#nineteenth century paintings

[livingwiththeinternet]

Léon-François Comerre, The Flower Seller

[bottegapowerpoint]

Alfred Stevens, La Dame En Bleu

[pintoras]

Virginie Géo-Rémy (French, 1846-1924): L'Éventail de grand-mère (1886) (via Wikimedia Commons)

[galleryofart]

Chrysanthemums

Artist: Berthe Morisot (French, 1841-1895)

Date: 1885

[museumaddictsanonymous]

Isidore Pils, Study of a Reclining Nude, c. 1841.

[artemlegere]

Sleeping Beauty

Artist: Richard Eisermann

Date: 1881

Medium: Oil on canvas

[art-portraits]

Bubbles

Artist: John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)

Date: 1886

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Museums Liverpool, United Kingdom

Description

This wide-eyed young boy looks up in wonder at a large bubble he has just blown. The bowl in his lap is full of soapsuds, and the pipe in his hand is for blowing bubbles. This is one of the best-known works by the Victorian artist, John Everett Millais. As a young artist, Millais was one of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, but he painted this work in his fifties, when the bright colours and precise details of his earlier work had given way to darker tones and looser brushwork. The young boy was his grandson, William Milbourne James, who was about four years of age at the time. Millais called it 'A Child's World', referring to the utter engrossment of children. But there's a moral here too, which derives from 17th-century Dutch paintings. The bubbles represent the brevity of human life: just as bubbles inevitably burst, thus youth and innocence also pass. But this image has endured, because the year after it was painted it was bought by the chairman of Pear's Soap and reproduced as a poster. It was probably the first work of art ever to be used in advertising. The message was clear: wash with Pear's and you'll be as clean and pure as this child.

[marietheran-archived]

The Violinist, Emma Irlam Briggs

[wszystkoinicmarysia]

George Frederic Watts

by Louis Reid Deuchars, after a photograph by George Andrews

oil on canvas, 1899

[art-allegory]

Mercy's Dream

Artist: Daniel Huntington (American, 1816-1906)

Genre: Allegorical Art

Date: 1841

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Description

"Mercy's Dream" was the first great success of Daniel Huntington's career. In its large scale, the painting utilized the vocabulary of the old masters that Huntington had seen while studying in Europe. The sweetness of the figure of Mercy is reminiscent of a Raphael Madonna, while the elegant curve of the angel's body and upraised hand recall the 'figura serpentinata' of Michelangelo. The subject matter, however, was one that held strong appeal for an American audience: John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," the epic religious allegory of the seventeenth century that was the best-selling book in the United States in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, after the Bible. In Part II, the character of Mercy experiences a dream that inspires her fellow pilgrims to continue their quest. Alone and downcast, Mercy is comforted by an angel, who blesses her, adorns her in jewelry, and transports her to a golden gateway, where she is brought into the presence of God. Huntington's composition closely follows the narrative, from Mercy's sumptuous clothes to the crown the angel bestows upon her. This vision of salvation struck a chord with the public, appearing as a popular print. Huntington made three other versions of the subject.

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[bottegapowerpoint]

Henri Gervex, Un mardi, soirée chez Madeleine Lemaire

[pintoras]

Harriet Randall Lumis (American, 1870-1953): Summer Morning (via Bonhams)

[galleryofart]

The Lovers

Artist: William Powell Frith (British, 1819–1909)

Date: 1855

Medium: Oil on board

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

[museumaddictsanonymous]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Reverie, 1868

[artemlegere]

Surrealist Landscape

Artist: Peter Purver Smith (Australian, 1912-1949)

Date: 1938

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia