Thursday, May 31, 2012

Victor-Louis Mottez (1809-1897)

Victor-Louis Mottez (1809-1897), French painter.
Victor-Louis Mottez, Zeuxis choosing his models, 1858
Victor-Louis Mottez, Zeuxis choosing his models, 1858
Victor-Louis Mottez, Medea
Victor-Louis Mottez, Medea
Victor-Louis Mottez, Ulysses and the sirens
Victor-Louis Mottez, Ulysses and the sirens

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine (1855-1901)

Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine (1855-1901), French painter.
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, Les Baigneuses
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, Les Baigneuses
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, Appollon et Daphné
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, Appollon et Daphné
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, Before the Masked Ball
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, Before the Masked Ball
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, Portrait of a Woman
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, Portrait of a Woman
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, title unknown
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, title unknown
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, title unknown
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, title unknown
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, Nude by a River
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, Nude by a River
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, title unknown
Jules-Frédéric Ballavoine, title unknown

Albert Aublet (1851-1938)

Albert Aublet (1851-1938), French painter
Albert Aublet, Nude With a Veil, 1883
Albert Aublet, Nude With a Veil, 1883
Albert Aublet, Matin, 1894
Albert Aublet, Matin, 1894
Albert Aublet, Juillet, 1893
Albert Aublet, Juillet, 1893
Albert Aublet, Sur la plage, le treport, 1887
Albert Aublet, Sur la plage, le treport, 1887

Monday, May 28, 2012

Beatrice Offor (1864-1920)

Beatrice Offor (1864-1920), British painter. She was a close friend of Mona Bergson who married McGregor Mathers, founder of the Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn, which accounts for the occult influences in paintings like The Crystal Gazer.
Beatrice Offor, The Crystal Gazer
Beatrice Offor, The Crystal Gazer
Beatrice Offor, title unknown
Beatrice Offor, title unknown
Beatrice Offor, Nude Study
Beatrice Offor, Nude Study
Beatrice Offor, Nude With Roses
Beatrice Offor, Nude With Roses

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Augustus Leopold Egg (1816-1863)

Augustus Leopold Egg (1816-1863), British painter.
Augustus Leopold Egg, The Travelling Companions, 1862
Augustus Leopold Egg, The Travelling Companions, 1862
Augustus Leopold Egg, Florence Nightingale
Augustus Leopold Egg, Florence Nightingale
Augustus Leopold Egg, The Love Letter
Augustus Leopold Egg, The Love Letter

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Madeleine Lemaire (1845-1928)

Madeleine Lemaire (1845-1928), French painter.
Madeleine Lemaire, Phoebe, 1896
Madeleine Lemaire, Phoebe, 1896
Madeleine Lemaire, Woman sitting in a dagobert armchair
Madeleine Lemaire, Woman sitting in a dagobert armchair
Madeleine Lemaire, Ophelia, 1880
Madeleine Lemaire, Ophelia, 1880

Friday, May 25, 2012

Emmanuel Benner (1836-1896)

Emmanuel Benner (1836-1896), French artist.
Emmanuel Benner, Marie-Madeleine au désert, 1886
Emmanuel Benner, Marie-Madeleine au désert, 1886
Emmanuel Benner, At The Water’s Edge
Emmanuel Benner, At The Water’s Edge
Emmanuel Benner, Prehistoric Man Hunting Bears
Emmanuel Benner, Prehistoric Man Hunting Bears
Emmanuel Benner, Hunters in Wait, 1879
Emmanuel Benner, Hunters in Wait, 1879
Emmanuel Benner, The Loss of Alsace Lorraine, 1895
Emmanuel Benner, The Loss of Alsace Lorraine, 1895

Thursday, May 24, 2012

William Arthur Breakspeare (1855-1914)

William Arthur Breakspeare, British painter
William Arthur Breakspeare, A Bouquet of Flowers
William Arthur Breakspeare, A Bouquet of Flowers
William Arthur Breakspeare, The Mermaid
William Arthur Breakspeare, The Mermaid
William Arthur Breakspeare, The Sleeping Beauty

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Mattie Dubé, Wood Nymph

Mattie Dubé was born in Arkansas in 1854 (some sources say 1861) and died in 1944.
Mattie Dubé, Wood Nymph
Mattie Dubé, Wood Nymph

Monday, May 21, 2012

Ramon Casas (1866-1932)

Ramon Casas (1866-1932), Spanish painter
Ramon Casas, Après le bal, 1895
Ramon Casas, Après le bal, 1895

Friday, May 18, 2012

The Garden of Proserpine


The Garden of Proserpine

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Here, where the world is quiet;
  Here, where all trouble seems
Dead winds' and spent waves' riot
  In doubtful dreams of dreams;
I watch the green field growing
For reaping folk and sowing
For harvest-time and mowing,
  A sleepy world of streams.

I am tired of tears and laughter,
  And men that laugh and weep;
Of what may come hereafter
  For men that sow to reap:
I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers
  And everything but sleep.

Here life has death for neighbor,
  And far from eye or ear
Wan waves and wet winds labor,
  Weak ships and spirits steer;
They drive adrift, and whither
They wot not who make thither;
But no such winds blow hither,
  And no such things grow here.

No growth of moor or coppice,
  No heather-flower or vine,
But bloomless buds of poppies,
  Green grapes of Proserpine,
Pale beds of blowing rushes,
Where no leaf blooms or blushes
Save this whereout she crushes
  For dead men deadly wine.

Pale, without name or number,
  In fruitless fields of corn,
They bow themselves and slumber
  All night till light is born;
And like a soul belated,
In hell and heaven unmated,
By cloud and mist abated
  Comes out of darkness morn.

Though one were strong as seven,
  He too with death shall dwell,
Nor wake with wings in heaven,
  Nor weep for pains in hell;
Though one were fair as roses,
His beauty clouds and closes;
And well though love reposes,
  In the end it is not well.

Pale, beyond porch and portal,
  Crowned with calm leaves she stands
Who gathers all things mortal
  With cold immortal hands;
Her languid lips are sweeter
Than love's who fears to greet her,
To men that mix and meet her
  From many times and lands.

She waits for each and other,
  She waits for all men born;
Forgets the earth her mother,
  The life of fruits and corn;
And spring and seed and swallow
Take wing for her and follow
Where summer song rings hollow
  And flowers are put to scorn.

There go the loves that wither,
  The old loves with wearier wings;
And all dead years draw thither,
  And all disastrous things;
Dead dreams of days forsaken,
Blind buds that snows have shaken,
Wild leaves that winds have taken,
  Red strays of ruined springs.

We are not sure of sorrow;
  And joy was never sure;
To-day will die to-morrow;
  Time stoops to no man's lure;
And love, grown faint and fretful,
With lips but half regretful
Sighs, and with eyes forgetful
  Weeps that no loves endure.

From too much love of living,
  From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
  Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
  Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Then star nor sun shall waken,
  Nor any change of light:
Nor sound of waters shaken,
  Nor any sound or sight:
Nor wintry leaves nor vernal,
Nor days nor things diurnal;
Only the sleep eternal
  In an eternal night.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838-1904)

Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838-1904), British Pre-Raphaelite painter
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, At the First Touch of Winter Summer Fades Away
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, At the First
Touch of Winter Summer Fades Away
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, Ayesha, 1887
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, Ayesha, 1887
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, At the Golden Gate, 1882
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, At the Golden Gate, 1882
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, Il Barbagianni The Owl, 1863
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, Il Barbagianni The Owl, 1863
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, The First Awakening of Eve
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, The First Awakening of Eve
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, The Death of Cleopatra
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, The Death of Cleopatra

Monday, May 14, 2012

Constantin Font (1890-1954)

Constantin Font (1890-1954), French painter.
Constantin Font, Odalisque
Constantin Font, Odalisque
Constantin Font, Violette de Toulouse
Constantin Font, Violette de Toulouse

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Alexandre Séon (1855-1917)

Alexandre Séon (1855-1917), French Symbolist artist, involved in the Salon de la Rose-Croix.
Alexandre Séon, The Story. 1898
Alexandre Séon, The Story. 1898
Alexandre Séon, Le retour
Alexandre Séon, Le retour
Alexandre Séon, Narcisse. 1898
Alexandre Séon, Narcisse. 1898

Monday, May 7, 2012

Walter Crane (1845-1915)

Walter Crane (1845-1915), English painter and book illustrator.
Walter Crane, The Renaissance Of Venus
Walter Crane, The Renaissance Of Venus
Walter Crane, The Four Seasons
Walter Crane, The Four Seasons

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Louis Joseph Raphaêl Collin (1850-1916)

Louis Joseph Raphaêl Collin (1850-1916), French academic painter
Louis Joseph Raphaêl Collin, Sleep, 1873
Louis Joseph Raphaêl Collin, Sleep, 1873
Louis Joseph Raphaêl Collin, Daphnis and Chloe, 1890
Louis Joseph Raphaêl Collin, Daphnis and Chloe, 1890
Louis Joseph Raphaêl Collin, Nude, 1892
Louis Joseph Raphaêl Collin, Nude, 1892
Louis Joseph Raphaêl Collin, The Beauty, 1889
Louis Joseph Raphaêl Collin, The Beauty, 1889