#oil on canvas
Detail from “Portrait of Eleanor, Countess of Lauderdale”(c.1780)
byAngelica Kauffmann(1741-1807)
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Contemplations
Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893), British painter.
Belonging to the Aesthetic movement, he will care to paint scenes inspired by Antiquity, with neoclassical veils, flowers and young thoughtful women.
Dying prematurely from an incurable disease, he will continue to practice his art until his death.
(Oil paintings details. The pictures show, in order : Apricots, unknown date ; The Green Butterfly, between 1879 and 1881 ; A Musician, circa 1867 ; Dreamers, unknown date ; A workbasket, 1879 ; Seagulls, unknown date ; The Quartet, a Painters Tribute to Music, 1868 ; Topaz, before 1887 ; A Garden, 1869 ; and finally, Shuttlecock, 1867)
The Beauty of the End
John Martin (1789-1854), English painter and engraver.
This romantic artist will be particularly inspired by the apocalyptic evocations of the Bible, which he will sublimate by representing the gigantism of fury of the elements.
(Oil paintings details. The pictures show, in order : The Great Day of His Wrath, circa 1851 ; The Pandemonium, circa 1841 ; Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still, circa 1840 ; The Destruction Of Sodom And Gomorrah, 1852 ; Manfred and the Alpine Witch, 1837 ; The Bard, circa 1817 ; The Last Judgement, 1853 ; Macbeth, 1820 ; The restored version of The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum, circa 1821 ; and finally, The Seventh Plague, 1823)
Tenebrism
José de Ribera (1591-1652), Spanish painter and engraver.
Belonging to the Baroque era, this artist will be one of the leaders of Tenebrism, few decades after the Caravaggio and his chiaroscuro. He will paint many religious paintings in this heavy atmosphere, and consequently his works remains really impressive today.
(Oil paintings details. The pictures show, in order: The Trinity, after 1935 ; Touch, circa 1630 ; The Penitent Magdalen, between 1609 and 1611 ; Ecce homo, circa 1620 ; St. Peter and St. Paul, circa 1616 ; St. Simeon with the Christ child, 1647 ; St. Sebastian cured by the Holy Women, 1621 ; St. Bartholomew, 1751 ; Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, between 1620 and 1624 ; and, finally, St. Francis of Assisi, 1643)
Oil paintings by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), Prussian architect and painter.
(The pictures show, in order: Cathedral over a city or Medieval Town by Water, circa 1830 ; Gothic church on a Rock by the Sea, 1815, and Gothic Cathedral with Imperial Palace, 1815)
Getaways
Georges Jules Victor Clairin (1843-1919), French painter.
He is renowned for his portraits of Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), to whom he was bounded by a beautiful friendship ; he portrayed her in many of the roles in which she has distinguished herself.
His paintings will for the most part be Orientalist, as the result of his numerous travels and his thirst for original and new aesthetics.
(Oil paintings details. The pictures show, in order : Sarah Bernhardt in the role of Sainte Therese d'Avila, circa 1906 ; The Sultan’s Favorites, 1875 ; Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, 1876 ; Spanish Woman on Balcony, 1919 ; Sarah Bernhardt in the role of Izeyl, circa 1894 ; Ophelia, unknown date ; Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, circa 1900 ; The Arrival of the Guests, Venice, before 1919; Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, circa 1871 ; and, finally, An Ouled-Naïl Tribal Dancer, 1895)
Sweet Decadence
Hans Makart (Johann Ferdinand Apollonius Makart,1840-1884), Austrian painter and decorator.
Particularly known for his influence on Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), he will embody an important figure of the Viennese art scene of his time. His dazzling career was stopped by his premature death. His style, sophisticated and nervous, bathed of brown and reddish hues, reflects his era, full of luxury and frivolities.
(Oil paintings details. The pictures show, in order: The Death of Cleopatra, 1875 ; Allegory of Painting, 1882 ; Gothic funerary church of St. Michael, side view, 1883 ; The Entrance of Emperor Charles V into Antwerp in 1520, 1878 ; Offering Scene, 1880 ; Portrait of Dora Fournier-Gabillon, 1879-1880 ; Charlotte Wolter as Messalina ; 1875 ; Abundantia, The Gifts of Earth, circa 1870 ; The Japanese, between 1870-1875 ; and, finally, The Sleeping Snow White, 1872)
One Thousand and One Wonders
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), American painter who lived mainly in Europe.
Affiliated with the Impressionist movement, he will be particularly renowned for his portraits, combining the sophistication of his style and the colours and light studies of the Impressionists. He will be particularly prolific, and will paint nearly 900 canvases and 2000 watercolors throughout his career.
(The pictures show, in order: Mrs. Fiske Warren - Gretchen Osgood - and Her Daughter Rachel, 1903 ; Hercules, 1921 ; Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, detail, 1885-1886 ; Portrait of Mrs A Lawrence Rotch, 1903 ; An Artist in His Studio, 1904 ; Portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888 ; Portrait of Mrs. Elliott Fitch Shepard, 1888 ; Simplon Pass: The Tease, 1911 ; Orestes Pursued by the Furies, 1921 ; and finally, Miss Beatrice Townsend, 1882)
Alice Pike Barney (1857-1931)
“Dream Book” (1901)
Oil on canvas
Located in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, United States
Pieter Snyers (1681-1752)
“Still Life with Tistle and Nest”
Oil on canvas
Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861-1919)
“To Bed” (1897)
Oil on canvas
Realism
Currently in a private collection
François-André Vincent (1746-1816)
“The Ploughing Lesson” (1798)
Oil on canvas
Neoclassical
Located in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
“La folie”
Oil on canvas
Located in the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales
