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Embroidery (Gallery of the Louvre). 2004. Hand embroidery on linen. 38 1/4 x 50 1/2 in. (97.2 x 128.3 cm).

 

SAMUEL F.B. MORSE

 

 

ELAINE REICHEK

Gallery of the Louvre, 1831–33

 

  Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind
And weave but nets to catch the wind.

Vanitas Vanitatum, 1623
 
—John Webster