Early Steps towards Romanticism
 

Henry Fuseli – Titania and Bottom (A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV-1) (c. 1790) oil on canvas
London, Tate Gallery

Hubert Robert – Imaginary View of la Grande Galerie in Ruins (1796) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guérin – The Return of Marcus Sextus (c. 1799) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Baron Antoine-Jean Gros – Napoleon in the Pesthouse at Jaffa (1804) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Anne-Louis Girodet – The Deluge (1806) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Francisco Goya
(Spanish:  1746 - 1828)
 

Francisco de Goya – Clothed Maja (1798-1805) oil on canvas
Madrid, Prado

Francisco Goya – The Third of May 1808:
The Execuation of the Defenders of Madrid (1814) oil on canvas
Madrid, Museo del Prado

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William Blake
(English:  1757 - 1827)
 

William Blake – Elohim Creating Adam (c. 1795-1805) color print finished in ink and watercolor
London, Tate Gallery

William Blake – Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve (c. 1826) watercolor
London, Tate Gallery

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Théodore Géricault
(French:  1791 - 1824)
 

Théodore Géricault – Officer of the Imperial Guard (1812) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Théodore Géricault – The Raft of the Medusa (1819) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

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Eugène Delacroix
(French:  1798 - 1863)
 

Eugène Delacroix – The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Eugène Delacroix – Liberty Leading the People (1830) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

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Paul Delaroche
(French:  1797 - 1856)
 
Paul Delaroche - The Execution of Lady Jane Grey - 1834
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Paul Delaroche - Napoleon Crossing the Alps - 1850
Paris, Musée du Louvre

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
(English:  1775 - 1851)
 

Joseph Mallord William Turner – Rome from the Vatican.
Raffaelle Accompanied by La Fornarina, Preparing his Pictures the the Decoration of the Loggia (1820) oil on canvas
London, Tate Gallery

Joseph Mallord William Turner – The Fighting Téméraire (1836) oil on canvas
London, National Gallery

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John Constable
(English:  1776 - 1837)
 

John Constable – Tree Trunk (c. 1821) oil on canvas
London, Victoria and Albert Museum

John Constable – View of Salisbury Cathedral (1823) oil on canvas
London, Victoria and Albert Museum

John Constable – Dedham Vale (1828) oil on canvas
Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland

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Caspar David Friedrich
(German:  1774 - 1840)
 

Caspar David Friedrich – The Traveler Above a Sea of Clouds (c. 1818) oil on canvas
Hamburg, Kunsthalle

Caspar David Friedrich – Periods of Life (1834-1835) oil on canvas
Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Künst

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Thomas Cole
(American:  1801 - 1848)
 

Thomas Cole – The Course of Empire:  Desolation (1836) oil on canvas
New York Historical Society

Thomas Cole – The Oxbow:  View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts,
after a Thunderstorm (1836) oil on canvas
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Other Early 19th Century Romantic Artists
 

Pierre Paul Prud'hon – The Abduction of Psyche (c. 1808) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Franz Pforr – Entry of Emperor Rudolf into Basle in 1273 (1808-1810) oil on canvas
Frankfurt, Städelisches Kunstinstitut

Robert W. Weir – Saint Nicholas (1837) oil on wood
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art

Thomas Couture – The Romans of Decadance (1847) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée d'Orsay

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