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Melancholic Art Prints

Melancholic art prints: paintings and prints of loss, solitude, longing and grief. Most are 19th-century Symbolist works, including Hugo Simberg's The Wounded Angel (1903) and Death Listens, Fernand Khnopff's I Lock My Door upon Myself, paintings by Gustave Moreau, Mikhail Vrubel, Alphonse Osbert and Alexandre Séon, and Max Klinger's etching cycle On Death. William Blake is well represented with Songs of Experience (London, The Sick Rose, A Poison Tree) and plates from the Book of Job (1825). The collection also includes Edward Hopper's Nighthawks (1942), Charles Meryon's etchings of Paris, Jean-Léon Gérôme's The Duel after the Masquerade, and Indian miniatures of a heroine longing for her lover.

The works were chosen for quiet sadness rather than violence or horror.

The muted palettes suit studies, libraries and reading corners; the Hopper and Simberg paintings work as a single piece above a desk or sofa. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.

Åse's Death, from Peer Gynt — Edvard Grieg
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Kawase Hasui — Imhae Pavillion | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga) - 9ArtPrints
Edward Hopper — Nighthawks | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Ancient Athens by Hiroshi Yoshida — Marble columns keep their vigil over a rose-coloured plain
Franz Stamkart — Contemplatie | Symbolist Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Desdemona (The Song of the Willow) by Théodore Chassériau — A woman in white leans on a gilded harp by lamplight
Le jour des funérailles – Scène du Maroc by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant — Veiled mourners sit by a man laid out on a carpet among roses
Aino Myth, Triptych by Akseli Gallen-Kallela — An old man reaches from his boat for a young woman in the lake
She Will Pass Me By by Charles Robinson — Eyes closed, a lady in a rose-patterned gown sweeps past a youth
Bon-Bast (Dead End) (1977) — A woman's face inside an open green window on deep blue
Marsiyeh (Elegy) (1978) — A bearded man in a cap set into a lilac silhouette with a bowed head
Far from Home (1975) — A lone man in a dark coat leans on a railing among falling raindrops
The Rose of Blood (1917) — A woman looks down at a red rose, pearls hanging over a dark dress
Komödianten: Asta Nielsen (1913) by Ernst Deutsch-Dryden — A pale clown face with shadowed eyes above a wide white ruff
Princess Tuvstarr Gazing Down Into The Dark Waters Of The Forest Tarn by John Bauer — Princess Tuvstarr bows over the still black water of a forest tarn
Winter Landscape near Haarlem by Jacob van Ruisdael — A snow-capped lamppost stands on a wind-bitten winter road
Le Mariage mélancolique [The melancholy wedding] by Charles Martin — A veiled bride and a downcast groom stand silent under a dark tree
The Song of the Nightingale by William-Adolphe Bouguereau — A woman in a navy skirt sits listening on a stone in the woods
All Souls' Day by William-Adolphe Bouguereau — Two women in black mourn at a stone cross, one laying a wreath
Far from Home by William-Adolphe Bouguereau — Two girls in dark dresses stand before a stone stair and fountain
The Sick Child by Gabriel Metsu — A mother holds a pale, drooping child on her lap
The Lament for Icarus by Herbert James Draper — Three women mourn Icarus on his outspread brown wings
Calypso's Isle by Herbert James Draper — Calypso sits on a rock by a dark sea, her back to us
Captive Andromache by Frederic Leighton — A veiled woman in black stands among water carriers at a well
Solitude by Frederic Leighton — A young woman sits alone on a rock, her chin resting on her hand
The Tiff by John William Godward — A woman in red sits turned to a marble wall after a quarrel
The Tired Danseuse by John William Godward — A weary dancer rests her arms on her knees beside a tambourine
Mary Magdalene at the Tomb by Alexandre Cabanel — Mary Magdalene looks upward, her hands on the edge of the tomb
Phaedra by Alexandre Cabanel — Phaedra lies awake on a white couch between two attendants
The Serbian Concubine by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant — Two women and a reclining guard in a dark interior hung with carpets
The Dead Tiger by Jean-Léon Gérôme — A man sits beside a dead tiger on a blue carpet in a palace hall
The Duel after the Masquerade by Jean-Léon Gérôme — A Pierrot falls in the snow after a duel in a misty winter wood
Markos Botsaris by Jean-Léon Gérôme — A commander in crimson velvet slumps in a chair before blue tiles
Lamentation by Hans Baldung Grien — Mourners cry out over the body of Christ beneath the cross
Relaxation (Rest) by Jacek Malczewski — A bearded painter in iron cuffs rests at a box as a figure looks on
Salome at the Prison by Gustave Moreau — A crowned princess lifts a small flower to her face in a prison hall
Etchings of Paris: The Street of the Bad Boys by Charles Meryon — Two cloaked figures meet in a shadowed old Paris lane
The Good Samaritan by Gustave Moreau — A turbaned traveller steadies a wounded man on his donkey
The Large Miseries of War: The Hospital by Jacques Callot — Crippled soldiers on crutches gather outside a domed church
Etchings of Paris: The Mortuary by Charles Meryon — A body is carried up from the Seine beneath crowded Paris rooftops
Paradise Lost: Adam and Eve Driven out of Paradise by John Martin — Adam and Eve flee down a rocky path out of a glowing cave
On Death II: To Beauty by Max Klinger — A kneeling figure bows its head in a clearing above the sea
On Death I: Poor Family by Max Klinger — A mother holds her child at an attic skylight beside a sick old man
On Death I: Night by Max Klinger — A bearded man sits alone on a garden bench under a clouded night sky
A Poison Tree (Songs of Experience) by William Blake — A man lies outstretched and still beneath a dark spreading tree
London (Songs of Experience) by William Blake — A child leads a bearded old man along a brick-walled street
The Sick Rose (Songs of Experience) by William Blake — A drooping rose and a thorny stem frame Blake's poem of the worm
Pity by William Blake — A rider on a pale horse reaches down to lift a newborn from its mother
William Blake — Pity | Art Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
The Blasted Tree (Pastorals of Virgil) by William Blake — A storm-bent tree under a dark moon over flattened fields