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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) “Inspiration” (1898) Academicism

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897–1898

Oil on canvas 139.1 x 374.6 cm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) “Music” (1898), “Dance” (1898) “Poetry” (1898), “Painting” (1898) Lithograph Art Nouveau

Mucha wanted to emphasize the creative inspiration of natural beauty by giving each of the arts a circular backdrop featuring a motif from nature indicating a particular time of day: for Music, the song of birds at moonrise; for Dance, falling leaves blown by a morning breeze; for Painting, a red flower encircled by rainbows in fresh daylight; and for Poetry, the evening star shining in the sky at dusk.

Édouard Debat-Ponsan (1847-1913) “Truth Leaving the Well” (1898) Academicism

By Kenyon Cox, c.1898.

Evard Munch (Nor. 1863-1944) Study of a Model (1898)  Oil on paper (92 x 70 cm) 

Albert Chevallier Tayler - St. Francis (1898)

Armand Point - La dame à la Licorne (1898)

Henry Scott Tuke - Miss Muriel Lubbock (1898)