Dramatic Historical Scenes

Artworks featuring vibrant historical narratives, emotional expression, and figures in elaborate settings, spanning various artistic styles and epochs.

The Prince's Choice 1881 Thomas Reynolds Lamont (1826-1898 British)
The Prince's Choice 1881 Thomas Reynolds Lamont (1826-1898 British)
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The Favorite of the Emir, by Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant, French painting, oil on canvas. An Orientalist fantasy of two concubines in a harem, has Mediterranean seaside landscape in the background. The luxuriously dressed, languid, women are serenaded b (BSLOC_2016_6_67)
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The angel appearing to Sarah, 1726-28 fresco, gallery
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Saint Joseph Seeks a Lodging in Bethlehem (Saint Joseph cherche un gîte à Bethléem) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). Saint Joseph Seeks a Lodging in Bethlehem (Saint Joseph cherche un gîte à Bethléem), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 10 7/16 x 6 5/8 in. (26.5 x 16.8 cm). In the biblical narrative, Mary and Joseph live in Nazareth but must journey to Bethlehem, the ancestral home of Josephs family, to be counted in a census imposed by the Romans. On their arrival in the town, Joseph searches for lodgings without success. Tissot contrasts Josephs anxious plea—calling up to townspeople in hopes of finding accommodation—with the Virgin Marys quiet resignation. Tissots expeditions to the Middle East in the 1880s provided rich source material for his watercolor compositions. The thick masonry walls and labyrinthine alleys of Jaffa, an ancient port city near modern Tel Aviv in Israel, serve here, with minor revisions, as the backdrop of Bethlehem. E
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A 'harem' is not a bordello, seraglio or brothel, but refers to the women's quarters, usually in a polygynous household, which are forbidden to men. It originated in the Near East and is typically associated in the Western world with the Ottoman Empire. Female seclusion in Islam is emphasized to the extent that any unlawful breaking into that privacy is haram ie, 'forbidden'. A Muslim harem does not necessarily consist solely of women with whom the head of the household has sexual relations (wives and concubines), but also their young offspring, other female relatives or odalisques, which are the concubines' servants. The harem may either be a palatial complex, as in Romantic tales, in which case it includes staff (women and eunuchs), or simply their quarters, in the Ottoman tradition separated from the men's selamlik. A hammam is a common bath house.
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Outside the Odense poorhouse. Date/Period: 1831. Painting. Width: 26.3 cm. Height: 27.5 cm. Author: Wilhelm Bendz.
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GAUGUIN, Paul (1848-1903). Te Tamari no atua (The Birth of Christ). 1896. Post-Impressionism. Oil on canvas. GERMANY. BAVARIA. Munich. New Pinacotheca.
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The Flight into Egypt (Fuite en Égypte) Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860). The Flight into Egypt (Fuite en Égypte), 1850-1860. Watercolor on wove paper mounted on paperboard, 11 13/16 x 16 1/2 in. (30 x 41.9 cm). European Art 1850-1860
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Moses as child in basket by Isaac Lvovich Asknazy, oil on canvas, 1891, 1856-1902, Russia, St Petersburg, State Russian Museum, 116x174
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FRANCES , PLACIDO. PINTOR ESPAÑOL . ALCOI 1834 - 1902. " OTRA VEZ SERA " OLEO SOBRE LIENZO. COLECCION PARTICULAR . MADRID.
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Life And Death by Horace Vernet, Oil on canvas, 1851, 1789-1863, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 146x113
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Painting titled 'Herodiada' by Ivan Kramskoi. Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (1837-1887) a Russian painter and art critic.
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Painting of a Pompeian Child by Arcadi Mas i Fondevila (1852-1934) Catalonian painter and graphic artist. Dated 1879
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L' Addolorata Hébert, Antoine Auguste Ernest(1817-1908 French) Oil On Canvas Musee Hebert, Paris, France
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Majas on a Balcony, Francisco Goya, circa 1800-1810, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America
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Femmes dÄö√Ñ√¥alger dans leur appartement, detail, eugene delacroix, 1834
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Rafael Estrany i Ros / 'Procesión del Corpus', Óleo sobre lienzo, 80 x 100 cm. Colección privada.
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The Woman with an Infirmity of Eighteen Years (La femme malade depuis dix-huit ans) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Woman with an Infirmity of Eighteen Years (La femme malade depuis dix-huit ans), 1886-1896. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in. (24.1 x 18.1 cm). European Art 1886-1896
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Song of eagle that mates with storm by Newell Convers Wyeth, 1882-1945
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Unrivaled , Fine Art
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Achille Deveria (1800-1857) and Louis Boulanger (1806-1867) The Death of Romeo. Illustration for William Shakespeare's tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet' showing Friar Lawrence finding Romeo's body. Play first performed c1595. Private collection
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Scene from prehistoric era by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov, oil on canvas, 1882-1885, 1848-1926, Russia, Moscow, State History Museum
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Eduardo Cano de la Peña / 'Cervantes and John of Austria'. 1860. Oil on panel. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.
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Oysters in a Blanket with an Eel, Plaice, Skate, Cod, Mullet, Carp, Trout and an Upturned Basket of Mussels. Dominique Hubert Rozier (1840-1901). Oil on canvas. 140 x 229cm.
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The Smoker; le Fumeur. Ludwig Deutsch (1855-1935). Dated 1903, oil on panel, 58.4 x 41.9cm.
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Playing guitar on balcony in Granada by Ignacio Zuloaga, oil on canvas, (1870-1945), England, London, Christie's Images
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The Sentry. William Rimmer (England, Liverpool, active United States, 1816-1879). United States, circa 1872. Paintings. Oil on academy board
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A lady receives visitors in the ladies' chamber of the house, Arabia, (The Reception), 1873, painting by John Frederick Lewis, historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century .
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Historische Glückwunschkarte mit Engeln, um einer Frau Glück zu bringen, kitschig-romantisch, 1890, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvo...
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Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902), new POS G image reproduction; Lenz & Rudolf (Riga; Publisher; Fl. Ca 1905); around 1905 (1900-00-00-1915-00-00);Siemiradzki, Henryk (1843-1902), Siemiradzki, Henryk (1843-1902)-reproduction, Witke-Jeżewski, Dominik (1862-1944)-collection, painting, Polish painting
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Stephen Báthory at Pskov. Detail: Grigory Nashchokin, Matejko, Jan Alojzy (1838-1893)
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Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 - 1903), American artist and Orientalist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Leon Bonnat and of Jean-Leon Gerome, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. Weeks' parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston and as such they were able to accept, probably encourage, and certainly finance their son's youthful interest in painting and travelling. As a young man Edwin Lord Weeks visited the Florida Keys to draw and also travelled to Surinam in South America. His earliest known paintings date from 1867 when Edwin Lord Weeks was eighteen years old. In 1895 he wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India.
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Dinner with the Cardinal. Juan Pablo Salinas (1871-1946). Oil on panel. 23 x 39.5cm
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The Evening Before by Kuznetsov, Vladimir Alexandrovich (1878-1960)/ Regional K. Savitsky Art Gallery, Pensa/ 1909/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Russian Painting, End of 19th - Early 20th cen./ 88x73/ Genre
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Robbe, Manuel, work, Burial, 1903, colored aquatint, graphics, plate width 34.5 cm, plate height 37, 7 cm, leaf width 65 cm, leaf height 50.4 cm
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The Antiquary Shop William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916). The Antiquary Shop, 1879. Oil on canvas, 26 1/2 x 33 15/16 in. (67.3 x 86.2 cm). William Merritt Chase based this subject on sketches he compiled in Venice, during his first, transformatlve European sojourn, frorn 1872 to 1878. The detallsvarious art objects and antiques offered for salesignal the antiquarian interests that Chase developed while abroad. The Antiquary Shop anticipates Chase's paintings of the lavishly decorated New York studio that he established on his return. Although the array of textiles, metalwork, ceramics, and paintings in this scene represent the kind of objects sought by late nineteenth-century collectors, the figures, dressed In the costume of the Napoleonic era, lend It a historical air. American Art 1879
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Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 - 1903), American artist and Orientalist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Leon Bonnat and of Jean-Leon Gerome, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. Weeks' parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston and as such they were able to accept, probably encourage, and certainly finance their son's youthful interest in painting and travelling. As a young man Edwin Lord Weeks visited the Florida Keys to draw and also travelled to Surinam in South America. His earliest known paintings date from 1867 when Edwin Lord Weeks was eighteen years old. In 1895 he wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India.
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Lion Defending its Prey A 6850205 Painting; oil on paper on canvas; overall: 25.1 x 32.4 cm (9 7/8 x 12 3/4 in.) framed: 42.6 x 54.9 x 4.8 cm (16 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 1 7/8 in.);
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Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare
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The religion of the departed, 1878, by Carlo Bonatto Minella (1855-1878).
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Eingang zum Kasino, Am Ufer des Sees, von L. Hodebert, Monte Carlo, Monaco, Riviera, um 1895, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated 1f-4795448
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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Women of Amphissa, 1887, oil on canvas.
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Rev. James Bulwer, 1794-1879, British, One from A Volume of Drawings and Prints, undated. Graphite, watercolor on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper.
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The Calling of Saint John and Saint Andrew (Vocation de Saint Jean et de Saint André) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Calling of Saint John and Saint Andrew (Vocation de Saint Jean et de Saint André), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 9 13/16 x 6 in. (24.9 x 15.2 cm). European Art 1886-1894
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Music - rights of the triptych; Malczewski, Jacek (1854-1929); 1906 (1906-00-00-1906-00-00);Balowa, Jadwiga Maria Kinga (1879-1955), Balowa, Jadwiga Maria Kinga (1879-1955)-iconography, music (personification), young Poland (style), Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941)-collection, PartaGage Plus, gift (provenance), field horses, cross (sign), music
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Copper engraving illustrating The Grasshopper and the Ant by Gustave Dore 1832-1883, French artist from Fontaine's Fables by Jean de La Fontaine, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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El Conde de Montecristo, de Alejandro Numas. Postal en color.