Hatless

Diego Rivera
Portrait of John Dunbar
1931
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Diego Rivera
Huts
1929
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Diego Rivera
Blue Boy with Banana
1931
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Diego Rivera
Two Women
1914
oil on canvas
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Portrait of a Young Woman
1821
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Half-Length Study of Model
ca. 1825-26
drawing
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Académie
1822
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Jacob and Rachel at the Well
1826
drawing
(study for Bible illustration)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Edward Burne-Jones
Drapery Study
1888
drawing
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Edward Burne-Jones
Drapery Study for Angel of the Annunciation
1878
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Edward Burne-Jones
Study for the Head of Nimue
ca. 1872-73
watercolor and gouache on paper
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Edward Burne-Jones
The Prioress's Tale
ca. 1869
watercolor and gouache on paper, mounted on linen
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Pietro Testa
Figure Studies
ca. 1640
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Pietro Testa
St Roch and St Nicholas interceding with the Virgin for Plague Victims
ca. 1630-31
etching
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Pietro Testa
Justitia and Caritas
(allegorical figures)
before 1650
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Pietro Testa
St Michael Archangel
before 1650
drawing
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

from Part Two of The Age of Anxiety

Quant said:

                                    With diamonds to offer,
     A cleaned tycoon in a cooled office,
     I smiled at a siren with six breasts,
     Leaning on leather, looking up at
     Her righteous robber, her Robin Hood,
     Her plump prince. All the public could see
     Was a bus-boy brushing a table,
     Sullen and slight.

Rosetta said: 

                                   In my sixteenth year
     Before sleeping I fancied nightly
     The house on the headland I would own one day.
     Its long windows overlooked the sea
     And its turf terrace topped a sunny
     Sequestered cove. A corkscrew staircase
     From a green gate in the garden wall
     Descended the cliff, the sole entrance

     To my beach where bathers basked beside 
     The watchet waves. Though One was special,
     All forms were friends who freely told their
     Secrets to me; but, safe in my purse
     I kept the key to the closet where
     A sliding panel concealed the lift,
     Known to none, which at night would take me
     Down through the dark to my dock below,
     A chamber chiselled in the chalk hill,
     Private and perfect; thence, putting forth
     Alone in my launch through a low tunnel
     Out to the ocean, while all others slept,
     Smiling and singing I sailed till dawn,

     Happy, hatless. 

– W.H. Auden (1944-46)