Romanticism: c. 1800-1848

Artists such as Delacroix, Goya, Turner, and Friedrich responded to a newly modern world by creating some of the most emotionally expressive art ever made.

Room: JMW Turner at the Tate — […]

JMW Turner at Tate Britain

William Blake, The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, ca. 1799–1800, watercolor, pen and black ink over graphite, 14 3/16 × 13 1/16" / 36 × 33.2 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). — […]

William Blake, The Parable of the Wise ...

J.M.W. Turner, The Harbour of Dieppe, c. 1826, oil on canvas, 173.7 x 225.4 cm (Frick Collection, New York) — […]

J. M. W. Turner, The Harbor of ...

John Constable, View on the Stour near Dedham (detail) — […]

John Constable, View on the Stour near ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Slave Ship (detail) — […]

J. M. W. Turner, Slave Ship

Henry Fuseli, Titania and Bottom (detail) — […]

Henry Fuseli, Titania and Bottom

Caspar David Friedrich, Solitary Tree (detail) — […]

Caspar David Friedrich, Solitary Tree (or Lone ...

Caspar David Friedrich, Woman at a Window (detail) — […]

Caspar David Friedrich, Woman at a Window

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Napoleon on his Imperial Throne, 1806, oil on canvas, 260 x 163 cm (Musée de l'Armée, Paris) — […]

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Napoleon on His Imperial Throne

Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey in the Oak Forest (detail) — […]

Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey in the Oak Forest

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Rain, Steam, and Speed (detail) — […]

J. M. W. Turner, Rain, Steam, and ...

Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Pest House in Jaffa (detail) — […]

Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the ...

Francisco Goya, The Family of Charles IV (detail) — […]

Francisco Goya, The Family of Charles IV

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Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa

Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, oil on canvas, September - December, 1830 (exhibited and purchased by the state from the Salon of 1831) 2.6 x 3.25m (Louvre, Paris) — […]

Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix, Scene of the massacre at Chios; Greek families awaiting death or slavery, 1824 Salon, oil on canvas, 164" × 139" (419 cm × 354 cm) (Musée du Louvre, Paris) — […]

Eugène Delacroix, Scene of the Massacre at ...

Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827, oil on canvas, 12 ft 10 in x 16 ft 3 in. (3.92 x 4.96m) (Musée du Louvre, Paris) — […]

Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Saturn Devouring One Of His Sons (detail) — […]

Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring One Of His ...

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, 1814, Oil on canvas, 91 x 162 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris) — […]

Between Neclassicism and Romanticism: Ingres, La Grande ...

Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea (detail) — […]

Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea

John Nash, Royal Pavilion, Brighton (England), 1815-23 (photo: Xgkkp, CC BY-SA 3.0) — […]

John Nash, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath, 1851-53, oil on canvas, 197 x 303 cm (Tate Britain) — […]

John Martin, The Great Day of His ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, 1839, oil on canvas, 90.7 x 121.6 cm (The National Gallery, London) — […]

J. M. W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire

John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831, oil on canvas, 151.8 x 189.9 cm (National Gallery, London, on loan from a private collection) — […]

John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows

John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821, oil on canvas, 51-1/4 x 73 inches (National Gallery of Art, London) — […]

Constable and the English landscape

William Blake, The spiritual form of Nelson guiding Leviathan, in whose wreathings are infolded the Nations of the Earth, c. 1805-9, tempera on canvas 30" x 24" / 76.2 x 62.5 cm (Tate Britain, London) — […]

William Blake, The spiritual form of Nelson ...

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781, oil on canvas, 180 × 250 cm (Detroit Institute of Arts) — […]

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare

Detail, Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808, 1814-15, oil on canvas, (Museo del Prado, Madrid) — […]

Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808

Francisco de Goya, And there's nothing to be done (Y no hai remedio), plate 15 from The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra), 1810, etching, drypoint, burin and burnisher, 14 x 16.7 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Francisco Goya, And there’s nothing to be ...

Figure asleep (detail), Francisco Goya, Plate 43, The sleep of reason produces monsters from Los Caprichos, 1799, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin, plate: 21.2 x 15.1 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces ...

Genius of Liberty (detail), François Rude, La Marseillaise (The Departure of the Volunteers of 1792), 1833-6, limestone, c. 12.8 m high, Arc de Triomphe de l’Etoile, Paris — […]

François Rude, La Marseillaise

Théodore Géricault, Portrait of a Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Command, 1822, oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm (Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, Switzerland) — […]

Théodore Géricault, Portraits of the Insane

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque (detail) — […]

Painting colonial culture: Ingres’s La Grande Odalisque

Ingres, The Apotheosis of Homer, 1827, oil on canvas, 3.86 x 5.12 meters (Louvre, Paris) — […]

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Apotheosis of Homer

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Portrait of Madame Rivière, 1805-6, oil on canvas, 115.5 x 90.2cm (Louvre, Paris) — […]

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Portrait of Madame Rivière

Caspar David Friedrich, The Abbey in the Oakwood, 1809-10, oil on canvas, 110 x 171 cm (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin) — […]

A beginner’s guide to Romanticism

Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, oil on canvas, 1882 (Courtauld Gallery, London) — […]

Becoming Modern, an introduction

Antoine Louis Barye, Lion and Serpent, cast in 1835, 135 x 178 x 96 cm (Louvre, Paris) (photo: Yann Caradec, CC BY-SA 2.0) — […]

Romanticism in France

Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Snake Charmer and His Audience, c. 1879, oil on canvas (Sterling Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts) — […]

Orientalism