Portrait of Hippolyte Flandrin (1855)

Jean-August-Dominique Ingres: Portrait of Hippolyte Flandrin

Flandrin (1809-1864) was a fellow painter. At bottom right it says "Ingres to his friend and great artist Hippolyte Flandrin".

Macbeth and Banquo Encountering the Three Witches on the Heath (1855)

Théodore Chassériau: Macbeth and Banquo Encountering the Three Witches on the Heath

Children Looking at Prints (1855)

Pierre-Édouard Frère: Children Looking at Prints

The Meeting of Henri III and the Duc de Guise (1855)

Pierre-Charles Comte: The Meeting of Henri III and the Duc de Guise

These two were bitter enemies. King Henri III eventually had the Duc de Guise assassinated.

The Potato Harvest (1855)

Jean-François Millet: The Potato Harvest

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1855)

 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot: First Leaves, near Nantes

  

 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot: Seine Landscape near Chatou

  

 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot: The Letter

 

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot: Wall, Côtes-du-Nord, Brittany

The Salon Jury (1855)

Henri Gervex: The Salon Jury

Theatrical Rehearsal in the House of an Ancient Roman Poet (1855)

Gustave Boulanger: Theatrical Rehearsal in the House of an Ancient Roman Poet

Charles-Louis Mozin (1855)

 Charles-Louis Mozin: The Port of Rouen

  

Charles-Louis Mozin: The New Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert (II)

Soirée at the Louvre (1855)

François Biard: Une Soirée au Louvre chez le Comte de Nieuwerkerke en 1855

La Fête-Dieu (1855)

Alexandre Antigna: La Fête-Dieu

"Fête-Dieu" is the French name for the Feast of Corpus Christi, held sixty days after Easter.

Théodore Chassériau (1854)

 Théodore Chassériau: Macbeth Seeing the Ghost of Banquo

  

Théodore Chassériau: Moorish Woman Leaving the Bath in the Seraglio

Poem of the Soul (1854)

Louis Janmot was a student of Ingres, among others. His paintings reflect his staunch Catholicism. One of his major works was the 18-part Poem of the Soul. Exhibited at the 1855 Universal Exhibition, these paintings were apparently not well received.

 Divine Generation

  

 The Soul's Journey

  

 The Angel and the Mother

  

 Spring

  

 Memories of the Sky

  

 Father's House

  

 Bad Path

  

 The Nightmare

  

 The Grain Seed

  

 First Communion

  

 Virginitas

  

 The Golden Stairs

  

 Rays of the Sun

 

 On the Mountain

  

 One Evening

  

 The Soul's Flight

  

 Ideal

  

Reality

Sentinel (1854)

Louis Gallait: Sentinel (The Croat)

Seated Spinner (1854)

Jean-François Millet: Seated Spinner

Gustave Courbet (1854)

 Bonjour Monsieur Courbet

[about this painting]

  

The Wounded Man (self-portrait)

[about this painting]

Breton Seamstresses (1854)

Jules Trayer: Breton Seamstresses

The Jig (1854)

Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellange: The Jig

The Age of Augustus and the Birth of Christ (1854)

Jean-Léon Gêrome: The Age of Augustus and the Birth of Christ

 

At the apex of this theatrically arranged study, Augustus Caesar sits in front of the Temple of Janus and touches the shoulder of a man personifying Rome. Surrounding him are scholars and statesmen while foreign tribes gather below. The Nativity scene in the foreground illustrates the coincidental moment of world peace under Augustus when Christ was born.

In 1852, Jean-Léon Gérôme received a state commission to paint a large mural of an allegorical subject of his choosing. In selecting this subject, Gérôme perhaps sought to flatter Emperor Napoleon III, whose government commissioned the painting and who was identified as a "new Augustus."

In preparation for his large mural, Gérôme traveled all over to find the appropriate ethnic types to portray the different peoples of the ancient world. When The Age of Augustus, The Birth of Christ was shown in 1855 at the Universal Exposition, his skill in depicting various nationalities led some to remark that Gérôme gave a lesson whenever he painted a picture. [Getty Museum]

The Paradise of Mohammed (1854)

Henri-Frederic Schopin: The Paradise of Mohammed

The Caravan (ca. 1854)

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps: The Caravan

Théodore Chassériau (1853)

 Reclining Odalisque

  

 The Tepidarium

  

Portrait of Comte Oscar de Ranchicourt

A Classical Courtship (1853)

Auguste Toulmouche: A Classical Courtship

Auguste Toulmouche (1829-1890) was a French painter who painted in the academic realism style. This trend in art was towards realism but also towards greater idealism, which is contrary to realism. The figures depicted were made more abstract and idealized. His themes were in the Regency revival style of genre painting. This would involve both generalizing the forms seen in nature, and subordinating them to the unity and theme of the artwork.

He studied with Charles Gleyre and is known mainly for his portraits of Parisian women; Émile Zola spoke of "Toulmouche's delicious dolls." He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. [Wikipedia]

A more extensive bio of Toulmouche is at Rehs Galleries.

The Arrest of Charlotte Corday (1853)

Alfred Dehodencq: The Arrest of Charlotte Corday after the Murder of Marat, 13th July 1793

Orientalist Landscape (1853)

Narcisse Berchère: Orientalist Landscape