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1800Oceanic Art Romanticism Orientalism Hudson River School Early Photography Barbizon School Pre Raphaelites Realism Impressionism Meiji Art Early Modernism Post-Impressionism1900

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Academic Art

1661 — 1900

Allegory, craft, and the unrelenting dictatorship of the Academy

Portrait of Marie Antoinette

Joseph Ducreux, 1769

Portrait of an Aristocrat in Uniform

Joseph Ducreux, 1785-1790

Fallen Angel

Alexandre Cabanel, 1847

Albaydé

Alexandre Cabanel, 1848

Dante and Virgil in Hell

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1850

The Duel After the Masquerade

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1857-1859

Nymph and Satyr

Alexandre Cabanel, 1860

The Education of the Children of Clovis

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1861

Pollice Verso

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872

La Comtesse de Keller

Alexandre Cabanel, 1873

Pandora

Alexandre Cabanel, 1873

Echo

Alexandre Cabanel, 1874

Virgin Comforter

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1875

The Virgin, the Baby Jesus and Saint John the Baptist

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1875

Hermione

Sarah Bernhardt, 1875

Pieta

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1876

After the Storm

Sarah Bernhardt, 1876

A Young Woman Reading

Marie Bashkirtseff, 1880

Phaedra

Alexandre Cabanel, 1880

Ophelia

Sarah Bernhardt, 1880

The Tepidarium

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1881

In the Studio

Marie Bashkirtseff, 1881

A Lady of Constantinople

Osman Hamdi Bey, 1881

Sappho and Alcaeus

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1881

At a Book

Marie Bashkirtseff, 1882

The death of Girardot in Bárbula

Cristóbal Rojas Poleo, 1883

Rebecca et Eliézer

Alexandre Cabanel, 1883

The Umbrella

Marie Bashkirtseff, 1883

The Meeting

Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884

The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1885

The Roses of Heliogabalus

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1888

The First Mourning

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1888

An Eloquent Silence

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1890

Unconscious Rivals

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1893

Spring

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1894

The Abduction of Psyche

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1895

The Sole Witness

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, 1898

The Madonna of the Lilies

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1899

The Virgin With Angels

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1900

Silver Favourites

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1903

The Tortoise Trainer

Osman Hamdi Bey, 1906

Scribe (Arzuhalci)

Osman Hamdi Bey, 1910

Reciting the Quran (Kur’an Tilaveti)

Osman Hamdi Bey, 1910

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Guardian of the old ways

Marie Bashkirtseff

"To live so filled with ambition, and at the end, oblivion!"

Alexandre Cabanel

Favorite of the salon, a classical painter with an erotic edge

Cristóbal Rojas Poleo

A childhood introduction to death leads to success, at a price

Jean-Léon Gérôme

A merciless teacher trains 2000 young artists

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Creating beauty by the rules

Osman Hamdi Bey

Archeologist, painter, scientist, orphan

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

The worst painter of the 19th century

Sarah Bernhardt

Actress on stage and screen moonlights as a sculptor

Gottfried Lindauer

Anthropology or exploitation? Portraits of the Māori

The Enlightenment
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