Adrien de Boucherville (1829-1912)

Adrien de Boucherville (1829-1912), 19th century French artist.

Adrien de Boucherville, title unknown

Adrien de Boucherville, Nu couché de dos

Edouard Bisson (1856-1936)

Edouard Bisson (1856-1936), French painter.

Edouard Bisson, Enchanted Maidens, 1902on

Edouard Bisson, A Young Woman in Red with a Longing Gaze

Edouard Bisson, Les fleurs du matin, 1903

Edouard Bisson, Goddesses on Mount Olympus

Edouard Bisson, Winter, 1904

Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928)

Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928), American artist with a fondness for orientalist subjects.

Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae, 1896

Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Dolce Far Niente

Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Funeral of a Mummy, 1877

Frederick Arthur Bridgman, In the Harem, 1894

Frederick Arthur Bridgman, The Music Lesson, 1871

Frederick Arthur Bridgman, The Siesta (Afternoon in Dreams)

Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880)

Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880), German classicist painter

Anselm Feuerbach, The Judgement Of Paris

Anselm Feuerbach, Iphigenia, 1862 (first version)

Anselm Feuerbach, Iphigenia, 1871 (second version)

Anselm Feuerbach, Sleeping Nymph

Anselm Feuerbach, Spring Scene, 1868

Gabriel Schachinger (1850-1913)

Gabriel Schachinger (1850-1913), German artist

Gabriel Schachinger, Das Vergissmeinnicht, 1886

Gabriel Schachinger, Sweet Reflections

Gabriel Schachinger, Portrait einer Frau, 1886

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945)

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945), English artist.

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, Petrarch's Laura at Avignon

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, The Little Foot Page, 1905

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, The Lover’s World, 1905

Adrien Henri Tanoux (1865-1923)

Adrien Henri Tanoux (1865-1923), French orientalist artist.

Adrien Henri Tanoux, Harem Beauty

Adrien Henri Tanoux, Odalisque

Adrien Henri Tanoux, title unknown

Adrien Henri Tanoux, Namouna, la belle Esclave du Harem

Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (1780-1850)

Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (1780-1850), French painter, the son of Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, Diane de Poitiers dans l'atelier de Jean Goujon

Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, Raphaël reprenant la pose de son modèle

John White Alexander (1856-1915)

John White Alexander (1856-1915), American painter.

John White Alexander, Study in Black and Green, 1906

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Rococo

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Rococo

Take hands and part with laughter;
    Touch lips and part with tears;
Once more and no more after,
    Whatever comes with years.
We twain shall not remeasure
    The ways that left us twain;
Nor crush the lees of pleasure
    From sanguine grapes of pain.

We twain once well in sunder,
    What will the mad gods do
For hate with me, I wonder,
    Or what for love with you?
Forget them till November,
    And dream there's April yet;
Forget that I remember,
    And dream that I forget.

Time found our tired love sleeping,
    And kissed away his breath;
But what should we do weeping,
    Though light love sleep to death?
We have drained his lips at leisure,
    Till there's not left to drain
A single sob of pleasure,
    A single pulse of pain.

Dream that the lips once breathless
    Might quicken if they would;
Say that the soul is deathless;
    Dream that the gods are good;
Say March may wed September,
    And time divorce regret;
But not that you remember,
    And not that I forget.

We have heard from hidden places
    What love scarce lives and hears:
We have seen on fervent faces
    The pallor of strange tears:
We have trod the wine-vat's treasure,
    Whence, ripe to steam and stain,
Foams round the feet of pleasure
    The blood-red must of pain.

Remembrance may recover
    And time bring back to time
The name of your first lover,
    The ring of my first rhyme;
But rose-leaves of December
    The frosts of June shall fret,
The day that you remember,
    The day that I forget.

The snake that hides and hisses
    In heaven we twain have known;
The grief of cruel kisses,
    The joy whose mouth makes moan;
The pulse's pause and measure,
    Where in one furtive vein
Throbs through the heart of pleasure
    The purpler blood of pain.

We have done with tears and treasons
    And love for treason's sake;
Room for the swift new seasons,
    The years that burn and break,
Dismantle and dismember
    Men's days and dreams, Juliette;
For love may not remember,
    But time will not forget.

Life treads down love in flying,
    Time withers him at root;
Bring all dead things and dying,
    Reaped sheaf and ruined fruit,
Where, crushed by three days' pressure,
    Our three days' love lies slain;
And earlier leaf of pleasure,
    And latter flower of pain.

Breathe close upon the ashes,
    It may be flame will leap;
Unclose the soft close lashes,
    Lift up the lids, and weep.
Light love's extinguished ember,
    Let one tear leave it wet
For one that you remember
    And ten that you forget.

Otto Theodor Gustav Lingner (1856–1917)

Otto Theodor Gustav Lingner (1856–1917), German painter

Otto Theodor Gustav Lingner, Water Nymph

Otto Theodor Gustav Lingner, title unknown

Francois Martin-Kavel (1861-1931)

Francois Martin-Kavel, Jeune Femme en Deshabille

Francois Martin-Kavel, A Summer Rose

Francois Martin-Kavel, title unknown

Francois Martin-Kavel, title unknown

Francois Martin-Kavel, title unknown

Francois Martin-Kavel, title unknown

Francois Martin-Kavel, title unknown