Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Echoes of Ancient Art in later European Art III

Peter Simon after Antoine Claude Fleury
Psyché suppliante
ca. 1802-1813
stipple engraving
British Museum

    Oh! Sovereign of the willing soul,
Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs,
Enchanting shell! the sullen Cares
And frantic Passions hear thy soft control.
On Thracia's hills the Lord of War
Has curbed the fury of his car,
And dropped his thirsty lance at thy command.
Perching on the sceptered hand
of Jove, thy magic lulls the feathered king
With ruffled plumes and flagging wing:
Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie
The terror of his beak and lightnings of his eye. 

- from Pindar's Progress of Poesy, translated by Thomas Gray, 1757

Cornelis van Dalen
Narcissus at the Fountain
ca 1648-64
engraving
Rijksmuseum

Wilhelm Tischbein
Ajax protecting Odysseus
1821
etching
British Museum

Pietro Liberi
The Three Graces
1670s
oil on canvas
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Jacopo Tintoretto
The Muses
1578
oil on canvas
 Royal Collection, Great Britain
acquired by Charles I

Simon Vouet
Diana
1637
oil on canvas
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Giulio Carpioni
A Bacchanal
ca. 1665
oil on canvas
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Sébastien Leclerc
Apollo Turning the Crow Black
1676
etching
British Museum

Sébastien Leclerc
Nyctimene turned into an Owl
ca. 1676
etching
British Museum

Daniel Vertangen
Nymphs and Satyrs in a Landscape
ca. 1650-80
oil on canvas
Royal Collection, Great Britain

François Perrier
Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl
1646
oil on canvas
National Museum, Warsaw

Michel Martin Drolling
Villa Medici gardens, Rome
ca. 1811-16
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum

Bernardo Strozzi
Addressing an Emperor
17th century
drawing
British Museum

Perino del Vaga
Sea monster with the Head of a Bull
ca. 1541-45
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain