Art Nouveau Illustrations

Whimsical, colorful illustrations featuring nymphs, satyrs, and mythological themes, primarily by Alphonse Mucha and other artists of the era.

Topaz (From the series "The gems") by Mucha, Alfons Marie (1860-1939) / Private Collection / 1899 / Czechia / Colour lithograph / Poster and Graphic design / 104x46 / Art Nouveau

Study of the Character of Opak; Scholtz, Julius (1825-1893); 1847 (1847-00-00-1847-00-00);

Stained glass for the façade of the Fouquet shop (dummy title)

In Greek mythology, the sphinx was a monstrous winged creature with the head of a female. It met any traveler/visitor trying to enter the city of Thebes and asked the person to answer a riddle (what walks on four legs when it is young, two in as an adult, and three as an old person - answer - human). Death was the reward for all who failed to answer. Oedipus answered the question, as seen here with the sphinx and the skeletons of those who failed, and was able to enter Thebes. Oedipus was the mythical king of Thebes.

Tarot Card 15 - Le Diable (The Devil). Date: 20th century

According to Greek mythology, the hero Bellerophon, with the aid of the winged horse Pegasus, slew the monster as the Chimaera.

The modern poster , Peacocks, Periodicals

Wall painting, historical motifs, Sisodia Rani Ka Bagh Palace, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Maenad with grapes by Alfons Marie Mucha, colour lithograph, 1896, 1860-1939, Russia, Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, 100x50, 4

Princess Wanders Through the Palace, Children's Literature

Old Mother Goose, when she wanted to wander, would ride through the air on a very fine gander - Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme

Iris', c1860-1893. Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw. John Atkinson Grimshaw(1836-1893) was an English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes.

Illustration in a series called 'Wine', published in 1907. By Raoul Serres (1881-1971), a French illustrator and printmaker.

Poster, Oxhey Woods; Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer (American, active England, 1890-1954); Printed by Waterlow & Sons, Ltd.; Client: Underground Electric Railways of London Company Ltd.; England; offset lithograph on paper, lined; 75.9 × 50.5 cm (29 7/8 × 19 7/8 in.)

The Flower Book - Flower of God. From The Flower Book, 1905. Sir Edward Burne-Jones .

Illustration of the 1889, Fête des Vignerons (Winegrowers Festival); is a traditional celebration held five times a century in Vevey, Switzerland. It has been organized by the Brotherhood of Winegrowers of Vevey since 1797. The committee is free to choose the time intervals between parties, the maximum being five times per century. Until now, the interval between two parties has varied between 14 and 28 years. The next edition will take place in 2019, 20 years after the previous one (1999); . Th

Nine fantastic female figures, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1897 print Bottom left a woman with wings, to the right of the middle a gorgin, a woman with snakes instead of her. Above the middle a woman on a throne. paper Gorgons. woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude. fabulous beings with wings

The wicked princess in her garden of bones.

October, November, December. Artist: Louis John Rhead (American (born England), Etruria 1857-1926 Amityville, New York). Dimensions: Sheet: 19 3/16 × 13 3/4 in. (48.8 × 35 cm)Image: 18 9/16 × 13 3/16 in. (47.2 × 33.5 cm). Publisher: Louis Prang & Co. (Boston, Massachusetts). Date: 1896. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Iris, John Atkinson Grimshaw, (1836-1893/British)

Woman looking over her shoulder with stylized flowers in the background , Flowers

Bookplate of A. Tschirch. Balmer, Alois (1866-1933), graphic artist, Widmann, Fritz (1869-1937), painter, unknown, printer

Cartel Modernista. Santiago Rusiñol. Fulls de la vida. Siglo XX, Institut del Teatre, Barcelona.

William H. Frear. Again enlarged and improved, Troy Cash Bazaar. 'I hear the soft note of the echoing voice of an'old, old love, long dead.' Patience. , Women, Dry goods stores, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Coloured illustration from 'OEuvres posthumes' by Alfred de Musset depicting a beetle on a rose and a bird singing against a background of the full moon. Illustrated by Georges Lepape.

A lustful friar sports with Ferondes wife by candlelight. Feronde ou le Purgatoire. Lithograph after an illustration by Charles Martin from Jean de la Fontaines Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, Tales and Novellas in Verse, Libraire de France, Paris, 1930.

Blatt 14 of William Blake's 'The First Book of Urizen', 1794, created with relief copper engraving, ink, watercolor, and color printing.

The Goat Girl. Edith Ridley Corbet (1850-1920). Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 61cm.

Shunga is a Japanese term for erotic art. Most shunga are a type of ukiyo-e, usually executed in woodblock print format. While rare, there are extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate the Ukiyo-e movement. Translated literally, the Japanese word shunga means picture of spring; 'spring' is a common euphemism for sex. The ukiyo-e movement as a whole sought to express an idealisation of contemporary urban life and appeal to the new chi nin class. Following the aesthetics of everyday life, Edo period shunga varied widely in its depictions of sexuality. As a subset of ukiyo-e it was enjoyed by all social groups in the Edo period, despite being out of favour with the shogunate. Suzuki Harunobu (1724 July 7, 1770) was a Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style. He was an innovator, the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu used many special techniques, and

Color illustration titled 'Sunset' by Lafayette Maynard Dixon for The Magazine of California and the West, September 1904, showing landscape, sky, and natural elements.

Night and Sleep, 1888. By Simeon Solomon

Denis, Maurice (1870-1943) State Hermitage, St. Petersburg 1908 395x274,5 Oil on canvas Fauvism France Mythology, Allegory and Literature

Coloured illustration of Odysseus on his ship returning from Troy. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953), a French British naturalised magazine and book illustrator.

Hark, Hark, the Dogs do Bark - Old Nursery Rhyme

With blazoned pennons from each spear, The Iris and the Flag appear. Date: 1895

Germany. Pictorial map depicting Germany as a lady dancing. Rhyme about the country in lower margin. In Lancaster and Harvey's Geographical fun. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1868 or 1869.. Back to School: The unique atlas referenced here contains twelve maps of European countries, each being portrayed as a stereotypical caricature of the location. Similarly to the creators of the Eagle Map, the atlas author, William Harvey, believed that visualizing geography in such a way would make the subject easier to understand, and more educational. Thus, he drew the major European countries as human figures reflecting national stereotypes, such as England in the form of Queen Victoria, and Scotland as a bagpipe player dressed in a kilt. Germany portrayed as a lady dancing is reproduced here... , Germany

Woman's head with reddish hair and Chrysanthemum. Draughtsman: Jan Toorop. Dating: 1896. Measurements: h 144 mm × w 135 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

A Bacchante Wardle, Arthur. still image. Art reproductions. 1911-05. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Dance, Leopards, Ecstasy, Mythology, Bacchantes, Female nude in art, Animals in art, Drapery in art, Wildflowers

Catalunya. Partitura musical. El cant dels Aucells, de La Cançó popular a tret de mainada, de Doménec Mas i Serracant. Año 1925. Author: Antonio Utrillo Viadera.

London, Reynolds, John, The Origin of Music, L'Origine de la Musique, A woman listening to a man with a pan flute, verso - handwritten, stereograph, stereophoto, photographs, Entered at Stationers' Hall., verso - printed, f125, height 85 mm, width 175 mm, 1814 - 1871, photographer, 1856 - 1857, cardboard, photographic paper, photo paper, albumen print, albumine print, hand colouring

Legendary princess Eugene Grasset (1845-1917). Princess of legend. Drawing.

Falling Leaves, Allegory of Autumn 1872 Hugues Merle French Merle, a friend and sometime rival of Bouguereau, was known for the sentimental images of contented rustic families that he regularly exhibited at the annual Salons. In this painting from 1872, Merle tried his hand at a loosely mythological scene of a languid young woman in the guise of Fall. Catharine Lorillard Wolfe bought the melancholic picture from the New York branch of the art gallery Goupil & Co. on February 21, 1873, while still in mourning for her father. A critic who saw the work in Wolfes home remarked, "Here, under russet foliage, a ripe beauty passes…. Nearby, disguised so much in shadow as to be almost invisible, little Love is running away; for this bereavement of affection is the plague of lifes Autumn, as loves importunity is the plague of its Spring.". Falling Leaves, Allegory of Autumn 437069

Eve, 1896, by Lucien Levy-Dhurmer (1865-1896), pastel and gouache, 49x46 cm.

This 1880s illustration accompanied a book on Homer and his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. It shows the scene with the Greek hero Odysseus (Ulysses) at the table of Circe. According to ancient Greek mythology, Circe was a well-known enchantress. The daughter of Helios, she changed the companions of Odysseus into swine. Odysseus made Circe break the spell.

Sunshine of the Saint Eulalie Arrives. Jessie Marion King (1875-1949). Pen and black ink and watercolour on vellum. 22 x 50.4cm.

The elements in motion, Schlobach, Willy (1864-1951)

Young woman by Alfons Marie Mucha, Printed velours, 1898-1899, 1860-1939, France, Ville de Paris, Bibliotheque Forney, 78, 5x81

BAIGNEUS / BATHING PL. Z: REVUE DE L AR ANCIENE ET MODERIE , vol. XII, 1902, p. 28 Dillon, Henri Patrice (1851 1909)

Color print by Josef Engelhart depicting the upper part of his work at the Secession Collective Exhibition, created around 1910.

The Big Gate at Yotsuya. Takahashi Hiroaki (Japan, 1871-1945). Japan, circa 1924-1927. Prints; woodblocks. Color woodblock print

Act Five: Yamazaki Highway from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers). Katsukawa Shun'ei; Japanese, 1762-1819. Date: 1790-1800. Dimensions: 32 x 21.5 cm (12 5/8 x 8 1/2 in.). Color woodblock print; aiban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Rhombus with Esther's head. A stained glass diamond with the representation of Esther. (Fragment of the new church).

Ornament (France); block printed on handmade paper; 43.5 x 35.5 cm (17 1/8 x 14 in.)

Ker Xavier Roussel (1867-1944). "Two women in a landscape". Lithography in 5 colors (raw green, pinkish beige, white, brick pink, olive green) on flying china. 1900. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 74388-15 Avant-garde, woman, lithography, nabi movement, postimpressionist movement, landscape, person, postimpressionism, engraving

Russia Restituenda, Alphonse Mucha

Pilgrim 2001 Leslie Xuereb (b.1959/French)

Tale of a Bearded Giant, circa 1900, maker unknown.

Pocahontas, Princesse (Pocahontas, Princess). Design by George Barbier, engraved on wood by Pierre Bouchet and included in the book Vies imaginaries (Imaginary Lives) by French author Marcel Schwob.

The Days of Creation - The Fifth Day, Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley, 1870.

HOLY THISTLE PERSONIFIED Date: 1906

This illustration dates to the early 1900s and shows Hilda with doves, The tale of Hilda is found in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, also known as The Romance of Monte Beni. The caption reads: They soon became familiar with the fairhaired Saxon girl as if she were a born sister of their brood. - Transformation. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales are children's classics. He also wrote The Scarlet Letter, Blithedale Romance, The House of Seven Gables, The Marble Faun. With his superb creation of dark-hued atmosphere, his symbolism, and his blend of realistic detail and romantic-even melodramatic theme, Hawthorne stands as one of America's top novelists.

The Balcony. Engraving by Barcelo, "La Ilustracion", 1882. Colored.

Golden evening , Stairways. Louis Prang & Company Collection

Study for a Lunette. Dated: 1890/1897. Dimensions: image (lunette): 23.2 × 45.8 cm (9 1/8 × 18 1/16 in.) mount: 30.4 × 45.6 cm (11 15/16 × 17 15/16 in.). Medium: gouache with pen and black ink and graphite on tan wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles Sprague Pearce.

Jacquard loom.. Cigarette cards, Trade cards. George Arents Collection

The Angel of Splendor, Delville, Jean (1867-1953)

Philemon & Baucis Crane, Walter, 1845-1915. still image. Illustrations. 1910. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Peasants, Older people, Mythology, Spouses, Baucis (Greek mythology), Philemon (Greek mythology)

Flora. Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944). Tempera on canvas. Dated 1921. 51.1 x 39.3cm.

Depicts 'Le Noyé', illustrated in color by Henri Meunier in 1898, showing a figure in water, emphasizing movement, composition, and environment.

c.1935, Hawaii, Sheet Music illustration, woman covered in blue leis.

Endymion, Mural, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. still image. Postcards. 1900 - 1902. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Murals, Washington (D.C.), Endymion (Greek mythology), Library of Congress

Denmark, Zealand, Copenhagen, Christiansborg Palace, The Royal Reception Chambers, tapestry detail featuring Danish Queen and consort

Through the Graveyard, Antique Skeletons of Amsterdam

Pururavas, a man who lived with the celestial apsaras Urvashi on the condition that she never saw him naked. He was tricked into breaking this condition & lost her.

illustration by Henri Caruchet (1873 - 1948), for Byblis, Paris, 1901; written by Pierre Louys (1870-1925). Pierre Louys was a French writer and poet most famous for the inclusion of lesbian and classical themes in his works. In Greek mythology, Byblis or Bublis, was a daughter of Miletus. Her mother was either Tragasia, Cyanee, daughter of the river-god Meander, or Eidothea, daughter of King Eurytus of Caria. She fell in love with Caunus, her twin brother.

Hugo C. Yonzon, Maria Makiling,1982. Oil on canvas.

Palemon kisses Ondine, despite knowing that this will be fatal, and dies in her arms. Illustration to a fairytale by Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, first published 1812, and performed as a ballet by the Royal Ballet in 1958. Date: 1960

Bilibin, Ivan Yakovlevich (1876-1942) A. Pushkin Memorial Museum, St. Petersburg 1905 Watercolour, Gouache, white colour, ink on paper

The Frog asks to be allowed to enter the Castle - Illustration for 'The Frog Prince', Walter Crane (Liverpool, England, 1845 - 1915) c. 1874

The blazing Sunflower, black and bold, Burns yet to win the sunset's gold. Date: 1895

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