Eagle and Lady (from Sketchbook)

Black and white sketch on gray background. A large bird of prey with spread wing and talons extended faces right. The bird's head is turned, looking at a woman. The woman has long hair and a strapless dress. She looks forward with her left arm raised. The woman's right arm and lower body are obscured. The woman's face and body are sketched with minimal detail. The bird takes up the left side of the image. The sketch is titled "Eagle and Lady (from Sketchbook)" by Thomas Sully.

Artwork details

Date:: 1810–20
Medium:: Ink, wash, on paper
Culture:: American
Dimensions:: 599 × 466 px
Museum record:: View original

Palette

Le Sphynx...mon regard que rien ne peut devier, demeure tendu a travers les choses sur un horizon inaccessible. La Chimere: Moi,Je suis legere et joyeuse (The Sphinx: "My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon." The Chimera: "I am weightless and joyful")

Helios

Last Theme of Robert Schumann

The Vintages!: Seven Owls and a Serpent

Nude Man Leaning Over Rock; Seated Female Figure; Seated Nude Female Figure with Hands to Face; Two Men Carrying Dead Body (from Sketchbook)

Reading

Lamentation (?); Mother and Child in Landscape; Penitent Magdalene; Seated Male at Table; Seated Female Holding a Letter (Batsheba, after Rembrandt) (from Sketchbook)