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Academic Art

1661 — 1900

Allegory, craft, and the unrelenting dictatorship of the Academy

Portrait of Marie Antoinette

Joseph Ducreux1769

Portrait of an Aristocrat in Uniform

Joseph Ducreux1785-1790

Albaydé

Alexandre Cabanel1848

Dante and Virgil in Hell

William-Adolphe Bouguereau1850

Nymph and Satyr

Alexandre Cabanel1860

The Education of the Children of Clovis

Lawrence Alma-Tadema1861

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres — Guardian of the old ways

1780-1867

Fallen Angel

Alexandre Cabanel1868

La Comtesse de Keller

Alexandre Cabanel1873

Pandora

Alexandre Cabanel1873

Echo

Alexandre Cabanel1874

Hermione

Sarah Bernhardt1875

Virgin Comforter

William-Adolphe Bouguereau1875

The Virgin, the Baby Jesus and Saint John the Baptist

William-Adolphe Bouguereau1875

Pieta

William-Adolphe Bouguereau1876

After the Storm

Sarah Bernhardt1876

Phaedra

Alexandre Cabanel1880

A Young Woman Reading

Marie Bashkirtseff1880

Ophelia

Sarah Bernhardt1880

In the Studio

Marie Bashkirtseff1881

Sappho and Alcaeus

Lawrence Alma-Tadema1881

A Lady of Constantinople

Osman Hamdi Bey1881

The Tepidarium

Lawrence Alma-Tadema1881

At a Book

Marie Bashkirtseff1882

Rebecca et Eliézer

Alexandre Cabanel1883

The death of Girardot in Bárbula

Cristóbal Rojas Poleo1883

The Umbrella

Marie Bashkirtseff1883

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

1858-1884

The Meeting

Marie Bashkirtseff1884

The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra

Lawrence Alma-Tadema1885

The Roses of Heliogabalus

Lawrence Alma-Tadema1888

The First Mourning

William-Adolphe Bouguereau1888

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

1823-1889

Cristóbal Rojas Poleo — A childhood introduction to death leads to success, at a price

1857-1890

An Eloquent Silence

Lawrence Alma-Tadema1890

Unconscious Rivals

Lawrence Alma-Tadema1893

Spring

Lawrence Alma-Tadema1894

The Abduction of Psyche

William-Adolphe Bouguereau1895

The Sole Witness

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl1898

The Madonna of the Lilies

William-Adolphe Bouguereau1899

The Virgin With Angels

William-Adolphe Bouguereau1900

Silver Favourites

Lawrence Alma-Tadema1903

William-Adolphe Bouguereau — A natural academic creates beauty by the rules

1825-1905

The Tortoise Trainer

Osman Hamdi Bey1906

Osman Hamdi Bey — Archeologist, painter, scientist, curator, orphan

1842-1910

Scribe (Arzuhalci)

Osman Hamdi Bey1910

Reciting the Quran (Kur’an Tilaveti)

Osman Hamdi Bey1910

Arabs in the desert at dusk; and A felucca on the Nile

A. O. Lamplough1911

Lawrence Alma-Tadema — The worst painter of the 19th century

1836-1912

Sarah Bernhardt — Actress on stage and screen moonlights as a sculptor

1844-1923

Gottfried Lindauer — Anthropology or exploitation? Portraits of the Māori

1839-1926