#19th century art
The Fugitive, Study for Timon of Athens, Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879), ca. 1857
Oil on canvas
65.7 x 84.8 cm
Statue of the Madonna in the Mountains, Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840), 1804
Brush and black ink and gray wash, with graphite, on cream wove paper
244 × 382 mm
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Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth, Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904), ca. 1885-1895
Oil on canvas
38.6 × 61.8 cm
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Still Life - Strawberries, Nuts, &c., Raphaelle Peale (American, 1774–1825), 1822
Oil on wood panel
41.1 × 57.8 cm
During Raphaelle Peale’s time, still life was not esteemed by most artists, relegated to the bottom of the hierarchy of painting subjects. Yet Peale ignored its low status and is now acknowledged as America’s first professional still-life painter and leading practitioner of the genre. Born into an artistic Philadelphia family, Raphaelle was the eldest son of Charles Willson Peale and the nephew of James Peale, both artists; his siblings were, like him, named after famous old master painters (he had brothers named Rembrandt, Titian, and Rubens). Characterized by crisp forms and serenely balanced compositions, most of Peale’s still lifes portray food, crockery, and glassware arranged on a plain shelf, parallel to the picture plane. In this particularly fine example, the rhythmic balance of fruit, nuts, and Chinese export porcelain is enlivened by the diagonal branch of grapes becoming raisins and an orange leaf. These objects are brightly illuminated against a bare, dark background in the manner of the dramatic still-life compositions of 17th-century painters such as Juan Sánchez Cotán. Peale may have seen the Spanish artist’s work when it was shown at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1818.
The Corner of the Villa (Detail)
Edward John Poynter, 1889
My entry for @timebird84‘s PotO art contest (Wrath).
I think I got a bit better with choosing colors, but I still prefer to have a clean lineart rather than this painterly look:/
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I like this dramatic pose very much. Early 19th-century engraving.
Many thanks to http://ladycashasatiger.tumblr.com/and http://symwates.tumblr.com/ for identification help with this image.
“Billy’s Ghost, or Seasonable Admonition” (1806) by W. Holland. William Pitt the Younger haunts Charles James Fox.
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“Sunset at Etretat”, c.1890, Eugène Boudin.
“A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight”, 1864, Claude Monet.
Vasili Silievich Vereshchagin (1842-1904) Pearl Mosque at Delhi, 1876-79
Christie’s, Russian Art, New York, Nov 1st
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