Arabesque
December 14, 2019–Maarch 22, 2020
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Paul Elie Ranson
Tiger in the Jungle
c. 1893
Color lithograph on paper
14 7/16 x 11 3/16 in.
Museum purchase, Joseph O. Eaton Fund.
Williams College Museum of Art
57.33
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Aubrey Beardsley
English, 1872–1898
The Peacock Skirt, from A Portfolio of Aubrey Beardsley’s drawings illustrating “Salome” by Oscar Wilde
1907
Line block print
Image: 9 × 6 7/16 in.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
x1939-83e
Aubrey Beardsley
English, 1872–1898
The Eyes of Herod, from A Portfolio of Aubrey Beardsley’s drawings illustrating “Salome” by Oscar Wilde 1907
Line block print
Image: 8 3/4 × 6 3/8 in.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
x1939-83j
Aubrey Beardsley
English, 1872–1898
The Climax, from A Portfolio of Aubrey Beardsley’s drawings illustrating “Salome” by Oscar Wilde
1907
Line block print
Image: 9 × 6 3/8 in.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
x1939-83o
Pierre Bonnard
French, 1867–1947
Petit solfège illustré (Music Theory Illustrated)
1893
Photorelief prints in bound album
8 3/8 × 11 1/4 × 1/4 in.
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Purchase, The Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions
2007.106
Félix Bracquemond
French, 1833–1914
Portrait of Edmond de Goncourt
1881
Etching on paper
Image: 17 13/16 x 12 5/8 in.
Clark Art Institute
1969.23
Philippe-Joseph Brocard
French, 1831–1896
Mosque Lamp
c. 1880
Enameled, gilded, and applied glass
14 13/16 x 10 in.
Clark Art Institute, Gift of Thomas Branchick and Mary Kontarasis in Memory of William Schade
2013.13
Carlo Bugatti
Italian, 1856–1940
Table
1895–1902
Vellum, hammered copper, pewter, walnut, and ebonized beechwood
29 1/2 × 27 15/16 × 21 1/4 in.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Gift of the Antiquarian Society Annual Tour 1974; Jessie Spalding Landon Fund
1975.331
© 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Walter Crane
English, 1845–1915
Prince Charming in the Forest
Undated
Pen and brush and red ink
11 9/16 × 10 1/16 in.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Julius S. Held Collection
1985.1.29
Maurice Denis
French, 1870–1943
La Dépêche de Toulouse
1892
Oil on canvas
51 3/4 × 35 1/4 in.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
1985.15
Georges de Feure
French, 1868–1943
La femme fatale
1896
Color lithograph
Image: 13 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.
Clark Art Institute, Acquired with funds donated by Jeffrey Shedd
1991.15
Harry C. Ellis
American, 1857–c. 1927
Loïe Fuller practicing at home in front of a Mucha playbill, Passy near Paris
c. 1910
Aristotypes
Framed: 18 1/16 × 16 × 1 1/4 in.
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Museum purchase, Karl E. Weston Memorial Fund
M.2003.6.1–3
Gabriel Huquier
French, 1695–1772
After Jean-Antoine Watteau
French, 1684–1721
The Acrobat
1735
Etching on cream antique laid paper
Plate: 23 1/8 x 15 5/8 in.
Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of Philip Hofer
M3610
Owen Jones
English, 1809–1874
Cover of Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra
1842–45
Chromolithograph
Sheet: 26 × 19 1/4 in.
Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Owen Jones
English, 1809–1874
Plate 9 from Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra
1842–45
Chromolithograph
Sheet: 26 × 19 1/4 in.
Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Owen Jones
English, 1809–1874
Plate 11 from Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra
1842–45
Chromolithograph
Sheet: 26 × 19 1/4 in.
Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Owen Jones
English, 1809–1874
Plate 40 from The Grammar of Ornament
1856
Chromolithograph
Sheet: 21 3/4 x 14 3/8 in.
Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Owen Jones
English, 1809–1874
Plate 41 from The Grammar of Ornament
1856
Chromolithograph
Sheet: 21 3/4 x 14 3/8 in.
Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Owen Jones
English, 1809–1874
Plate 42 from The Grammar of Ornament
1856
Chromolithograph
Sheet: 21 3/4 x 14 3/8 in.
Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Style of Owen Jones
English, 1809–1874
Length of furnishing fabric, “Alhambra”
French, mid-nineteenth century
Silk, block-printed satin
105 x 23 1/2 in.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Morris and Louise Rosenthal Fund
1999.459
Max Klinger
German, 1857–1920
Narcissus and Echo I (Narcissus und Echo I), from Preserving Ovid’s Offering
1879
Mixed intaglio
11 1/2 x 16 3/8 in.
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Williams and Flora Richardson Library
1994.9h
Max Klinger
German, 1857–1920
Narcissus and Echo II (Narcissus und Echo II), from Preserving Ovid’s Offering
1879
Mixed intaglio
11 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Williams and Flora Richardson Library
1994.9i
Max Klinger
German, 1857–1920
Pyramus and Thisbe (Pyramus und Thisbe), from Preserving Ovid’s Offering
1879
Mixed intaglio
8 5/16 x 11 13/16 in.
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Williams and Flora Richardson Library
1994.9p
Max Klinger
German, 1857–1920
Pyramus and Thisbe I (Pyramus und Thisbe I), from Preserving Ovid’s Offering
1879
Mixed intaglio
8 x 11 3/4 in.
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Williams and Flora Richardson Library
1994.9c
Henri Matisse
French, 1869–1954
Pianist and Checker Players
1924
Oil on canvas
29 × 36 3/8 in.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
1985.64.25
Adolph Menzel
German, 1815–1905
The Willow Tree
1843
Etching on white wove paper
9 1/16 x 6 1/8 in.
Harvard Art Museums / Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of Daniel Bell
1987.19
William Morris
English, 1834–1896
Edward Burne-Jones
English, 1833–1898
The Golden Legend of Master William Caxton Done Anew
1892
Wood engravings in bound volume
11 3/4 × 8 5/8 × 1 1/2 in.
Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Alphonse Mucha
Czech, 1860–1939
Biscuits Lefèvre-Utile
1896
Color lithograph on paper laid down on linen
24 1/8 × 17 1/8 in.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fund
2016.140.2
Alphonse Mucha
Czech, 1860–1939
JOB
1896
Color silkscreen on paper
Image: 20 5/16 × 15 1/2 in.
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Museum purchase, Karl E. Weston Memorial Fund
68.25
Alphonse Mucha
Czech, 1860–1939
Zodiaque (La Plume)
1896–97
Color lithograph from multiple stones on tan wove paper
24 13/16 × 18 1/2 in.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Mrs. Victor F. Lawson Collection
1925.844
Eugen Napoleon Neureuther
German, 1806–1882
The Ballad of Lenore
1835
Etching
Image: 14 3/8 × 9 1/2 in.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Purchased with the Alice Newton Osborn Fund
1995-10-1
Eugen Napoleon Neureuther
German, 1806–1882
The Ballad of Lenore
1835
Pen and ink, colored washes, with heightening in white opaque watercolor over chalk, on buff wove paper, mounted on brown wove paper
Image: 14 1/2 × 10 1/16 in.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Purchased with the Alice Newton Osborn Fund
1995-10-2
Eugen Napoleon Neureuther
German, 1806–1882
Border Illustrations to Goethe’s Ballads and Romances
1829–30
Lithographs in bound album
16 3/8 × 10 1/2 × 3/4 in.
Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Eugen Napoleon Neureuther
German, 1806–1882
Little Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)
1836
Etching on steel
Image: 26 1/4 × 19 3/4 in.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation
1985-52-2324
Paul Elie Ranson
French, 1864–1909
Abélard and Héloïse (The Lesson)
1890
Oil on canvas
19 3/4 × 24 in.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, Gift of Samuel Josefowitz
1960.393
Paul Elie Ranson
French, 1864–1909
Tiger in the Jungle
1893
Color lithograph
Image: 14 7/16 × 11 3/16 in.
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Museum purchase, Joseph O. Eaton Fund
57.33
Philipp Otto Runge
German, 1777–1810
Morning, from the series The Times of the Day
1807
Engraving, second state of two
Plate: 27 15/16 × 18 3/4 in.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives
2007.128
Philipp Otto Runge
German, 1777–1810
Day, from the series The Times of the Day
1807
Engraving, second state of two
Plate: 27 7/8 × 18 3/4 in.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives
2007.129
Philipp Otto Runge
German, 1777–1810
Evening, from the series The Times of the Day
1807
Engraving, second state of two
Plate: 27 15/16 × 18 5/8 in.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives
2007.130
Philipp Otto Runge
German, 1777–1810
Night, from the series The Times of the Day
1807
Engraving, second state of two
Plate: 27 13/16 × 18 11/16 in.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives
2007.131
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864–1901
Divan Japonais
1893
Color lithograph
31 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Bequest of Louise H. Landau
2003.69
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864–1901
Jane Avril
1899
Color lithograph
21 1/2 x 14 in.
Clark Art Institute
1955.1453
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French, 1864–1901
Miss Loïe Fuller
1893
Lithograph printed in blue-gray, brown-aubergine, and yellow, touched with gold and silver powder on cream wove paper
14 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.
Clark Art Institute, 1962.105
Henry van de Velde
Belgian 1863–1957
Cover from Max Elskamp’s Salutations, dont d’angéliques
1893
Bound volume with text and woodcut cover
8 3/4 × 7 1/8 × 11/16 in.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, The Ryda Hecht Levi Collection of Illustrated Books, Purchased in Memory of Ryda Hecht Levi with funds contributed by her Family and Friends
2008.77
Henry van de Velde
Belgian 1863–1957
Title spread from Friedrich Nietzsce’s Also sprach Zarathustra: ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
1908
Bound volume
15 × 10 3/8 × 1 5/8 in.
Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Peter von Cornelius
German, 1783–1867
Engraved by Ferdinand Ruscheweyh
German, 1785–1846
Title page from Twelve lllustrations to Goethe’s Faust
1816, printed 1845
Engraving
Plate: 19 x 23 in.
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Gift of Stephen and Elizabeth Crawford
2006.102a
Peter von Cornelius
German, 1783–1867
Engraved by Ferdinand Ruscheweyh
German, 1785–1846
Dedication from Twelve lllustrations to Goethe’s Faust
1816, printed 1845
Engraving
Plate: 16 3/4 x 20 11/16 in.
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Gift of Stephen and Elizabeth Crawford
2006.102b