A few weeks ago several Art Renewal Center people met in New York to view some 19th century paintings being auctioned off later that week. There was a lot of amazing stuff to be seen there including some artists I had not been aware of. Here are a few highlights of what I saw there.
View of a Fjord, Adelsteen Normann
A Water Nymph, Leon-Jean-Bastile Perrault, 1898
Young Roman Water Carrier, Diogene-Uylsse-Napoleon Maillart
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is best known for his portraits, but I have been interested to discover that he did quite a number of public murals, some of them at the very end of his life. They are quite a contrast in style from his more famous work. Here are a few examples.
Apollo and the Muses, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, John Singer Sargent, 1921
Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture Protected by Athena from the Ravages of Time, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, John Singer Sargent, 1921
Atlas and the Hesperides, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, John Singer Sargent, 1925
Boston Public Library, John Singer Sargent, 1895
Ceiling Mural, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, John Singer Sargent, 1921
Chiron and Achilles, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, John Singer Sargent, 1921
Hercules, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, John Singer Sargent, 1921
Israelites Oppressed, Boston Public Library, John Singer Sargent, 1895
Orestes Pursued by the Furies, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, John Singer Sargent, 1921
The Sphinx and the Chimera, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, John Singer Sargent, 1921
Brian Shapiro recently pointed out that the Bouguereau I posted last week was incomplete (the feet were cut off) and he was right! Here’s what the whole thing looks like. It has a nicer color than the one I found as well. Thanks Brian!
Along the way I also found the following pair of Bouguereau studies on the same site…
Etude de tete de Femme Blonde de, profil , William Bouguereau, c. 1898
Etude de tete de Femme Blonde de, face , William Bouguereau, c. 1898
Speaking of paintings I had not seen before, I found this William Bouguereau (1825-1905) painting that I had not seen before in Christie’s catalog. It’s apparently already in the upcoming catalogue raisonne, though not the ARC site, but I certianly had not encountered it before.
I was reading through some books this weekend and I spotted a painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), apparently long hidden in the private colelction of Henry W. Oliver. It’s not in my own Alma-Tadema page nor (based on a quick look) on the ARC site either. Here it is…
Previously, my only exposure to Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864) had been little more than his Naked Young Man Sitting by the Sea, but this past week I found a co
Here’s something a little unusual from Francesco Hayez (1791-1882) commissioned by Count Girolamo Malfatti using the model ballerina Carlotta Chabert, the nobleman’s mistress.
Venus Playing with Two Doves, Francesco Hayez, 1830
Here’s another new find from another little-known artist (to me at least). This particular painting was based on a popular serial novel by Eugene Sue called Les Mysteres de Paris.
Rigolette Seeks to Distract Herself During the Absence of Germain, Joseph-Desire Court, 1844
I found a few wonderful pieces by Andrea Appiana (1745-1817) (an artist whose work I was only vaguely aware of previously) and I thought I should share them with you all.
Fydor Bruni (1802-1875) was a Russian born in Italy who returned there after childhood to paint. This particular painting seems a few years ahead of its time in its style in some respects but with some sixteenth century Venetian influences as well.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) has long been one of my favorite sculptors, and therefore I think it’s fitting that I feature him in the first sculpture posting here. One of my favorite Carpeaux sculptures is The Triumph of Flora, but I never knew where it was located…
Eve Tempted, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1871
Imperial France Enlightening the World and The Triumph of Flora, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1863-1866
The Triumph of Flora, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1865
I have long found Caspar David Friedrich’s (1774-1840) paintings to have a certain haunting quality that is hard to put my finger on, and when I was doing some additional research on his work I found a few of his fellow Germans of the same era with a similar kind of quality. Here are a few of them…
Megalithic Grave in Winter, Johan Christian Clausen Dahl (1788-1857), 1825
Cemetary on Mount Oybin, Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869), 1828
Another artist I posted a series of examples of in a previous incarnation of this blog of Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) paintings. Since these are relatively hard to come by, I thought I would repost them here again so that they will stay alive on the Net.
A Reading, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, 1897
Before a Mirror, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, 1910
Comedia, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, 1895
Commerce and Agriculture Bringing Weath to Detroit, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, 1906
In an earlier version of my blog, I posted a collection of Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854-1931) paintings that along the way got lost in the shuffle. In order to prevent them from being lost to the Net, I thought I would post them again.
Sheldon Lichter has been looking for a good image of Chasseriau’s The Toilet of Esther and I’m happy to oblige. The original painting is somewhat damaged, but I managed to clean it up quite a bit. Here it is…
Esther Preparing to be Presented to King Ahasuerus or The Toilet of Esther, 1841
Another artist I have had an eye out for for years is Edward Poynter (1836-1919), and I managed to find some interesting images I thought I would share with you all. One is a wonderful finished painting and the other is a study the demonstrates how thoroughly artists like Poynter understood anatomy and used that knowledge to make their paintings. No doubt David Hockney fans would claim that this proves that Poynter had an X-ray machine.
Andromeda, 1869
Study for the Fresco at St. Stephens in Dunwich, 1872-3
Annie Swynnerton (1844-1933) is an artist I have always found interesting, but I rarely found examples of her work and the images were rarely of good quality. Fortunately, I managed to find a couple of good examples and I thought I would share them with you all. Enjoy!
I did some digging for interesting turn of the century (and a little after) artists and came up with a few nice tidbits to share. The Blashfield Angel with The Flaming Sword is a little reminiscient of VonStuck’s painting with the same theme. I have been looking for more Elihu Vedder works for a while and one of them was among my finds…
Paris Nude, Rolf Armstrong, 1919-1921
Head of a Young Woman, Elihu Vedder, 1900
King Lear: Cordelia’s Farewell, Austin Edwin Abbey
The Angel with The Flaming Sword, Edwin Howland Blashfield, 1893
Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids, Theodore Chasseriau, 1840
Chasseriau’s Andromeda painting was subject to a lot of damage and required a lot of digital restoration (by me) to achieve the kind of image quality below. Want to see how bad it started out?
On the GoodArt list someone commented that some of the figures looked a little like Tamada de Lempicka. I also see some similarities to some William Paxton paintings as well, for example:
I got some very positive comments about my last batch, so here are a few more Chasseriau paintings:
Apollo and Daphne, 1845Portrait of Dominique Lacordaire, 1840Portrait of Ernest Chasseriau, 1835Ali Ben-Hamet, Caliph of Constantine and Chief of the Haractas, Followed by his Escort, 1845
