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The Nightmare
The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. It shows a woman in deep sleep with her arms thrown below her and with a demonic and ape-like incubus crouched on her chest. The painting's dreamlike and haunting erotic evocation of infatuation and obsession was a huge popular success. -
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
The Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct is one of the projected sets of one of four monumental landscapes representing the times of day that Théodore Gericault, a French artist painted in his Paris studio in the year 1818. -
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich made in 1818. -
The Raft of the Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa – originally titled Scène de Naufrage – is an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault. Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. -
Alfred Dedreux (1810–1860) as a Child
This portrait is the nephew of Gericault’s friend of the painter Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy. It depicts an eight or nine-year-old Alfred and his younger sister, Elisabeth, with remarkable self-possession and grace for their age. -
The Hay Wain
The Hay Wain – originally titled Landscape: Noon – is a painting by John Constable, completed in 1821, which depicts a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. -
Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Gericault (1791–1824)
This work shows Gericault as a Romantic artist, a type that had recently come into being based on Lord Byron's example. He is depicted as deep in thought and possibly suffering physically as well. It was probably painted when Gericault was stricken with the disease that claimed his life in 1824. In a lithograph made by Vernet in 1823, Gericault wears the same scarf on his head. -
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds is an 1823- landscape painting by the English landscape painter John Constable. -
Inundated Ruins of a Monastery
The proud medieval building in this drawing—hardly more than a seemingly endless wall supported by a row of arched vaults—has been overgrown by vegetation and worn away by water. -
Stormy Coast Scene after a Shipwreck
Horace Vernet's piece titled Stormy Coast Scene after a Shipwreck shows off the romanticism movement by showing the aftermath of a shipwreck as the passengers make their way from the vicious ocean waves to the rocky shoreline. -
Royal Tiger
This sense of rhythm between the tiger and its environment speaks to how Delacroix portrays the tiger as the embodiment of a largely unpredictable and often violent Nature. Rendered in shades of grey, the lithograph is nevertheless imbued with the same sense of primordial vitality. -
Mother and Child by the Sea
The painter described this work as "a coast in the moonlight where a woman and her child are waiting for an approaching boat bearing a close relation." -
Épisode des Journées de Septembre 1830
Portraying a scene from the Belgian Revolution of 1830 -
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X. -
The Titan’s Goblet
The Titan's Goblet is an oil painting by the English-born American landscape artist Thomas Cole. Painted in 1833, it is perhaps the most enigmatic of Cole's allegorical or imaginary landscape scenes. It is a work that "defies full explanation", according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -
The Natchez
The Natchez is an oil-on-canvas painting created by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix in 1834-1835. The Natchez depicts a Native American couple with their newborn child. -
Wanderer in the Storm
Wanderer in the Storm was created in 1835 by the German artist Julius von Leypold. Currently housed in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, it is the epitome of the German Romantic School of art, most notably the work of von Leypold’s contemporary Caspar David Friedrich. -
The Abduction of Rebecca
The Abduction of Rebecca is a mid-19th-century painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts the scene from Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe in which the heroine Rebecca is abducted. -
Sunset
The drawing depicts a sunset, set behind and above a gently sloping landscape. -
The Ninth Wave
The Ninth Wave is an 1850 painting by Russian-Armenian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky. It is his best-known work. The title refers to an old sailing expression referring to a wave of incredible size that comes after a succession of incrementally larger waves. -
The Virgin Adoring the Host
The Virgin appears behind an altar table, flanked by two saints in adoration of the Eucharist. The Virgin Adoring the Host painting was created by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres a famous French artist. -
The Kiss
Il Bacio is an 1859 painting by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez. It is possibly his best-known work. This painting conveys the main features of Italian Romanticism and has come to represent the spirit of the Risorgimento.