19th-century Paintings Depicting Grotesques Chris Snodgrass @ 2011

Ford Madox Brown (English; 16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) “Take Your Son, Sir!” (1851–92)

Gustave Moreau (French; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) Oedipus and the Sphinx (1864)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English; 12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882) Ecce Ancilla Domini (1850)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English; 12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882) The Bower Meadow (1870–71)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English; 12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882) Astarte Syriaca (1877)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English; 12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882) La Pia de’ Tolomei (1868–80)

Frederic Leighton (English; 3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896) Perseus and Andromeda (1891-94)

Félicien Rops (Belgian; 7 July 1833 - 23 August 1898) La Tentation de St-Antoine [The Temptation of Saint Anthony] (1878)

Félicien Rops (Belgian; 7 July 1833 - 23 August 1898) L’Incantation [The Incantation] (1878)

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (French; September 30, 1865 - September 24, 1953) Medusa (1897)

Carlos Schwabe (Swiss-German; July 21, 1866 – 1926) Medusa (1895)

Carlos Schwabe (Swiss-German; July 21, 1866 – 1926) Spleen and Ideal (c. 1907– 1908)