Thursday, August 30, 2012

Adrien de Boucherville (1829-1912)

Adrien de Boucherville (1829-1912), 19th century French artist.
Adrien de Boucherville, title unknown
Adrien de Boucherville, title unknown
Adrien de Boucherville, Nu couché de dos
Adrien de Boucherville, Nu couché de dos

Monday, August 27, 2012

Edouard Bisson (1856-1936)

Edouard Bisson (1856-1936), French painter.
Edouard Bisson, Enchanted Maidens, 1902
Edouard Bisson, Enchanted Maidens, 1902on
Edouard Bisson, A Young Woman in Red with a Longing Gaze
Edouard Bisson, A Young Woman in Red with a Longing Gaze
Edouard Bisson, Les fleurs du matin, 1903
Edouard Bisson, Les fleurs du matin, 1903
Edouard Bisson, Goddesses on Mount Olympus
Edouard Bisson, Goddesses on Mount Olympus
Edouard Bisson, Winter, 1904
Edouard Bisson, Winter, 1904

Friday, August 24, 2012

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, Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae, 1896
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Dolce Far Niente
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Dolce Far Niente
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Funeral of a Mummy, 1877
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Funeral of a Mummy, 1877
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, In the Harem, 1894
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, In the Harem, 1894
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, The Music Lesson, 1871
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, The Music Lesson, 1871
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, The Siesta (Afternoon in Dreams)
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, The Siesta (Afternoon in Dreams)

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880)

Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880), German classicist painter
Anselm Feuerbach, The Judgement Of Paris
Anselm Feuerbach, The Judgement Of Paris
Anselm Feuerbach, Iphigenia, 1862 (first version)
Anselm Feuerbach, Iphigenia, 1862 (first version)
Anselm Feuerbach, Iphigenia, 1871 (second version)
Anselm Feuerbach, Iphigenia, 1871 (second version)
Anselm Feuerbach, Sleeping Nymph
Anselm Feuerbach, Sleeping Nymph
Anselm Feuerbach, Spring Scene, 1868
Anselm Feuerbach, Spring Scene, 1868

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Gabriel Schachinger (1850-1913)

Gabriel Schachinger (1850-1913), German artist
Gabriel Schachinger, Das Vergissmeinnicht, 1886
Gabriel Schachinger, Das Vergissmeinnicht, 1886
Gabriel Schachinger, Sweet Reflections.
Gabriel Schachinger, Sweet Reflections
Gabriel Schachinge,r Portrait einer Frau, 1886
Gabriel Schachinger, Portrait einer Frau, 1886

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945)

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945), English artist.
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, Petrarch's Laura at Avignon
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, Petrarch's Laura at Avignon
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, The Little Foot Page, 1905
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, The Little Foot Page, 1905
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, The Lover’s World, 1905
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, The Lover’s World, 1905

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Adrien Henri Tanoux (1865-1923)

Adrien Henri Tanoux (1865-1923), French orientalist artist.
Adrien Henri Tanoux, Harem Beauty
Adrien Henri Tanoux, Harem Beauty
Adrien Henri Tanoux, Odalisque
Adrien Henri Tanoux, Odalisque
Adrien Henri Tanoux, title unknown
Adrien Henri Tanoux, title unknown
Adrien Henri Tanoux, Namouna, la belle Esclave du Harem
Adrien Henri Tanoux, Namouna, la belle Esclave du Harem

Saturday, August 11, 2012

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, Diane de Poitiers dans l'atelier de Jean Goujon
Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, Raphaël reprenant la pose de son modèle
Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, Raphaël reprenant la pose de son modèle

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

John White Alexander (1856-1915)

John White Alexander (1856-1915), American painter.
John White Alexander, Study in Black and Green, 1906
John White Alexander, Study in Black and Green, 1906

Sunday, August 5, 2012

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.

Friday, August 3, 2012

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
Otto Theodor Gustav Lingner, title unknown

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Francois Martin-Kavel (1861-1931)

Francois Martin-Kavel, Jeune Femme en Deshabille
Francois Martin-Kavel, Jeune Femme en Deshabille
Francois Martin-Kavel, A Summer Rose
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
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