1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Originally Published in 1891

2. The Author: Oscar Wilde
Born:
1854
in Dublin, Ireland.
Education:
Dublin’s Trinity College
Scholarship to Magdalen, College
Oxford.

3. Is The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde’s autobiography?
The preface of the book defends Wilde’s
aesthetic philosophy.
“Wilde noted in a letter that the main characters
are in different ways reflections of him: ʽBasil
Hallward is what I think I am; Lord Henry what
the world thinks me; Dorian what I would like
to be—in other ages, perhaps.’”

4. Genre = Literary Fiction

5. England

6. Art in Wilde’s Time
CASSATT, Mary Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge 1879 Oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm Museum of Art, Philadelphia
CÉZANNE, Paul Portrait of Victor Chocquet Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm Columbia Museum of Art, Columbus

7. Art in Wilde’s Time
DEGAS, Edgar Absinthe Drinkers Oil on canvas, 92 x 68 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris
GAUGUIN, Paul Madame Mette Gauguin Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo

8. Art in Wilde’s Time
GOGH, Vincent van Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night September 1888, Arles Oil on canvas, 81 x 66 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
JIMÉNEZ Y ARANDA, Luis A Lady at the Paris World Fair Oil on canvas, 121 x 70 cm Meadows Museum and Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

9. Art in Wilde’s Time
KRØYER, Peter Severin Hip Hip Hooray! An Artists' Party at Skagen Oil on canvas, 135 x 166 cm Konstmuseum, Gothenburg

10. Art in Wilde’s Time
MANET, Edouard A Bar at the Folies-Bergère Oil on canvas, 96 x 130 cm Courtauld Gallery, London

11. Art in Wilde’s Time
MONET, Claude The Boat at Giverny Oil on canvas, 98 x 131 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris

12. Art in Wilde’s Time SARGENT, John Singer
Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)
Oil on canvas, 209 x 110 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste Dance at Bougival Oil on canvas, 182 x 98 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

13. Art in Wilde’s Time
RYSSELBERGHE, Théo van The Reading Oil on canvas, 176 x 234 cm Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent

14. Art in Wilde’s Time
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in the Operetta "Chilpéric“ Oil on canvas, 145 x 150 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

15. Art in Wilde’s Time
A Sunday Afternoon on the Ile de la Grande Jatte
Oil on canvas, 208 x 308 cm Art Institute, Chicago

16. Opium Den

17. web sites worth your time…
Oscar Wilde
NYU Reading Wilde
Web Gallery of Art