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
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Boat off the coast of Fécamp (Normandy)
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles-Louis VERBOECKHOVEN (attributed to)
Warneton, 1802 - Brussels, 1889
Boat off the coast of Fécamp (Normandy)
Painting, oil on cardboard
Unsigned
Painting: 39 x 29 cm
Beautiful...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a young soldier, dated 1830, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century,
Portrait of a young soldier, dated 1830,
Pencil and heightenings of white and red
26 x 19.7 cm oval view
examined outside the frame, in good condition
I...
Category
1830s Romantic Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil
BREDOW Snow landscape moonlight night German Russian school romantic 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Albert BREDOW
Germany, 1828 – Moscow, 1899
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right "ABredow"
43 cm x 62 cm (67 x 85 cm with frame)
Albert Bredow is a German-Russian landscape painter, lit...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
English School, circa 1800 Georgian watercolor, The Sailor's return
Located in Harkstead, GB
A delightful rustic scene dating to circa 1800 with the sailor returning to his thankful wife and the domestic idyll of his country cottage. The harbour with sailing ships ferrying c...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Watercolor
Three Head Portraits of a Young Girl
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hippolyte Roques (active 1838-1864)
Three Head Portraits of a Young Girl
Oil on grey wove paper, c. 1850
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Shepherd Galle...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Woman Carrying Grapes, Art Nouveau Bronze by Mario Korbel
By Mario Joseph Korbel
Located in Long Island City, NY
This bronze sculpture by Mario Joseph Korbel is a stunning portrayal of a woman in the Romanticist style. Korbel began studying sculpture in his homeland of Czech Republic, and cont...
Category
20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Bronze
Antique Scottish Oil on Canvas Painting Tantallon Castle Ruin East Lothian 1850
By Horatio McCulloch
Located in Portland, OR
A fine & important Scottish oil on canvas painting; a landscape of Tantallon Castle in East Lothian, by Horatio McCulloch (1805-1867) R.S.A. The painting circa 1850.
This very hands...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Historical figurative drawing of 19th century Italian Romanticism
Located in Florence, IT
The subject illustrated here is one of the moments that mark the centuries-long history of Genoa's glorious Maritime Republic, when the ashes of St. John the Baptist, one of the city...
Category
1860s Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen, Pencil
Three Putti, Art Nouveau Bronze by Affortunato Gory
Located in Long Island City, NY
This Bronze sculpture, by the French Art Deco/Art Nouveau artist Affortunato Gory (d. 1925) , is a beautiful moment of three putti joyously dancing together. Their arms are joined a...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Bronze
French school 19th century, Court scene in front of a palace, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French school 19th century,
Court scene in front of a palace
watercolor on paper
16.4 x 13.3 cm
In good condition, some foxings
Framed : 30 x 26.5 cm
This enigmatic yet charming s...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Woman with Flowers Resting by the Sea. 19th Century Watercolor.
Located in Stockholm, SE
A beautiful watercolor by Adrien Moreau (1843-1906) showing a woman with freshly picked flowers in a basket resting in the grass by the sea. The colors are strong and it is mounted i...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
L'ACTEUR . . . . - On voit bien qu'il fait chaud . . . . . . . trois spectateurs
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'ACTEUR . . . . - On voit bien qu'il fait chaud . . . . . . . trois spectateurs dans la salle ..... faut-il commencer ? . . . .
LE DIRECTEUR .- Et encore un des trois est le vendeu...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
A Spring Sunset, Original Oil Painting from 1952
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite painting by the artist Otto Lindberg (1880-1955) is a mesmerizing depiction of a spring sunset. Crafted in 1952, this piece stands as one of Lindberg's final paintings...
Category
1950s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arthur Waagen’s 'The Nomadic Virtuoso’ in Patinated metal
Located in New York, NY
Encounter the resonant blend of motion and music in 'The Nomadic Virtuoso,' a captivating painted metal sculpture by Arthur Waagen. This art piece from the late 19th century depicts ...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Bronze
Coral brooch. Naples. XIX century
Located in Firenze, IT
Antique Italian Coral brooch. Naples.
XIX century.
Total weight 5,60gr.
Size 4,2 cm
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Coral engraved and carved in...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Gold
Huge 19th century Victorian oil landscape - Summer in the Highlands
Located in Antwerp, BE
19th century English countryside landscape "Summer in the Highlands"
This peaceful painting depicts an Highlands countryside scenery during a sunny summerday. In the foreground two ...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Rural Landscape With Cows and Horses, Watercolor by Hilding Linnqvist
Located in Stockholm, SE
This watercolor by Hilding Linnqvist who was a Swedish artist born in 1891 and passed away in 1984.
Linnqvist, known for his association with the Naïvist movement, often described as...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Antique portrait of a woman, French romantic oil painting, female portrait
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique portrait of a young woman. Romantic 1800's oil painting on canvas board. This is an attractive, traditional 19th Century French oil painting in its original frame.
MORE ABO...
Category
1840s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Un plaideur auquel manquent malheureusement
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Un plaideur auquel manquent malheureusement les pieces les plus importantes, les pieces de cent sous.
(A litigant who unfortunately doesn't have the most important details to succes...
Category
1860s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Primrose and Foal: A Brood-Mare, late the Property of his Grace the Duke of Graf
By James Ward
Located in Boston, MA
From Celebrated Horses, Grundy 24. A fine chine applique impression in fine condition with full margins. A proof before letters. Exhibited at the Marietta/Cobb Museum in the "Celebr...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Cloaked Shepherdess. Pre-Raphaelite. Arts and Crafts Aesthetics. Victorian.
By Philip Richard Morris
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Philip Richard Morris.
English ( b.1836 - d.1902 ).
The Cloaked Shepherdess.
Watercolor. Signed.
Image size 14 inches x 9.3 inches ( 35.5cm x 23.5cm ).
Frame size 26.3 inches x 20.3...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Golden Age of Illustration Romance Story, Man Woman Relationship - Green Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
This impeccably rendered mid-century double portrait of a quarreling man and woman exhibits a supreme academic training knowledge lost in almost all contemporary art. It features an ...
Category
1960s Romantic Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
Marine painting sea shore smugglers boat scotttish 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
William ANDERSON (1757- 1837) Oil on wooden panel 25.5 x 34.5 cm (40x50cm with frame) Signed and dated lower left "W. Anderson / 1817" Collector's stamp on the back
Scottish painte...
Category
1810s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century Landscape with Figures
Located in New Orleans, LA
Early 20th Century Landscape with Figures attributed to Continental School
framed: 53.7h x 42.5w inches
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Memory of Santorini, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
from the series “Houses on the waterâ€
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An original piece from the series “Sistine moodâ€
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
19th Century British drawing of a tiger, cubs and child attributed to Landseer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Attributed to Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British, 1802-1873)
Rather too free
Pencil and watercolour on paper
Inscribed ‘Rather too free’ (lower middle), stamped with a Collector’s mark (W WEST….) lower middle. With a fragment of a much older label on the reverse. Inscribed ‘Edward Landseer...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
The Easter Bonnet - Romantic Portrait Oil Painting by Gustave Jean Jacquet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel portrait circa 1890 by French Romantic painter Gustave Jean Jacquet. The work depicts a young redheaded woman wearing a red velvet jacket lined with white fur. On her head she is wearing an Easter bonnet trimmed with leaves.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 14"x11.5"
Unframed: 10"x7.5"
Provenance:
Baron Fine Art...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Anna's Aroma, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on panel canvas :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: No :: :: Canvas ...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
"La faena del picador", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Manuel Rodríguez de Guzmán
Located in Madrid, ES
MANUEL RODRÍGUEZ DE GUZMÁN
Spanish, 1818 - 1867
LA FAENA DEL PICADOR
signed "M. Rodriguez" (lower left)
oil on canvas
23 x 34-1/4 inches (58.5 x 87 cm.)
framed: 31-5/8 x 43-1/8 inches (81 x 109.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, Seville
Manuel Rodríguez de Guzmán (Seville, June 20, 1818-Madrid, 1867) was a Spanish painter of the Romantic period who excelled in the composition of costumbrista themes. He began painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría in his hometown with José Domínguez...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shakespeare's Midsummer-Night's Dream- Etching-J.P. Simon After J.H. Fussli-1796
Located in Roma, IT
Midsummer-Night's Dream is an original etching engraved by Jean Pierre Simon after the iconic romantic painting by Heinrich Füssli in 1790.
Titled on plate: Midsummer-Night's Dream, Act IV, Scene I: A wood - Titania, Queen of the fairies, Bottom, fairies attending
Mint conditions with little tears along the margin, and a glued tear in the center. Some light little foxings.
The original oil painting is displayed at Tate Britain in London. It was commissioned for the Boydell Shakespeare...
Category
1790s Romantic Art
Materials
Etching
Rare Southern Painting of the French Broad River, North Carolina ca 1890
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is an unsigned, but rare, late 19th century oil on canvas of a view of the French Broad River in North Carolina. It is amongst the world’s oldest rivers. The scene depicted is mountainous and the water is swiftly moving. This would put the location at the northern end of its course, north of Asheville and near the North Carolina and Tennessee border.
Much like the Hudson River School in...
Category
1880s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Italian Brigands in the Roman Countryside fighting with Papal Dragoons.
Located in Firenze, IT
Brigands in the Roman countryside fighting with papal dragoons.
19th century.
Characteristic technique among foreign and German traveling painters: oil on metal plate, probably zin...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
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