Dramatic Nighttime Scenes

Depictions of intense narratives including a woman discovering duelists' bodies at night, alongside historical or mythological themes in various artistic styles.

Sappho and Errinna in the Garden Mytelene Simeon Solomon (1840-1905 British) Private Collection

Scene from the Ossian: A woman finds the bodies of two dualists in the night. .

Four Dancers. Date/Period: Ca. 1899. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,511 mm (59.48 in); Width: 1,802 mm (70.94 in). Author: EDGAR DEGAS.

Arcadian Shepherds by a Pool, Joshua Cristall, 1768-1847, British, undated, Watercolor and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 12 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches (30.8 x 21.2 cm), arcadian art, dogs (animals), landscape, leisure, men, music, pastoral, pool, rocks (landforms), seated, sheep, shepherds, trees, water, women

The passing of the soul at Death' 1919, by Evelyn De Morgan (30 August 1855 ñ 2 May 1919); English Pre-Raphaelite painter.

N.Diaz de la Pena / Foolish Virgins

Sappho and Errinna in the Garden Mytelene Simeon Solomon (1840-1905 British) Private Collection

'An Allegory', c1869-1892, (1906). Creator: Jules Lessore.

Les Baigneuses - 1853 - oil on canvas. Author: GUSTAVE COURBET. Location: MUSEO FABRE. Montpellier. France.

Edgar Degas, French (1834-1917), Four Dancers, c. 1899, oil on canvas

Time, Truth and History, Francisco Goya, circa 1800, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass, USA, North America

Reunion in a park at the time of Valois Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886). Meeting in a park at the time of Valois.

'The Graces Decorating a Terminal Figure of Hymen', 1773, (1911). Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Fairy Tale. oil on canvas. Date: 1901. Museum: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN.

'In the Meadow', c1888. Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

The Anniversary (Homage to Hector Berlioz) 1877 France. Fantin-Latour underwent a striking evolution over the course of his career, starting out as a member of the Realist avant-garde before creating anti-Realist, fantastic compositions in the 1870s. This masterful pastel honoring the late French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz is part of the proto-Symbolist ìimaginative projectsî developed by Fantin-Latour around 1875.. Pastel, with opaque watercolor and scraping, over a lithograph in black ink on wove paper . Henri Fantin-Latour

Two women coming back from the river, ca 1543, fresco by Lambert Sustris (ca 1520- ca 1584), boudoir of Villa dei Vescovi (Bishops' Villa), Luvigliano di Torreglia, Veneto, Italy.

The New Bracelet by Siemiradzki, Henryk (1843-1902)/ Private Collection/ ca. 1883/ Poland/ Oil on canvas/ Academic art/ 80x57/ Genre

'Gathering in a Park (detail)', 1712-1713, Oil on canvas, P02354. Author: Jean Antoine Watteau. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

The Triumph of the Church: Ecclesia Presented with the Doctrines, Seated in a Chariot Attended by the Four Doctors of the Church 1615-20 Otto van Veen Netherlandish This Triumph, based on a similar composition by Johannes Stradanus (see the drawing hanging to the left), was made by Van Veen preparatory to a series of paintings, dated about 1615-20, that represent the Triumphs of the Church, now in the Bavarian State Collections at Bamberg. In their turn, Van Veen's compositions inspired his one-time pupil Peter Paul Rubens in about 1625, when the Flemish artist was working on a set of tapestry designs for the Triumph of the Eucharist series. Van Veen's use of preparatory oil sketches probably goes back to his training in Italy in the 1570s. He is often credited-not entirely deservedly-for bringing the technique to the Netherlands, although it was practiced earlier by such artists as Joachim Beuckelaer (see his sketch hanging nearby) and Dick Barendsz. The colored oil sketches favored b

Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, Stanhope (Spencer-Stanhope), John Roddam (1829-1908)

The Sleeping Rinaldo Crowned with Flowers by Armida (formerly entitled Sleeping Mars).Sleeping Rinaldo by amida with a flower wreath crowned, putti and nymphs. Based on a composition of Tiepolo. Pendant of SK-A-3436.

Young women swinging, State Museum of History and Art, Serpukhov 145x92

Tintoretto / Finding of Moses

''Viola: Yet A Barful Strife! Whoe'er I Woo, Myself Would Be His Wife.', 1923. Artist: W Heath Robinson.

The Wounded Dronemer Boy; about 1862 Oil on canvas William Morris Hunt American; 1824-1879

'The Water', 1675-1700, Spanish Baroque, Oil on canvas, 245 cm x 105,5 cm, P03197. Author: ANONIMO ESPAÑOL. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

France, Lyon, The angel and the mother

Celadon and Amelia. From an engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi after the painting by William Hamilton. Amelia has been struck by lightning and dies in Celadon's arms. The story comes from a poem in

Orpheus, by Gustave Moreau, 1865, Musee D'Orsay Art Gallery, Paris, France, Europe

Samson and Delilah by Moreau, Gustave (1826-1898) / Louvre, Paris / 1882 / France / Watercolour on paper / Bible /Symbolism

The garden of Eden with the fall of man. Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder - Figures by Rubens, landscape and animals by Brueghel. Circa 1615

GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Manola (La Leocadia). 1819-1823. Mural painting mounted on canvas. This painting with the other 13 works decorated two rooms of the Quinta del Sordo (the Deaf Man's Villa), the artist's house. Leocadia was Goya's housekeeper from 1813 till her death. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

In Greek mythology, Echo was a nymph whom Hera punished by making it impossible for her to speak first or to be silent whenever anyone else was speaking. She fell in love with Narcissus, for whom she pined until only her voice was lefthence, the derivation of the word 'echo.' Apollo punished Narcissus for spurning Echo by having him fall in love with himself when he saw his reflection in the water of a fountain. This painting is by J.W. Waterhouse and is housed in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England.

Cupid, a lady, and a love letter - a fairly fatal combination. Date: circa 1790

The Morning Of The Resurrection. Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898). Oil On Panel, 1882.

Sunny day , Stairways, Hills. Louis Prang & Company Collection

Dante And Beatrice. John William Waterhouse, R.A. (1849-1917). Dated 1915, Oil on canvas.

The Vision, 1914, De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919)

'Diana and the nymphs'. France, 19th century. Dimensions: 47,5x23 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Marcelin-Gilbert Desboutin.

Japan: 'Sound of Autumn', oil on canvas painting by Shigeru Aoki (1882-1911), 1908, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka

'Yuki-Onna, the Lady of the Snow', 1912. The yokai or demon Yuki-onna, is a beautiful woman with long black hair who visits people during winter blizzards. Her tales are stories of sorrow. From "Myths & Legends of Japan", by F. Harland Davis. George G. Harrap & Company, London, 1912

Maenads (Menadi), by Agostino Comerio, 1817, 19th Century, encaustic ()

Rübezahl. Artist: Adrian Ludwig Richter (German, Dresden 1803-1884 Dresden). Dimensions: 12 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (31.1 x 18.4 cm). Date: 1820-84. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Persephone Returns, Leighton, Frederic, 1891

Flora, the goddess of flowers and the season of spring, with Chloris and Zephyrus, Primavera, Spring, detail, Sandro Botticelli, circa 1482, Galleria degli Uffizi, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Nils Blommer (1816-1853). Swedish painter. Fairies of the Meadow, 1850. Detail. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden.

Bird Nesting. Date/Period: 1837. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 339.85 mm (13.37 in); Width: 308.10 mm (12.12 in). Author: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze.

Haymaker and Sleeping Girl, Thomas Gainsborough, late 1780's, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass, USA, North America

Morning Dance of the Sylphes; La Ronde Matinale des Sylphides. Pierre Dierckx (1871-1947). Oil on canvas. 114.3 x 169.5cm.

Scene from the myth of Cupid and Psyche, 1794, by Felice Giani (1758-1823), tempera wall painting, Palazzo Laderchi, Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. Italy, 18th century.

The Feast of Venus. Emmanuel Oberhauser (1854-1919). Oil on canvas, circa 1907. 31 x 47in

The Inventor of Sails. Frederick Smallfield (1829-1915). Oil on canvas. Dated 1877. 83.9 x 104.4cm

With a Babe in the Woods Lady Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (British, 1852-1909). , ca. 1879-1880. Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 12 1/4 x 9 in. (31.1 x 22.9 cm). European Art ca. 1879-1880

Gustavo de Maeztu, The Women of the Sea, 1916, oil on canvas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain.

Once Upon a Time Henry Meynell Rheam (1859-1920 British) Private Collection

La Gamme d'Amour (The Scale of Love) by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1784-1721, French, 18th century

'Gathering in a Park (detail)', 1712-1713, Oil on canvas, P02354. Author: Jean Antoine Watteau. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Two Figures In A Boat, 1881 By Charles James Lewis, Boat, Oil Painting, River

Allegory of music or poetry, a project to the office in the world next to the chicken foot of the Royal Castle in Wawel; Pankiewicz, Józef (1866-1940); 1929 (1929-00-00-1929-00-00);gift (provenance)

Detail of a paintings in a museum, Stone Rooms, Munich Residenz, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902). Polish painter. The Judgement of Paris, 1892. Detail. National Museum. Warsaw. Poland.

Kitsch, Romantic picture in a gold frame, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Thomas Stothard, 1755-1834, British, Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest," Act I, scene ii, ca. 1799. Oil on paper laid on canvas.

Goodbye Summer, James A. H. Hector (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1868 - 1940) c.1935

1884 The Hermit. (Arnold Bocklin; Basel 1827-1901 San Domenico bei Fiesole)

Louis Boulanger (1806-1867). "Muses dance". Oil on canvas. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 27044-13 Dance, dancing, dancer, decoration, muse, oil on canvas, mythology

Tapestry depicting "Fishing". It belongs to the series known as "Children Playing". After drawings by Giulio Romano (1499-1546). Mantua, Italy, ca.1540. Wool, silk, gold and silver threads. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.

1900s ART NOUVEAU VIENNESE ILLUSTRATION MYTHICAL FIGURES REPRESENTING MUSIC AND DANCE FLOWERS FLAMINGO TREES

Spring Landscape by Maurice Denis, 1870-1943, Russia, St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum

Tahitian women by Paul Eugene Henri Gauguin, Oil on canvas, 1899, 1848-1903, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 68x73, 5

Beatrice by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, oil on canvas, circa 1868, 1828-1882, Great Britain, London, Tate Britain, 86, 4x66

1800s 1880s PAINTING BY GERMAN LUDWIG KNAUS BEHIND THE SCENES SHOWS TRAVELING CIRCUS FAMILY SORDID LIFESTYLE COLOR HALFTONE

The progress of love, Love letter, 1771-1773, by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), oil on canvas, 317x216 cm.

The Fountain of Love, 18th century tapestry based on a cartoon by Francois Boucher, manufacture of Beauvais, from the series La Noble Pastorale.

fine arts, Burne-Jones, Edward, ""Garden of the Hesperides"", 1869/1873,

Paul Gauguin Paul Gauguin, Bathers in Brittany, 1887, oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes MNBA, Buenos Aires, republica Argentina Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 21818388

Turkish Women; date unknown; Oil on canvas Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Pena; French; 1807-76

fine arts, Spitzweg, Carl (1808 - 1885), painting, ""Maedchen vor der Grotte"" (Girl in front of a grotto), oil on paper, 14.8 cm x 12.1 cm, circa 1850, private collection,

Customs in Ancient Greece. Chromolithography. La Civilizacion (The Civilization), volume II, 1881.

CEZANNE, Paul (1839-1906). The Temptation of St. 1875. Post-Impressionism. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. MusŽe d'Orsay (Orsay Museum).

MAS i FONDEVILA, Arcadi (1852-1934). Little Shepherdess with Gooses. beg. 20th c. Costumbrism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. National Art Museum of Catalonia.

Zygmunt Józefczyk (1881-1966), the artist's dream; Wisła (Kraków), Anczyc, Władysław Ludwik and company (Kraków; Drukarnia; 1875-1948); around 1910 (1905-00-00-1915-00-00);

The Honourable. Mrs. Bouverie, Thomas Watson, 1743-1781, British, after Samuel William Reynolds, 1773-1835, British, 1770, Mezzotint on moderately thick moderately textured, blued white, laid paper, Sheet: 18 3/4 × 20 3/4 inches (47.6 × 52.7 cm)

'The Mill, Girls Dancing to Music by a River', 1870, (1912).Artist: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

Love the Sentinel. Dated: c. 1773/1776. Dimensions: overall (oval): 56.2 x 47.3 cm (22 1/8 x 18 5/8 in.) framed: 77.5 x 62.9 x 8.3 cm (30 1/2 x 24 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JEAN-HONORE FRAGONARD.

Le déjeuner sur lherbe by edward Manet 1863

Children Playing: The Bath, 1700s. Workshop of Charron (French), after a design by François Boucher (French, 1703-1770). Tapestry weave: silk and wool; overall: 101 x 114.3 cm (39 3/4 x 45 in.).

Painting by Edouard Manet (b. 23 January 1832 in Paris, d. 30 April 1883), French painter, The Breakfast on the Green, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Scene from Old Testament with angel and Jacob by Odilon Redon, Oil on canvas, circa 1907, 1840-1916, USA, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 47x41,6

Juan Luna. Las Damas Romanas, ca. 1883. Oil on canvas board.

Lute player and singer by Anselm Feuerbach, Oil on canvas, 1866-1867, 1829-1880, Germany, Berlin, Staatliche Museen, 194x131

A Garden In Sorrento. Un Jardin A Sorrente. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Oil On Canvas.

Study of a Girl's Head, 1880-1886. Arthur Hughes

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Love the Sentinel, French, 1732 - 1806, c. 1773-1776, oil on canvas

Echo, detail, Echo and Narcissus, John William Waterhouse, 1903

Finding of Don Juan by Haidee - Ford Madox Brown, 1873

Greek Girl Dancing. Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896). Catalogue No. 850c.

Farmers at work in the mountains, detail from the Month of June, panel taken from Cycle of the Months, by Master Venceslao, fresco, Tower Aquila, Buonconsiglio Castle, Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige. Italy, 14th-15th century.

THOMAS of CantimprŽ (1201-1276). Codex Granatensis: De natura rerum. 15th c. Illustration about violets. Edition of Granada of the original of the 13th C. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Granada. Granada University Library.

Moses in the Bullrushes. Date: 1921. Oil on wood panel. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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