Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Persée et Andromède (Perseus and Andromeda) c.1819 Oil on canvas, 19.7 × 16.2 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Ingres‘s vulnerable figure of Andromeda is the “classic” idealized figure study. The fact that she is being…
(1819–1900) The artist’s works: Snow Capped Alps c.1845–1849 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Budding Sycamore 1875 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Head of lake of Geneva s.d. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Sketches of a secretary vulture s.d. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton View of S. Anastasia…
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Tête d’homme guillotiné (Head of a Guillotined Man) 1818–1819 Oil on panel, 48.5 × 29.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Théodore Géricault painted this macabre image directly from life. The artist is known to have acquired corpses from…
Constable, John (1776-1837) The White Horse 1818–1819 Oil on canvas, 127 x 183 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This six-foot-wide canvas was something new for a 19th-century artist: it’s a sketch the same size as the final painting (now in the…
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Lions dans un paysage montagneux (Lions in a Mountainous Landscape) c.1818–1820 Oil on wood, 48.3 x 59.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This vigorous painting of six lions in a remote, spectrally illuminated lair—possibly intended to…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Francesca da Rimini et Paolo Malatesta (Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta) 1819 Oil on canvas, 235 cm x 165 cm Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Paolo et Francesca 1814 Musée Condé, Chantilly …
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Paolo et Francesca (Paolo and Francesca) 1819 Oil on canvas, 50 x 41 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Francesca da Rimini et Paolo Malatesta 1819 Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne Ingres,…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Études (Studies of a Head of a Man, Hands of Saint John for Christ Offering Saint Peter the Keys to Paradise, and Hooded Capuchin monk) c.1817–1820 Oil on canvas, 45.1 x 32.4 cm Rhode Island…
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…