Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Le baiser (The Kiss) c.1816–1817 Charcoal, wash and gouache on brown paper, 20 x 27.4 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Having failed to win the Academy prize that would finance a study trip to Italy, in 1816 Géricault decided…
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Guerrier nu avec une lance (Nude Warrior with a Spear) c.1816 Oil on canvas, 93.6 x 75.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington At the age of nineteen, Théodore Gericault entered the Parisian studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, a successful…
Constable, John (1776-1837) Wivenhoe Park, Essex 1816 Oil on canvas, 56.1 x 101.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look out onto a landscape with low, grassy hills to the left, a lake to the right, and a brick building in…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Disparate de bestia (Animal Folly) 1816–1824 (published 1877) Etching and aquatint on paper, 24.6 x 35.6 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Disparate de tontos (Fool’s Folly) c.1815–1823, printed posthumously before 1877 Etching and aquatint, 24.1 x 35.2 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Fool’s Folly is among four prints from Los Disparates first published in the French magazine…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Naiade (Naiad) model 1815–1817, carved 1820–1823 Marble, 80 x 190 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Naiade 1819–1824 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Paride (Paris) 1807–1816 Marble, 205 x 99 x 55 cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Terpsichore Lyran (Muse of Lyric Poetry) 1816 Marble, 177.5 x 78.1 x 61 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Trained by his grandfather, an Italian stonemason, Canova began modeling clay and carving marble sculptures before age ten. In…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Teseo e il centauro (Theseus and the Centaur) 1804–1819 Marble, h. 340 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Le tre Grazie (Three Graces) 1813–1816 Marble, h. 182 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg A late work by Canova, The Three Graces was produced at a time when the artist was so famous that the public eagerly awaited…