Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Lithographs, Aquatints, Woodcuts, Etchings

Eugène Delacroix
Wild Horse
1828
lithograph
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Honoré Daumier
Lower the curtain, the farce is ended
1834
lithograph
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Gustave Courbet
Young ladies of the village
1867
etching
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Édouard Manet
Civil War
1871
lithograph
Cantor Center, Stanford University

PAN'S MUSIC

Dwell, awful silence, on the shady hills
Among the bleating flocks, and purling rills,
When Pan the reed doth to his lips apply,
Inspiring it with sacred harmony.
Hydriads, and Hamadryads at that sound
In a well order'd measure beat the ground.

 from the Greek Anthology, translated by Thomas Stanley (1625-1678)

Edgar Degas
Dancers in the wings
ca. 1877
etching, aquatint, drypoint
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Samuel Palmer
The Bellman
1879
etching
Yale Center for British Art

Mary Cassatt
In the Omnibus
1890-91
drypoint, aquatint
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Englishman at the Moulin-Rouge
1892
lithograph
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Félix Vallotton
La Paresse (Indolence)
1896
woodcut
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

LIFE IS FLEETING

Ah Posthumus! our years hence fly,
And leave no sound; nor piety,
     Or prayers, or vow
Can keep the wrinkle from the brow:
     But we must on,
As Fate does lead or draw us; none,
None, Posthumus, could ere decline
The doom of cruel Prosperine.

*                       *                      *

We've seen the past-best times, and these
Will ne'er return; we see the seas
     And moon to wane,
But they fill up their ebbs again;
     But vanished man,
Like to a lily lost, ne'er can,
Ne'er can repullulate, or bring
His days to see a second spring.

 from an Ode of Horace, translated by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Paul Cézanne
Bathers
ca. 1896-98
lithograph
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Édouard Vuillard
La Patisserie
1899
lithograph
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Henri Fantin-Latour
The  Embroiderers
before 1904
lithograph
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Brücke Exhibition Poster
1910
color woodcut
Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden

Anonymous Russian designer
Brigada Khudozhnikov nº 2
1932
color-printed book-cover
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern