Romantic Art
ROMANTIC STYLE
In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
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Style: Romantic
Berglandschap, Mid 19th Century View of a Mountain Valley in Switzerland
By Alexandre Calame
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century oil on canvas view of a Swiss valley and mountainscape by Alexander Calame. The painting is signed bottom left. The canvas is on a fine stretcher with 'keys'. The painting has been in a private collection in the North of France since the early 20th Century.
A very beautiful and expert rendition of one of Calame's iconic Swiss mountain views. Atmospheric view of light and shade, a moody sky with the sun just breaking through over a small mountain cottage retreat.
Alex Calame was born in Corsier-sur-Vevey, today a part of Vevey, Switzerland. He was the son of a skillful marble worker in Vevey, but because his father lost the family fortune, Calame could not concentrate on art, but rather he was forced to work in a bank from the age of 15. When his father fell from a building and then died, it was up to the young Calame to provide for his mother.
In his spare time he began to practice drawing small views of Switzerland. In 1829 he met his patron, the banker Diodati, who made it possible for him to study under landscape painter François Diday. After a few months he decided to devote himself fully to art.
In 1835 he began exhibiting his Swiss-Alps and forest paintings in Paris and Berlin. He became well known, especially in Germany. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. In 1842 he went to Paris and displayed his works Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau, the Brienzersee, the Monte Rosa and Mont Cervin.
He taught in Geneva, where Adolf Mosengel was one of his pupils as were some of the children of the Russian Imperial family of Nicholas I.
Alexandre Calame...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mastery IV (Confronting Your Fears)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique oil Painting, atmospheric Seascape. 19th Century. Oil on canvas.
Located in Berlin, DE
Antique oil painting, atmospheric seascape. 19th century.
Oil on canvas. Unsigned.
Dimensions without frame 80 cm x 122 cm.
The painting and the frame are in an age-appropriate co...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thomas Miles Richardson (Snr), (1784-1848). 'Swiss Lake with the Matterhorn' .
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine watercolor by Thomas Miles Richardson senior, (1784-1848). A view of a Swiss lake and Alps with the Matterhorn mountain. One of the fine En...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
The Chess Game (antique drawing by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
Located in New Orleans, LA
Despite the tears and repairs, this remains an absolutely wonderful drawing, by a famous Southern artist. Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Graphite
"Phalco's Obsession" a Spaniel's Hedgehog photograph in beveled plexiglass frame
Located in Charleston, US
Alain Foussier, born in France living in the Netherlands, perfects the spirit of a hedgehog with his animal photography. This photograph of his Spaniel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Phalco at Big Window" Romantic Dog Color Photograph with plexiglass frame
Located in Charleston, US
Alain Foussier, born in France living in the Netherlands, perfects the mood and spirit of Spaniel dogs with his portrait photography. His Spaniel dog a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Major's Watchful Eye" Romantic Dog Color Photograph with plexiglass frame
Located in Charleston, US
Alain Foussier, born in France living in the Netherlands, perfects the mood and spirit of Spaniel and Scottie dogs with his portrait photography. His S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of a Girl holding a Posy
Located in Taunton, GB
Portrait of a Girl holding a Posy.
Oil on Panel
17 1/2 x 13 inches
44.4 x 33 cm
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Jacques d'Agar was a French portrait painter born i...
Category
17th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Figures in a Landscape, Oil Painting 1799 by Adolf Harper
By Adolf Friedrich Harper
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Adolf Friedrich Harper from 1799. A rare antique painting from the romanticism era. Framed in ornate gold wood frame, signed in lower left corner.
Artist: Adol...
Category
18th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Henri-Louis Dupray (1841-1909) Studies of military horsemen, two signed drawings
By Henry Louis Dupray
Located in Paris, FR
Henri-Louis Dupray (1841-1909)
Studies of military horsemen, two signed drawings
Pencil on paper
The first one figuring a partial study of two horsemen :
10.8 x 16.5 cm, bears a mo...
Category
1880s Romantic Art
Materials
Pencil
Circle of Angelika Kauffmann, Venus and Amor, Arrow and Spindle, Oval Drawing
Located in Greven, DE
Fine drawing in pencil, oval format. Circle of Angelika Kauffmann.
The subject is not clear. It is Amor with his arrows and perhaps Venus with a sp...
Category
18th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Crayon, Handmade Paper
Gelata
Located in Torino, TO
The work consists of an agglomerated acrylic base, on which the artist painted the subject with acrylic
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
"Phalco's Look” Spaniel, Romantic Dog Photograph with beveled plexiglass frame
Located in Charleston, US
Alain Foussier, born in France living in the Netherlands, perfects the mood and spirit of Spaniel dogs with his portrait photography. His Spaniel dog a...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Tweeluik", Two Spaniel Poses in Romantic Dog Photograph with plexiglass frame
Located in Charleston, US
Alain Foussier, born in France living in the Netherlands, perfects the mood and spirit of Spaniel dogs with his portrait photography. His Spaniel dog a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Mazeppa' — 19th-Century French Romanticism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault and Eugène Lami, 'Mazeppa' from the series 'Oeuvres de Lord Byron', lithograph, 1823, 2nd state of 3, Delteil 94. Rendered by Thé...
Category
1820s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
'A Best Friend' by Carl Haag, Erlangen 1820 – 1915 Oberwesel a. Rhein, German
Located in Bruges, BE
Carl Haag
Erlangen 1820 – 1915 Oberwesel a. Rhein
German Painter
'A Best Friend'
Signature: Signed middle right
Medium: Mixed media
Dimensions: Image size ...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil Pastel
Woman in the garden. Romantic Oil Blue Landscape with beautiful female figure.
Located in Segovia, ES
Woman in the garden. Romantic and full of light landscape with beautiful female figure by the Spanish artist Manuel García Blázquez.
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
Unframed: (H) 89 x (W) 116 (D) 2 cm. / 35.04 x 45.67 x 0.79 in.
Framed: (H) 109 x (W) 136 (D) 4 cm. / 42.91 x 53.54 x 1.57 in.
Light is the protagonist in this landscape with female figure by Manuel García Blázquez; an intense and soft light that interacts with color, and the impressionist technique that defines the work of this painter.
The beautiful silhouette of a woman dressed in white and the reflections of the water in the pond at the back of the garden give the scene a certain luminous dreaminess, which contrasts with the strength of the color of the flowers in the foreground. The background landscape, so timeless and lyrical, serves as the setting for a female portrait with classical reminiscences.
The work is executed along the lines...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
J J A Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842-1923) A shoulder and back study, oil painting
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842-1923)
A shoulder and back study, oil study
oil on canvas
34 x 19.5 cm
In good condition, a few small inpainti...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Orientale
Located in New York, NY
Signed, lower right: Fantin
Provenance:
Gustave Tempelaere (1840–1904), Paris; possibly by descent to his son:
Julien Tempelaere (1876–1961) and with F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris, prob...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Canvas, Oil
Romance Photography Print Limited Edition Signed
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Limited edition 10. Print, signed by the author.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Archival Paper
Horses with Ploughmen in the English Countryside by Realist Landscape Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Horse Drawn Plough with Two Horses, Ploughman and his Dog. Signed, Oil on Canvas, housed in a gilt frame, by British Landscape Artist, James Wright.
Art ...
Category
1990s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Naturalistic Romantic Style Sublime Dutch Forest Picturesque Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Naturalistic Romantic style sublime Dutch forest picturesque landscape painting by artist Cja. V. Dijk. The work features a detailed grove of trees with a faint building off in the distance. Signed and dated along front lower margin. Currently hung in a complementary carved gold frame...
Category
1980s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
French Mid 19th Century Portrait of an Italian Brigand
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century oil on canvas portrait of an Italian brigand, unsigned, in painted wood and gilt frame.
The painting is a fine and fascinating rendition with plenty of wonderful character and detail to the costume, accessories, landscape and seascape. Very atmospheric and imposing much like the character it portrays.
There is a trade stamp to the back of the canvas for the Paris firm of Susse Freres. The canvas is on a fine quality stretcher with 'keys'. There is an artist's name or title written on the top of the rear stretcher (see photo).
Bands of brigands who populated the hills of southern Italy were steady fodder for the Romantic imagination, and their exploits were reported both factually, fancifully and artistically
The painting dates from a period when France, under its then leader Napoleon III, was involved in the conflicts in the Italian states and the unification and eventual creation of the nation of Italy.
An earlier and similar portrait exists of the infamous brigand Mazzocchi by Achille-Etna Michallony .
Léon Cogniet...
Category
1860s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
'Horse Attacked by Tiger' — 19th-Century French Romanticism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault (after), 'Tigre dévorant un cheval' (Tiger Devouring a Horse), lithograph, 3rd state of 3, Clement 97, c. 1820. Lettered 'Volmar ...
Category
1820s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Le maréchal flamand (The Flemish Blacksmith) — 19th Century French Romanticism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault 'Le maréchal flamand' (The Flemish Blacksmith) from the series ‘Etudes, de chevaux lithographiés,’ lithograph, 1822, 2nd state ...
Category
1820s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Torri de Vajolet
Located in ROTTERDAM, ZH
Torri de Vajolet - Italian dolomites ( East Trentino)
The series of works depict an in-between land in which man must find his way, with an ode to nature in the
background that co...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
UNCONSCIOUS RIVALS- Angelo Granati - Italy Oil on canvas painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Unconscious Rivals- Angelo Granati Italia 2004 -
This is his reinterpretation of a greatest old master painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
Oil on canvas cm.80x60.
The painting is a true form of the romantic style of Alma-Tadema. It is an image of two women; one sitting, the other standing and apparently waiting for someone...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PORTRAIT OF REBECCA AT THE FOUNTAIN - In the Manner of Guffens - Oil on paint
By I. Di Matteo
Located in Napoli, IT
Portrait of rebecca at the fountain - I. Di Matteo Italia 1998 - Oil on canvas cm. 80x60
This magnificent painting by I. De Matteo is the rein...
Category
1990s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lovers at the Fountain - Italian 19th Century Figurative Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Rome, IT
Amanti alla Fontana - Lovers by a fountain, painting oil on canvas,
Signed left sight.
Measures: cm 70 x 100 frame 118 x 145
Faustini Modesto. Brescia, 27 maggio 1839 - Roma, 23 m...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Melancholy female figure oil on canvas painting
By Josep Maria Draper
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep María Draper was born in 1931 and received a great creative influence from the 1950s. Abstract Expressionism, a form of painting tha...
Category
1990s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Melancholic Woman, a Drawing signed by Léon Bonnat
Located in PARIS, FR
This drawing by Léon Bonnat, the greatest portrait painter of the Third Republic, shows a woman of indeterminate age, caught in a melancholic pose.
1. Léo...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Cardboard
Cadini di Misurina, Italian dolomites (Tre Cime di Lavaredo)
Located in ROTTERDAM, ZH
The series of works depict an in-between land in which man must find his way, with an ode to nature in the
background that compels us to modesty.
Cadini di Misurina - Italian Dolomites
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Recruits on a March
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recruits on a March
Ink and watercolor on paper, mounted on support
Unsigned
Condition: watercolor sheet laid down on paper, moderately faded
Original Ackermann frame and matting
Ima...
Category
Early 1800s Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Still life with mouse. 2012. Oil on linen, 36x44 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with mouse. 2012. Oil on linen, 36x44 cm
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
"Seascape" - Framed 20th Century Romantic Realistic Ocean Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
I wish I knew who painted this dramatic Romantic seascape depicting a rough surf crashing on the rocky shores of some volcanic island. The sea is en...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
The Flowers Bed. 1998. Oil on linen, 50x60.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The Flowers Bed. 1998. Oil on linen, 50x60.5 cm
Category
1990s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Bouquet Bearer bright colors blue dress yellow wall pastel women fashion flowers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
soft pastel on toned archival sanded paper signed and dated bottom left this work is part on an ongoing series bt the artist depicting women with floral bouquets
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Pastel
Achille Devéria (1800-1857) A young woman seen in profile, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Achille Devéria (1800-1857)
A young woman seen in profile
Black Chalk on paper
with cut edges
Bears the stamp of the Achille Deveria Estate Sale of 1...
Category
1840s Romantic Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Still Life with Coffee-Beans. 2011. Oil on linen, 45X50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still Life with Coffee-Beans. 2011. Oil on linen, 45X50 cm
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Still Life With Wagtails. 2011. Oil on linen, 40X45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still Life With Wagtails. 2011. Oil on linen, 40X45 cm
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
'Tender Solitude', Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
'Tender Solitude' Acrylic on Canvas, hand finished frame. Approx 20â€x16†including frame. :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Acrylic
Crete tune. 2010. Oil on linen, 80x90 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Crete tune. 2010. Oil on linen, 80x90 cm
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Portrait of a young Girl with a Doll, Basile de Loose, Belgium, 19th, Romantic
By Basile de Loose
Located in Greven, DE
Basile de Loose
Portrait of a Child
signed and dated „1861“
Basile De Loose (17 December 1809 – 24 October 1885) was a Belgian painter.
He was born in Zele, East Flanders, United K...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
J J A Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842-1923) An oriental street, oil sketch
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842-1923)
An oriental street
oil on canvas
11.5 x 14 cm
no signature
In good condition, canvas without stretcher,...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Violet Melody (Accordion time). 2014. Oil on canvas, 50x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Violet Melody (Accordion time). 2014. Oil on canvas, 50x60 cm
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Canvas
Girl with horse. 2004. Oil on canvas, 65x75 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Girl with horse. 2004. Oil on canvas, 65x75 cm
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Flute tune. 2008. Oil on linen, 80x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flute tune. 2008. Oil on linen, 80x100 cm
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Past Bloom II - Contemporary Black & White Original Polaroid Photograph Framed
By Pia Clodi
Located in Salzburg, Salzburg
Past Bloom I - Contemporary Black & White Polaroid Original Photograph.
Pia Clodi’s works encompass moments and experiences from her travels, throughout her time as a photographer. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Polaroid, Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Photographic Film
Heart
By Jim Dine
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Color offset lithograph
Made for an exhibition at the Galerie Maeght
Paris, 12 April - 20 May 1983.
Image in great condition, marginal defects
Category
1980s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pharaohs hunting. 2001. Oil on linen, 70x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Pharaohs hunting. 2001. Oil on linen, 70x100 cm
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Major. (from series Music) 2011. Oil on linen, 70 x 80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Major. (from series Music) 2011. Oil on linen, 70 x 80 cm
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
An Apples. 1998-2015. Oil on linen, 64, 5 x 75 cm
Located in Riga, LV
An Apples. ( To Steve Jobs Memory) 1998-2015. Oil on linen, 64,5 x 75 cm
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
The Sunday Stroll
Located in Brooklyn, NY
THE SUNDAY STROLL - ADAPTED TO TODAY'S TIMES
Carl Spitzweg, the painter of "The Sunday stroll," was a German genre painter representing the Biedermeier ...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Violinist (Antique Ellsworth Woodward Figurative Graphite Sketch Drawing)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Graphite
Early 20thC Oil on Canvas Still Life, Autumn Harvest, Oranges, Hops and Flowers
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century oil on canvas still life of oranges, hops and flowers signed E Pritchard and dated 1904 bottom left, presented in period gilt ...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dancers in a Courtyard", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Joaq. Domínguez Bécquer
Located in Madrid, ES
JOAQUÍN DOMÍNGUEZ BÉCQUER
Spanish, 1817 - 1879
DANCERS IN A COURTYARD
signed, located & dated "Joaq. D. Becquer. Sevilla 1849." (lower right)...
Category
1840s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Oil on Canvas Early 19th Century Portraits of a Man and Woman
Located in Palm Beach, FL
A pair of early 19th century French oil on canvas paintings of a man and woman, probably husband and wife. Neoclassical and Napoleonic in style, these paintings are very well execute...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
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