An assortment of figurative french romantic paintings is available on 1stDibs. Browse a selection of
Old Masters versions of these works for sale today — there are 1
Old Masters examples available. There are many variations of these items available, from those made as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. If you’re looking to add figurative french romantic paintings that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of
black,
brown,
gray,
blue and more. There have been many well-done artworks of this subject over the years, but those made by
Sheila Querre,
Edouard Vimont,
M. Dese,
Jean Baptiste Poncet and
Salvatore Testa are often thought to be among the most beautiful. Frequently made by artists working in
paint,
oil paint and
fabric, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years.
Prices for art of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — figurative french romantic paintings in our inventory begin at $496 and can go as high as $11,275, while the average can fetch as much as $2,060.
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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