Below, I saw the vaporous contours of a human form
The Eye as the central motif. From The Met, open access.
Key · 1 motif
The motifs the picture carries, filed by role. The marks on the picture itself come with the entry.
- 1The Eyecentral motif as it reads here: The Watching Eyes
The picture
A pale seated figure at a small round table in a dark room; above and behind, a shape of deeper black with two eyes shining out of it; the Eye as the central motif, by eye. The plate is the second of a portfolio, and the Met records the sentence as its title. By eye
Not yet decoded: the key and the sourced notes come with the entry. Until then the motifs above are tagged by eye and said so.
Also carrying the Eye
4 works, 2 with it as the central motif. The symbol.
By the same hand
In the same series
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