Saturday, March 7, 2020

Diffuse Compositions in Paint - Before 1900

attributed to Bertholet Flemalle
Flight of Cloelia
ca. 1640
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Peter Paul Rubens
Sketch for The Conversion of St Paul
ca. 1610-12
oil on panel
Courtauld Gallery, London

Johann Georg Platzer
Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium
before 1761
oil on copper
Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London

William Etty
Cleopatra's Arrival in Cilicia
1821
oil on canvas
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg
The Cutting-Out of the French Corvette La Chevrette
1802
oil on canvas
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
The Waters of Lethe by the Plains of Elysium
ca. 1880
tempera on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Lethe

Only the Blessed of Lethe's dews
     May stoop to drink.  And yet,
Were their Elysium mine to lose,
Could I, sans all repining, choose
     Life's sorrows to forget?

– Walter de la Mare (1940)

Giorgione
Adoration of the Kings
(altarpiece fragment)
ca. 1506-1507
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Peter Lely
The Concert
ca. 1645-50
oil on canvas
Courtauld Gallery, London

Pierre Mignard
Death of Cleopatra
before 1695
oil on canvas
National Trust, Knole, Kent

attributed to Charles Lock Eastlake
A Painter's Dream of Queen Victoria's Patronage of the Arts
1841
oil on canvas
City Hall, Cardiff, Wales

Anonymous Neapolitan Painter
Joseph taken into Egypt
17th century
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Eduardo Léon Garrido
Abduction of the Sabine Women
1874
oil on canvas
McManus Gallery, Dundee, Scotland

Juan de Valdés Leal
Allegory of the Crown of Life
ca. 1655-65
oil on canvas
York City Art Gallery

Carlo Carlone
Sketch for The Triumph of Wisdom
ca. 1760
oil on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

John Constable
Cloud Study
1821
oil on canvas
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester