Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Sketch for The Woodman’s Daughter 1850 Graphite with touches of pen and brown ink, 24.4 x 17.2 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This small graphite sketch is a study for a celebrated painting from 1851 by…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Zuffa di dei marini (Battle of the Sea Gods) c.1470–1475 Engraving, 30.5 x 43.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This engraving by Mantegna, court painter to the Gonzaga family in Mantua, manifests the revival of classical antiquity…
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
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Perseus and the Graiae 1877 Oil, gold leaf, silver leaf and gesso on oak, 152 x 169 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This extraordinary work occupies the boundary between painting and sculpture, and was the centrepiece of one…
Morris, William (1834-1896) La Belle Iseult 1858 Oil on canvas, 71.8 x 50.2 cm Tate Britain, London This is the only completed easel painting that William Morris produced. It is a portrait in medieval dress of Jane Burden, whom Morris married…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Perseus and Andromeda (study for The Doom Fulfilled) 1875 Gouache with gold paint on board, 33 x 30.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Compare: Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Doom Fulfilled 1888 Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Ariadne 1863–1864 Watercolor and gouache over graphite on paper, 123.8 x 54 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Portrait du peintre Degas (Portrait of Degas, from Life) 1876 Drypoint, 23 x 14.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Compare: Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Degas 1876 National Gallery of Art, Washington Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Edgar Degas 1878 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge …
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le Cauchemar (The Nightmare) published 1832 Lithograph, 23.3 x 29.4 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Daumier, along with his editor and fellow caricaturist Charles Philipon, scandalized the monarchy of Louis-Philippe through his increasingly critical depictions of the…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Venus and Amor c.1518–1520 Oil on wood panel, 101.5 x 37.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton