Friday, October 6, 2017

Age and Youth (Several Pictures and Few Words)

Denton Welch
Harvest
ca. 1940
oil on panel
Tate Britain

DAYS OF MY YOUTH

Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.

 W.B. Yeats (1910)

Pompeo Batoni
Time directing Old Age to destroy Beauty
ca. 1746
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Leonardo da Vinci
Seated old man and studies of moving water
ca. 1510
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Parmigianino
Seated youth and two old men
ca. 1524-40
etching
British Museum

Camillo Procaccini
Old man and youth
ca. 1585
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Ubaldo Gandolfi
Old men and child
before 1781
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Anonymous Florentine printmaker after Sofonisba Anguissola
Young woman laughing at old woman studying the alphabet
ca. 1580
engraving
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Rembrandt
Old man shading his eyes
ca. 1639
etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Guercino
Youths singing watched by old man
ca. 1625-35
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Giambattista Tiepolo
Head of an old man
before 1770
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Balthasar Denner
Portrait of an old woman
ca. 1720-40
oil on copper
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Salvator Rosa
Three young men supplicating an old man
ca. 1640-60
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Hans Memling
Old woman at prayer, with St Anne
1470
tempera on panel
Morgan Library, New York

Le Nain Brothers
Peasant interior with an old flute player
ca. 1642
oil on canvas
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas