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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Francisco De Goya Caprichos Correccion 1st edition original art print Spanish
Located in Miami, FL
Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828)
¨Correccion¨ Serie Caprichos. Estampa 46, ca.1797-1799
etching, aquatint on laid paper
11.6 x 8.1 in. (29.3 x 20.5 cm.)
1st Edition
Iron without ...
Category
1790s Romantic Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Jesus Christ in Front of his Accusers - Figurative Painting Grey White Black
Located in Sofia, BG
"Jesus Christ in front of his accusers" is an modern, romantic painting by the Bulgarian artist Maestro Zhivko Zheliazkov,
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting on canvas
ST...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Francisco De Goya Caprichos El de la rollona 1st edition original art print
Located in Miami, FL
Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828)
'El de la rollona". Serie Caprichos. Estampa 04, ca. 1797-1799
burnished aquatint, etching on laid paper
12.6 x 8.6 in. (32 x 21.8 cm.)
1st Editi...
Category
1790s Romantic Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Francisco De Goya Caprichos Si quebró el Cantaro 1st edition original art print
Located in Miami, FL
Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828)
¨Si quebró el Cantaro¨ Series Caprichos. Estampa 25, ca.1797-1799
etching, aquatint, dry point on laid paper
11.6 x 8.1 in. (29.3 x 20.5 cm.)
1st...
Category
1790s Romantic Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Francisco De Goya Caprichos Muchachos al avio 1st edition original art print
Located in Miami, FL
Francisco De Goya (Spain, 1746-1828)
¨Muchachos al avío¨ Series Caprichos. Estampa 11, ca.1797-1799
etching, aquatint, dry point on laid paper
12.4 x 8.7 in. (31.3 x 22 cm.)
1st Edi...
Category
1790s Romantic Art
Materials
Etching, Laid Paper, Aquatint
1830's French Romantic Period Large Oil Painting Christ on the Cross
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Crucifixion
French School, circa 1830's
circle of Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 37.5 x 22.5 inches
provenance: private collection, northern France
...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Western n°5_Swan Scalabre 2023, Oil/Wood/Wooden Frame_Figurative_Portrait_Horse
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Western n°5"
Oil on Wood
10 x 12 in. Framed
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women,...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood
Western n°6_Swan Scalabre 2023, Oil/Wood/Wooden Frame_Figurative_Portrait_Horse
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Western n°6"
Oil on Wood
18 x 18 in. Framed
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women,...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood
Prayer - Figurative Oil Painting Colors Grey White Black
Located in Sofia, BG
"Prayer" is an modern, romantic art line painting by the Bulgarian Zhivko Zheliazkov,
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting on canvas
STYLE: Romantic, Impressionist, Contem...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Western n°3_Swan Scalabre 2023, Oil/Wood/Wooden Frame_Figurative_Portrait_Horse
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Western n°3"
Oil on Wood
8 x 10 in. Framed
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women, ...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood
Old town Sofia - Oil Painting Grey Black White
Located in Sofia, BG
"Old town Sofia" is a modern, romantic landscape painting by Maestro Zhivko Zheliazkov,
TECHNIQUE: oil painting on canvas
STYLE: Romantic, Impressionist, Contemporary
Edition : Un...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter in Holland, J.J. Spohler, Oil paint/canvas, Romantic
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Netherlands, 1811 -1866
Jan Jacob Spohler was born in Nederhorst den Berg on November 7, 1811.
He studied with JW Pieneman at the Amsterdam Academy and devoted his life to depicting...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Light
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print
Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper
From the series The Whispering Dark
Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory.
Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Walking on the farm, P.L.F. Kluyver, Oil paint/canvas, Romantic
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Netherlands, 1816-1900
Pieter Lodewijk Francisco Kluyver (1816-1900) is known as one of the great names in the genre of the Dutch Romantic School, with his detailed and atmospheric ...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the way home, S.L. Verveer, 19th century, Oil paint/canvas, Romantic
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Netherlands, 1813-1876
Salomon Leonardus Verveer studied at the’ Academy of Fine Art’ in
The Hague. He was a pupil of B.J. van Hove.
He made journeys to Germany and France.
He pain...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Glasses
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print
Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper
From the series The Whispering Dark
Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory.
Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Stormy weather, J. Hilverdink, Oil paint/canvas, Romantic
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Netherlands, 1813-1902
Johannes was born in Groningen as the son of the stage actor Jacobus Johannes Marianus Hilverdink (1783-1828) and Anna Maria Corver. His mother was a granddau...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Busy on the ice, A. Stademann, Oil paint/canvas, Romantic
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Germany, 1824-1895
German painter Adolph Stademann was born in Munich, Germany in 1824.
He received painting lessons from Carl August Lebschée and the landscape painter Moritz Lotze...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
First lighthouse in Amsterdam, P.C. Dommersen, 19th century, Oil paint/panel
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Netherlands, 1852 – 1918
Pieter Cornelis Dommersen was born in Utrecht.
From 1852 he lived and worked in Amsterdam, where his mother died in 1861.
The painter specialized in paintin...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Ivy
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print
Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper
From the series The Whispering Dark
Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory.
Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Landscape Painting Called "A Norrland Valley" by Swedish Artist Oscar Lycke
Located in Stockholm, SE
Oscar Lycke (1877-1927), a painter from Norrland (Northern Sweden), possessed a passion for art that began in his childhood, manifesting itself even in his early school sketches. From a humble start folding shirts and selling buttons behind a merchant’s counter...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Early 1800's Italian Oil Painting Romantic Light Landscape Figure by River
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Riverside Pathway
Italian School, early 1800's period
oil painting on paper laid on board, unframed
size: 12.75 x 17.5 inches
condition: overall very good for age, a few very sma...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Unrivaled Fascination: White Cow's Energetic Presence on a Dark Surface. Print
Located in Zofingen, AG
The depiction of a young white cow on a black background using oil paints creates a unique and captivating painting. Its endlessly playful expression gives the artwork a special char...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Color, Canvas, Cotton Canvas
Ambition n°18_Swan Scalabre 2023, Oil/Wood/Wooden Frame_Figurative/Swimmer
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Ambition n°18"
Oil on Wood
8 x 12 in. Framed
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood
Landscape with the Perfect Blend of Contrast and Harmony. Print on Canvas
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, an oil landscape unveils the magnificence of the sunset and the beauty of nature. The main focus is on the expansive sky, stretching across a significant portion of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Color, Oil
Christmas Tree In The Snow
Located in Cotignac, FR
An oil on panel view of a Christmas tree in a landscape heavy with snow by Boggio. The painting is signed bottom left.
A charming view of a snow scene, a Christmas tree its branches...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Through the Clouds: The Magic of Stories in the Heavenly Realm/.Print on Canvas
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Through the Clouds: The Magic of Stories in the Heavenly Realm" .Print on Canvas /size for order
In this oil landscape painting, we immerse ourselves in the wondrous world of the sky and experience the emotional impact of its colors. The composition is dominated by a cloud that swiftly ascends towards the heights, touching the beautiful blue expanse above. The cloud becomes the protagonist and storyteller of this artwork, reflecting everything hidden beyond the horizon. The viewer, without seeing or knowing what lies beyond that horizon, completes the picture in their imagination, envisioning forests, lakes, and other enigmatic shapes concealed within the cloud's reflections.
The cloud serves as a portal to a realm of fantasies and dreams, where the viewer can soar high above the cloud...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Paint, Lights, Color
THE FLIGHT UP OF THE INVINCIBLE NIKE by Vasili Zianko volume-contour technique
Located in Zofingen, AG
THE FLIGHT UP OF THE INVINCIBLE NIKE. 2023.
140x100cm. Acrylic on canvas
This art-work the part of project "Another skin".
The paint is made in the author's technique of painting by...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Acrylic
'Into The Light', Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
‘Into The Light’. Rublev and Michael Harding Oils on primed gessoed cotton canvas, hand made frame of the highest quality to suit, to Guild of F...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Ambition n°17_Swan Scalabre 2023, Oil/Wood/Wooden Frame_Figurative/Swimmers
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Ambition n°17"
Oil on Wood
8 x 12 in. Framed
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood
Sailing Away From Shore
Located in Cotignac, FR
An oil on panel idyllic seascape by Boggio. The painting is signed bottom right.
An idealised seascape scene, boats under sail on a tranquil sea moving away from a rocky outcrop all...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Notes To Oneself, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on canvas :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Loca...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
ATELIER OF LOUIS LEOPOLD ROBERT, Le retour de la fête de la Madone de l'Arc
By Louis Leopold Robert
Located in Tricase, IT
ATELIER DI LOUIS LEOPOLD ROBERT
(La Chaux-de-Fonds, 13 maggio 1794 – Venezia, 20 marzo 1835)
Le retour de la fête de la Madone de l'Arc, près de Naples, oil on canvas 140 x 100 cm....
Category
1820s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ambition n°14_Swan Scalabre 2023, Oil/Wood/Wooden Frame_Figurative/Swimmers
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre
"Ambition n°14"
Oil on Wood
8 x 12 in. Framed
Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood
BADER valley CHARMEY Switzerland landscape mountain Swiss painter 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Augustin BADER (active between 1830 and 1860)
Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm (51.5 x 59.5 cm with the frame)
Signed lower left "Bader"
Old stamp on the verso "Par Augustin Bader / à Fribur...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Romantic British painter - Early 19th century landscape painting - Moonlight
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (early 19th century) - Boats in the moonlight on the Thames.
30.5 x 41.5 cm without frame, 49 x 59 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in carved and gild...
Category
Late 18th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Romantic landscape paintings (pendant), oil on panel, in gilt wood frame
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Pair of Romantic landscape paintings (pendant) with figures, Inspired by 17th century Dutch landscape painting
Oil on panel
In g...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Girl in Elegant Dress oil painting by Ferdinand Wagner II
Located in Hudson, NY
Canvas measures 21.25" x 19.5" and the frame measures 30.5" x 25.5" x 3"
Ferdinand Wagner II studied art initially with his father, a vocational art teacher. Later he attended the Munich Academy of Arts working closely with Karl von Piloty. Much of Wagner's career focused on commissions as a decorative painter. He did ceiling frescos...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
‘The Freedom Of Dreamsâe Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on canvas framed to Guild of Framers Museum Standard. 10â€
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
"Angel of Light"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Dear art lover,
This spiritual artwork called "Angel of Light" has a special meaning for me. When there is period of crises or any hard challenges we should face in our life, we can...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
Blue Door, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Mexican doorway in the vibrant residential community of Mirasol in Riberas del Pilar, Jalisco. :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authent...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Sailing Away
Located in Cotignac, FR
An oil on panel idyllic seascape by Boggio. The painting is signed bottom right.
An idealised seascape scene, boats under sail on a tranquil sea moving away from a rocky outcrop wit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Watercolor French school mid 18th romantic Hunt dog hunter game forest
Located in PARIS, FR
A. GUILLAUME (Active in the 1830s) Watercolor 32.5 x 47 cm (60 x 74.5 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower left (on the rock) “A. Guill. / 1838 » Beautiful 19th century frame in car...
Category
1830s Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Francois Grenier de Saint Martin (1793-1867) Lady on the beach, 1829, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Francois Grenier de Saint Martin (1793-1867)
A Young Lady on the beach, 1829,
signed and dated on the lower left
watercolor on paper
17 x 19.5 cm
F...
Category
1820s Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Hand Painted Porcelain Vase by Sevres
Located in Troy, NY
This beautiful Sevres vase is made of porcelain with a gold design and meant to hold a single flower. This hand painted porcelain vase is ...
Category
1960s Romantic Art
Materials
Porcelain
Hilding Werner (1880-1944) - Moonlight Over Krokvattnet (near Glafsfjorden)
Located in Stockholm, SE
Hilding Werner (1880-1944) was a Swedish artist known for his portraits, romantic landscape paintings of Värmland, and caricature drawings. We are privi...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Venus with Putti Oil on Canvas with Gilt-wood Frame
Located in Rome, IT
French 19' century painting oil on canvas . Young Venus nude figure surrounded by delicious playing putti .
Finely carved and gilt-wood frame of the same period .
Measurements w...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Oil Painting of Native American Father and Son Hunting
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Amick was an American painter, illustrator, and teacher who specialized in romantic paintings of the early western history of the United States. He received his education at the Art Students' League of New York and the Yale School of Fine Art. He is best known for his American Old West art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Romantic Mountain View
Located in PARIS, FR
This luminous Mountain Landscape expresses the strength of the feeling of Nature, specific to Northern Romanticism, in the suite of Caspar David Friedrich...
Category
1840s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall: A Framed 19th C. Engraving After Myles Foster
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful 19th century framed hand-colored engraving is entitled "St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall" by J. Saddler after an original painting by the British artist Myles Birket Fost...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Engraving
Charles Darwin in the Beagle’s Tender, Coastal Patagonia, Argentina 19th cent wc
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
PROVENANCE: Christie’s South Kensington, England, June 10, 1986; Maynards Auction, Vancouver, Canada, December 6, 1994.
This 19th cent wc depicts Charles Darwin in the Beagle’s Tender, Coastal Patagonia, Argentina.
The son of an English mother and the Austrian Consul General in London, Conrad Martens pursued a career in painting following his father’s death in 1816. From the age of sixteen he studied under landscape watercolourist Copley Fielding, absorbing the traditions of the English watercolour school and Joshua Reynolds’ theories on painting. In 1833 Martens joined the HMS Beagle on a scientific survey expedition at Montevideo, South America, as ship’s artist, replacing the ailing Augustus Earle. He befriended the ship’s naturalist, Charles Darwin, whose empirical observation of landscape forms and climatic conditions would influence Martens’ practice.
Martens left the Beagle in Valparaiso in 1834 and travelled to Australia via New Zealand and Tahiti, settling in Sydney in 1835 and setting up a studio in Pitt Street. Patronised by the colonial elite, he fulfilled many commissions for watercolours of the local landscape and Sydney Harbour, including Elizabeth Bay c1838, which features the grand neoclassical edifice of Elizabeth Bay House, built for the former colonial secretary...
Category
1830s Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Barnyard Scene, Original Oil Painting
By George William Horlor
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
George William Horlor (British 1819-1899)
George William Horlor was born in Bath around 1819. He married Mary Cook on 15 March 1845 and by 1851 was living in Cheltenha...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
"Hyde Park on Sunday" - Hand Colored Etching from "Old and New London"
Located in Soquel, CA
"Hyde Park on Sunday" - Hand Colored Etching from "Old and New London"
Detailed etching of a typical Sunday in Hyde Park around 1800 after an etching by Ed...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Romantic French painter - 19th century landscape painting - Stormy sea
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th-19th century) - Roman allegory.
74 x 60 cm without frame, 81 x 67 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in wooden frame.
Condition report: Lined can...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Trajan Wallis (1794-1892): Hand study of crossed hands
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Trajan Wallis (1794 Florence - 1892 ): Hand study of crossed hands, 19th century, Pencil
Technique: Pencil on Paper
Date: 19th century
Description: Watermark: Coat of arms with i...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Paper
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus: A Framed 19th C. Engraving After J. M. W. Turner
By J.M.W. Turner
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful 19th century framed hand-colored engraving/etching entitled "Ullyses Deriding Polyphemus" by Edward Goodall is based on an original 1829 painting by the renowned Briti...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Nature Piece with Cloud Play
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): Nature piece with trees and cloud play, 20th century, Watercolor
Technique: Watercolor on Paper
Inscription: signed at the bottom: "Leo ...
Category
20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Paper
NYDIA, THE BLIND FLOWER GIRL OF POMPEII Marble Sculpture 1856-1870
Located in Soquel, CA
Randolph John Rogers (American, 1825 - 1892) Randolph Rogers' Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii debuted in 1856 to critical and public acclaim, solidifying Rogers’ position as a pre-eminent American sculptor and it remains one of the artist’s most celebrated works today. The subject of Nydia is drawn from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii 1834. After touring the ruins of the ancient city in 1833, and inspired by the stories of blinding volcanic ash, he composed the tale of Nydia, a slave who led her master, Glaucus, to safety. Rogers depicts Nydia at the moment that she and Glaucus have become separated in their perilous journey through the rubble and Nydia seeks familiarity in the surrounding chaos, her distress evident in her pained expression. The grace of the sculpture is at odds with the turmoil portrayed; a toppled Corinthian capital lies at her feet and obstructs her next step, indicated by the tilt of her back foot and grip on her walking stick. Examples of this model can be found in major American collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Literature, Millard F Rogers, Jr. Randolph Rogers, American Sculptor in Rome. University of Massachusetts Press, 1971, American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1986. Joyce K Schiller. "Nydia, A Forgotten Icon of the Nineteenth Century." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts,
Born in Waterloo, New York, Randolph John Rogers became an expatriate* sculptor of idealized figures, portraits, and commemorative works in Neo-Classical* and Realist* styles. He worked in clay, plaster, marble and bronze, and lived both in Italy and the United States. He made 167 examples of Nydia in two sizes (varies depending on base height) 36" and 54'.
Rogers was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and as a young man did woodcuts* for the local newspaper, The Michigan Argus, and also worked as a baker's assistant and a dry goods clerk. In 1847, he moved to New York City, where he hoped to find work as an engraver*, but failing to do so, worked in a dry goods store owned by John Steward...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Marble
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