#1868 paintings

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Ruins of a Gothic chapel at full moon, 1868. ― Felix Kreutzer (German, 1835-1876)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (German, 1750-1812) Amalie von Levetzow (1788-1868), 1803 The 15-year-old Amalie of Levetzow appears delicate, graceful and almost floating. The life-size portrait was created on the occasion of her wedding, whereupon the pigeon with the myrtle branch. Tischbein was a sought-after portraitist. He had trained with his uncle in Kassel as well as in Paris and Rome and gave his figures with great painting fineness and liveliness. Amalie became the mother of Ulrike von Levetzow, who fell in love with Marienbad, 72-year-old Goethe 17 years later.

[liriostigre]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith

[pre-raphaelisme]

A Saint of the Eastern Church (formerly called A Greek Acolyte) by Simeon Solomon, 1867-1868

[marejadilla]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Venus Verticordia”, 1868, oil on canvas. English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Symbolism. Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.

[ilions-end]

i've seen the term "prix de rome" pop up in descriptions of several artworks i've reblogged here. apparently it was a prestige competition where artists competed in making the best depiction of a specific motif for that year (mostly taken from mythology or ancient history). what i DESPERATELY need is a table overview of each year's subject and participiants (not just winners!!), which the internet is NOT giving me

anyway here are the epic cycle-related motifs i've managed to find traces of so far:

(some years show two subjects, i'm guessing this is either a mistake in my sources, or the painting, sculpture and composing-competitions were working off different motifs)

1717: aphrodite asking hephaestus for armour for aeneas

1769: achilles placing the body of hector before the body of patroclus

1771: the battle between athena and ares

1801: achilles receiving agamemnon's envoys

1803: aeneas' flight from troy

1809: priam at achilles' feet

1810: the wrath of achilles

1812: odysseus and telemachus slaying the suitors

1815: briseis mourning patroclus

1816: oenone refusing to heal paris, OR odysseus and neoptolemus finding philoctetes

1817: helen saved by castor and polydeuces

1820: achilles rewarding nestor the prize for wisdom at the funeral games

1822: orestes and pylades

1823: aegisthus discovering the body of clytemnestra

1825: antigone burying polynices

1831: achilles pursued by xanthus

1843: oedipus exiled from thebes

1845: odysseus and nausicaa

1849: odysseus recognized by eurycleia

1850: the death of achilles

1852: philoctetes on lemnos

1854: hector and astyanax

1859: aeneas in latium

1860: orestes resting at the altar of athena

1861: the death of priam / the fall of troy, OR chryseis reunited with her father

1866: thetis delivering the divine armour to achilles

1868: the death of astyanax

1871: oedipus and the corpses of his wife and sons

1875: clytemnestra (just. clytemnestra?)

1876: priam at the feet of achilles AGAIN

1880: odysseus and telemachus reunited

1881: the wrath of achilles AGAIN

1883: oedipus cursing polynices

1888: odysseus and nausicaa AGAIN

1912: oedipus finding his dead sons

1934: odysseus and calypso

[venustapolis]

Dawn (Adolphe Alexandre, 1868)

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[vizuart]

[bishopsbox]

source: bishopsbox

Hugues Merle (French, 1823-1881-mary)

Magdalene in the cave (1868)

[onenakedfarmer]

Daily Painting

Frédéric Bazille PORTRAIT OF PAUL VERLAINE (1868)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔈𝔵𝔢𝔠𝔲𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔈𝔪𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔬𝔯 𝔐𝔞𝔵𝔦𝔪𝔦𝔩𝔦𝔞𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔐𝔢𝔵𝔦𝔠𝔬, 𝔟𝔶 É𝔡𝔬𝔲𝔞𝔯𝔡 𝔐𝔞𝔫𝔢𝔱 𝔬𝔦𝔩 𝔬𝔫 𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔳𝔞𝔰, շՏշ × ՅօՏ 𝔠𝔪.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Louis Matout (French, 1811-1888) Assembly of the Gods Fresco, 1868 Louvre Museum, Paris

[archivediver]

Train Depot

[pre-raphaelisme]

The Traveller by Ford Madox Brown, 1868

[waldires]

The Dead Alchemist, 1868 by Elihu Vedder (1836-1923), oil on panel 36,6x51 cm. Brooklyn Museum