Poor Substitute Friday Art Challenge: Studies
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Since CTyankee seems to not be around today, here is a fairly minimal art challenge to ease withdrawal symptoms. This post is impromptu, unauthorized, and offered with no disrespect to CTyankee.
These are siix studies done for five well known paintings, and one that is famous as a "lost painting." Name the artist and, if ambitious, the work the preliminary was for. Someone will get all of these, so there will be no answers. It may be most educational to include, where possible, a picture of the finished work (or link to one) in your answer.
Since I assembled this in about five minutes, the jpg names are not scrubbed, so right-clicking "properties" counts as cheating. But if your'e just curious, most of them have descriptive jpg names.
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It's a cool story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Anghiari_(painting)
The link is funny because of the darn parentheses, but if it doesn't take you the the page about the painting, there's a link to that page on the page it goes to.
We have drawings people did of the painting, but not the painting. However some folks think they may know where the painting is.
This Ruebens drawing is probably pretty close to how the original looked.
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(Edited to substitute the 'Guernica' image.)
# 2 is Degas
# 4 is Ingres
Thank you as always! 
I kind of messed up on this one -- Degas did a lot of paintings of jockeys, and that canvas of studies might not be for a particular work. My bad. So this might not be exactly the one, but it's in the ball-park.
Thank you for posting artworks we might actually know about!
I loved Art History in college. CTYankee really knows her stuff--often very difficult to figure out. But fun!!
...and we are but the grasshopper.
