#academic painting

[pagansphinx]

Frederic Leighton (British, 1830–1896) • Light of the Harem • c. 1880 • Private collection

[larobeblanche]

Francesco Hayez (Italian, 1791–1882) • Reclining Odalisque • 1839 • Private collection

[fangledeities]

Aegisthus, believing he had discovered the body of Orestes, discovers instead that of Clytemnestra. 1823. Jean-Alphonse Roehn (French, 1799-1864).

Sydney Sweeney

[auroraabzug]

Soft Launch

18 x 18 inches, oil on canvas, 2023

[bishopsbox]

source: @artextual

Herbert James Draper, By Summer Seas (1912).

Herbert James Draper, Junto a los mares de verano (1912)

[thepaintedroom]

Léon François Comerre (French, 1850-1916) • Intérieur • 1904

[katarrinskey]

Started a new painting in today's class, so here is a thumbnail for it cause I like it a lot

[enchantresssiren]

A Mermaid

Painting by John William Waterhouse

Date: 1900

[the-cricket-chirps]

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret

Breton Women at a Pardon (French: Les Bretonnes au Pardon)

1887

[unspokenmantra]

A stunning oil painting by Renaud Wald

Model Nausicaa Yami

[wawa-evg]

Bella

[pagansphinx]

Edward John Gregory (British, 1851-1909) • Apres? • 1900 • Royal Academy of Arts

[larobeblanche]

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) • Meditation • 1901 • Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Duel After the Masquerade, 1857-1859, oil/canvas (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)

[auroraabzug]

Scurry

14 x 11 inches, oil on canvas, 2020

[bishopsbox]

Thanks to: @momapicture

Sleeping Roman woman, by Félix Auguste Clément. Oil on canvas, 1859. Private collection.

Mujer romana dormida, por Félix Auguste Clément. Óleo sobre lienzo, 1859. Colección privada.