Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Satyre et nymphe (Satyr and Nymph) 1817 Black chalk with brown wash and white gouache, 22.2 x 18.2 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Satyre et nymphe (1817)
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Le Sommeil des Paysans (c.1808-1812)
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Le Sommeil des Paysans (The Sleep of the Peasants) c.1808–1812 Oil on wood panel, 77.5 x 57.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Impatient with studio routine, Géricault spent four years teaching himself by copying paintings in the…
Femme de la Martinique (1889)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Femme de la Martinique (Woman of Martinique) 1889 Painted clay, textile, paper, wooden base, 19.7 × 11.1 × 7 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This sculpture reveals an array of references to non‑Western cultures that the artist…
Seated Youth (s.d.)
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Seated Youth s.d. Black chalk, heightened with white, 39.5 x 26.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Vase de fleurs (1861)
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Vase de fleurs (Vase of Flowers) 1861 Oil on canvas, 44.4 x 36 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton The painter and critic Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861–1942) compared Fantin-Latour’s studies of the flower—”its grain, its tissue”—to the observation of…
The Witch (1941)
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) The Witch 1941 Oil on canvas, 24.5 × 19 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Like many avant-garde European artists of his generation, Ernst was influenced by Sigmund Freud’s writings on the unconscious, the irrational, and the uncanny.…
Le Fantôme, vision devançant le futurisme (1886)
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Le Fantôme, vision devançant le futurisme (Apparition: Vision Preceding Futurism, Nightmare) 1886 Colored crayon, gouache and gold paint, 21.7 x 29.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Sudarium held by two angels (1513)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Sudarium held by two angels 1513 Engraving, 10 x 13.9 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Although Dürer made several celebrated series of Passion engravings, this related image of Christ’s head crowned with thorns is a stand-alone print;…
Chien mort (c.1830)
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Chien mort (Dead Dog) c.1830 Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 87.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Saint Cecilia (c.1900)
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Saint Cecilia c.1900 Stained and painted glass, 213.5 x 75.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This window is the result of a collaboration between the Pre-Raphaelite painter Burne-Jones and the firm founded by William Morris, who initiated…