melancholy

Human Miseries, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

Paul Gauguin · 1898/99

The Death of Sophonisba

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin · c. 1810

The Comedy of Death

Rodolphe Bresdin · 1854

Weeping Woman

Vincent van Gogh · 1883

The Captive, from Sterne

Josiah Boydell · 1786

The Fall of the House of Usher, for Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and the Imagination,” Chicago, 1895-96

Edgar Allan Poe · Aubrey Vincent Beardsley · 1894

A Man Leaning on a Parapet

Georges Seurat · ca. 1881

The Penitent Magdalen

Georges de La Tour · ca. 1640

Seated Young Woman

Adam Elsheimer · late 16th–early 17th century

Album of Landscapes: Leaf 7

Wang Gai · 1677

The Zone (Outside the City Walls)

Georges Seurat · 1882–83

Pregnant Woman Contemplating Suicide (recto)

Käthe Kollwitz · c. 1926

Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)

Odilon Redon · 1880

Soap Bubbles

Thomas Couture · ca. 1859

The Girl by the Window

Edvard Munch · 1893

Landscape and Figure, from an album of Landscapes and Calligraphy for Liu Songfu

Xu Gu · Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1895/96

The Drinkers

Honoré Daumier · by 1861

Study of a Draped Woman Leaning on a Pedestal

François Boucher · 1759/61

Landscape Album in Various Styles: Snowy Landscape

Zha Shibiao · 1684

Funerary Monument of Prince William of Orange Nassau, from Oeuvre de Canova

Antonio Canova · 1817

The Home of the Heron

George Inness · 1893

Saint John the Evangelist in Meditation

Guercino · 1800s

Death of a Vagabond

Alphonse Legros · c. 1875

Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night

Charles E. Burchfield · December 1917

Madonna

Edvard Munch · 1895/96

The Lovesick Maiden

Jan Steen · ca. 1660

Album of Landscapes and Calligraphy for Liu Songfu

Xu Gu · Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1895/96

The Marsh Flower, a Sad Human Head

Odilon Redon · 1885

Sweet Melancholy

Joseph-Marie Vien · 1756

Landscape and Figure, from an album of Landscapes and Calligraphy for Liu Songfu 山水册页

Xu Gu · Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1895/96

Psyche Throwing Herself into the River

William Morris · 1865–68

Female Figure Seated Beside an Urn

Angelica Kauffmann · 1800

The Woman with the Spider Web between Bare Trees

Caspar David Friedrich · 1803

Album of Landscapes: Leaf 1

Wang Gai · 1677

Figures in a Landscape

Francis Danby · c. 1813–61

Arab Seated, His Hands Crossed on His Knees

Mariano Fortuny Marsal · n.d.

Bridge of Sighs

John Everett Millais · 1858

Evening, Melancholy I

Edvard Munch · 1896

Essay on Stone with Brush and Scraper: Woman Reading at the Fireside

Adolph von Menzel · 1851

Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowing Virgin)

Workshop of Dieric Bouts · c. 1490

Gray and Silver: A Nocturne

Walter Greaves · c. 1880–1900

Portrait of a Young Woman

Amedeo Modigliani · n.d.

The Anchorite

Mariano Fortuny Marsal · 1869

Album of Landscapes and Calligraphy for Liu Songfu

Xu Gu · Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1895/96

Graziella

Jules Lefebvre · 1878

Woman before an Aquarium

Henri Matisse · 1921–23

Parisian Landscapes: The Fortifications

Henri Rivière · 1900

A Maid Asleep

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Embroidery; The Artist's Mother

Georges Seurat · 1882–83

Pale Grew Her Immortality, For Woe of All These Lovers

Will Hicok Low · 1885