4.601 | Fall 2018 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Art History

Lists of Works

Part III (Weeks 11–15)

Please note: You may be asked specifically about bolded works on exams.

Week 11

  1. Géricault, The African Slave Trade, 1820–23
  2. Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), Scenes from the Massacre at Chios, 1824 (full title: “Scenes from the Massacres at Chios; Greek Families Awaiting Death of Slavery, etc.—See Various Accounts and Contemporary Newspapers”)
  3. Delacroix, watercolor study for Scenes from the Massacre at Chios, 1822–24
  4. Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1827
  5. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), Grand Odalisque, 1814
  6. Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1862
  7. Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), Moorish Bath, 1870
  8. Jules Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842–1929), White Slave, 1888
  9. Lecomte du Nouÿ, Guard of the Seraglio: Souvenir of Cairo, 1876
  10. Gérôme, Snake Charmer, c. 1870
  11. Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1789–1851), Still Life in Studio, daguerreotype, 1837
  12. Daguerre, Boulevard du Temple, daguerreotype, 1839, with and without standing figure
  13. Georg Brander, Table Camera Obscura, 1769
  14. Samuel J. Miller (1822–1888), Frederick Douglass, daguerreotype, 1847/1852
  15. Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), Photography: A New Procedure Use to Ensure Graceful Poses, lithograph, 1856
  16. Anonymous, Butterfly Collector, daguerreotype, c. 1850
  17. John H. Fitzgibbon (1816–1882), Kno-Shr, Kansas Chief, daguerreotype, 1853
  18. William (1807–1874) and Frederick (1809–1879) Langenheim, Eclipse of the Sun, daguerreotypes, 1854
  19. John Adams Whipple (1822–1891), Moon, daguerreotype, c. 1851
  20. William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), Wild Fennel, photogenic drawing, 1839
  21. Fox Talbot, The Open Door, calotype, 1843
  22. David Octavius Hill (1802–1870) and Robert Adamson (1821–1848), Sergeant of the Forty-Second Gordon Highlanders Reading the Orders of the Day, calotype, 1846
  23. Hill and Adamson, Alexander Rutherford, William Ramsay and John Liston, calotype, c. 1846
  24. Hill and Adamson, Lady Ruthven, calotype, c. 1845
  25. Félix-Jacques Moulin, French, (1802–1869), Female Nude, albumen print, 1856
  26. Moulin, Algerian Man, albumen print, c. 1856
  27. Timothy O’Sullivan (1840–1882), Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelly, albumen print, 1873
  28. Anonymous, Place de la Concorde, Paris, stereograph, c. 1860
  29. Underwood and Underwood, The Great Pyramid of Gizeh, stereograph, 1908
  30. Anonymous, The Fresh View Agent Soliciting (Stereoscopes in Use), stereograph, 1860s
  31. Roger Fenton (1819–1869), The Chinese Carving in Ivory, stereograph, c.1860
  32. Anonymous, Venus de Milo, stereoscopic daguerreotype, c. 1850
  33. Underwood and Underwood, Surgical Instruments Found in a Physician’s Home, Pompeii, Italy, stereograph, 1897
  34. Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816–1892), Full Moon, stereograph, 1860s
  35. Anonymous, Laundress, stereograph, 1850s
  36. Gardner’s Photographic History of the Civil War, 1866:
  37. Timothy O’Sullivan (1840–1882), A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, July 1863
  38. O’Sullivan, Field Where General Reynolds Fell, Gettysburg, 1863
  39. Alexander Gardner (1821–1882), Sharpshooter’s Last Sleep, Gettysburg, 1863
  40. Gardner, Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg, 1863
  41. Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835), Napoleon Receiving the Capitulation of Madrid, 4 December 1808 at Six O’Clock in the Morning—General Don Fernando de la Vera, Governor of Madrid, Imploring the Emperor for Clemency, 1810
  42. Francisco Goya (1746–1828), Disasters of War (c. 1810–1820; not published until 1863): “One Can’t Look” (Disasters 26), “Why?” (Disasters 32), “It Will be the Same” (Disasters 21)
  43. Goya, Third of May, 1808, 1814–15
  44. José de Madrazo y Agudo, The Death of Viriato, Leader of the Lusitanians, 1808
  45. Ingres, Apotheosis of Homer, 1827
  46. Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), Self-Portrait (The Desperate Man), 1844–45
  47. Caricature of Courbet, 1867
  48. Courbet, The Stonebreakers (Doubs), 1849
  49. Courbet, Burial at Ornans, 1849–50
  50. Albert Bertall, The Burial at Ornans, by Courbet, Master Painter, 1851
  51. Napoleon’s Funeral Procession in 1821, woodcut, Epinal, 1835 and The Steps of Life, woodcut, Epinal, c. 1830
  52. Courbet, The Bathers, 1853
  53. Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (1795–1866), Nude Study, c. 1853
  54. Courbet, The Wrestlers, 1853
  55. Charles-François Jalabert (1819–1901), The Plague of Thebes (Antigone leads Oedipus out of Thebes), 1842

Week 12

  1. Courbet, Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine, 1857
  2. Edouard Manet (1832–1883), Concert in the Tuileries, 1862
  3. Manet, The Street Singer, c. 1862
  4. Manet, Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863
  5. Pesme, Académie, 1862
  6. Marcantonio Raimondi, The Judgment of Paris, engraving, 1517
  7. Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889), Birth of Venus, 1863
  8. William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905), Birth of Venus, 1879
  9. Manet, Olympia, 1863 (exhibited Salon of 1865)
  10. Cham, Birth of the Little Cabinet Maker, 1865; Bertall, The Tail of the Cat, or the Coal-Seller of the Batignolles, 1865

Week 13

  1. Edouard Manet (1832–1883), The Railway, 1873
  2. Manet, The Waitress, 1878–79
  3. Claude Monet (1840–1926), Gare St. Lazare: The Western Docks, 1877
  4. Le Pont de l’Europe from Le Gare St. Lazare, c. 1868
  5. Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872
  6. Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, 1873–74
  7. Hippolyte Jouvin, Boulevard de Strasbourg, stereograph, 1860–65
  8. Monet, Grainstack (Snow Effect), 1891
  9. Monet, Grainstack (Sunset), 1891
  10. Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Place de la Concorde (Viscount Lepic and his Daughters), c. 1875
  11. Degas, The Star, or Dancer on Stage, c. 1876–77
  12. André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri (1819–1889), Legs of the Opera, c. 1870
  13. Degas, Orchestra Musicians, 1870–71; 1874–76
  14. Degas, In a Café (Absinthe), 1876
  15. Degas, Women in Front of a Café, Evening, 1877
  16. Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), The Cradle, 1872
  17. Morisot, Woman with a Fan: Madame Marie Hubbard, 1874
  18. Mary Cassatt (1845–1926), Woman in Black at the Opera, 1879
  19. J. J. Grandville (1803–1847), “Venus at the Opera” from Another World, 1844
  20. AND plate from Small Miseries of Human Life, 1843
  21. Cassatt, Young Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878
  22. Cassatt, Lydia Crocheting in the Garden (The Garden), 1880
  23. Cassatt, Lydia at a Tapestry Frame, c. 1881
  24. Andō Hiroshige (1797–1858), One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 118 woodblock prints, 1856–58: “Cotton Goods Lane, Odenma-cho”; “Evening Rain at Atake on the Great Bridge”; “Naito, New Station at Yotsuya”; “Haneda Ferry and Benten Shrine”; “Plum Orchard at Kameido”
  25. Degas, Mary Cassatt, The Painting Gallery at the Louvre, 1879-80
  26. Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890), Cherry Blossoms, 1887
  27. Van Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin, 1888
  28. Van Gogh, The Night Cafe, 1888
  29. Van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889
  30. Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1888
  31. Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), Hokusai Manga, vol. 3 (‘Hokusai sketches,’ 15 vols. publ. 1814–78)
  32. Universal Exposition, Paris, 1889: Poster, Japanese Pavilion, Javanese village and “villagers”
  33. Gauguin, Fatata te miti (By the Sea), 1892
  34. Gauguin, Manao tupapau (Spirit of the Dead Watching), 1892
  35. Gauguin, Te nave nave fenua (The Delightful Land), 1892
  36. Gauguin’s photographs of reliefs on the Temple of Borobudur, Indonesia
  37. Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897-98

Week 14

  1. Fang Mask, Gabon, 19th C and the mask hanging in André Derain’s studio
  2. Kota Reliquary Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19th century
  3. Iberian head, c. 5th–3rd century BCE and mask, Etumbi region, Democratic Republic of Congo, 19th century
  4. Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
  5. Jean-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), Venus Anadyomene, 1848
  6. Picasso, Mother and Child, 1907
  7. Picasso, Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910
  8. Georges Braque (1882-1963), The Portuguese, 1911–12
  9. Picasso, The Guitar, 1912
  10. Krou (Grebo) mask, Ivory Coast or Liberia, bought by Picasso in 1912
  11. Picasso, Guitar, Sheet Music and Glass, 1912
  12. Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), Improvisation 28, 1912
  13. Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913
  14. Kasimir Malevich (1878–1935), Suprematist Painting: White on White, 1918–19
  15. Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, 1930
  16. Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), The Swan, 1914–15
  17. Af Klint, Paintings for the Temple, 1906–1915
  18. Hugo Ball Reciting a Sound Poem, c. 1917; Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Dancer in Zurich, 1917; George Grosz, Dada Death, 1918
  19. First International Dada Fair, Berlin, 1920
  20. Prussian Archangel and The Petite-Bourgeois Philistine Heartfield Gone Wild, 1920
  21. Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), Fountain, 1917
  22. Hannah Höch (1889–1933), Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919–20
  23. Höch, The Beautiful Girl, 1919-20
  24. Raoul Hausmann (1886–1971), Mechanical Head (Spirit of Our Time), 1920
  25. Hausmann, Self-Portrait of the Dadasoph, 1920
  26. André Masson (1896–1987), Birth of Birds, c. 1925
  27. Masson, Battle of the Fishes, 1926
  28. Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Persistence of Memory, 1931
  29. Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985), Object (Fur Luncheon), 1936
  30. The World in the Time of the Surrealists (Surrealist Map), 1929
  31. The Truth about the Colonies, Surrealist exhibition, 1931
  32. Wifredo Lam (1902–1982), The Jungle, 1943
  33. Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), Number 30 (Autumn Rhythm), 1950
  34. Pollock, Number 1 (Lavender Mist), 1950
  35. Navajo Sand Painters, Indian Art of the United States, MoMA, 1941
  36. Mark Rothko (1903–1970), Orange and Yellow, 1956
  37. Rothko, Untitled (Painting), 1953
  38. Rothko, Red on Maroon, 1959

Week 15

  1. Norman Lewis (1909–1979), Evening Rendezvous, 1962
  2. Lee Krasner (1908–1984), City Verticals, 1953
  3. Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), Takka Takka, 1962
  4. Lichtenstein, Drowning Girl, 1963
  5. Andy Warhol (1928–1987), Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962
  6. Views of the Factory and Brillo Box, 1964
  7. Warhol, Green Disaster, 1963
  8. Warhol, Electric Chair, 1964
  9. Warhol, Pink Race Riot, 1964
  10. Carolee Schneeman (b. 1935), Interior Scroll, 1975
  11. Guerrilla Girls (founded 1984), Girls Report Card, 1986, and How Women get Maximum Exposure in Art Museums, 1989
  12. Guerrilla Girls, Girls Report Card, 2015
  13. Adrian Piper (b. 1948), The Mythic Being, 1973-1975
  14. Piper, I Embody Everything You Most Hate and Fear, 1975
  15. Piper, Cruising White Women, 1975
  16. Piper, Cornered, 1988
  17. James Luna (1950–2018), Artifact Piece, 1987
  18. Romuald Hazoumé (b. 1962), La Bouche du Roi, 1997–2005
  19. Jacopo Pontormo (1494–1557), Visitation, 1528–29
  20. Ulf Saupe (b. 1979), Res Navalis, 2017

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