the Day?
Thou know'st a Face in whose each looke,
Beauty layes ope loves Fortune-booke,
On whose faire revolutions wait
The obsequious motions of Loves fate,
Ah, my Heart, her eyes and shee,
Have taught thee new Astrology.
How e're Loves native houres were set,
What ever starry Synod met,
'Tis in the mercy of her eye,
If poore Love shall live or dye. 

If those sharpe Rayes putting on
Points of Death bid Love be gone
(Though the Heavens in counsell sate,
To crowne an uncontrouled Fate,
Though their best Aspects twin'd upon
The kindest Constellation,
Cast amorous glances on his Birth,
And whisper'd the confederate Earth
To pave his pathes with all the good
That warmes the Bed of youth and blood)
Love ha's no plea against her eye;
Beauty frownes, and Love must dye.

But if her milder influence move;
And guild the hopes of humble Love
(Though heavens inauspicious eye
Lay blacke on loves Nativitye;
Though every Diamond in Loves crowne
Fixt his forehead to a frowne)
Her Eye a strong appeale can give,
Beauty smiles, and love shall live.

O if Love shall live, ô where
But in her Eye, or in her Eare,
In her Breast, or in her Breath,
Shall I hide poore Love from Death?
For in the life ought else can give,
Love shall dye, although he live.

Or if Love shall dye, ô where
But in her Eye, or in her Eare,
In her Breath, or in her Breast,
Shall I build his funerall Nest?
While Love shall thus entombed lye,
Love shall live, although he dye. 

– Richard Crashaw, The Delights of the Muses (1646)

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Duos

Gerard Donck
Married couple Marritgen Pieters and Nicolaes Willemsz Lossy
1633
oil on panel
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha


Jacob Adriaensz Backer
Portrait of a Merchant and his Wife
ca. 1638
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Francis Cotes
Portrait of Thomas and Isabel Crathorne
(Thomas had died 3 years earlier)
1767
oil on canvas
Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino

Benigno Bossi after Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot
L'Epoux à la Grecque
1771
etching
(fanciful figure with architectural elements)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Benigno Bossi after Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot
La Mariée à la Grecque
1771
etching
(fanciful figure with architectural elements)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Karl Wilhelm Both
Jeanette Marguerite and Johann David Wunderly
ca. 1830
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Henry Ossawa Tanner
Portrait of Mr and Mrs Atherton Curtis with Still Life
ca. 1900
oil on panel
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Henrik Sørensen
Man and Wife
ca. 1914
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Alvin Langdon Coburn
Portrait of Grace and E. McKnight Kauffer
1916
gelatin silver print
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Conrad Felixmüller
The Artist and his Wife
1921
color woodblock print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Bruce Davidson
The Misfits -
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller

1960
gelatin silver print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

David Hockney
American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)
1968
acrylic on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Robert Remsen Vickrey
Jacqueline and Aristotle Onassis
1968
tempera on board
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Michael Jacques
Williamstown's First Couple
1976
etching and aquatint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Pierre Gaudard
My Parents - Marvelise, Doubs
1980
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Roger Ballen
Prison Warden and Wife, Southern Transvaal
1986
inkjet print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Thomas Struth
Kyoko and Tomoharu Murakami, Tokyo
1991
C-print
Tate Modern, London

from Upon the Duke of Yorke his Birth: A Panegyricke.

    But stay, what glimpse was that? why blusht the day?
Why ran the started aire trembling away?
Who's this that comes circled in rayes, that scorne
Acquaintance with the Sunne? what second Morne
At mid-day opes a presence which Heavens eye
Stands off and points at? is't some Deity
Stept from her Throne of starres deignes to be seene?
Is it some Deity? or is't our Queene?
'Tis shee, 'tis shee: her awful Beauties chase
The Dayes abashed Glories, and in face
Of Noone weare their owne Sunshine, ô thou bright
Mistresse of wonders! Cynthia's is the Night,
But thou at Noone dost shine, and art all Day,
(Nor does the Sunne deny't) our Cynthia,
Illustrious sweetnesse! In thy faithfull wombe,
That Nest of Heroes, all our hopes finde roome.
Thou art the Mother Phœnix, and thy Breast
Chast as that Virgin honour of the East,
But much more fruitfull is; nor does, as shee,
Deny to mighty Love a Deity.
Then let the Easterne world bragge and be proud
Of one coy Phœnix, while we have a brood,
A brood of Phœnixes; while we have Brother
And Sister Phœnixes, and still a Mother;
And may we long; long may'st thou live, t'encrease
The house and family of Phœnixes.

– Richard Crashaw, The Delights of the Muses (1646)