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)

Chorus singers. Las coristas. 1915. Madrid, Reina Sofia museum. Author: JOSE GUTIERREZ SOLANA (1886/1945). Location: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ARTE REINA SOFIA-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Majas on a Balcony , Fine Art

John Frederick Lewis, 1804-1876, British, A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai. 1842 - The Convent of St. Catherine in the Distance, 1856. Watercolor, gouache and graphite on slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on board.

Amsterdam, Blaeu, Cornelis, Johannes Willemszoon, Moeyaert, Nicolaes, Nolpe, Pieter, Festivities during the visit of Maria de' Medici to Amsterdam in 1638, French virgin laments the misfortunes of France, Claes, Tableau vivant with the lamentation of France's misfortunes by the French virgin (Maria de Medicis). The globe of the French Empire is split by Discord and Envy and set on fire, Peace is crushed. Performance in the water theater on the Rokin. Plate no. 9 in the illustrations in the description of the festivities during the visit of Maria de Médicis to Amsterdam, 31 August - 5 September 1638., print, engraving, book illustration, prints, engravings, Frederik Muller History plates, Tableau vivant with the lamentation of France's misfortunes by the, as Maria de' Medici depicted, French maiden on the left. The globe of the French Empire is split by Discord and Envy and set on fire. Peace, with olive branch, and Justice are crushed on the right. Venus raises her hands to heaven. Rep

At the Well. Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902). Oil on canvas. 55.2 x 100.3cm.

Dibutades, or the Origin of Drawing by Suvee, Joseph-Benoit (1743-1807) / Groeningemuseum, Bruges / 1791 / Belgium / Oil on canvas / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / Classicism

The Poet or Poems, by Giuseppe Barbaglia (1841-1910), oil on canvas, 74x52 cm.

The "Aldobrandini wedding": a group of women prepare a young bride for her marriage. Engraving by A. Mochetti after Aloysius Agricola after a fresco painting.

Roma antigua. Muerte del emperador Valentiniano I (321-375) causada por el impacto en la cabeza de una vasija arrojada contra él en el transcurso de una discusión con los embajadores quados, tribu germánica de la región de Moravia.

Le Lever de Voltaire Jean Huber (1721-1786 Swiss) Ferney-Voltaire Palace

The Cup Of Tantalus. Sir Edward John Poynter BT., P.R.A. (1836-1919). Oil On Canvas

DINET, Alphonse-Etienne (1861-1929). Around a dying man. 1901. Romanticism. Orientalism. Oil on canvas. BELGIUM. WALLONIA. HAINAUT. Tournai. Fine Arts Museum.

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis. Photograph after a frieze in the Social Hygiene Museum, Budapest.

'Tobias's Farewell to his Parents'. Holland, Mid - third quarter of the 17th century. Dimensions: 65x73 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten.

Fernand Pelez (1848-1913). "Death of the convenient emperor". Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Death of the convenient emperor Animal skin, bathtub, column, death, Roman emperor, woman, death, beast skin, emperor novel, tub, sail, column, veil, woman

ALEJO VERA. PINTOR ESPAÑOL. "NUMANCIA " , AÑO 1880. ASEDIO DE NUMANCIA. DESTRUIDA POR ESCIPION EMILIANO , AÑO 133 AC. MUSEO DEL PRADO. DEPOSITADO EN LA DIPUTACION P`ROVINCIAL DE SORIA.

The sculptor's studio. Date/Period: 1885. Painting,oil on canvas. Height: 612 mm (24.09 in); Width: 918 mm (36.14 in). Author: TOM ROBERTS.

MAEZTU , GUSTAVO DE . PINTOR ESPAÑOL. VITORIA 1887 - 1947. " MUJERES DEL MAR ". DIPUTACION DE VIZCAYA . BILBAO. ATENCION: AUTOR CONTEMPORANEO SUJETO A COPYRIGHT ©. EL CLIENTE FINAL ES RESPONSABLE DE LA GESTION DE LOS DERECHOS DE AUTOR CON LAS SOCIEDADES EXISTENTES DE GESTION DE DERECHOS O DIRECTAMENTE CON LOS ORGANISMOS TITULARES DE LOS MISMOS.

He Heals the Lame (Il guérit les boiteux) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). He Heals the Lame (Il guérit les boiteux), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 7 13/16 x 10 9/16 in. (19.8 x 26.8 cm). European Art 1886-1894

Repin, Ilya Yefimovich (1844-1930). Grand Duchess Sophia Alekseyevna at the Novodevichy Convent. 1879. His brother Peter I imprisoned her in the monastery where she died. Realism. Oil on canvas. RUSSIA. MOSCOW. Moscow. Tretyakov Gallery.

Belly Dancer and Musicians, Engraving by C. Kohnlein from an Original Painting by F.M. Bredt, 1890's

King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, Cartoon Study, 1883 By Edward Burne-JonesPre-Raphaelite

A Barber Shop by Briullov, Karl Pavlovich (1799-1852) Private Collection ca. 1849 Russia Watercolour on paper Graphic arts Genre

'The Miracle of Anthony of Padua' (detail), 1798. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: Ermita de san Antonio de la Florida. MADRID. SPAIN.

Lord, I Am Not Worthy (Domine Non Sum Dignus) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). Lord, I Am Not Worthy (Domine Non Sum Dignus), 1886-1896. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, image: 10 1/4 x 5 11/16 in. (26 x 14.4 cm). European Art 1886-1896

The Bedouin Dancer. Otto Pilny (1866-1936). Oil on canvas. 80.6 x 120.7cm.

fine arts, Spitzweg, Carl (1808 - 1885), painting, ""Turks in the Cafe"", oil on canvas, 52 cm x 41 cm, Schack Gallery, Munich,

The Dinner Horn; 1873; Oil on canvas Winslow Homer; American; 1836 - 1910

Rembrandt van Rijn Chrystus W izbie Tortur; State Museum, Darmstadt. Karta No. 595 W: The galleries of Europe. Painting of old masters in the colors of the originals. Volume 6, publisher of E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1910. Publisher by A.E. Seemann in Leipzig, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 1669)

Colossal Statue of Ananda, near the Ruined City of Pollanarua, Ceylon,1891. Artist: John La Farge, American, 1835-1910, M.A. (HON.) 1896

Salome Leon Herbo (1850-1907 Belgian) Oil on canvas

Love And Time, John Melhuish Strudwick (1849-1937), Oil On Canvas

Court of an Antiquelar, Mr Reprint, Street Paul-Louis-Courier, in 1895

Cold Spring - The Alien, Louisa Starr (London, England, 1845 - 1909) 1906

Lost in the Storm. Richard Ansdell (1815-1885). Oil on canvas. 82 x 130.2cm.

Manuel García Hispaleto / 'The House of Tócame-Roque'. Ca. 1886. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Georges Moreau de Tours (1848-1901). "The wedding". Sketch for the wedding hall of the town hall of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. Oil on canvas, 1880. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. 19th XIXth XIX 19th 19th 19th century

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The doctor's surprise. Oil painting after J.G. Vibert.

The Cardinal Visits; La Vista del Cardinal. Jose Gallegos y Arnosa (1859-1917). Oil on panel. 43.8 x 61cm.

Witches' sabbath (Black painting), 1819 - 23, mural painted at Quinta del Sordo (detail)

Part fighting with wolves; Moniuszko, Jan Czes AW (1853-1908); 1883 (1883-00-00-1883-00-00);Family, Méyet, Leopold (1850-1912) - collection, people, wolves, gift (provenance), book (attribute), death scenes, interior of the chambers, bed

Repin, Yury Ilyich (1877-1954) I. Repin Memorial Museum Penates near Sankt Petersburg 1920s 107,5x161 Oil on canvas Russian End of 19th - Early 20th cen. Russia Bible

Lord Byron on his Death-bed - Joseph Denis Odevaere, circa 1826

Western Gentleman in Oriental Costume British Painter The life of poet-adventurer George Gordon Byron, known universally as Lord Byron (1788-1824), inspired the fashion for Europeans to be painted in Middle Eastern dress, especially those who had made the journey across the Mediterranean. The identity of the sitter in this fine little portrait has been lost, as has the name of the artist who painted it.. Western Gentleman in Oriental Costume. British Painter (ca. 1840-45). Oil on canvas. Paintings

Young Roman woman with an amphora in her hands at Pompeii, from a painting by Roberto Bompiani (1821-1908) Italy, Europe . Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879

Sketch for the town hall of Montreuil-sous-Bois: summer, family. Auguste Francois-Marie Gorguet (1862-1927). Sketch for the town hall of Montreuil-sous-Bois: summer, family. Oil on canvas. 1892.

The Hayloft. Dated: 1867. Dimensions: sheet: 23.1 × 28.4 cm (9 1/8 × 11 3/16 in.) mount: 25 × 30.2 cm (9 13/16 × 11 7/8 in.). Medium: watercolor with gouache and scratching out on wove paper, laid down on board. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John William North.

Egyptian Chess Players'. Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) Dutch-born English artist. Oil on canvas.

The Carpet Merchant of Cairo Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904). The Carpet Merchant of Cairo, 1869. Oil on canvas, 31 7/8 x 22 in. (81 x 55.9 cm). Jean-Léon Gérôme traveled frequently through Egypt and the Ottoman Empire from 1853 onward, collecting photographs, textiles, and other props to use in his Paris studio. Although his detailed rendering of two carpets lends this painting a documentary appearance, Gérômes stereotypical portrayal of an Egyptian carpet vendor and brightly costumed passersby reveals his desire to appeal to European fantasies of the Arab-Islamic world. In France, such imagined scenes were interpreted as faithful records of an unchanging “Orient,” helping to justify and obscure the harrowing transformations enacted by European imperialism within North Africa and the Middle East. European Art 1869

Christian Inspiration. Artist: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, Lyons 1824-1898 Paris). Dimensions: Image: 18 5/8 x 23 1/2 in. (47.3 x 59.7 cm); sheet: 19 5/8 x 24 3/16 in. (49.9 x 61.4 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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.

LAS ARTES 1921/23- FRESCO DE LA ROTONDA CENTRAL. Author: AURELIO ARTETA (1879-1940). Location: BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA-ALCALA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Compositional Study, for The Play Scene in Hamlet, Act III, Scene II. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

The Massacre of the Innocents, 1852, by Antonio Puccinelli (1822-1897), oil on canvas, 199x144 cm.

The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey No. 4. Artist: Elihu Vedder (American, New York 1836-1923 Rome). Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. (16.5 x 27.3 cm). Date: ca. 1867-68.Vedder is best known for his visionary paintings that contain classical and allegorical allusions, which were precursors to the Symbolist movement in the United States. This series of paintings, however, has a literary theme based on a specific text--Aesop's fable "The Miller, His Son, and the Donkey". Vedder used his beloved Italy as the setting of the classic fable, in which a hapless miller and his son attempt to appease passing critics, resulting in the death of their precious donkey. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

In the Temple of Bacchus, 1881, by Giovanni Muzzioli (1854-1894), oil on canvas, 93.3 x158 cm.

On the lookout, scene from the 12th century. .

Tranquillo Cremona (1837-1878). Italian painter. A Visit to Romeo and Juliet's Grave, 1862. Oil on canvas, 144 x 100 cm. Modern Art Gallery. Milan. Italy.

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

Students from Alciato, 1864, Federico Faruffini (1831-1869).

The Discovery of Pulque, 1869

The Departure. French School (late 19th century). Oil on canvas. 81 x 110cm.

In 1581, Ivan beat his son, Ivan in a heated argument causing his sons death. Depicted in the painting by Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible killing his son by Ilya Repin. Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 1584) Tsar of Russia 1533 - 1584.

Theatre d'Orange (Orange Theatre), inside Le Train Bleu restaurant, Gare De Lyon, Paris, by Albert Maignan, 1905, France 20th century. Fresco. Detail.

This illustration from a 1910 edition of The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott has the following caption: Ellen with arms open and old man with a harp. Sir Walter Scotts The Lady of the Lake was published by Richard Scott of New York in 1813. The six-canto poem tells the story of King James Vs struggle against James Douglas, and the affections of three suitors towards James Douglas daughter, Ellen. The narrative takes place over six days in the Trossachs region of Scotland, mainly Ellens Isle in Loch Katrine. Eventually it is revealed that one of the suitors is in fact James V, and Ja

Odalisque with a slave, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867).

Scene with men and boy by Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, oil on canvas, 1871-1872, 1842-1904, Russia, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, 123x92, 4

Outside the Odense poorhouse. Date/Period: 1831. Painting. Width: 26.3 cm. Height: 27.5 cm. Author: Wilhelm Bendz.

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.

Evening, Tangiers, 1906. Oil on canvas. Artist: Sir John Lavery (d.1941)

Men carrying woman by Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko, Oil on canvas, 1885, 1835-1890, Russia, Novgorod, State Open-air Museum of History and Architecture Novgorodian Kremlin, 266x182, 4

LOS GAVILLADORES - 1858 - OLEO/TELA - REALISMO FRANCES. Author: JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET (1814-1875). Location: LOUVRE MUSEUM-PAINTINGS. France.

The Storytellers of the Decameron by Boccaccio 1313-75, 1851 (detail of man and woman)

Rudolf Swoboda the younger (1859-1914) was a 19th-century Austrian painter, born in Vienna. He studied under Leopold Carl Muller, and voyaged with him to Egypt in 1880. He was a well-known Orientalist. In 1886, Queen Victoria commissioned Swoboda to paint several of a group of Indian artisans who had been brought to Windsor as part of the Golden Jubilee preparations. Victoria liked the resulting paintings so much that she paid Swoboda's way to India to paint more of her Indian subjects. Swoboda painted many of the ordinary people of India in a grouping of small (no more than eight inches high) paintings which resulted.

FRANCES , PLACIDO. PINTOR ESPAÑOL . ALCOI 1834 - 1902. " OTRA VEZ SERA " OLEO SOBRE LIENZO. COLECCION PARTICULAR . MADRID.

Albert Joseph Moore, 1841-1893, British, A Musician, ca. 1867. Oil on canvas.

Moses as child in basket by Isaac Lvovich Asknazy, oil on canvas, 1891, 1856-1902, Russia, St Petersburg, State Russian Museum, 116x174

Catullus in garden by Stepan Vladislavovich Bakalowicz, oil on canvas, 1885, 1857-1947, Russia, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, 26, 8x39

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)

The Return of the Prodigal Son (Le retour de l'enfant prodigue) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Return of the Prodigal Son (Le retour de l'enfant prodigue), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 8 11/16 x 5 1/2 in. (22.1 x 14 cm). In this parable, a young man leaves the comfort of family, wanders foreign lands, and resorts to begging after wasting a fortune through debauchery. Returning, he receives the embrace of his father, who warmly welcomes him home despite his mistakes, prompting the young man to repent the rejection of his family. Tissot had treated the Prodigal Son subject several times before, first in the guise of early historicizing scenes that helped establish his career and then, in the early 1880s, as a series of paintings and later etchings set in Victorian England. As many scholars have pointed out, the parable may have had a particular autobiographical resonance for Tissot, who had left his homelandtrading his native France for E

David and Jonathan', 1642 by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn.

Two Sisters; Les Deux Soeurs. Louis Leopold Boilly (1761-1845). Oil on canvas. 45 x 37.5cm.

The angel appearing to Sarah, 1726-28 fresco, gallery

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

Cashmere, John Singer Sargent, circa 1908,

The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra by Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence (1836-1912) / Private Collection / 1885 / Great Britain / Oil on wood / Mythology, Allegory and Literature,History / 65,4x91,4

Children of King Edward; Simmler, Józef (1823-1868); 1847 (1847-00-00-1847-00-00);copies, dogs, realism (style), costume scenes, genre scenes in the interior, a canopy bed

GAUGUIN, Paul (1848-1903). Te Tamari no atua (The Birth of Christ). 1896. Post-Impressionism. Oil on canvas. GERMANY. BAVARIA. Munich. New Pinacotheca.

Fresco: Family Meal, Villa Valmarana ai Nan with frescoes by Giovanni Battista Tiepoloi, 1669, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, Europe

Femmes dÄö√Ñ√¥alger dans leur appartement, detail, eugene delacroix, 1834

Painting of a Pompeian Child by Arcadi Mas i Fondevila (1852-1934) Catalonian painter and graphic artist. Dated 1879

Female wearing Arab headdress, by Jean-Francois Portaels (1818-1895), oil on canvas.

Majas on a Balcony, Francisco Goya, circa 1800-1810, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America

Painting titled 'Herodiada' by Ivan Kramskoi. Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (1837-1887) a Russian painter and art critic.

Life And Death by Horace Vernet, Oil on canvas, 1851, 1789-1863, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 146x113

Scene from prehistoric era by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov, oil on canvas, 1882-1885, 1848-1926, Russia, Moscow, State History Museum

Interior of a dyeing workshop, in Gobelins, around 1760 ". Oil on canvas. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 37953-4 Workshop, interior, shade linen, goblin factory, wear, dye, textiles, sheet, oil on canvas

Italian school. Appio Claudio entering the Roman Senate. 3rd-4th century BC. Rome, Senate palace. Author: CESARE MACCARI. Location: PALACIO MADAMA-SENADO-COLECCION DE ARTE. Rome. ITALIA. APIO CLAUDIO.

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