Albert Lynch (1851-1912) Portrait of a Young Girl
Jean Eugène Buland (1852-1926) The artist in his studio
Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch, 1836 - 1912) Spring 1894
Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low (1858–1946) Blossom Time 1901
In Eugène Delacroix's 1827 lithograph, Mephistopheles Aloft, 1827, a demon flies over a dark city. In the 19th century, French artists started getting creative with black materials— chalk, pastels, crayons and charcoal — some of them newly available. Now, a show called Noir at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles celebrates ...