LATER 19th CENTURY ROMANTICISM


The Pre-Raphaelites
 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Ecce Ancilla Domini (The Annunciation) (1850)
London, Tate Gallery
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 427

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William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt – The Light of the World (1851-1853) oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

William Holman Hunt – The Awakening Conscience (1853) oil on canvas
London, Tate Gallery
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 429

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John Everett Millais

John Everett Millais – Christ in the House of His Parents (1850) oil on canvas
London, Tate Gallery
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 374

John Everett Millais – Ophelia (1852) oil on canvas
London, Tate Gallery
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 434

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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
(1833 - 1898)
 

Edward Burne-Jones – The Rose Bower (from the "Legend of Briar Rose") 1880 – oil on canvas
Buscot Park, Farringdon Collection
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 151

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones – King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (1884) oil on canvas
London, Tate Gallery

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John William Waterhouse
(1836 - 1912)
 

John William Waterhouse – The Lady of Shallot (1888) oil on canvas
London, Tate Gallery
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 433

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Frederic Lord Leighton
(1836 - 1912)
 

Frederic Lord Leighton – Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words) (1860-1861) oil on canvas
London, Tate Gallery
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 432

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John Collier
(1850 - 1934)
 

John Maler Collier – Charles Robert Darwin (1883) oil on canvas
London, National Portrait Gallery

John Maler Collier – Queen Guinevere's Maying (1900) oil on canvas
Bradford,  Art Galleries and Museums

John Maler Collier – Sleeping Beauty (1929)
Southport, Atkinson Art Gallery

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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
(1836 - 1912)
 

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Proclaiming Claudius Emperor - Oil on canvas
Private Collection
Art Renewal Center (artrenewal.org)

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Joseph, overseer of Pharaoh's graineries (1874) Oil on canvas
Private Collection
Art Renewal Center (artrenewal.org)

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Alexandre Cabanel
(1823 - 1889)
 

Alexandre Cabanel – The Birth of Venus (1863) oil on canvas
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alexandre Cabanel  – Phèdre (1880) oil on canvas
Montpelier, Musée Fabre

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
(1825 - 1905)
 

William Bouguereau – Homer and His Guide (1873) oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

William Bouguereau – The Birth of Venus (1879) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 146

William Bouguereau – The Flagellation of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1880) oil on canvas

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Gustave Moreau
(1826 - 1893)
 

Gustave Moreau – Thracian Girl Carrying the Head of Orpheus on His Lyre (1865) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Gustave Moreau – The Unicorns (1885) oil, tempera and water color on canvas
Paris, Musée Gustave-Moreau
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 150

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Other European Romanticists
 

Charles Sprague Pearce – Lamentation Over the Death of the First Born of Egypt (1877) oil on canvas
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 446

Richard Dadd – The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke (1858-1864) oil on canvas
London, Tate Gallery
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 428

Elihu Vedder – The Cup of Death (1885 and 1911) oil on canvas
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 449

Théodore Chasssériau – The Tepidarium (1853) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 412

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes – Young Girls on the Edge of the Sea (1879) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 419

Léon Benouville – Saint Francis of Assisi Carried Dying to Santa Maria degli Angeli,
Blesses the City, 1226 (1853) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 414

Jules-Elie Delaunay – The Plague in Rome (1869) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 416


Sculpture
 

Jean Léon Gérôme and Aimé Morot – "The Gladiators" Monument to Gérôme (1878) bronze
Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 146


Architecture
 

Charles Garnier – Stairway, Opéra Garnier, Paris (1861-1875)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 147


Art Nouveau
 

Alphonse Mucha (1860 - 1939)

Alphonse Mucha - Bières de la Meuse - 1897

Alphonse Mucha - F. Champenois Imprimeur-Éditeur - 1897

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Louis Comfort Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany – "Education" (1890)
It depicts Science (personified by Devotion, Labor, Truth, Research and Intuition) and Religion (personified by Purity,
Faith, Hope, Reverence and Inspiration) in harmony, presided over by the central personification of "Light·Love·Life"
Linsly-Chittenden Hall at Yale University
Wikipedia - "Art Nouveau"

Louis Comfort Tiffany – "Autumn Landscape" (1923-1924) Leaded Favrile-glass window
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Art Nouveau in Architecture
 

Antoni Gaudi (architect)

Antoni Gaudi - Casa Batlló - Barcellona
Wikipedia - "Art Nouveau"

Antoni Gaudi - Casa Milà - Barcelona
Wikipedia - "Art Nouveau"

Victor Horta – Maison Tassel, Brussels (1892-1893)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 154

Alfred Wago (architect) – Paris doorway-  1905
Wikipedia - "Art Nouveau"

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