The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850–1900
Obsession,
Death, and Urban life in the late 1800s are the subject matter of a
fascinating show that was at the Smart Museum of the University of Chicago. Fine art of this period normally brings to mind
the impressionist and post impressionist paintings, but this
exhibition gives you a peak into the more personal and intimate
thoughts and lives of the artists of that time. Catalogs of this show are available at the Smart Museum Gift Shop
Charles Meryon - La Galerie de Nôtre-Dame in Paris, 1853. Etching.
Memory of Flanders: A Canal
c. 1904
Fernand Khnopff
conté crayon over graphite
Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot frontispiece to Aloysius Bertrand, Gaspard de la nuit
1868
Félicien Rops
etching and aquatint on Chinese paper
The Vampire (Le Stryge)
1853
Charles Meryon
etching
Death as Friend, 1851 , Alfred Rethel.
Adolphe Appian, Nocturne (Fisherman in a Boat), 1887, Etching with monotype wiping on Chinese paper
Albert Besnard, Morphine Addicts, 1887, Etching.
François Nicolas Chifflart, Cholera in Paris, 1865, Etching with drypoint.
James Ensor, The Cathedral, 1886, Etching on Japanese paper
Max Klinger, Abduction (A Glove, Opus VI), first edition, 1881, Etchings on chine collé
Käthe Kollwitz, Woman with a Dead Child, 1903, Etching with drypoint, touched with graphite, charcoal, and wash
Charles Meryon, Ministry of the Marine, Paris, 1865, Etching
Odilon Redon, This Is the Devil from Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1888, Lithograph on chine collé