Showing posts with label rückenfigur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rückenfigur. Show all posts

Saturday, September 28, 2024

Rückenfigur - II

Vilhelm Hammershøi
Interior in Strandgade
1901
oil on canvas
Landesmuseum, Hannover

Francis Seymour Haden
The Turkish Bath
1865
drypoint
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1615
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Anonymous British Photographer
Study of model Laurence Woodford
ca. 1920-30
photographic postcard
Wellcome Collection, London

Ottomar Anschütz
Model throwing Javelin
1888
albumen print
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

William Merritt Chase
Nude
ca. 1901
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

William Etty
Boatman
ca. 1818-20
oil on paper, mounted on panel
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Théodore Géricault
Figure Study
ca. 1818
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Heinrich Dittmers
Académie
ca. 1650
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Anonymous British Artist
Académie
ca. 1860
watercolor
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Hugh Ramsay
Académie
ca. 1897
drawing
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Aubert-Henri-Joseph Parent
Académie
1783
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Conceptio Artis
1894
gouache on paper
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Jeffrey Smart
Figure Study for painting, Elizabeth Bay
ca. 1961
drawing
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Georges Rouault
Laborer
1935
etching and aquatint
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Marsha Burns
Untitled
1978
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

from The Old Age of Queen Maeve 

Maeve the great queen was pacing to and fro,
Between the walls covered with beaten bronze,
In her high house at Cruachan; the long hearth,
Flickering with ash and hazel, but half showed
Where the tired horse-boys lay upon the rushes,
Or on the benches underneath the walls,
In comfortable sleep; all living slept
But that great queen, who more than half the night
Had paced from door to fire and fire to door.

– W.B. Yeats (1903)

Friday, September 27, 2024

Rückenfigur - I

Gustave Caillebotte
Young Man at his Window
1876
oil on canvas
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Jacob Vrel
Woman looking out a Window
1654
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Georg Eisler
In the Studio
1980
oil on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Pierre Bonnard
The Full-Length Mirror
1910
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Helen Levitt
New York
1982
gelatin silver print
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Berthe Morisot
Young Woman watering a Shrub
1876
oil on canvas
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

Floris Arntzenius
Beach View at Scheveningen
ca. 1900
oil on canvas
Museum Gouda

Paul Delvaux
Landscape with Street Lamps
1958
oil on board
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Karel Dujardin
Standing Model
ca. 1660
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Albert Marquet
Standing Model
ca. 1904-1907
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Henry Fuseli
Woman with a Fan
1791
drawing
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

Sigismondo Caula
Kneeling Youth
ca. 1670
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo
Prophet
ca. 1565-70
drawing
(study for dome fresco)
Princeton University Art Museum

Jean-Blaise Villemsens
Study for Saved from the Flood
1827
oil on canvas
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Johann Peter Pichler
Académie
1780
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Auguste Rodin
Centaur abducting a Young Man
ca. 1878-81
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

 from The Wanderings of Oisin

And my gaze was thronged with the sleepers; no, not since the world began,
In realms where the handsome were many, not in glamours by demons flung,
Have faces alive with such beauty been known to the salt eye of man,
Yet weary with passions that faded when the sevenfold seas were young.

                                 *                 *              *

Ah me! to be shaken with coughing and broken with old age and pain,
Without laughter, a show unto children, alone with remembrance and fear;
All emptied of purple hours as a beggar's cloak in the rain,
As a hay-cock out on the flood, or a wolf sucked under a weir. 

– W.B. Yeats (1889)