Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul after the revolution, was extremely fond of the fine arts. After he became head of the French Republic, he encouraged and commissioned a variety of artists, which helped advance the prevailing Neoclassic style in the early 1800s. Also, throughout Europe and across the Atlantic, realism, landscape painting, and photography emerged as promising forces in the art world.
Art under Napoleon
Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing Saint-Bernard, 1800-1801
Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon at the Plague House at Jaffa, 1804, Oil on canvas, Louvre Paris
Jacques-Louis David, Coronation of Napoleon, 1805-1808, Oil on canvas, Louvre Paris
Pierre Vignon, La Madeleine, 1807-1848, Paris
Antonio Canova, Cupid and Psyche, 1787-1793
Antonio Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus, 1808, Marble, Rome
Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson, Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley, 1797
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Burial of Atala, 1808, Oil on canvas, Louvre Paris
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque, 1814, Oil on canvas, Louvre Paris
Ingres, Apotheosis of Homer, 1827, Oil on canvas, Louvre Paris
Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781, Oil on canvas, Detroit
William Blake, The Ancient of Days, 1794, Metal relief etching, New York
Francisco Goya, Third of May 1808, 1814-15, Oil on canvas, Madrid
Goya, Saturn Devouring one of his Children, 1819-23, Fresco, Madrid
Theodore Gericault, Raft of Medusa, 1818, Oil on canvas, Louvre Paris
Theodore Gericault, Insane Woman, 1823, Oil on canvas, Lyons
Eugene Delacroix, Tiger Hunt, 1854, Oil on canvas, Paris
Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830, Oil on canvas, Louvre Paris
Landscape Painting
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above a Sea Mist, 1818, Oil on canvas, Hamburg
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (view from Mount Holyoke, Northampton MA after a Thunderstorm) 1836, Oil on canvas,
Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains California, 1868, Washington D.C.
Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860s, Oil on canvas, Cleveland OH
Realism
Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849, Oil on canvas, Dresden
jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners, 1857, Oil on canvas, Paris
Honore Daumier, Third-Class Carriage, 1862, Oil on canvas, New York
Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1853-55, Oil on canvas, New York
Edouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass, 1863, Oil on canvas, Paris
Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863, Oil on canvas, Paris
Wilhelm Leibl, Three Women in a Village Church, 1878-82, Oil on canvas, Hamburg
Winslow Homer, Snap the Whip, 1872, Oil on canvas
Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic, 1875, Oil on canvas, Philadelphia
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Thankful Poor, 1894, Oil on canvas
Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free, 1867, Marble, Washington D.C.
Edmonia Lewis, Bust of Abraham Lincoln
Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood
John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1852, Oil on canvas, London
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix, 1863, Oil on canvas, London
Photography
Nadar, Eugene Delacroix, 1855, Modern print, Paris
Julia Margaret Cameron, Julia Jackson, 1867
Thimothy O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg Pennsylvania, 1863, New York
Dancing
Eadweard Muybridge
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