Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Les Baigneuses (Bathers) 1854 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 79.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford At the height of his career, Eugène Delacroix was challenged by a patron in 1854 to paint a scene of female bathers in a forest…
Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) La foire aux chevaux (The Horse Fair) 1852–1855 Oil on canvas, 244.5 x 506.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This, Bonheur’s best-known painting, shows the horse market held in Paris on the tree-lined Boulevard de l’Hôpital, near…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Vierge à l’hostie (The Virgin with the Host) 1854 Oil on canvas, diameter 113 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Repetition with variants of the Virgin painted in 1841 for the future Tsar Alexander II (Pushkin Museum, Moscow). Compare: Ingres,…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) La Maison familiale de Millet à Gruchy (Millet’s Family Home at Gruchy) 1854 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 73.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston See also: • Gruchy, Gréville-Hague (France)
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Christ en croix (Christ on the Cross) c.1853–1856 Pastel on paper, 24.7 x 16.5 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Cavalier arabe (Arab Rider) c.1854 Oil on panel, 35 x 26.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The taste for Oriental and exotic themes had spread across France during the 18th century and became more pronounced with the advent of…
(1837–1898) Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Herzogin in Bayern Empress consort of Austria (1854-1898) Queen consort of Hungary (1854-1898) Queen consort of Croatia (1854-1898) Queen consort of Bohemia (1854-1898) Queen consort of Lombardy–Venetia (1854-1866) Elisabeth in Film: Ludwig 1972 Director: Luchino Visconti…
(1854–1900) Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde Works: • A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane (1894) • A House of Pomegranates (1891) • A Woman of No Importance (1893) • An Ideal Husband (1895) • De profundis (1897) • Essays and Lectures • For Love of the King,…
(1854–1891) Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud Works: • Poésies complètes (French) Rimbaud in Art: Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Hommage à Rimbaud 1961 National Gallery of Art, Washington Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Coin de table 1872 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Rimbaud 1948 Detroit…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) L’Atelier du peintre (The Painter’s Studio) 1854–1855 Oil on canvas, 361 x 598 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris The enormous Studio is without doubt Courbet‘s most mysterious composition. However, he provides several clues to its interpretation: “It’s the whole world…