David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Cupidon et Psyché (Cupid and Psyche) 1817 Oil on canvas, 184.2 x 241.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Jacques-Louis David included two butterflies in this painting: one above the slumbering Psyche and the other on the base…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) L’enlèvement de Psyché (The Abduction of Psyche) 1895 Oil on canvas, 209 x 120 cm Private collection See also: • Apuleius (c.124-c.170): Psyche et Cupido (Latin)
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Scapegoat 1854–1855 oil on canvas, 33.7 x 45.9 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Vividly coloured depiction of a russet coloured goat on the brink of death. The goat stands in the centre foreground, head lowered, haunches caving…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Scapegoat 1854–1856 Oil on canvas, 86 x 140 cm Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Hunt designed the frame himself to complement the painting. William Holman Hunt‘s ‘The Scapegoat’ is one of the most popular…
Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Deux femmes portant des paniers en Martinique (Two Basket-Bearing Women in Martinique) 1889 Watercolour on paper, 22.1 x 30.4 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam See also: • Martinique (France)
Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Femmes au bord de la mer, esquisse (Women by the sea, sketch) 1887–1889 Oil on canvas, 65 x 91.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Martinique (France)
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Mountain Scene 1908 Watercolor and gouache over graphite, 25.4 x 35.6 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Sargent mastered the medium of watercolor as an adolescent, rapidly perfecting and gradually simplifying his virtuoso technique. He produced watercolors…
Ruskin, John (1819-1900) Snow Capped Alps c.1845–1849 Watercolor, 7 x 17.8 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nu dans un paysage (Nude in a Landscape) c.1887 Oil on canvas, 21 x 31.7 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Le Sommeil des Paysans (The Sleep of the Peasants) c.1808–1812 Oil on wood panel, 77.5 x 57.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Impatient with studio routine, Géricault spent four years teaching himself by copying paintings in the…