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| William Blake (England) Behemoth and Leviathan from the Book of Job ca. 1805-1810 wash drawing Morgan Library, New York |
Pen and black ink and wash, and watercolor, over graphite, on paper. Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909. One of twenty-one original drawings executed for Thomas Butts, ca. 1805-10, illustrating the Book of Job. This sheet is no. 15 in the series.
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| Vittorio Caradossi (Florence) Shooting Stars 19th century marble private collection |
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| Alexandre Calame (Switzerland) Oak-tree Trunk 1850s oil on canvas private collection |
Alexandre Calame (1810-1864) was the son of a Swiss marble carver who went bankrupt and died young. Somehow, young Calame struggled and prevailed, transforming himself by the 1840s into a successful Salon painter in Paris. Fashions in French art altered rapidly at mid-century, and suddenly artists with thriving studios built on the traditional system like that of Alexandre Calame were ignored by advanced viewers. Then he died.
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| Anonymous French sculptor Sea-putto with two dolphins 19th century ivory Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Johann Martin von Rohden (Germany) Grotto of Neptune at Tivoli 1812 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Sèvres Manufactory (France) Cream-jug 1813 porcelain Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Gustave Courbet (France) Beach at Saint-Aubin sur Mer 1867 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| after Hendrik de Keyser (Netherlands) Statues on Façade 19th century watercolor Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Eduard Gaertner (Germany) View of the Opera and Unter den Linden, Berlin 1845 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
"The Opera, designed by the architect Georg Wenzelhaus von Knobelsdorff, was built between 1741 and 1743. It was intended to mark the beginning of the Forum Fridericianum, a monumental complex planned by the King of Prussia, Frederick the Great, so as to be visible from his castle. The Opera remains the only building erected according to this plan. "
– from curator's notes, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (France) Odalisque (in miniature) ca. 1830 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Christen Købke (Denmark) Gateway in the Via Sepulcralis, Pompeii 1846 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Gustave Moreau (France) The Voices ca. 1880 gouache and watercolor on paper Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Pierrre-Paul Prud'hon (France) Furniture designs for the Infant King of Rome 1811 etching Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Berthe Morisot (France) Reclining Nude Shepherdess 1891 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |