1870s 의 Waterhouse 그림 모음

The Slave

painting date: 1872
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
location: Private Collection

 

 

 

 

Undine

painting date: 1872
size: Unknown

 

 

 

Exhibited at the Society of British Artists, 1872.

Also spelled ondine. Undine is a mythological figure of European tradition, a water nymph who becomes human when she falls in love with a man but is doomed to die if he is unfaithful to her. Derived from the Greek figures known as Nereids, attendants of the sea god Poseidon, Undine was first mentioned in the writings of the Swiss author Paracelsus, who put forth his theory that there are spirits called "undines" who inhabit the element of water. A version of the myth was adapted as the romance Undine by Baron Fouqué in 1811, and librettos based on the romance were written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816 and Albert Lortzing in 1845. Maurice Maeterlinck's play Pelléas et Mélisande (1892) was in part based on this myth, as was Ondine (1939), a drama by Jean Giraudoux. The myth was also the basis of a ballet choreographed and performed by Margot Fonteyn.

The word is from the Latin unda, meaning "wave" or "water."

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica

 

 

 

 

 

Gone, But Not Forgotten

painting date: 1873
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 12 1/2 x 10 in (31.7 x 24 cm)
location: Private Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Unwelcome Companion: A Street Scene in Cairo

painting date: 1873
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 59 x 49 cm
location: Towneley Hall Art Gallery, Burnley, England

 

 

 

 

 

An Eastern Reminiscence (Sketch)

painting date: 1874
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 24.5 x 16.5 cm
location: Private Collection

 

 

 

 

In the Peristyle

painting date: 1874
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 67 x 52 cm
location: Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale, England

 

 

 

 

 

 

La Fileuse

painting date: 1874
medium: Oil on panel
size: 31.7 x 25.6 cm
location: Private Collection

 

 

 

 

 

Sleep and his Half-brother Death

painting date: 1874
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 70 x 91 cm
location: Private Collection

 

 

 

 

J.A. Blaikie gave a brief critique of this painting in 'The Magazine of Art' (1886):
'The two figures recline side by side on a low couch, beyond which are the columns of a colonnade open to the night and touched with moonlight. The interior is lit by a lamp, whose light streams on the foremost figure, Sleep, whose head hangs in heavy stupor on his breast, and his right hand grasps some poppies. By his side lies Death in dusky shadow, with head thrown back, and the lines of the figure expressive of easeful lassitude. At his feet is an antique lyre, while immediately in the foreground is a low round table? The two figures are both young, and the beauty of youth belongs to one as much as to the other? the strange likeness and unlikeness of the recumbent figures.'

 

 

 

 

 

Miranda

painting date: 1875
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 12 x 15 in

 

 

 

Lost for over a century, this painting has recently been rediscovered.

Scholars believe Waterhouse's sister Jessica was the model for this painting.

 

 

 

 

Whispered Words

painting date: 1875

 

 

 

After the Dance

painting date: 1876
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 76.2 x 127 cm
location: Private Collection

 

 

'The picture shows a Roman interior, with a portion of the atrium and a peep into the court beyond. Two figures, a boy and a girl, recline on cushions, one sitting and the other languidly stretched on the tesselated pavement with a tambourine alongside. In the distance a group of minstrels on the extreme left complete the composition... There is no pretence of archaeological display, nor any highly-wrought detail, or accessories introduced for the mere mastery of textures...'
(J.A. Blaikie, 'J W Waterhouse, ARA', The Magazine of Art, 1886, p.3)

'...two Greek girls, gracefully draped, resting themselves in the atrium of the house wherein they have been dancing. The colouring is quiet, and yet not without a certain richness, the prevailing tints being yellow, green, brown and grey. one girl lies on her back, the other sits at her side...'
(The Art Journal, Vol XV, 1876, p 216)

 

 

 

 

 

A Sick Child brought into the Temple of Aesculapius

painting date: 1877
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 170 x 208 cm
location: Private Collection

 

 

 

Aesculapius was the Greek god of healing.

 

 

 

 

 

The Remorse of the Emperor Nero after the Murder of his Mother

painting date: 1878
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 37 x 66 in

 

 

 

Nero was the fifth Roman emperor (AD 54-68), stepson and heir of the emperor Claudius. He became infamous for his personal debaucheries and extravagances and, on doubtful evidence, for his burning of Rome and persecutions of Christians.

 

 

 

 

Offerings

painting date: 1879
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 9 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches
location: Private Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two Little Italian Girls by a Village

painting date: circa 1875
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 24 x 16 in
location: Private Collection

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait of a Young Woman

painting date: circa 1875-78
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)
location: Private Collection

 

 

 

This painting was discovered on the BBC television programme 'The Antiques Roadshow'. At the Coalville show (26 March 1998), Peter Nahum identified a portrait of a woman in a red dress (complete with a glaring hole in the canvas) as an early Waterhouse painting. It was subsequently included in Peter Trippi's recent Waterhouse monograph.

 

 

 

 

Scene at Pompeii

painting date: circa 1877
medium: Watercolour
size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 in (31 x 23.1 cm)
location: Private Collection