Romanticism

William V. Ganis, PhD

Thomas Gainsborough
Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1787
oil on canvas
7 ft. 2 5/8 in. x 5 ft. 5/8 in.

Antoine-Jean Gros
Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffa
1804
oil on canvas
17 ft. 5 in. x 23 ft. 7 in.

Jacques-Louis David
Napoleon at St. Bernards Pass
1800
oil on canvas
9 ft. 11 1/2 in. x 7 ft. 2 in.

Anne-Louis Trioson
The Burial of Atala
1808
oil on canvas
6 ft. 11 in. x 8 ft. 9 in.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Carceri 14
ca. 1750
etching
1 ft. 4 in. x 1 ft. 9 in.

Henry Fuseli
The Nightmare
1781
oil on canvas
3 ft. 4 in. x 4 ft. 2 in.

William Blake
Ancient of Days
frontispiece of Europe: A Prophecy
1794
metal relief etching, hand colored
9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.

William Blake
Infant Joy
from Songs of Innocence
1789
metal relief etching, hand colored

Francisco Goya
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
from Los Caprichos
ca. 1798
etching and aquatint
8 1/2 x 6 in.

Francisco Goya y Lucientes

The Maja Clothed
c. 1800
oil on canvas
37 3/8 x 74 in.

Francisco Goya y Lucientes

The Maja Nude
c. 1800
oil on canvas
38 5/8 x 75 1/4 in.

Francisco Goya
Family of Charles IV
1800
oil on canvas
9 ft. 2 in. x 11 ft.

Francisco Goya
The Third of May, 1808
1814
oil on canvas
8 ft. 8 in. x 11 ft. 3 in.

Francisco Goya y Lucientes

The Giant
c. 1808
oil on canvas
45 5/8 x 41 3/8 in.

Francisco Goya
Saturn Devouring His Children
1819-1823
fresco on canvas
4 ft. 9 in. x 2 ft. 8 in.

Thodore Gricault
Raft of the Medusa
1818-1819
oil on canvas
16 x 23 ft.

Thodore Gricault
Insane Woman (Envy)
1822-1823
oil on canvas
2 ft/ 4 in. x 1 ft. 9 in.

Eugne Delacroix
Paganini
1831
oil on cardboard on wood panel
17 5/8 x 11 7/8 in.

Eugne Delacroix
Death of Sardanapalus
1826
oil on canvas
12 ft. 1 in. x 16 ft. 3 in.

Eugne Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People
1830
oil on canvas
8 ft. 6 in. x 10 ft. 8 in.

Eugne Delacroix
Tiger Hunt
1854
oil on canvas
2 ft. 5 in. x 3 ft.

Franois Rude
La Marseillaise
Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France
1833-1836
42 x 26 ft.

Antoine-Louis Barye
Jaguar Devouring a Hare
1850-51
bronze
approximately 1 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. 1 in.

Caspar David Friedrich

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
1818
oil on canvas

Caspar David Friedrich

The Polar Sea (Sea of Ice)
1823-1825
oil on canvas
96.7 x 126.9 cm

Caspar David Friedrich

Abbey in the Oak Forest
1810
oil on canvas
3 ft. 7 1/2 in. x 5 ft. 7 1/4 in.

Caspar David Friedrich

Monk by the Sea
1809-10
oil on canvas

Thomas Cole
The Oxbow
1836
oil on canvas
4 ft. 3 1/2 in. x 6 ft. 4 in.

Albert Bierstadt
Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California
1868
oil on canvas
6 ft. x 10 ft.

Frederic Edwin Church

Twilight in the Wilderness
1860s
oil on canvas
3 ft. 4 in. x 5 ft. 4 in.

John Constable
The Haywain
1821
oil on canvas
4 ft. 3 in. x 6 ft. 2 in.

Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Slave Ship
1840
oil on canvas
2 ft. 11 11/16 in. x 4 ft. 5/16 in.

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Rain, Steam and Speed
1844
oil on canvas
3 ft. 11 3/4 in. x 4 ft.

Pre-Raphaelites

John Everett Millais

Ophelia
1852
oil on canvas
2 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 8 in.

Her clothes spread wide,

And mermaidlike awhile they bore her upWhich time she chanted snatches of old tunes,
As one incapable of her own distress.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Proserpine
ca. 1877
oil on canvas
4 ft. 1 3/4 in. x 2 ft.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Beata Beatrix
ca. 1863
oil on canvas
2 ft. 10 in. x 2 ft. 2 in.

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

The Baleful Head
1886-87
oil on canvas

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

The Merciful Knight
1886-87
oil on canvas

John William Waterhouse

The Magic Circle
1886
oil on canvas

Late 19th C. Architecture

Charles Barry & A.W.N. Pugin

Houses of Parlaiment
London, England
designed 1835

John Nash
Royal Pavilion
Brighton, England
1815-1818

J.L. Charles Garnier

The Opra
Paris, France
1861-1874

Henri Labrouste
Reading room of the
Bibliothque Saint-Genevive
Paris, France
1843-1850

Joseph Paxton
Crystal Palace
London, England
1850-1851

Early Photography

Louis-Jacques-Mand Daguerre
Still Life in Studio
1837
Daguerreotype

Eugne Durieu & Eugne Delacroix

Draped Model (back view)
ca. 1854
albumen print
7 5/16 x 5 1/8 in.

Josiah Johnson Hawes and Albert Sands Southworth

Early Operation under Ether, Massachusetts General Hospital
ca. 1847
Daguerreotype

Nadar (Gaspard-Flix Tournachon)

Eugne Delacroix
1855
gelatin-silver print

Nadar (Gaspard-Flix Tournachon)

Sarah Barnhardt
1865
gelatin-silver print

Julia Margaret Cameron

Ophelia, Study no. 2
1867
albumen print
1 ft. 1 in. x 10 2/3 in.

Lewis Carroll
Xie Kitchin reclining with parasol
1876
albumen print

Timothy OSullivan
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863
1863
gelatin-silver print

Gertrude Ksebier
Blessed Art Thou among Women
1899
platinum print on Japanese tissue
9 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.