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THE CRITIQUE OF REASON: ROMANTIC ART, 1760–1860

March 6–July 26, 2015

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THE CRITIQUE OF REASON: ROMANTIC ART, 1760–1860

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YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY

THE CRITIQUE OF REASON: ROMANTIC ART, 1760–1860

March 6–July 26, 2015

Image Captions:

[01] Joseph Mallord William Turner, Wreckers—Coast of Northumberland, with a Steam-Boat Assisting a Ship off Shore, 1833–34. Oil on canvas, 35 5/8 x 47 9/16 in. (90.5 x 120.8 cm). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

[02] George Stubbs, A Lion Attacking a Horse, 1770. Oil on canvas, 38 x 49 1/2 in. (96.5 x 125.7 cm). Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of the Yale University Art Gallery Associates

[03] Théodore Géricault, Retour de Russie (Return from Russia), 1818. Lithograph with tint stone, 17 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. (44.5 x 36.2 cm). Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Charles Y. Lazarus, b.a. 1936

[04] John Frederick Lewis, Study of a Lioness, ca. 1824. Watercolor and gouache over graphite on paper, 14 5/16 x 16 9/16 in. (36.4 x 42.1 cm). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

[05] Étienne Carjat, Victor Hugo, ca. 1864, printed 1876–84. Woodburytype, 9 5/16 x 6 15/16 in. (23.7 x 17.6 cm). Yale University Art Gallery, Everett V. Meeks, b.a. 1901, Fund

[06] John Constable, Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames—Morning after a Stormy Night, 1829. Oil on canvas, 48 x 64 3/4 in. (121.9 x 164.5 cm). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

[07] Richard Parkes Bonington, A Fish-market near Boulogne, 1824. Oil on canvas, 32 3/8 x 48 1/4 in. (82.2 x 122.6 cm). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

[08] Ary Scheffer, The Retreat of Napoleon’s Army from Russia in 1812, 1826. Oil on canvas, 50 1/4 x 64 in. (127.6 x 162.6 cm). Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with a gift from Richard L. Feigen, b.a. 1952, and the Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund

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