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
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
Boats at sunset, effect of light
Located in PARIS, FR
Nicolas Edward GABE
1814-1865
Boats at sunset, effect of light
Painting, oil on wood
Signed and dated 1850
Painting: 61 x 41 cm (24 x 16.1 inches)
Beautiful modern frame: 73 x 53 cm ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a young soldier, dated 1830, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century,
Portrait of a young soldier, dated 1830,
Pencil and heightenings of white and red
26 x 19.7 cm oval view
examined outside the frame, in good condition
I...
Category
1830s Romantic Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil
French school 19th century, Court scene in front of a palace, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French school 19th century,
Court scene in front of a palace
watercolor on paper
16.4 x 13.3 cm
In good condition, some foxings
Framed : 30 x 26.5 cm
This enigmatic yet charming s...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Historical figurative drawing of 19th century Italian Romanticism
Located in Florence, IT
The subject illustrated here is one of the moments that mark the centuries-long history of Genoa's glorious Maritime Republic, when the ashes of St. John the Baptist, one of the city...
Category
1860s Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen, Pencil
Three Head Portraits of a Young Girl
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hippolyte Roques (active 1838-1864)
Three Head Portraits of a Young Girl
Oil on grey wove paper, c. 1850
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Shepherd Galle...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
GUDIN Henriette Marine sunset boats sea romantic french 19th small panel
Located in PARIS, FR
Henriette GUDIN Paris,1825 - Paris,1892 Oil on wood 14 x 21 cm (40 x47 cm with frame) Signed lower left "H. Gudin" Very beautiful 19th century frame decorated with friezes, interlaci...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Woman Carrying Grapes, Art Nouveau Bronze by Mario Korbel
By Mario Joseph Korbel
Located in Long Island City, NY
This bronze sculpture by Mario Joseph Korbel is a stunning portrayal of a woman in the Romanticist style. Korbel began studying sculpture in his homeland of Czech Republic, and cont...
Category
20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Bronze
Three Putti, Art Nouveau Bronze by Affortunato Gory
Located in Long Island City, NY
This Bronze sculpture, by the French Art Deco/Art Nouveau artist Affortunato Gory (d. 1925) , is a beautiful moment of three putti joyously dancing together. Their arms are joined a...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of a Girl With a Pearl Earring
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite portrait by Gunnar Hallström, titled "Portrait of a Girl with a Pearl Earring" invites viewers into a moment of quiet introspection. Painted in the 1920s, the subject ...
Category
1920s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
BREDOW Snow landscape moonlight night German Russian school romantic 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Albert BREDOW
Germany, 1828 – Moscow, 1899
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right "ABredow"
43 cm x 62 cm (67 x 85 cm with frame)
Albert Bredow is a German-Russian landscape painter, lit...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Distraction. Courting on the Riverbank. Fishing. La Belle Époque. Romance & Love
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Eugène Decisy.
French ( b.1866 – d.1936 ).
Distraction.
Oil on Canvas.
Signed lower right.
Image size 21.1 inches x 25.2 inches ( 53.5cm x 64cm ).
Frame size 24.8 inches x 29.3 inche...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 19th century Victorian oil landscape - Summer in the Highlands
Located in Antwerp, BE
19th century English countryside landscape "Summer in the Highlands"
This peaceful painting depicts an Highlands countryside scenery during a sunny summerday. In the foreground two ...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arthur Waagen’s 'The Nomadic Virtuoso’ in Patinated metal
Located in New York, NY
Encounter the resonant blend of motion and music in 'The Nomadic Virtuoso,' a captivating painted metal sculpture by Arthur Waagen. This art piece from the late 19th century depicts ...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Bronze
L'ACTEUR . . . . - On voit bien qu'il fait chaud . . . . . . . trois spectateurs
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'ACTEUR . . . . - On voit bien qu'il fait chaud . . . . . . . trois spectateurs dans la salle ..... faut-il commencer ? . . . .
LE DIRECTEUR .- Et encore un des trois est le vendeu...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Coral brooch. Naples. XIX century
Located in Firenze, IT
Antique Italian Coral brooch. Naples.
XIX century.
Total weight 5,60gr.
Size 4,2 cm
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Coral engraved and carved in...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Gold
A Spring Sunset, Original Oil Painting from 1952
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite painting by the artist Otto Lindberg (1880-1955) is a mesmerizing depiction of a spring sunset. Crafted in 1952, this piece stands as one of Lindberg's final paintings...
Category
1950s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Rural Landscape With Cows and Horses, Watercolor by Hilding Linnqvist
Located in Stockholm, SE
This watercolor by Hilding Linnqvist who was a Swedish artist born in 1891 and passed away in 1984.
Linnqvist, known for his association with the Naïvist movement, often described as...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor
Un plaideur auquel manquent malheureusement
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Un plaideur auquel manquent malheureusement les pieces les plus importantes, les pieces de cent sous.
(A litigant who unfortunately doesn't have the most important details to succes...
Category
1860s Romantic Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Easter Bonnet - Romantic Portrait Oil Painting by Gustave Jean Jacquet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel portrait circa 1890 by French Romantic painter Gustave Jean Jacquet. The work depicts a young redheaded woman wearing a red velvet jacket lined with white fur. On her head she is wearing an Easter bonnet trimmed with leaves.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 14"x11.5"
Unframed: 10"x7.5"
Provenance:
Baron Fine Art...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Adrien Moreau, Woman with Picked Flowers in a Basket Resting by the Sea
Located in Stockholm, SE
A beautiful watercolor by Adrien Moreau (1843-1906) showing a woman with freshly picked flowers in a basket resting in the grass by the sea. The colors are strong and it is mounted i...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Memory of Santorini, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
from the series “Houses on the waterâ€
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Antique Scottish Oil on Canvas Painting Tantallon Castle Ruin East Lothian 1850
By Horatio McCulloch
Located in Portland, OR
A fine & important Scottish oil on canvas painting; a landscape of Tantallon Castle in East Lothian, by Horatio McCulloch (1805-1867) R.S.A. The painting circa 1850.
This very hands...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boat off the coast of Fécamp (Normandy)
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles-Louis VERBOECKHOVEN (attributed to)
Warneton, 1802 - Brussels, 1889
Boat off the coast of Fécamp (Normandy)
Painting, oil on cardboard
Unsigned
Painting: 39 x 29 cm
Beautiful...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Trees & Cottage in the English Countryside by 20th Century Landscape Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Trees & Cottage in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright
Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame.
Provenanc...
Category
1980s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An original piece from the series “Sistine moodâ€
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century Landscape with Figures
Located in New Orleans, LA
Early 20th Century Landscape with Figures attributed to Continental School
framed: 53.7h x 42.5w inches
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Anna's Aroma, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on panel canvas :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: No :: :: Canvas ...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Marine painting sea shore smugglers boat scotttish 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
William ANDERSON (1757- 1837) Oil on wooden panel 25.5 x 34.5 cm (40x50cm with frame) Signed and dated lower left "W. Anderson / 1817" Collector's stamp on the back
Scottish painte...
Category
1810s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Antique portrait of a woman, French romantic oil painting, female portrait
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique portrait of a young woman. Romantic 1800's oil painting on canvas board. This is an attractive, traditional 19th Century French oil painting in its original frame.
MORE ABO...
Category
1840s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Italian earrings. 19th century
Located in Firenze, IT
19th century Italian Coral earrings.u2028
Gold with French hallmarks (head of eagle=750 gold).u2028
Nineteenth century.
Height 2.1cmu2028
Length 2.1cm
Earrings in good condition.u202...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Gold
Italian Brigands in the Roman Countryside fighting with Papal Dragoons.
Located in Firenze, IT
Brigands in the Roman countryside fighting with papal dragoons.
19th century.
Characteristic technique among foreign and German traveling painters: oil on metal plate, probably zin...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
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
La Princesse Bleue
Located in Paris, FR
Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse
1859-1938 French
La Princesse Bleue
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Canvas: 27 1/8" high x 32 1/8" wide
Frame : 37 3/8" high x 41 3/4" wide
Exposed...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Southern Painting of the French Broad River, North Carolina ca 1890
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is an unsigned, but rare, late 19th century oil on canvas of a view of the French Broad River in North Carolina. It is amongst the world’s oldest rivers. The scene depicted is m...
Category
1880s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
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
Seated Female Nude (two studies)
By Pierre Saint-Ange Poterlet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recling Female Nude
Charcoal on tan paper
Signed: Poterlet bottom center (see photo)
Provenance:
Alfred Barrion, Lugt 76 lower right recto (see photo)
Eric G. Carlson, 1985
Very good...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Charcoal
Hand-Me-Downs - Street Children - Waif - Cockney Gutter Imps.
Located in Miami, FL
19th Century Street Art - British children's book author and illustrator Edith Farmiloe depicts a waif-like girl - Cockney Gutter Imp - who is disheveled. The artist draws her i...
Category
Early 1900s Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Unidentified Flying Object, original oil on board, Romantic style, 20thC
By Meta Plückebaum
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
This one of a pair of fun and vibrant paintings of precious kittens distracted by a bumble bee are unique and original oil-on-canvas paintings by the German artist and illustrator, Meta Plückebaum...
Category
20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Miniature Pastoral Landscape 19th century Romanticism Oil Painting on Wood
Located in Stockholm, SE
Pastoral Landscape with distant river valley in haze, flock, cattle watering and figures in lightly wooded foreground - Idyllic scene painted in oils by unknown professional mid-19th...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
ADAM Marine tempest rescue boats romantic french painting ISABEY 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Hippolyte Benjamin ADAM
Paris, 1808 – 1853
Oil on canvas
54 x 73 cm (61 x 80 cm with frame)
Signed lower left “h. Adam"
19th century black wooden frame
Hippolyte Adam is a painter o...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Woman posing oil on burlap painting portrait
By Jose Puyet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - La rondeña - Oil on burlap
Oil measurements 81x65 cm.
Some areas with cracked oil paint.
Frameless.
Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the gran...
Category
1980s Romantic Art
Materials
Burlap, Oil
Nostalgy. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Subtle Female, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative oil on canvas painting by Polish artist Katarzyna Szydlowska. Painting pictures female in nude. She is sitting on the beach, there is sea and cliff behind her...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Melancholy... Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Subtle Female, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative oil on canvas painting by Polish artist Katarzyna Szydlowska. Painting pictures two females in nude- one is covering herself and the other one is holdind bouq...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
German School 19th Century, Portrait of a boy, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
German School 19th Century,
Portrait of a boy,
pencil on paper
25.7 x 16 cm (view)
Framed : 41.8 x 31.5 cm
The style and execution are v...
Category
1850s Romantic Art
Materials
Pencil
Une Affection Tacite - 19th Century Romantic Oil Painting Girl & Loving Admirer
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
Paris street, France
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print
Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper
From the series Story Lines
Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory.
Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
Category
2010s Romantic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper
THOMASSIN Attributed Austrian landscapes romantic pair painting Brazil 19th
By Desiré Thomassin
Located in PARIS, FR
Désiré THOMASSIN (Attributed to)
Vienna, 1858 – Munich, 1933
Oil on panel
32 x 50 cm (42 x 60 cm with frame)
Inscription on the back “Thomassin / Braz...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Egyptian Buffalo and Farmers. Camel Rider. Egypt.American Orientalist.Watercolor
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Edwin Lord Weeks.
American ( b.1849 - d.1903 ).
Egyptian Buffalo and Farmers. Egypt.
Watercolor. Monogram Lower Right.
Image size 5.1 inches x 8.3 inches ( 13cm x 21cm ).
Frame size...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Antique Oil Painting of Washington’s Headquarters, Valley Forge, Pa ca 1890’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
This unsigned late 19th century painting portrays the property used by George Washington as his headquarters during the American Revolution. Known as the Isaac Potts House, it was bu...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Oil
Twilight Landscape with Windmill and Church, 1891
Located in Stockholm, SE
"Twilight Landscape with Windmill and Church" is a captivating work by Swedish artist Albert Larsson, painted in 1891 when Larsson was 22 years old. The painting captures a landscape...
Category
1890s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Napoleon at the Head of His Grande Armée, His Generals and the Prussian Hussars
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil, chalk and watercolour depiction of Napoleon at the head of his generals by French artist Jean Ducel. The work is signed bottom right.
A bold and graphic depiction of Napoleo...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Chalk, Crayon, Cardboard, Pencil
Natural yellow sappire not heated not treated 3.5 carat
Located in Lagos, NG
Natural yellow sappire not heated not treated pure stone weight 3.5 caratsThis stunning 3.5 carat yellow sapphire is a must-have for any jewellery collection. The pear-shaped gemston...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Materials
Precious Stone
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