Showing posts with label eyes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eyes. Show all posts

Monday, January 13, 2025

Significant Expressions

Anonymous Painter working in England
Eye of Young Woman
1816
watercolor on ivory
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Anonymous Painter working in England
Portrait of Catherine Spencer,
daughter of Baron Spencer of Wormleighton

ca. 1652
oil on panel
Rubenshuis, Antwerp

Anonymous Painter working in England
Portrait of James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle
ca. 1660-70
oil on canvas
(posthumous copy of earlier portrait, now lost)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Anonymous Painter working in England
Portrait of Sir William Butts
ca. 1525-50
tempera and oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Anonymous Painter working in Canada
Portrait of Marie Melanie Quesnel
ca. 1810
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Anonymous Painter working in Canada
Portrait of Mrs Charles Morrison
ca. 1830-35
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Anonymous Painter working in Germany
Erdmutha Sophia Friederica von und zu der Tann
1778
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Anonymous Painter working in Germany
Portrait of John III Sobieski, King of Poland
ca. 1680-1700
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Anonymous Painter working in India
Portrait of General Gerard Lake
ca. 1807-1810
gouache on paper
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Anonymous Painter working in India
Portrait of Prince Sabal Singh of Badnor
ca. 1880
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Anonymous Painter working in Mexico
Portrait of Doña María Dolores del Río y Alday
1780
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Anonymous Painter working in Mexico
Mother Ana María of the Precious Blood of Christ
1770
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Anonymous Painter working in the Netherlands
Portrait of Pope Adrian VI
ca. 1625
oil on panel
(copy of lost portrait by Jan van Scorel, ca. 1522-23, 
representing the only Pope native to the Netherlands)
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Anonymous Painter working in Switzerland
Portrait of Georgius Ottly
1566
watercolor and gouache on paper
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Anonymous Painter working in the USA
Portrait of Fannie and Willie Farnsworth
ca. 1840
oil on canvas
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

Anonymous Photographer working in the Netherlands
Flora
1994
Polaroid
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Circe's Grief

In the end, I made myself 
known to your wife as
a god would, in her own house, in
Ithaca, a voice
without a body: she
paused in her weaving, her head turning
first to the right, then left
though it was hopeless of course
to trace that sound to any
objective source: I doubt
she will return to her loom
with what she knows now. When
you see her again, tell her
this is how a god says goodbye:
if I am in her head forever
I am in your life forever.

– Louise Glück (1996)

Sunday, October 13, 2024

Close-Ups - II

Anonymous British Artist
Eye of H.H. Jackson
ca. 1841
watercolor on ivory
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Albrecht Dürer
Study for Hands of the Young Christ
1506
drawing
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

Félix Auvray
Hand Study
ca. 1820
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

Roger Mayne
Torso
1951
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Joe Brainard
Torso with Bandana
1975
gouache on paper, with collage
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Luc Tuymans
The Nose
1993
oil on canvas
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

Carl Friedrich Lessing
Study of Knee
1825
drawing
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Lambert Lombard
Drapery Study
ca. 1550
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Ancient Etruscan Culture
Votive Penis and Scrotum
3rd century BC
terracotta
Harvard Art Museums

John Singer Sargent
Study for Adam
(study for mural, The Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary)
ca. 1903-1916
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

William Blake Richmond
Anatomical Studies
(study for painting, Prometheus Unbound)
ca. 1881
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci)
Hand raised to Ear
ca. 1530
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Willem van Mieris
Portrait of Samuel van Acker (detail)
1683
oil on panel
Leiden Collection, New York

Michiel van Musscher
Portrait of Pieter Ranst Valckenier (detail)
1687
oil on canvas
Leiden Collection, New York

Johannes Vermeer
Mistress and Maid (detail)
ca. 1666-67
oil on canvas
Frick Collection, New York

François Perrier
Half-Length Study of Plague Victim
ca. 1630
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

 from The Island of Statues

I would have gone also; but far away
The faery thing flew with her o'er the gray
Slow waters,  and the boat and maiden sink
Away from me where mists of evening drink
To ease their world-old thirst along the brink
Of sword-blue waves of calm; while o'er head blink
The mobs of stars in gold and green and blue,
Piercing the quivering waters through and through,
The ageless sentinels who hold their watch
O'er grief. The world drinks sorrow from the beams
And penetration of their eyes. 

– W.B. Yeats (1885)