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Engraving of armored warriors, trumpeters, and fallen figures around a classical statue, with a French verse caption below.

The Passion for War

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of satyrs and robed figures worshipping a statue beside a pile of gold coins, with French verses below.

The Passion for Wealth

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Engraving of a forest revel with nude putti, satyrs and a winged figure around a fountain, with an armored soldier in front.

The Passion for Love

Jean Audran, n.d.

Etching of mythological figures in a forest, with satyrs lifting a beam, a helmeted warrior, and a seated nude woman.

Manhood

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of elderly figures gathered around a fire in a gnarled woodland, one figure on crutches, with French caption below.

Old Age

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Engraving of a faun festival in a forest with nymphs, satyrs, musicians and cherubs around a stepped pedestal.

The Feast of the Faun

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of a forest scene with satyrs, a centaur, and children gathered around a teacher, with French verse below.

Education

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of playful putti and a satyr with a wheeled cart and hoop beside a seated woman under a large tree.

Adolescence

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of horned, goat-legged figures gathered beneath a large tree in a wooded landscape, with a French verse caption below

Youth

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of a witches' sabbath with flying witches, demons, a hanged figure over a fire, and a skeletal horse rider.

Est-ce un enchantment...

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Etching of the Nativity with the Virgin and infant Christ, a kneeling man, shepherds, and angels in clouds above.

Nativity

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Engraving of an outdoor garden refreshment with a tiered table of dishes, elegant men, servants and a fruit garland border.

La Colation preparee dans un jardin

Claude Gillot, n.d.

Engraving of an allegorical artist's workshop with draftsmen, a skeleton, a sculpted horse, and a helmeted female figure pres

The Practitioners of the Visual Arts

Cornelis Cort, 1578

Engraving of a crowded painting academy with students drawing from casts, a skeleton, and a dissection scene.

An Academy of Painters

Pierfrancesco Alberti, 1600-38

Engraved portrait of Sixtus V in papal dress, framed by small views of Roman obelisks, churches, columns and ships.

Portrait of Sixtus V

Nicolaus van Aelst, ca. 1589

The Celestial Art

Odilon Redon, 1894

Pencil sketch of a sleeping woman with head tilted and eyes closed, hair drawn in dark hatched strokes on cream paper.

Sleep

Odilon Redon, 1898

Dark lithograph of grotesque, mask-like faces and a clawed form emerging from shadow above a pale ground.

Hideous Larvae

Odilon Redon, 1896

Cream title page for La Maison Hantée with French text and a small lithographed vignette by Odilon Redon, 1896.

Title page to the series, The Haunted House (La Maison Hantée)

Odilon Redon, 1896

Etching of two nude figures struggling, one raising a club overhead while the other crouches on rocky ground.

Cain and Abel

Odilon Redon, 1886

Perversity

Odilon Redon, 1891

Lithograph of a hooded pilgrim seated in shadow, gazing toward a glowing crescent and rays of light in a dark sky.

Pilgrim from a sublunar world

Odilon Redon, 1891

Druidesse

Odilon Redon, 1891

Lithograph by Odilon Redon of a pale face with curly hair set within a dark rectangular frame, with a French caption below.

A Veil, a Printed Image

Odilon Redon, 1891

Lithograph of a dark winged figure on a rocky ledge under a large shadowy wing, with a dark sphere floating to the left.

In the shadow of the wing, the black creature bit

Odilon Redon, 1891

The vague glimmer of a head suspended in space

Odilon Redon, 1891

Lithograph of a hooded robed woman holding a staff inside a large circle, by Odilon Redon, 1891.

And over there, the Astral Idol, the Apotheosis

Odilon Redon, 1891

Brunnhilde (The Twilight of the Gods)

Odilon Redon, 1894

Etching of gaunt figures straining to lift a heavy slab while others crouch beside it, against a pale sky.

Plate 59 from "Los Caprichos": And still they don't go! (Y aun no se van!)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of an aged woman in a ruffled bonnet before a mirror, watched by two men and a young woman in an interior.

Plate 55 from "Los Caprichos": Until death (Hasta la muerte)

Francisco Goya, 1799