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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Style: Romantic
Huge 19th century Hunting scene - Setter dogs with their prey - Hunt
Located in Antwerp, BE
Huge 19th century Hunting scene oil painting "Two setters with their trophy in a landscape" by the well-known Belgian animal painter Henry Schouten
Henry Schouten was born in Indone...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Oil on Wood
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Figurative Oil Painting on Wood
Painted in the manner of late Romanticism, this charming miniature pastoral landscape by Edmund Fri...
Category
1870s Romantic Art
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
Ceiling of the Paris Opera House
By Marc Chagall
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Ceiling of the Paris Opera House
The value is in the beautiful framing. Please note the shipping cost as the piece is very large (frame is 47" x 47").
In 1960, the Minister of ...
Category
20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Ink, Paper
Orientale
Located in New York, NY
Signed, lower right: Fantin
Provenance:
Gustave Tempelaere (1840–1904), Paris; possibly by descent to his son:
Julien Tempelaere (1876–1961) and with F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris, prob...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Canvas, Oil
Primrose and Foal: A Brood-Mare, late the Property of his Grace the Duke of Graf
By James Ward
Located in Boston, MA
From Celebrated Horses, Grundy 24. A fine chine applique impression in fine condition with full margins. A proof before letters. Exhibited at the Marietta/Cobb Museum in the "Celebr...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape with Cattle Grazing in the English Countryside by 20th Century Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Landscape with Cattle Grazing in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, James Wright
Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beauti...
Category
1990s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Vanity Clothed'. Mid-Century Oil on Canvas Portrait.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid Century oil on canvas portrait of a wistful reclining beauty in a garden setting by Argentinian artist Richard Durando Togo. Signed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Religious Painting Good Samaritan French school 19th romantic Sketch
Located in PARIS, FR
French school in the middle of the 19th century
Oil on wood
25 x 23.5 cm
Trace of a signature at bottom left
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
French romantic school Drawing black chalk and goiache HORTIN steam boat 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles HORTIN (Attributed to)
(XIX)
Black chalk and white gouache
Signed lower right
12 x 16 cm
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Chalk
French romantic school PETIT Paris view architecture Saint Denis 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Antoine-Baptiste PETIT
Paris, 1800 – Versailles, 1864
Watercolor
18 x 27 cm
Antoine-Baptiste Petit was a decorative painter and teacher of perspective.
He produced views of Paris in...
Category
1830s Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Still life of Tazza with red grapes- 17th Century Style Contemporary Still-life
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Cornelis le Mair
"Still life with Tazza with red grapes"
55 x 42 cm ( painting)
Framed the size is 93 x 79 cm (This by the artist handmade frame is included in the price)
Painted i...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
French Romantic school, Portrait of a young soldier, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school, circa 1830
Portrait of a young soldier,
pencil on paper
Framed under glass : 38 x 30 cm
It's a vintage frame, probablly original but I had the back redone
T...
Category
1830s Romantic Art
Materials
Pencil
Disegno figurativo del romanticismo fiorentino matita su carta del XIX secolo
By Giuseppe Bezzuoli
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, sebbene non firmato, proviene dalla collezione degli eredi di Giuseppe Bezzuoli, come riconoscibile dallo stemma ovale Macciò Parri che si trova in basso a sinistra, ed è...
Category
1820s Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Chalk
‘Landscape with Cows and Sheep in a wide river landscape’, Eugène Verboeckhoven
By Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven
Located in Bruges, BE
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven
Warneton 1798 – 1881 Schaarbeek
Belgian Painter
‘Landscape with Cows and Sheep in a wide river landscape’
Signature: signed and dated lower mid-right 'E...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Allegorical mythological figurative bronze from the 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
Marble-based bronze statuette depicting Cupid, holding an arrow in his hand, walking caressing a lion's mane, lowered in the act of affectionately licking his little foot. The subjec...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
‘Cats Playing around a Mirror’ by Joseph Bail (1862 – 1921), French Painter
Located in Bruges, BE
Joseph Bail
Limonest 1862 – 1921 Paris
French Painter
‘Cats Playing around a Mirror’
Signature: signed lower right ‘Bail Joseph’
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: image size 45,5...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
‘Fishermen’s Cove with two fishing boats on the beach’ by Johan Hendrik Meijer
By Johan Hendrik Louis Meijer
Located in Bruges, BE
Johan Hendrik Louis Meijer
Amsterdam 1809 – 1866 Utrecht
Dutch Painter
‘Fishermen’s Cove with two fishing boats on the beach’
Signature: signed lower right ‘L Meijer’
Medium: oil o...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
‘Peasant Children walking the Donkeys’ by Edgar Bundy (1862 – 1922), dated 1885
Located in Bruges, BE
Edgar Bundy
Brighton 1862 – 1922 London
British Painter
‘Peasant Children walking the Donkeys’
Signature: signed lower right and dated ‘Edgar Bundy 1885'
Medium: oil on canvas
Dim...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
‘Meal Time for all’ by Hermann Werner (1816 – 1905), signed and dated 1870
By Hermann Werner
Located in Bruges, BE
Hermann Werner
Samswegen 1816 – 1905 Düsseldorf
German Painter
‘Meal Time for all’
Signature: signed lower right and dated ‘H. Werner. 1870
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: image ...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'A Walk along the Snowy Landscape’ by Franciscus Lodewijk Van Gulik, dated 1878
Located in Bruges, BE
Franciscus Lodewijk Van Gulik
Maastricht 1841 - 1899 Rotterdam
Dutch Painter
'A Walk along the Snowy Landscape’
Signature: signed lower right and dated 'Frans van Gulik 1878'
Mediu...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French romantic painting Oil on paper TANCARVILLE castle Normandy 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Victor LEFRANC
Paris, 1812 - ?
Oil on paper
33 x 42 cm (44 x 52 cm with frame)
Inscription on the verso 'Tancarville / 1839" and stamp from the Georges Lhoste collection
Painter of ...
Category
1830s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Painting oval KUWASSEG Marine beach boats french romantic Normandy 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles Euphrasie KUWASSEG
Draveil (Essonne), 1833 – Paris, 1904
Oil on wooden panel Signed and dated lower right “C. Kuwasseg fils / July 57”
36 x 28 cm (42 x 36 cm with the frame)...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Horse British painter - 19th century figure painting - Hunting knight
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (19th century) - Rider and hunting greyhounds.
28 x 22 cm without frame, 40 x 33 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on wood, in a gilded wooden frame.
Condition r...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Romantic French Painter - 19th century figure painting - Gallant interior
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (19th century) - The arrival of the letter from the suitor.
35.5 x 29 cm without frame, 52.5 x 46.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a contemporary ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large oil from 1902 - German school - A portrait of Sisterly love
Located in Antwerp, BE
Sweet and large oil painting "Sisterly love" signed and dated 1902 by August Algermissen
The present painting depicts two sisters seated in an interior, the youngest is gleefully lo...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woman with Birds
By Sunol Alvar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Alvar
Title: Woman with Birds
Year: c.1980
Medium: Color lithograph
Paper: Wove
Image size: 18.5 x 24.5 inches
Framed size: 26.5 x 32.65 inc...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Flowering. 2015, canvas, oil, 60x80 cm
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Flowering. 2015, canvas, oil, 60x80 cm
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Landscape with birch trees. 2010, canvas, oil, 79x137 cm
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape with birch trees. 2010, canvas, oil, 79x137 cm
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fabulous stories by live fire. 2002, canvas, oil, 80x106 cm
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Fabulous stories by live fire. 2002, canvas, oil, 80x106 cm
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Frédéric Millet (1786-1859) Portrait of a gentleman, 1849 watercolor signed
Located in Paris, FR
Frédéric Millet (1786-1859)
Portrait of a gentleman, 1849
signed and dated lower right
Watercolor on paper
36 x 27,5 cm
framed : 44 x 35 cm
Frédéric Millet is rightly renowned fo...
Category
1840s Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Orpheus - Late 20th Century British watercolour by Robert O'Rorke
Located in London, GB
ROBERT O’RORKE
(Born 1945)
Orpheus
Signed and dated l.r.: Rbt O’Rorke ’93; signed, dated 1993 and inscribed The Dance No.3 on a label attached to the backboard
Watercolour on grey ...
Category
1990s Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Seagulls in the snow. 1994. Canvas, oil, 70x112 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Seagulls in the snow. 1994. Canvas, oil, 70x112 cm
Category
1990s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moonlight over the Lake, 1912, By Swedish Artist Wilhelm Dahlbom
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to present this exquisite piece by Swedish artist Wilhelm Dahlbom, entitled "Moonlight, Idö, 1912". This work captures the serene reflection of moonlight on water, the...
Category
1910s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charlotte Shore Daughter of 1st Lord Teignmouth. Portrait in India 1792 to 1795.
By Arthur William Devis
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Arthur William Devis.
English ( b.1762 - d.1822 ).
Portrait of Charlotte Shore, Daughter of the 1st Lord Teignmouth 1790 - 1864.
Oil on Canvas.
Oval Image size 26.2 inches x 20.5 in...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Citadel, Cairo, The Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha. American Orientalist
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Edwin Lord Weeks.
American ( b.1849 - d.1903 ).
In the Citadel, Cairo, before The Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha
Watercolor. Monogram Lower Right.
Image size 8.3 inches x 5.3 in...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Une Affection Tacite - Large 19th Century Oil Painting of Young Lovers
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Une Affection Tacite’ by Adèle Kindt (1804-1893).
The painting – which depicts a young woman and her ardent admirer – is signed by the artist and dated 1862.
Born into a family o...
Category
1860s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
George H Hay, Spinning Wool, Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century watercolour by Scottish artist George H Hay RSA (1831-1912) depicts four young ladies, wearing outfits synonymous with the 1820s, spinning wool within a simple...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Delacroix, Composition, Trente et un Dessins et Aquarelles du Maroc (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on fine vélin paper, mounted on archival mat-board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Eugène De...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
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