Edouard Manet - At the Café - Google Art Project
Google Cultural Institute Public domain photograph of Edouard Manet 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883 was a French painter and a prominent figure in... More
Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes 003
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Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes 007
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Christ sur la mer de Galilée (Delacroix) Walters Art Museum 37.186
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Adolphe Monticelli - Allegory - Walters 371990
Monticelli, an artist from Marseilles, enjoyed a considerable following in the Paris of Napoleon III (reigned 1852-70). He specialized in pastoral vistas, such as this view of elegantly attired women relaxing i... More
Adolphe Yvon - Portrait of Napoleon III - Walters 3795
Yvon served as the principal battle-painter of France's Second Empire (1852-70), executing a number of monumental canvases for the palace at Versailles. The French emperor is shown in his prime, two years befor... More
Alberto Pasini - Damascus - Walters 37193
From 1848-71, Pasini resided in Paris and found inspiration in the atmospheric North African views of Eugène Fromentin. In 1855, he accompanied a French diplomatic expedition to Iran and also stopped in Turkey ... More
Alexandre Cabanel - Napoleon III - Walters 37146
Cabanel enjoyed a rapid rise to fame, winning a first-class medal and being appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1855. He also became a professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1863. This... More
Alexandre Cabanel - Pandora - Walters 3799
Cabanel, a professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, specialized in portraits of "High Society." Here, he depicts the Swedish soprano Christine Nilsson as Pandora, the woman in Greek mythology... More
Alexandre Calame - The Jungfrau, Switzerland - Walters 37108
Calame established an international reputation with his dramatic views of Alpine scenery. Here, the snow-capped peak of the Jungfrau Mountain towers over the Lauterbrunnen Valley. He wrote of the site of this p... More
Alexandre Couder - Woman Kneeling in Prayer - Walters 371369
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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps - Sunset, Tombs Near Cairo - Walters 378
The composition of "A Well in the East," dated 1847, in the Wallace Collection, London (inv. no. P 263) has been reversed in this picture. The rich coloring of the sunset and the thick impasto of our picture ar... More
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps - The Suicide - Walters 3742
The palette, pistol, and note lying on the floor suggest the tragic sequence of events that has taken place. An artist overcome by adversity has taken his life. Although no particular victim is indicated, this ... More
Alexandre-Marie Guillemin - Aid for the Wounded (Sister of Charity) - ...
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Alexandre-Marie Guillemin - Interior with Italian Woman and Children -...
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Alexandre-Marie Guillemin - Italian Peasant Girls at Prayer - Walters ...
Alexandre Marie Guillemin (French, 1817-1880). 'Italian Peasant Girls at Prayer,' 1864. watercolor with graphite underdrawing, white heightening and gum heightening on moderately thick, heavily textured wove pa... More
Alfred Grevin - Man Bowing to a Woman - Walters 372806
On the Boulevard Montmartre in Paris in 1882, Alfred Grévin established the Musée Grévin, a wax works and toy museum, which remains popular among French children today. As this whimsical rendering of 19th-centu... More
Alfred Johannot - Aged Man Receiving Communion - Walters 371418
Alfred Johannot (French, 1800-1837). 'Aged Man Receiving Communion,' 1831. watercolor and graphite underdrawing with white heighteing and gum heightening on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove pap... More
Alphonse de Neuville - In the Trenches - Walters 37118
Members of the Garde Mobile (French expeditionary forces) are huddled in a shallow trench during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. De Neuville has conveyed the general misery and tedium between battles that i... More
Alphonse de Neuville - Information - Walters 3793
A mounted officer of the Engineers with map in hand is seeking directions from a peasant tending his flock with a dog. Another mounted soldier is visible in the background. A pen and ink drawing of this subject... More
Alphonse de Neuville - The Attack at Dawn - Walters 3740
The scene is a French town in the Jura region, near the Swiss border. As a bugler sounds the alarm, French troops (Algerian riflemen and members of the Garde Mobile) rush from an inn to defend themselves from t... More
André-Henri Dargelas - People Leaving Church in Winter - Walters 37131...
Andr�-Henri Dargelas (French, 1828-1906). 'People Leaving Church in Winter,' 1828-1906. watercolor and graphite with white heightening on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper. Walters Art Mus... More
Anne Vallayer-Coster - Queen Marie-Antoinette - Walters 38323
This miniature may be copied from a now-lost portrait of Marie-Antoinette by Anne Vallayer-Coster, who was one of the queen's favorite artists. Vallayer-Coster was celebrated for her still lifes, but she receiv... More
Anne Vallayer-Coster - Queen Marie-Antoinette - Walters 38323FXD
This miniature may be copied from a now-lost portrait of Marie-Antoinette by Anne Vallayer-Coster, who was one of the queen's favorite artists. Vallayer-Coster was celebrated for her still lifes, but she receiv... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Deer Walking - Walters 37811
Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1796-1875). 'Deer Walking,' 19th century. watercolor over graphite underdrawing on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper. Walters Art Museum (37.811): Acquired by Wi... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Elephant Asleep - Walters 37812
An Asian elephant, perhaps the one that arrived at the Jardin des Plantes in 1843, lies asleep in a small clearing in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Hints of red and yellow in the right background suggest that it... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Elephants - Walters 37826
Three Asian elephants graze on a desolate plain at sunset; the warm tones of the sky are repeated in the landscape. Barye's close friend at Barbizon, the landscape painter Théodore Rousseau (1812-67), is though... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Elephants in Water - Walters 37819
In a broad watery expanse, an elephant approaches while three others wade in the background. In 1825, the viceroy of Egypt presented the Jardin des Plantes with an African elephant, which lived until 1855.
Antoine-Louis Barye - Large Lion - Walters 37827
"Large Lion" shows a monumental lion staring directly at the viewer. Barye places the animal against an expansive landscape and an almost surreal orange sunset. This watercolor demonstrates well Barye's idiosy... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Leopard Eating - Walters 37828
Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1796-1875). 'Leopard Eating,' 19th century. watercolor and gum heightening on moderately textured, thick, cream wove paper. Walters Art Museum (37.828): Acquired by William T. Walte... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Lion and Python - Walters 37831
In a desolate landscape, a lion dramatically confronts a snake. In a letter to a patron, Barye identified the lion as coming from Senegal. The sculptor, late in life, has returned to a subject that he had first... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Lion and Serpent - Walters 37829
A lion attacking a snake is a recurrent theme in Barye's production. The artist has given the cat a particularly ferocious expression as it approaches its prey, a small cobra. For this watercolor, Barye worked ... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Lion at Rest - Walters 37816
Barye posed this majestic reclining lion against a background consisting of rocks and a gnarled oak tree, features familiar to him in the Forest of Fontainebleau.
Antoine-Louis Barye - Python Crushing a Gnu - Walters 37815
Barye has returned to a theme that he first explored in 1834-1839, when he modeled this subject as one of four animal combats that stood at the foot of the "Tiger Hunt" (Walters 27.176) in the duke of Orléans'... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Python in a Tree - Walters 37817
"Python in a Tree" represents a snake coiled around branches in a lush, verdant tropical forest setting. This work dates from Barye's maturity in the 1850s to 1860s and is among his most colorful watercolors. T... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Python Swallowing a Roe-Deer - Walters 37835
Although the pythons in the Jardin des Plantes were fed only small rodents, Barye was intrigued with literary accounts of these snakes swallowing much larger mammals.
Antoine-Louis Barye - Running Jaguar - Walters 37820
A jaguar, the only member of the panther family native to the Americas, was added to the collection of the Jardin des Plantes in January 1831. It survived only until October 1835. Barye portrays the wild cat in... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Stag and Doe - Walters 37821
A stag and a doe stand at the alert in a rocky area of the Fontainebleau forest.
Antoine-Louis Barye - Standing Lion - Walters 37832
In many of Barye's watercolors, the subjects appear in profile. This orientation resulted from his practice of using calques, or tracings, to transfer the outlines of the animals to the watercolor paper. He wou... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Tiger at Rest - Walters 37833
Although Barye is often regarded as the foremost animal sculptor of the 19th century, he also worked closely with a number of painters. He studied with the artist Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, and in the late 1820s,... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Tiger at Rest - Walters 37834
A Bengal tiger gazes directly at the viewer. Working in a technique popularized by British watercolorists in the early 19th century, Barye used thin washes of color to capture the atmospheric effects in the clo... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Tiger Rolling - Walters 37818
In this amusing scene, the tiger rolls on the ground, rubbing its back in a manner similar to that of domestic cats. The old oak tree resembles those that Barye sketched in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Barye re... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Tiger Walking - Walters 37823
It is evening, and a tiger is on the prowl looking for a meal. As was frequently his practice, especially in scenes of animals shown in profile, Barye probably used a tracing to compose the image.
Antoine-Louis Barye - Tiger Walking - Walters 37824
The animal sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye regularly visited the Forest of Fontainebleau from the late 1840s and rented a house at Barbizon starting in 1867. In his watercolors, he created imaginary scenes by inse... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Tiger Watching an Elephant - Walters 37825
In this twilight scene, a tiger on the alert observes an elephant running in the background.
Antoine-Louis Barye - Two Fallow Deer - Walters 37822
Fallow deer, distinguished by their flattened antlers, are a European species particularly common on the moors of England and Scotland. In this view, they roam across a rock-strewn plateau within the Forest of ... More
Antoine-Louis Barye - Two Lion Cubs - Walters 37830
In this tender scene, one lion cub rests his head against the haunches of the other.
Antoine-Louis Barye - Walking Bear - Walters 37814
A North American brown bear walks through a landscape dotted with large boulders and stubby pine trees characteristic of those found in the Forest of Fontainebleau.
Antoine-Émile Plassan - Devotion (Contemplation) - Walters 3745
A woman, wearing a nightgown with her shoulder exposed, places a strand of rosary beads on a devotional image mounted on the wall beside her bed. In this instance Plassan suggests a late 17th-century interior, ... More
Antoine-Émile Plassan - Disappointment - Walters 3756
A red-haired infant boy, enclosed in a wheeled wooden walker, angrily pursues a cat across the floor. In the right foreground lies an apple and one of the child's stockings. In the background appear a rococo-st... More
Antoine-Émile Plassan - Evening Prayer - Walters 3747
A young woman, wearing a white blouse with her shoulders bared and a long black skirt, kneels in prayer beside her bed. The furnishings of this contemporary bourgeois interior include a colorful oriental rug, a... More
Archille-Jean-Baptiste Zo - Marguerite in Church Listening to the Dies...
Archille-Jean-Baptiste Zo (French, 1826-1901). 'Marguerite in Church Listening to the Dies Irae,' ca. 1864. watercolor with graphite underdrawing and gum heightening on cream, moderately thick, moderately textu... More
Auguste Couder - Still Life with Fruit - Walters 371602
Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder (French, 1790-1873). 'Still Life with Fruit,' 1790-1873. watercolor with white heightening and graphite underdrawing on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper. Walter... More
Auguste Couder - Still Life with Fruit - Walters 371633
Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder (French, 1790-1873). 'Still Life with Fruit,' ca. 1865. watercolor with white heightening and graphite underdrawing on cream moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper. Walters ... More
Auguste-Antoine-Ernest Hébert - Going to the Well - Walters 37133
Auguste-Antoine-Ernest H�bert (French, 1817-1908). 'Going to the Well,' Before 1859. oil on canvas. Walters Art Museum (37.133): Acquired by William T. Walters, May 11, 1883.
Auguste-Antoine-Ernest Hébert - Returning from the Well - Walters 372
Auguste-Antoine-Ernest H�bert (French, 1817-1908). 'Returning from the well,' 1817-1908. oil on panel. Walters Art Museum (37.2): Acquired by W.T.Walters, between 1878 and 1884.
Auguste-Antoine-Ernest Hébert - Virgin of the Deliverance - Walters 37...
Hébert was yet another of the artists working in the orbit of Paul Delaroche whose name fell into relative obscurity in the last century. He was, in fact, like Delaroche, one of the most highly regarded and dec... More
Auguste-Emile Flick - The Beach at Fécamp - Walters 372641
Flick exhibited at the Paris Salons between 1870 and 1882. Although not a member of the impressionist group, he shared with them an interest in painting outdoors. His technique, however, with its attention to e... More
Bonaventure de Bar - Fête Champêtre - Walters 37413
This painting was originally attributed to Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater, an artist who specialized in idealized park scenes with amorous couples, known as "fêtes champêtres," a category of painting associated wit... More
Camille Pissarro - The Church at Eragny - Walters 372653
From 1884 until his death, Pissarro lived in relative isolation in Eragny-sur-Epte, a village in northwestern France. Though he participated in all eight Impressionist shows, his approach to painting continued ... More
Charles Béranger - Replica of The Hémicycle - Walters 3783 (2) Paul De...
This painting replicates Delaroche's most famous work, a mural in oils and wax (1836-41) in the auditorium of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France's most prestigious art school. Delaroche's pupil, Charles ... More
Charles Béranger - Replica of The Hémicycle - Walters 3783 (3) Paul De...
This painting replicates Delaroche's most famous work, a mural in oils and wax (1836-41) in the auditorium of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France's most prestigious art school. Delaroche's pupil, Charles ... More
Charles Béranger - Replica of The Hémicycle - Walters 3783 Paul Delaro...
copy after Paul Delaroche, Hémicycle des Beaux-arts, Beaux-Arts de Paris. English: This painting replicates Paul Delaroche's most famous work, a mural in oils and wax (1836-41) in the auditorium of the École d... More
Charles Camino - Arab Mendicant in Meditation - Walters 371336
Charles Camino (French, 1824-1888). 'Arab Mendicant in Meditation,' ca. 1860. watercolor and graphite underdrawing on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured, wove paper. Walters Art Museum (37.1336): Acquir... More
Charles Camino - Nun in Prayer - Walters 371306
Charles Camino (French, 1824-1888). 'Nun in Prayer,' 1884. watercolor with graphite underdrawing on cream, moderatly thick, slightly textured wove paper. Walters Art Museum (37.1306): Acquired by William T. Walters.
Charles Camino - Portrait of A L Barye - Walters 37999
Charles Camino (French, 1824-1888). 'Portrait of A. L. Barye,' 1884. watercolor over charcoal underdrawing on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper. Walters Art Museum (37.999): Commissioned by ... More
Charles Chaplin - Devotion - Walters 3746
Two peasant girls are kneeling in prayer. In front of them is a basket of flowers and a sickle.
Charles Chaplin - Girl in Confirmation Dress at Prayer - Walters 37132...
Charles Chaplin (French, 1825-1891). 'Girl in Confirmation Dress at Prayer,' ca. 1860. watercolor with graphite underdrawing and white heightening on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper. Walte... More
Charles Chaplin - Girl in White Dress - Walters 371405 (2)
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Charles Chaplin - Girl in White Dress - Walters 371405
Jean-L�on G�r�me (French, 1824-1904). 'Arab Standing in Prayer,' 1864. graphite on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper. Walters Art Museum (37.1305): Acquired by William T. Walters, 1864.
Charles Chaplin - Girl with Birds Nest - Walters 371593
Charles Chaplin (French, 1825-1891). 'Girl with Birds Nest,' 1862. opaque and transparent watercolor with graphite underdrawing on cream, moderately-thick, slightly textured wove paper. Walters Art Museum (37.1... More
Charles Chaplin - Venus and Cupid - Walters 371640
Charles Chaplin (French, 1825-1891). 'Venus and Cupid,' ca. 1850. watercolor with white and red chalk on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper. Walters Art Museum (37.1640): Acquired by William ... More
Charles Edouard Armand-Dumaresq - Cavalry Officers - Walters 371600
Charles Edouard Armand-Dumaresq (French, 1826-1895). 'Cavalry Officers,' 1860. watercolor with graphite underdrawing on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper. Walters Art Museum (37.1600): Acq... More
Charles Edouard Armand-Dumaresq - Cavalry on Parade - Walters 371587
Charles Edouard Armand-Dumaresq (French, 1826-1895). 'Cavalry on Parade,' 1862. watercolor with graphite underdrawing on cream, moderately-thick, moderately textured wove paper. Walters Art Museum (37.1587): Ac... More
Charles Edouard Armand-Dumaresq - Christian Peasant - Walters 371300
Charles Edouard Armand-Dumaresq (French, 1826-1895). 'Christian Peasant,' mid 19th century. watercolor with graphite underdrawing on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper. Walters Art Museum (37... More
Charles Edouard Armand-Dumaresq - Zouave Kneeling on Battlefield - Wal...
Charles Edouard Armand-Dumaresq (French, 1826-1895). 'Zouave Kneeling on Battlefield,' 1826-1895. watercolor with graphite underdrawing and gum heightening on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove pap... More
Charles Felix Blauvelt - Man Pouring a Drink at a Bar - Walters 371555
As a genre painter, Blauvelt specialized in small paintings, frequently of single figures.
Charles François Daubigny - Beach Scene - Walters 372379
Daubigny represents beached boats, mussel gatherers, and, to the right, the promontory of the Cap de la Hague, visible across the Seine estuary. The same cliffs are visible in the right distance of his large su... More
Charles François Daubigny - Landscape with Gleaners - Walters 3735
Daubigny spanned two generations of artists-the Barbizon school painters and the early impressionists. In his youth, he copied the works of the 17th-century masters Jacob van Ruisdael and Nicolas Poussin in the... More
Charles François Daubigny - Sunset on the Coast at Villerville - Walte...
Daubigny first visited Villerville in 1854 and returned each year thereafter. He built a lean-to hut for shelter and is known to have painted at least one of his large- scale paintings of the coast entirely on ... More
Charles François Daubigny - The Coming Storm; Early Spring - Walters 3...
Daubigny's loose, spontaneous brushwork and rich use of color provide a direct link with the work of the impressionists. Like his younger colleagues, he was also regularly criticized for producing mere "impress... More
Charles François Daubigny - Twilight - Walters 37128
During the 1860s, Daubigny began regularly painting moonlight scenes, evoking a mood of melancholy that his biographer Frédéric Henriet attributed to his advancing age. He cruised up and down the Seine River in... More
Charles François Jalabert - Italian Girl - Walters 3791 (2)
Jalabert, Paul Delaroche's most devoted pupil, was noted for his delicate style. This small painting of the young Italian model Maria Pasqua replicates a work entitled Maria Abruzeze that Jalabert exhibited at ... More
Charles François Jalabert - Italian Girl - Walters 3791
Jalabert, Paul Delaroche's most devoted pupil, was noted for his delicate style. This small painting of the young Italian model Maria Pasqua replicates a work entitled Maria Abruzeze that Jalabert exhibited at ... More
Charles François Jalabert - Nymphs Listening to the Songs of Orpheus -...
Charles Fran�ois Jalabert (French, 1819-1901). 'Nymphs Listening to the Songs of Orpheus,' 1853. oil on canvas. Walters Art Museum (37.37): Acquired by William T. Walters, before 1878.
Charles François Jalabert - Nymphs Listening to the Songs of Orpheus -...
Charles-Francois Jalabert (French, 1819-1901). 'Nymphs Listening to the Songs of Orpheus,' 1853. oil on canvas. Walters Art Museum (37.37): Acquired by William T. Walters, before 1878.
Charles François Jalabert - The Awakening - Walters 37106
This painting, once believed to be a reduced autograph replica (a copy by the original artist) after the prime Salon version exhibited in 1872, is now known to be a preparatory sketch dated 1863. Jalabert was a... More
Charles Gleyre - Lost Illusions - Walters 37184 Paul Delaroche
copy after Charles Gleyre, Illusions Perdues English: Gleyre claimed that "Lost Illusions" represented a vision that he had experienced on the evening of March 1, 1835, while sitting on the banks of the Nile R... More
Charles Louis Lesaint - Interior, St Etienne du Mont, Paris - Walters ...
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Charles Louis Lucien Müller - A Portrait - Walters 3775
A black-haired woman, clad in black with a red scarf, is shown shoulder-length posed against a neutral greenish-grey, shadowy ground. The lighting is from overhead, leaving the eyes in shadow. The subject's ide... More
Charles Monginot - Two Monkeys with Books, Viola, and Tambourine - Wal...
Charles Monginot (French, 1825-1900). 'Two Monkeys with Books, Viola, and Tambourine,' ca. 1860. watercolor with graphite and white chalk on beige, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper. Walters Art Mu... More
Charles Ramelet - Peasants Kneeling Before Shrine - Walters 371385
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Charles Émile Jacque - Chickens - Walters 3781
In a sunlit corner of a yard, poultry of various colors are perched on a mound of steaming straw.
Claude Monet - Windmills Near Zaandam - Walters 37894
Following his exile in England during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), Monet stopped in Zaandam, a picturesque town near Amsterdam, from May through October of 1871. During his stay, he painted about 20 small... More
Claude-Joseph Vernet - Landscape with Waterfall and Figures - Walters ...
At the age of twenty Vernet left his native Avignon for a lengthy stay in Rome where he devloped a style of idealized landscape painting derived from the 17th-century classical traditions of Claude Lorrain and ... More
Constant Troyon - Cattle Drinking - Walters 3759
Troyon is best known for his animal paintings but, in fact, specialized in landscape painting in his early career. This picturesque view shows a scene on the banks of the Touques River in Normandy where he pain... More
Constant Troyon - Coast near Villers - Walters 37993
Troyon was the third generation of his family to be employed at the Sèvres Manufactory decorating porcelains. In his spare time, he began to sketch in the Fontainebleau Forest, where he met other painters who w... More
Constant Troyon - Repose - Walters 37160
A sense of serenity permeates this scene of cattle at rest during a sunny day on the Normandy coast.
Constantin Guys - At the Theater (Au foyer du théatre; Ladies and Gent...
Constantin Guys (French, 1802-1892). 'At the Theater (Au foyer du th�atre; Ladies and Gentlemen),' n.d.. watercolor with ink wash and pen and ink on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper. Walter... More