Showing posts with label 1870s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1870s. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Visual Relics (1874-1886)

Étienne Carjat
Sarah Bernhardt in Voltaire's Zaїre
1874
albumen print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Étienne Carjat
Portrait of Alphonse Daudet
ca. 1876
woodburytype print
Art Institute of Chicago

Pierre Edmonds
Fontaine du Luxembourg, Paris
ca. 1875
albumen print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Antonio Beato
First Cataract of the Nile
ca. 1875
albumen print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Charles Bierstadt
Horseshoe Falls from the Canadian Side
ca. 1875
albumen prints (stereocard)
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Henri Béchard
Thebes - Temple of the Ramesseum
Interior of Hypostyle Hall

1875
albumen print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Félix Bonfils
Femme Voilée
ca. 1875
albumen print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Félix Bonfils
Parthenon Colonnade
ca. 1875
albumen print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Samuel Bourne
Untitled
ca. 1877
albumen print
Art Institute of Chicago

Felice Beato
Dacoits captured in the Ye-U Jungle, Shwebo Province, Burma
ca. 1880
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Schroeder & Cie. (Lausanne)
Karnak
ca. 1880
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Thomas Eakins
Male Figure in Classical Costume
1883
albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Wilhelm von Gloeden
Wrestlers
ca. 1885
modern gelatin silver print from glass plate negative
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Wilhelm von Gloeden
Youths among Rocks
ca. 1885
modern gelatin silver print from glass plate negative
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Pascal Sébah
Interior, Abu Simbel Temple, Egypt
before 1886
albumen print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Spencer and Company (Santiago, Chile)
Composite Portrait of 59 Women
ca. 1875
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

"This composite photograph assembles fifty-nine women, all wearing the Chilean manto, a veil similar to the Spanish mantilla, traditionally worn on Sundays. As was common practice at the time, the publisher of this image took negatives from separate carte-de-visite portrait sessions and combined the images of the women into one picture. From various negatives of individuals that held value only for those depicted and those who knew them, the photographer produced an image with typological interest that could appeal to a wide array of customers. The women appear to belong together based on their visual similarities, but one wonders what they might have thought of this artificial conglomeration." 

– curator's notes from Princeton University Art Museum

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Visual Relics (1870-1874)

Julia Margaret Cameron
Portrait of Lionel and Henry Holland
ca. 1870
albumen print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Francis Frith
Chamonix - Mer de Glace d'Aiguille du Dru
ca. 1870
albumen silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Jeremiah Gurney
Christina Nilsson (opera singer)
ca. 1870
hand-colored albumen prints (stereocard)
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Jeremiah Gurney
Annie Clark
ca. 1870
albumen prints (stereocard)
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Jeremiah Gurney
Clara Louise Kellogg
ca. 1870
albumen print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

William J. Stillman
Ancient Theater at Syracuse (Sicily)
1870
carbon print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Frank Mason Good
Trees
ca. 1870
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Guadenzio Marconi
Couple and Dog
ca. 1870
albumen print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Guadenzio Marconi
Model in Academic Pose
ca. 1870
albumen print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Guglielmo Marconi
Model in Academic Pose
ca. 1870
albumen print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Guglielmo Marconi
Models against Painted Backdrop
(Eve and Adam in Eden)

ca. 1870
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Félix Bonfils
Cairo - Allée des Pyramides
ca. 1870
albumen print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Félix Bonfils
Temple of Jupiter (interior),
Baalbek, Lebanon (Heliopolis)

ca. 1872
albumen print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Félix Bonfils
Temple of Jupiter,
Baalbek, Lebanon (Heliopolis)

1872
albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Bruno Braquehais
Coin des rues St Martin et Rivoli, Paris
(destruction wrought during the Commune conflicts)
1871
albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

William and Daniel Downey
Madame Sarah Bernhardt as Phèdre
ca. 1874
albumen silver print
(carte de visite)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

from Deciphering the Alphabet

From a north window,
the choked river, 
a slippery crack of light.
Does my neighbor notice me
crouched down,
my bare fingers exploring
the deer tracks I've found,
some chips in the ice?
I wave once,
but she stares
absentmindedly into the cold.
Pure imitation.
The great bored glacier of her face.

– Francine Sterle (2001)

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Narrative and Allegorical Painting - Late Nineteenth Century

Edwin Austin Abbey
O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming?
1899
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Harry Windsor-Fry
The Glory of Young Men
ca. 1898
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Glory

Pindar, poet of the victories, fitted names
And legends into verses for the chorus to sing:
Names recalled now only in the poems of Pindar:

O nearly unpronounceable immortals,
In the dash, Oionos was champion:
Oionos, Likmynios's son, who came from Midea.
In wrestling, Echemos won – the name
Of his home city, Tegea, proclaimed to the crowds.
Doryklos of Tiryns won the prize in boxing,
And the record for a four-horse team was set
By Samos from Mantinea, Halirothios's son.

And Pindar, poet of the Olympian and Isthmian
and Pythian games, wrote also of the boundless
And forgetful savannas of time. What is someone?
The chorus sing in a victory ode – What is a nobody?

Creatures of a day, they chant in answer, Creatures
Of a day. So where is the godgiven glory Pindar says
Settles on mortals? – Bright as gold among the substances,
Say the chorus, paramount as water among the elements.

Not in the victory itself, pretty or great,
Of rich young Greeks contending in games.
Not in the poetry itself, with its forgotten dances
And Pindar spinning among tiresome or stirring
Myths and genealogies, the chanted names
Of cities and invoked gods and dignitaries –

Striving, O nearly unpronounceable athletes,
To animate the air with dancing feet raising
A golden pollen of dust: a pervasive blur
Of seedlets in the sunlight, whirling – beyond mere
Victory or applause or performance,
As victory is beyond defeat.

The one who threw the javelin furthest
Sang the chorus, chanting Pindar's incantation
Against envy and oblivion, was Phrastor.
And when Nikeus grunting whirled the stone
Into the air and it flew past the marks
Of all the competitors, Nikeus's countrymen
Shouted his name after it, Nikeus,
Nikeus, and the syllables so say the lines Pindar
Composed for the sweating chorus to chant – radiated
For a spell like the silvery mirror of the moon.

– Robert Pinsky (2003)

John Collier
Queen Guinevere's Maying
ca. 1897
oil on canvas
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire

John William Waterhouse
Hylas and the Nymphs
1896
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Arthur Hacker
The Cloister or The World?
1896
oil on canvas
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire

Guillaume Dubufe
La Fuite en Egypte
1894
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

John Gilbert
Venetian Council of War
1891-92
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

William Bell Scott
Trial of Sir William Wallace at Westminster
before 1890
oil on canvas
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

Henri Fantin-Latour
Immortality
1889
oil on canvas
National Museum Cardiff, Wales

Frederic Leighton
Last Watch of Hero
1887
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Walter Crane
The Apotheosis of Italian Art
1885-86
watercolor and gouache on paper
Manchester Art Gallery

Ford Madox Brown
The Romans Building Manchester
1879-80
oil on canvas
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland

Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Poetry
1879
oil on panel
National Museum Cardiff, Wales

Henry Scott Tuke
The Good Samaritan
1879
oil on canvas
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth

Robert Bateman
The Pool of Bethesda
1877
oil on canvas
Yale Center for British Art

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Human and/or Divine Figures in Paint (1870-1880)

William Edward Frost
Nymph and Cupid
1870
oil on panel
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Claude Monet
Beach at Trouville
1870
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Édouard Detaille
Académie
ca. 1870
oil on canvas
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery

Henri Fantin-Latour
A Woodland Glade
ca. 1872
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

A Woodland Incident

About the bush that hides the nest
Two thrushes dart, afraid to stay
But more afraid to go away.

Below, a shadow stirs the crest
Of weeds, and frantic thrushes see
How surely comes that enemy.

And what it is I do not know,
But I shall hasten to the spot
And find what little brain is hot;
And see how quickly fear can go
To chill the thing that darts away
When it, in turn, becomes the prey.

A squirrel, safely on the fence,
Jerks with his scolding's vehemence –
As if the thrushes had his blame
For building much too near the ground,
As if the crawling thing he found
In flight was less than when it came
And he had found at last the wit
To tell just what he thought of it.
But, sensing his futility,
He lingers on, resenting me.

I do not care, since I can see
The thrushes turn and nestward fly . . .
For they are glad I happened by,
        And so am I.

– Glenn Ward Dresbach (1928)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
La Ghirlandata
1873
oil on canvas
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

William Holman Hunt
The Shadow of Death
ca. 1870-73
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Edward Burne-Jones
The Beguiling of Merlin
ca. 1874-77
oil on canvas
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool

Albert Joseph Moore
Beads
1875
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Pleading
1876
oil on canvas
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret
Académie
1876
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Henry Scott Tuke
Académie
ca. 1877
oil on canvas
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth

Thomas Wilson
Académie
1877
oil on canvas
Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture, Edinburgh

Charles Mengin
Sappho
1877
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Edward Poynter
The Fortune Teller
1877
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Robert Fowler
Women of Phoenicia
1879
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool