AUDIO HIGHLIGHTS

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

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

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, Wililams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

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

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

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

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, 1995-10-1

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, 2007.128

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

Featuring an essay by Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Arabesquetraces the role of this curvilinear decorative motif through a variety of styles and media in European art. An elegant companion to the exhibition, this sixty-four-page softcover publication includes fifty-seven color illustrations highlighting objects from the show and their influences.