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Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism
First Study for the Raft of the Medusa, 1819
Théodore Géricault (French, 1791–1824)
Oil on canvas; 15 x 18 in. (38.1 x 45.7 cm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, département des peintures
The White Horse, 1819
John Constable (British, 1776–1837)
Oil on canvas; 51 3/4 x 74 1/8 in. (131.4 x 188.3 cm)
The Frick Collection, New York
Monomania: Portrait of an Excessively Jealous Woman, ca. 1819/1822
Oil on canvas; 28 3/4 x 23 1/4 in. (72 x 58 cm)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
View on the Stour Near Dedham, 1822
Oil on canvas; 51 x 74 in. (128.5 x 188 cm)
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
A Fishmarket Near Boulogne, 1824
Richard Parkes Bonington (British, 1802–1828)
Oil on canvas; 32 3/8 x 48 1/4 in. (82.2 x 122.6 cm)
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Paul Mellon Collection
Master Charles William Lambton, 1825
Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769–1863)
Oil on canvas; 54 x 44 in. (137.2 x 111.8 cm)
Private collection
Near Rouen, ca. 1825
Oil on millboard; 11 x 13 in. (27.9 x 33 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Gift of Joanne Toor Cummings, by exchange, 2001 (2001.45)
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, 1826
Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)
Oil on canvas; 83 7/8 x 55 7/8 in. (213 x 142 cm)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux
Photo copyright © 2003 Lysiane Gauthier
Louis-Auguste Schwiter, ca. 1826
Oil on canvas; 85 3/4 x 56 1/2 in. (217.8 x 143.5 cm)
The National Gallery, London
Calais Sands, Low Water, Poissards Collecting Bait, 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1776–1837)
Oil on canvas; 28 3/4 x 42 1/8 in. (73 x 107 cm)
Bury Art Gallery and Museum
Rouen, Looking Upriver, ca. 1832
Gouache and watercolor on paper; 5 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. (14 x 19.4 cm)
Tate, London
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833
Paul Delaroche (French, 1791–1856)
Oil on canvas; 96 7/8 x 117 in. (246 x 297 cm)
A Disaster at Sea, ca. 1835
Oil on canvas; 67 1/2 x 86 3/4 in. (171.4 x 220.3 cm)
Death of Sardanapalus, ca. 1846
Oil on canvas; 29 x 32 1/2 in. (73.7 x 82.4 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Raft of the Medusa, 1859–60
Pierre-Désiré Guillemet (French, 1827–1878) and Etienne-Antoine-Eugène Ronjat (French, b. 1822)
After Théodore Géricault
Oil on canvas; 194 x 282 1/4 in. (493 x 717 cm)
Musée de Picardie, Amiens