Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Lady Lilith c.1866 Chalk on paper, 62 x 57 cm Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Lady Lilith 1867 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Cornforth, Fanny (1835-1909) | Goethe,…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Méphistophélès chez Marthe (Mephistopheles at Martha’s House, from Goethe’s Faust) 19th Century Lithograph on paper, 45.6 x 29.6 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester See also: • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
(1759–1805) Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Works: • Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays (English) • Briefe Schillers und Goethes an A. W. Schlegel (German) • Demetrius (English) • Der Neffe als Onkel (German) • Der Parasit, oder die Kunst (German) •…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Lady Lilith 1867 Watercolor and gouache, 51.3 x 44 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Fascinated by women’s physical allure, Rossetti here imagines a legendary femme fatale as a self-absorbed nineteenth-century beauty who combs her hair…
(1828–1882) Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti The artist’s works: Self-Portrait 1847 National Portrait Gallery, London Ecce Ancilla Domini 1850 Tate Britain, London Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Private collection Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Tate Britain, London Paolo…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Jeune femme en costume du XVIe siècle (Young woman in 16th century costume) s.d. Pencil, red chalk, watercolor, 23.6 x 13.2 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Study for the painting kept in the Harrington Collection (Indianapolis), inspired by Goethe‘s…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Portrait de Goethe (Portrait of Goethe) 1828 Lithograph, 29.5 × 22.3 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Frontispiece from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published by Charles Motte, Paris, 1828. See also: • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von…
Guercino (1591-1666) Cristo risorto appare alla madre (The Resurrected Christ Appears to the Virgin) 1629 Oil on canvas, 260 x 179.5 cm Civica Pinacoteca Il Guercino, Cento Wrapped in a metallic-colored drapery, beautiful and solemn in his gait, with the flag…
(1798–1863) Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix The artist’s works: La Mise au tombeau d’après Titien 1820 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Un cheval attelé à un poteau c.1820 National Gallery of Art, Washington Dante et Virgile aux enfers 1822 Musée du Louvre, Paris Jeune orpheline au cimetière…
(1836–1902) Jacques Joseph Tissot The artist’s works: La danse de la mort 1860 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Le retour de l’enfant prodigue 1862 Petit Palais, Paris Le départ de l’enfant prodigue 1863 Petit Palais, Paris Autoportrait c.1865 Legion of Honor, San Francisco…